other games news thread

i was just thinking, and we require an other games news thread
talk about any new announced games, beta's, releases and rumors here

 

and i kept thinking this thread'd be a good diea

 

Maybe if you posted some news...

 

Ok i guess i'll start this thread off...

FEAR 2
Coming out 10 Feb
Demo coming out 22 Jan

Looks just as disturbing as the original. I'll be sure to at least check out the demo xD

Dawn of War 2
Coming out 23 Feb
Multiplayer beta starting 23 jan for soulstorm owners, 29 jan for the rest of us !

Bit different from the original since its almost purely squad based with hardly any buildings.

 

Ossum.

I've heard there're like five squadrons in total, as well. Well, for Space Marines, that is.

 

hey cool, FEAR 2, ill be sure to check it out

 

I still don't have the cajones to play Fear 1.

But I might... and then hop over to Fear 2 when it comes out.

 

i cant legally buy FEAR 1 here, i need to be 16

 

DoW 2 will be enjoyable, I think. I've always wanted a game just like the board game, and this might be the answer - No buildings, less units. Makes the big things more epic. You see a Dreadnought and go oh shie instead of yawning at 2 like in DoW.

 

Well I'd hardly say you yawned when you saw one in Dawn of War 1... You just just sorta chuckle and point your anti-vehicle fighters roughly in its direction...

 

No, I sent my gretchins at them.


I am gonna like it for being more like the tabletop game.

 

The only thing I don't like about Dawn of War 2 is the fact you don't build a base. That is part of the fun for me in RTSes is building up a base and expos/outposts and defending them etc. Another thing about the game I'm not too excited about is all the war gear and items you can or have to get for your squads and the fact that squad leaders cannot die but just get knocked out. I think the game is trying to be a little too different but thats just me I guess.

 

Dunno about DoW, but no bases + gear sounds similar to tabletop.

Any of Warhammer players here waiting for Blood Bowl?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHtOO8MiZF8

 

The whole appeal of Dawn of War is the combat system and customisation. Perhaps the combat system isn't technically a 'system', but what with having moral and customisation that not only allows your to upgrade anti-light infantry weapons, anti-heavy infantry weapons, anti-vehicle weapons, but also anti-morale weapons, secondary weapons, knockdown weapons, fire-on-the-go weapons and stationary weapons, and abilities to decrease enemy morale, increase friendly morale, jump obstacles, etc, it's much more immersive than combat in StarCraft or WarCraft, etc, etc.

On top of that, what with the units visually engaging each other in physical combat, well, the focus has always been on the combat itself. All resource gathering is purely passive, and half of it is 'gathered' using military troops, not workers, anyway. The only real focus on bases would be with the Orks, who needed large numbers in order to build stronger troops, so I guess that's more dependant on the troops themselves anyway, the Tau, whose tach tree split and had to choose whether to focus on Kroot or Tau, which could be achieved through the current customisation system anyway, and the Necrons, whose headquarters could become a massive mobile tank. As far as defences go, they were fairly sparse, half consisting of land mines, anyway, which could be deployed by troops in Dawn of War 2.

As for as squad leaders go, I wasn't aware that they couldn't die. From what I'd read you were practically supposed to get a unique sergeant, or whatever, each time, with a full personality and everything, that they were aiming for people to get full attached to. So if they're removing all possibilities of them dying, then it doesn't really sound like people'll be worried about what happens to them. It'll be just like the Necron hero in Dark Crusade. Seriously, who didn't simply charge him in on suicide scouting or raiding missions?

 

some time today the Fear demo will come out

im gonna give my room a Horrory feel(all lights out except ofc the small one right behind my head, and the pc screen) and then download and play it

 

I hit my 18gb cap so i'm downloading the fear 2 demo at 12kb/sec....40 hours to go! woo

DOW2 beta seems to be getting rather iffy reviews from people who have played it. Seems like they cut all the good stuff out of COH (Doctrines, Limited base building, Buildable enviromental defences) then merged it with DOW. Points flip to fast so its just attack attack attack! But i havn't played it yet so who knows and i guess it has patches coming down the pipe to balance stuff.

 

Rented F.E.A.R. today.

God ****ing damn.

I'm too ***** to download the F.E.A.R. 2 demo right now.

 

I'm sure it always has a horrory feel

Took me until itza's post to realize dawn of war is warhammer.

 

actually the only horrid thing about my room is the smell

 

Puzzle quest: Galactrix demo is out (not sure for how long already )

I'll try to stay away from it till sunday ^^