The Winter Olympics are a collection of exotic winter sports that come together once every four years. They are all about speed, skill and intense action. Vancouver 2010 is the official video game of the Winter Olympics and brings you 14 events that you and your friends can participate in.
Sadly, some of the real glamour events such as figure skating and ice hockey have been excluded, and you are left with, among other things, seven games involving racing down a mountain slope (ski and snowboard) and two sports, which involve racing down an ice chute at breakneck speeds (bobsled and luge). The other four events include sports such as ski jumping and aerials.
The games that have been included are aesthetically done and the controls are user-friendly and enjoyable. One of the most enjoyable features is the Challenges mode involves 30 challenges where you have to set your goals. Most of these involve participation in events as if you were completing in real life.
For example, you have to keep your speed above a minimum average in downhill skiing or go round corners perfectly in the luge. You can play the games by yourself in single player mode or with your friends in multiplayer mode.
Vancouver 2010: Official game of the Winter Olympics – Pros and Cons:
Pros:
the simulation is highly realistic and provides an accurate impression of the actual speed and the difficulty of these events
the overall presentation is slick and highly appealing
the Challenges are lots of fun
Cons:
not much variety with some of the most exciting glamour events being excluded
some of the included events can be difficult to play
not as immersive as one would have hoped
Overall, the Vancouver 2010: Official game of the Winter Olympics game is an enjoyable experience and should suffice until you can hit the slopes on your skiing holidays.
Ignition Entertainment and Zombie Studios are developing Blacklight: Tango Down, a near-future first person shooter that will offer AAA-quality military shooter action in a downloadable package. Blacklight: Tango Down will be available Summer 2010 through Xbox LIVE® Arcade for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation®Network for PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and for personal computer.
Blacklight: Tango Down is a fast-paced first person shooter based in a new fictional universe called Blacklight. Utilizing the cutting-edge graphical power of Unreal Engine 3, Blacklight: Tango Down’s near-future setting is brought to life with disturbingly detailed and old-world architecture dripping with modern sci-fi lighting and brightly lit advertisements, an effect that causes each environment to appear both futuristically alien as well as hauntingly familiar.
The new development will deliver some of the most exciting multiplayer gameplay available in the shooter category and features numerous gameplay styles and functionality. These modes include traditional formats like Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch & Control Point, with other modes being announced in the build up to launch.
Blacklight: Tango Down will set itself apart from other games by virtue of its incredibly deep customization features. Players will be able to alter and upgrade not only their character through experience gained on the battlefield, but also their weapons. Weapon customizations will unlock as the player gains skill and experience points and will include more basic add-ons like sniper scopes as well as more complex enhancements, such as improved accuracy.
Ajay Chadha of Ignition Entertainment says;
“We are excited to be working on a gripping new franchise that will deliver the intense action, thoughtful tactics and in-depth strategies of today’s best multiplayer shooters immersed in an all new universe that gamers will really sink their teeth into.”
Regardless of server, EverQuest® II battleground players can now battle each other in a variety of PvP style games.
On February 16 battlegrounds are scheduled to arrive in EverQuest® II as a complimentary addition for current EQII subscribers with characters level 80-90. Battlegrounds allow players to engage in the most exciting and intense PvP battle against their friends or foes, regardless of server, and provide thrilling group-based, competitive matches in three all-new zones.
Participants can quickly join the nonstop action in three different types of matches, with up to 48 players total. On the Battlegrounds there is a role for all, no matter the class, each player can support or lead the group to victory and reap the rewards of the all-new Chaos armor sets!
Additionally, EverQuest II players who login between Feb. 16, 2010 and Feb. 18, 2010 receive the Warrior of Chaos statue*!
With the launch the following three Battlegrounds are scheduled to be available for players to enjoy:
Battlefield of Ganak
• Game Type: Capture the Flag
• Players: 6 Person Group
• Environment: Outdoor arena with two large oppositional bases with intersecting interiors
• Objective: Capture the enemy’s flag located within their base and return it to your base with your flag still in place
• Win Condition: First team to successfully capture and return three flags wins
Smuggler’s Den
• Game Type: Hold Territory
• Players: 24 Person Group
• Environment: Five spires on top of two pinnacles jutting out of a raging ocean
• Objective: Gain control and hold towers longer than the opposition to earn Tower Tickets
• Win Condition: First team to reach the displayed Tower Ticket goal wins
Gears of Klak’Anon
• Game Type: Hold the Relic
• Players: 6 Person Group
• Environment: Industrious clockwork foundry containing scientific equipment in motion
• Objective: Acquire and hold the relic to accrue points faster than the opposition
• Win Condition: First team to reach the set score wins
Sony EverQuest® II Battlegrounds are scheduled to go live on February 16, 2010.
Abylight an independent premier video game developer, is pleased to announce the upcoming release date for Stop Stress: A Day of Fury, the complete anti-stress therapy for those days when everything that can go wrong, does, or so they say!
Stop Stress: A Day of Fury will be released on January 8th on WiiWare™ in Europe for 800 Wii Points™.
“[It is] the perfect antidote for the modern, urban, stressed out gamer”, said Nacho Garcia, producer at Abylight, “With encounters that range from demonic toasters to an antagonising baby gorilla, players will need to destroy everything in their patch to commence to the next stage”.
Have you ever had one of those days where you wish you’d never got out of bed? In Stop Stress: A Day of Fury you play Jack, a man with dangerously high blood pressure and possibly the most stressed man on earth, whose manic urban life is driving him nuts. As our stressed out hero, you have only one objective – to fulfill the ultimate dream of escaping from the city into a stress free Zen like existence.
Unfortunately for our hero Jack, the path to a trauma free life is littered with madcap enemies including a killer toaster, baby gorilla and a crazy cop hell bent on making you lose your cool. To deal with these wacky menaces players use a selection of crazy weapons including a slipper, axe and giant baseball bat as they proceed to wreak total carnage on anything and everything in their path.
To progress to the next level, players need to destroy everything they can get their hands on commence to the next stage. Featuring three different levels of difficulty within four different unabated and chaotic scenarios, the stress won’t halt, until you stop it or the stress stops your heart.
Stop Stress: A Day of Fury is rated PEGI +12 and will be available on the Wii Shop Channel.
The new edition of the Superbike World Championship racing game is due for release in May 2010 for Xbox360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
SBK®09 offers the ultimate experience of the championship with every feature of the game improved-on from the previous year.
There has been a complete track overhaul, new teams, a new 3D environment, new gameplay structure and new game modes, even the pits have been revamped to look as real as possible.
Each player can now fine-tune his chosen race bike by changing the settings just like a real race engineer, using data collected from the real teams.
In addition, for the first time in a motorcycle racing game, damage caused to the riders leather or bike will also show up in the game, giving that extra feel of reality to the player.
The game features five single player game modes; Quick Race, Training, Race Weekend, Championship and Challenges and three online multiplayer game modes; Quick Race, Championship and Team Championship.
