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A new, next-generation RPG from the developers behind the great Dark Cloud titles from little under a decade ago would seem like an exciting prospect for any role playing gamer, but White Knight Chronicles has somehow failed to deliver a game that most will consider a worthwhile experience.
The Stalker series has carved itself a reputation of a game that has so much potential but ultimately does not live up to it - but the latest instalment, Stalker: Call of Pripyat completely smashes that reputation to pieces. The potential has now been realised, and then some.
Released last week, MAG - or Massive Action Game if you prefer - is currently flying high on sales charts across the globe. This Playstation 3 exclusive shooter has managed to carve it’s own niche within the first person shooting genre.
The once wonderful city of Rapture is set to welcome you to it’s seedy underworld once more in Bioshock 2. The end of this week marks the release of this hotly anticipated sequal from 2K Games.
When you hear the name Dynasty Warriors, you automatically think of a samurai-themed straight forward beat-em-up, as that popular formula has spawned numorous instalments over the last decade. However, Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce takes the series in a different direction.
Later this year, the development team behind recent hit titles Borderlands and Bioshock release what they hope will be a military shooter to exceed the achievements of Modern Warfare 2. Only time will tell if it can do so, but Spec Ops: The Line is looking great so far.
The genre of open world action games truly begun with the release of Grand Theft Auto 3, and since then titles within it have followed a similar style. Just Cause 2 however attempts to break the mould with a completely different style of gameplay but remaining well and truly in the same genre - this is potentially something very special indeed.
Combat on a large scale, using powerful mechanical machines and robot-like beings is hardly a new concept to the videogames market - but Supreme Commander 2 appears to introduce enough twists on the standard gameplay style of such games to make it worth looking at in more detail.
For some, space may be the final frontier, but for those who will be playing Mass Effect 2 space is only the beginning.
In 2007 Bioware released an RPG of epic proportions to Microsoft’s Xbox 360, then to PCs in 2008, and on January 26th Mass Effect 2 will be the first of many great sequels coming this year.
