Cover Story: SoulCalibur IV
Next Month: Mirror's Edge Cover Story, LittleBigPlanet.
Too Human, Lego Batman, Mercenaries 2, and Baja reviews.
Features:
- Murder in Akihabara
- Domestic Object/Japan: Call of Duty: World at War
- Skate 2:
- Can get off your skateboard and push/pull objects to alter skate routes.
- Pedestrians move out of your way.
- No load times when teleporting to a session marker
- Play as a girl
- Tiger Woods-like character editor
- Default camera tweaked. New 3rd person camera
- Using EA's site for uploading videos again
- 60 fps
- Takes place 5 years later. City hit with unknown disaster and was rebuilt.
- Afterthoughts: MGS4
- Hironobu Sakaguchi Interview
- Nobuo Uematsu Interview
- Yoshitaka Amano Interview
- The Online World Ends With Square-Enix - How they are keeping FFXI alive
- EA All Play titles meant to ease non gamers into EA sports games with more casual cartoony sports games
- Diablo 3
- Roundtable: East Meets Rest
- Apple and Mobile Gaming
- Infinite Undiscovery, Last Remnant, Star Ocean: The Last Hope
- Bayonetta
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Japan
- Kenji Eno Interview
- Itagaki Interview
- Seanbaby: Japanese dating sims
- A history of Japanese games
- Tokyo Gamers Guide
- LOLZ in translation
Reviews:
SoulCalibur IV - A, B+, B+
Good: Extreme fun and value
Bad: Darth Vader is pretty lame
Madden NFL 09 - A, B, A-
Good: Shockingly pretty
Bad: The play-by-play coach needs some coaching
NCAA Football 09 - A-
Good: Online Dynasty
Bad: Where are the weapons?
Beijing 2008 - B
Good: Gorgeous character models, lots of variety
Bad: The kayak-oh dear God the kayak
Alone in the Dark - B-, D+, C-
Good: Neat episodic DVD structure
Bad: Both endings are unsatisfying
Izuna 2 - B-
Good: Devious gameplay, witty script
Bad: Dated visuals, unforgiving difficulty level
Guitar Hero: On Tour - B-
Good: Small scale guitar hero mechanics work well
Bad: Hit and miss track list
Itagaki talks about choosing the 360 because it was easier to develop for and that he is spending his time now drinking, gambling, taking pictures and building model trains
I nuovi rumors di EGM:
• Banjo Kazooie and Tooie for XBLA will incorporate Stop N' Swap.
• Konami bringing back a retro classic in 2D. Not Bucky O' Hare or Biker Mice From Mars.
• More Star Wars characters will come to Soul Calibur IV as downloadable content.
• LocoRoco 2 and Patapon 2. Q Entertainment making adventure game that is not a sequel to NNN.
• Halo Wars, Fable 2, and Call of Duty: World at War will not make it out in 2008.
• Namco are bringing back Dead to Rights.
• Bungie are developing multiplatform and PLAYSTATION 3 games.
EDIT: grazie per le news Paracelso. Forse è bene anche cambiare titolo allora...