Valve has unleashed another TV commercial on the eve of the release of Left 4 Dead, its high-intensity, zombie-fleeing shooter for PC and Xbox 360. Left 4 Dead ships to retailers tomorrow and unlocks tonight at midnight EST for customers using the Steam digital distribution service.
1C Publishing website has a new trailer showing off gameplay from NecroVisioN, the supernatural Painkiller-engine first-person shooter set during World War I in development at The Farm 51. The clip reveals that the game is “Coming Q1 2009.”
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THQ has released a new patch for Frontlines: Fuel of War, updating the PC version of Kaos Studios’ shooter to version 1.3.0. The patch adds four new maps (Hindsight, Sunder, Wide Awake, Infiltration), two new vehicles (WC AB-11 Bomber Jet, RS MRB-131 Bomber Jet) and brad new weapon – Anti-Air Rocket Launcher. Also Leaderboard Fix has been implemented for the Roles and Loadout tabs – They now record both Ranked & Unranked game information.
It’s not often that I get surprised by a game — and even less frequently when its a game on the Wii. But this week, after popping in Disaster: Day of Crisis, I was quite blown away.
Here is a game that should, by rights, be something of a mess. The on-rails shooting, the third-person running around and the gesture-controlled action sequences put plenty of ideas into the pot. Add to this pretty much every cataclysmic plot idea you can imagine and you have a recipe for disaster (excuse the pun).
However, playing the game soon shows how well directed the whole experience is. Because it understands what sort of game it is, it can deliver. What results is a well-balanced shooting game with a perfectly brash arcade style. It’s an experience that easily won me over and had me playing for many hours in my first sitting.
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