PSU writes: "Surreal Software has come a long way from its horrific settings of The Suffering games and settled on Las Vegas for its newest game. Three years in development, This Is Vegas was shown for the first time at Midway's Gamers' Day event at the Red Rock Casino in Sin City.
The city that never stops partying can now be at your fingertips 24/7. While the money you win and the girls you bed aren't real, neither is the money you lose or the sexually transmitted diseases you contract. So it all balances out. Alan Patmore, the game's executive producer, took some time to talk about this open world virtual Vegas.
Q: What was the inspiration for This Is Vegas?
A: We wanted to do an open world game in Vegas. We did a bunch of research trips to Vegas to figure out what the essence of Vegas was. We didn't want to just do a Grand Theft in Vegas and make it a thug-based game. There's a lot of space in the open world space to explore and it doesn't just have to be crime-based games."
The games industry can be a cruel mistress. Here are 5 games we would like to see resurrected for current platforms
Console Monster writes: "Following the reveal of a major game, social-networking websites are buzzing with excitement, as gamers spend weeks, months, sometimes even years waiting for screenshots, interviews, teaser trailers and gameplay videos to trickle into the public before the game’s highly anticipated launch.
Unfortunately, not all video games that are announced see the light of day, despite months of rumours and speculation. Console Monster looks at ten video games that were cruelly taken away from us."
A Perfect Dark sequel (after PDZ).
Kameo 2 (but I always saw Kameo as similar to Starfox Adventures in style myself).
Conker's Other Bad Fur Day (Original Xbox had a remake of the original game and Xbox One now has the Project Spark adventure instead).
Donkey Kong Racing (as Rare were bought by Microsoft).
GameZone writes, "When looking forward, it’s hard to not also look back and imagine what some games would be like if they came out today. What about the ones that never came out at all? While the chances of any of the following games going back into development are slim-to-none, it’s exciting to consider how much better or more practical they would be today."
As soon as I read the title the first game that came to my mind was Starcraft: Ghosts.
"An AI partner hadn’t really been done right by that point"
lol sure, a little game from 2004 called Half-Life 2 says hi.