Duke Nukem 3D is coming to your XBLA near you and of course you need your achievements as well. There are a total of 12 achievements totalling up 200 points with 9 Single Player Achievements and 3 Multiplayer Achievements. Most are available in Coop mode which is a nice touch and will promote some good old fashioned fun with Duke. My favorite is the “Shake it Baby” achievement, Duke you scamp.
1. Piece of Cake - Complete “L.A. Meltdown” on any difficulty or in co-op.25 points
2. Let’s Rock - Complete “Lunar Apocalypse” on any difficulty or in co-op.25 points
3. Come Get Some - Complete “Shrapnel City” on any difficulty or in co-op.25 points
4. Game Over - Complete “The Birth” on any difficulty or in co-op.25 points
Hit the jump for the rest of the achievments form Duke Nukem 3D. Read More »
One thing that was interesting in past Blizzard inspired Diablo games was the fact that only certain genders could play certain classes.
For those who aren’t familiar with past “Diablo” titles, the character classes were either one gender or the other — the Necromancer was male, the Amazon was female, the Barbarian was male, etc. Like the destaturated art style and the inclusion of old character classes, some “Diablo III” team members wanted to stick with the familiar one-gender archetypes.
Looks like Blizzard is willing to pick up the tab in order to offer it’s fanbase all the options they could possibly want. Now you can be a dual wielding female or a mystical sorcerer male. Nice to see Blizzard going the extra mile for it’s fans and even though it cost them some extra coin making the next Diablo game even more open ended.
Despite the cost, the company is moving forward with gender choices for the character classes.
Everyone has been enjoying Guitar Hero on the Xbox 360, PS2, PS3, and even the Wii for quite some time now, but our friends over at Activision/Vicarious Visions decided that we, the gamer, needed to have Guitar Hero goodness on the go as well and developed Guitar Hero: On Tour. GH: On Tour brings you 26 tracks that you can now rock out on your Nintendo DS complete with multiplayer modes.
The hand grip is awkward at best and really needs some time to get used to, but fortunately is very easy to install into the Gameboy Advance slot. Unfortunately, I can only play about 3 songs at a time before my hand begins cramping up and getting uncomfortable. There is a Velcro strap on the hand grip to help hold it in place, but it does little to help. The game comes with a stylus guitar pick, which you use to strum on the right screen as the notes scroll down the left screen.
If you didn’t get a chance to watch the Sony press conference, your lucky, Resistance 2 was the shiny thing in the otherwise poop filled conference. Here is the video they showed of a 300 foot Chimera that has you running form building to building in hopes of destroying it. Resistance looks just as good as the first one and is boasting a much more expanded multiplayer experience. Getting thrown through a building FTW.
Many people have been or are currently hooked on the ever popular and growing genre of games we call Massively Multiplayer Online games, MMO for short. Many argue that the charm of an MMO is the ability to have an expansive experience that changes and never really ends, but there are some that argue the opposite and see a lot of satisfaction in a game that has a clear cut ending. Let the debate begin… Read More »
Battlefield: Bad Company from EA/Dice gives you the opportunity to blow up buildings, vehicles, and people in a variety of different ways. Experience huge open field battles either on foot or in a tank, whichever you prefer, but it’s up to you and your squad to bring victory.
Bad Company has a single player campaign that revolves around Private Preston Marlowe and his new band of misfits, the B Company. B Company are the unwanted soldiers that no one would remember if they died. As part of this crew, you are thrown into Russian enemy territory and realize after some time that the Army has left you behind. In doing so, you decide to go off on your own and collect some gold that is scattered around the different enemy camps. Read More »
Battlefield Bad Company has a very steep learning curve and I do recommend people playing the single player first to get a hang of the different controls. This version of Battlefield tries hard to put a more personal touch to the game by making you play as a main character during the single player campaign. The game tries to bring in some one liner jokes here and there to keep things light-hearted in between the killing and destruction. One of the most impressive things in this game is the ability to level buildings in order to get to objectives. You can use grenades or rocket launchers to blow a hole in the side of a building and get to an enemy.
There are a good number of vehicles that can be used ranging from a jeep and a tank all the way to boats and helicopters. One complaint I do have about the game is the multiplayer mode. That’s right, it only has one mode so far. It is fun but I can see it getting old after a while. The team based play is pretty fun and the different classes of characters each have their pluses and minuses. So far I have focused on the demolition and support characters. The demolition character gets a rocket launcher and a shotgun while the support character can drop med-kits for teammates.
The game has a fairly robust system to track all of your different achievements in the game as well as your rank as you kill more enemies and do different things during multiplayer like get objectives. Bad Company so far has some great aspects to it, but I can see a big minus on the multiplayer side because of the lack of modes and options. Stay tuned for a full review of this bad boy real soon.
With the announcements of StarCraft 2, it got me reminiscing of the good old days of the original StarCraft. The game was developed by our good friends over at Blizzard and is perhaps one of the best real time strategy games ever made and definitely paved the way for many more strategy games like it. StarCraft first came onto the video game scene in March of 1998 for Windows and then a year later for Mac (back then Mac got no love). The story of StarCraft revolves around three main races: the Protoss, the Zerg and the Terrans. Each of the three races was fighting for dominance of the universe and would stop at nothing to achieve this.
The events of StarCraft unfold in the 25th century where certain humans have been exiled, because of overpopulation during the 21st century, into space and encounter the Zerg and the Protoss. The Terrans were the exiled humans with their Earth technology to aid them in battle, such as tanks, jets, floating buildings and the ever popular marines. The Zerg were an alien race that was part insect and part bad ass. They would spawn their armies from cocoons and could even infect the other races to use them against themselves. The Protoss were the alien race with superior intellect that was a cross between the noble samurai and the cut throat ninja, using their psychic powers to destroy their enemies.
Remember that debacle we talked about this morning with Konami putting restrictions on reviews of Metal Gear Solid 4? Adam Sessler of G4’s X-play got to speak with Stephen Totilo about how the all is going down. Check out from the mouth who broke the story.
If you are a frequent visitor of Rockstar’s Social Club, then you will remember that everytime you tried to click through to the multiplayer section, you were told to come back later. Well, later has arrived. Multiplayer stats are now trackable at the site and you can view all your multi glory anytime you want.
Note: You have to link your PSN or XBL account to your Rockstar account. After you login/register, go to edit profile and follow the steps to link to your appropriate account. Otherwise, you can’t do anything inside the club.
We're like Spaceballs... we're making Loot Ninja everything. Coming soon we'll have hats, shirts, hoodies, possibly banana hammocks if one Editor has his way...
Check out the shirt prototypes here and the hats here
