VideoGamer.com takes a look at the big rumours currently doing the rounds in the video game industry. Every week they'll hunt down the juiciest stories and give their opinion on how legit they are.
Retro Studios working on Zelda spin-off
The Rumour: Surfer Girl claims that Retro Studios' (the team behind the Metroid Prime series) next game will be revealed at or around the time of E3 (which takes place in July) and shockingly is a spin-off from the Zelda series.
Verdict: This seems too far fetched to make up. What's most puzzling is the kind of game this supposed spin-off will be. We're putting money on an action/adventure game of a similar style to Retro's cancelled GameCube project Raven Blade.
Plausibility rating: 3/5
Killzone 2 missing 2008
The Rumour: Killzone 2 is without doubt the most hyped game in development for the PlayStation 3, but with that hype comes much pressure. So much pressure that it's not going to be shipped until it's completely ready - even if that means 2009.
Verdict: This latest Killzone 2 rumour comes from Surfer Girl but that doesn't automatically make it 100% legit. Sony undoubtedly will want Killzone 2 released this calendar year, but all isn't lost if it doesn't happen. We're sure Insomniac's Resistance 2 will be more than happy to step into Killzone's FPS shoes. Sony probably won't get another chance to make Killzone into a big franchise, so Guerrilla Games will likely get all the time it needs.
Plausibility rating: 4/5
Holger Frydrych has just released a cool VR Mod for the 2007 version of Crytek's first-person shooter, Crysis.
Playing it right now looks amazing! :D
so much fun, i hope they make a vr mod for crysis 2 / 3 too!
This is amazing. This is the direction VR should go in to boost adoption. Since I have beaten every Crysis except 1, this is now a good excuse to correct that problem.
According to Crytek CEO Cervat Yerli, "I want[ed] to make sure Crysis does not age, that [it] is future proofed, meaning that if I played it three years from now, it should look better than today." Yerli and the team designed Crysis' highest graphical settings for the PC hardware of 2010 and beyond.
While Crytek has officially announced Crysis 4 is in development, nothing new has surfaced. For now, gamers' only way to scratch that itch is to play the Crysis Remastered Trilogy available on PC and consoles.
OG 2007 Crysis (not the remastered weirdo), is & will forever be a legend amongst the PC community.
This video will always be impressive to me, even for years to come. Some things here are better than games we have today, OG crysis is the best version!
https://youtu.be/SVg63_aNr-...
I'm still shocked that it looks as good as it does today, puts some modern games to shame.
I thought the remaster was fine tbh some rough edges at launch but after some patches it's decent
I mean the lighting and physics still hold up extremely well. I still revisit it from time to time.
Yeah unfortunately Crystek's decision to bet on the linear progression of clock speed in CPUs was derailed by the unforseen shift towards multicore CPUs. It just wasn't built with that in mind because that wasn't even in the conversation at the moment
I remember when I tried to play Crysis with my Intel Pentium Dual core E2200 @2.2GHz , 4GB ram and GeForce 9400gt. I was a kid back then and that was the best I could do. I would get about 15 to 20 fps. When I over clocked the CPU to 2.8GHz I would get about 40fps. The experience wasn't good at all and it was the only PC game I could not run back then unless and put the settings on low. At that point the game went from cutting edge graphics to PS2 graphics. To this day I haven't completed the OG Crysis. I was able to complete Crysis 2 and 3 after building a new PC when I got my first job.
Worth a try just because it's the only game that lets you pick up a turtle on the beach and throw it at enemy soldiers that should have been a back of the box feature.
But nah seriously unless you're nostalgic for it I'm not sure if it will hold up
"The shader work that came out of this was mind-blowing at times."
Amazing, often misunderstood
The dumb AI was deliberate, so that the players can explore and experiment with the world and all the features.
It really is. Most people only remember it for its graphics but the gameplay was equally amazing.
Well worth the extra work ! I enjoyed all 3 Crisis games and would also love a new one .
Still wish game development was overall this passionate and minutious about their projects. Obviously, there are still some great studios as exceptions.
I’ll never forget Far Cry 2 and the amount of details they packed in.
Yea there were some issues with the gameplay loop and the sickness aspect but you could tell they really tried to nail details.
I haven't beaten the first Crysis but I did play Crysis 2 and Crysis 3. I know some PC players were annoyed by the last 2 games being developed with consoles in mind but I believe it was an improvement. I had a great time with Crysis 3 to the point where I believe it was too short.
Not even Sony will give a blank check to Guerilla in developing KZ2. Is it high budget, sure it will be but let's not be dumb about this. I'm sure there are other studios that would love that type of funding but this is Sony's lovechild. I do think there is a ceiling cost to the game as well as expectations that it will hit in 08. Does it have to? Maybe not as an 08 lineup without KZ2 is still a very stellar line-up. Seeing that Sony has two legit franchises in Killzone and Resistence, I think they are fine, whenever the games are released. In fact, I think a delay like this will help one game, Haze.
Let them take the time and make it the best game possible. Resistance 2 should hold everything down as the PS3's top shooter for the year. It will just give Sony another big title for 2009 to go along with God of War 3 and Final Fantasy XIII (you know its not coming out in 2008).
I doubt that they want KZ2 to go against high profile games so they will choose their release time carefully, I mean you got GTA4 taking all the time of people in April/May, then you got MGS4 taking June/July which leaves August since September is rumored for Resistance 2 (and 2 1st party FPS with huge online in one month is crazy) and the Q4 will be filled with over hyped games like every year, so I'm guessing August but thats just a guess.
Anyway an Amazing delayed game better than an average meet the date game.
I really cant wait to hear details on what retro is working on. I was kinda hoping for a new ip, but if they can do a cool spin-off I am for all things zelda.
As for KZ2, sony does need to take their time on the game. I think sony would invest a lot into the simply because they want a bigger chunk of america and right now FPS are all the rage. Look at what Microsoft did with halo and you cant deny that Sony wants to counter that. Could be argued that resistance is that counter, but Im not so sure if the game only made as big of a splash as it did simply because most other launch games were let downs or garbage. Will sony need it this year? No not at all, Im sure MGS4 will be enough to get peoples attention and sell more systems. Not to mention when GTAIV comes out Im sure it will sell systems for sony, even though it comes out for both a lot of people link GTA to the playstation name so Im sure theres a good chunk of the semi casual ps2 guys that would buy a ps3 over a 360 when it came out for both.
Well, when is Battle Field: Bad Company coming out? Im pretty anxious to play it as right now I play BF2 for the ps2. Another great FPS. I say this because you guys are talking about games that will come out in what months and the months to be playing the games lol. BF:BC is in the mix! Same with Socom:Confrontation somewhere in the mix of Fall.