Let me start by saying that there are a lot of really good things about Destiny. I do like the game. I’ve hit level 20 and completed all of the story missions. I played a significant amount of the competitive multiplayer and even there the game is exceptionally good. The supercharged abilities add a nice wrinkle to competitive play especially in the objective mode Control, which is like Conquest in Battlefield. The game plays extremely well. The controls are tight and the...
Personal hygiene at events like E3 and PAX has been a hot button topic of discussion amongst convention goers for a while and it appears the organizers behind the mega fighting game tournament Evo are the first to take action. In a press release issued today by Nathan Soitomo (Director of Competition), “Deodorant will be mandatory for all competitors at Evo in 2015 and beyond.” Director Soitomo went on further stating that the controversial decision was made to “ensure...
This weekend, one of the biggest video game tournaments in the world took place. Evo 2014 was held at the West Gate Hotel, formerly known as the Las Vegas Hilton and located right next to the Las Vegas Convention Center. While the venue wasn’t exactly the greatest in comparison to that of its previous holders, the action that the tournament (and its participants) served up was. Evo is exclusively a fighting game tournament featuring the most popular fighters as its...
Gender equality controversy has once again struck the video game industry. This time Ubisoft has come under fire for what many believe are flimsy excuses regarding the absence of female character models in Ubisoft’s new Assassin’s Creed game, AC: Unity. The controversy began when Ubisoft creative director Alex Amancio intimated that female assassins were left out of the game due to “the reality of production.” “It’s double the animations, it’s...
There were quite a few gems from tonight’s Sony press conference but one in particular stood out to me above all others. What looked like a bizarre first person re-imagining of Journey meets ‘wild alien safari’ in the opening of the trailer was soon blowing my mind out of my head. As the player continued to explore he came across what was obviously a starship and proceeded to get in and then take-off, leaving the alien world behind. Entering the open...
In the last generation of consoles, there was one first person shooter that absolutely consumed me: Rainbow 6 Vegas. I devoted hours upon hours to that game. I made friends over PlayStation Network as we played against and killed each other in multiple free-for-all Survival matches. You can imagine my delight when Ubisoft showed off a multiplayer alpha demo of Rainbow Six Siege. The demo displayed a lot of the cool next-gen tricks that developers are incorporating...
Assassin’s Creed may have seemed like it was heading steadily towards a stale and tired single player experience. Black Flag helped change the missteps of Assassin’s Creed III and Unity looks to be pushing the gamplay experience forward even further. Set during the French Revolution, a particularly brutal period in France’s history, players can now form their own brotherhood of assassins and play cooperatively through campaing missions. In the demo...
Anyone concerned about the inclusion of Bruce Lee to EA’s take on the UFC need not worry. At their E3 press conference, EA showed off a live gameplay demo of a MMA fan’s dream: Bruce Lee hea- to-head with The Prodigy, BJ Penn. The speed of Lee’s fists and his amazing athleticism was showcased perfectly. The demo ran smoothly, picking up in the fifth round of what looked to be a brutal fight based on the residual damage the fighter’s walked into...
Electronic Arts granted my wish this E3, teasing BioWare’s development on their new chapter in the Mass Effect universe. The tease cut between monologue from producer at large Casey Hudson and clips of development work on the worlds BioWare is envisioning. Hudson said they are going farther and bigger than ever before in this new Mass Effect project that will truly amaze players. There will be more worlds and the amount of exploration should be massive in an...
BioWare’s Mass Effect trilogy is an epic space opera chronicling the adventures of Commander Shepard as she, or he, attempts to save humanity and the rest of the galaxy, from an ancient race of deadly synthetic lifeforms. Over the course of Shepard’s journey a fascinating group of individuals join the cause to save their worlds from a fate far worse than extermination. A few members of the LevelSave staff are big fans of the Mass Effect series and we thought...
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