{"id":362,"date":"2012-03-20T23:39:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T22:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kingofgng.com\/eng\/2012\/03\/20\/videogames-highlights-february-2012\/"},"modified":"2017-11-27T22:49:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T21:49:59","slug":"videogames-highlights-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingofgng.com\/eng\/2012\/03\/20\/videogames-highlights-february-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Videogames highlights – February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This post is part 26 of 131 in the series Videogames Highlights<\/a><\/strong><\/h4><\/div>\n

\"In<\/a> The new installment of my beloved\/hated Videogames highlights<\/a> (let’s call it “installment of the hopefully regained normality”) almost seems a first person shooters fair. Personally I would prefer to devote much more attention to the Half-Life sci-fi universe, but Gabe Newell says that it isn’t the case<\/a> to stir things up too much before the time has come<\/strong>. Right: Half-Life 2: Episode 3 should be out just for Christmas 2007, so there is still room for rumors on improbable Steam consoles<\/a>, BAFTA awards<\/a> (Portal 2<\/em>) and other niceties. Never mind, it means that I will spend time with Diablo III<\/a> (coming out on the next 15th of May<\/a>)!<\/p>\n

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Alan Wake<\/strong><\/p>\n

Almost two years after its debut on Xbox 360, the psychological action thriller by Remedy Entertainment<\/em> finally lands on PC<\/a>: Alan Wake<\/strong><\/em> features a writer which is trying to fight his demons (he didn’t write anything for two years) in the town of Bright Falls, but he must face a dark force come out from his new and still unpublished novel – unknown even to his author. Remedy had to acquire the publishing rights from Microsoft to let the game arrive on Windows PC, but the patience has brought excellent returns<\/strong> both for developers and players: the former have recovered the investment within the first 48 hours of sale<\/a>, the latter can enjoy a very good conversion<\/a> and a “consumer friendly” approach treating piracy as it should be treated<\/a> and not like the fucking end to all the things.<\/p>\n

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Far Cry 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

Awaited for September on PC Windows, Xbox 360 and PS3, Far Cry 3<\/strong><\/em> is a shooter set on a tropical island that wants to be realistic and let the player feel like part of a world that has no particular interest for his survival<\/strong>. The official introduction trailer<\/a> describes the unpleasant beginning of the protagonist’s misadventures, being him entrapped<\/a> on the island with a series of mentally unstable characters loaded with guns and ammo. His aim is to free himself from that hostile world mission after mission<\/a>, shooting after shooting and hallucinogenic mushroom after hallucinogenic mushroom (…). The developers say they have learned from the errors made with Far Cry 2 and promise less malaria for everyone<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hard Reset<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a world where developers so desperately try to cover as much gaming platforms as possible, the Polish team of Flying Wild Hog<\/em> decided to bet everything on the environment that saw the birth and the blooming of the FPS genre: Hard Reset: Extended Edition<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/strong> is the updated and expanded<\/a> version of an old-school shooter<\/strong> that pays homage to titles like Quake and Unreal, where there are few possible movem
\nents and where everything the player needs to do is shoot, shoot, shoot and strafing<\/em> shoot. To be released for PC Windows on September 2012, better start warming up the machine guns and replacing the GPU cooling fan…<\/p>\n

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Max Payne 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

The series that brought the use-abuse of bullet time<\/em> in video games will return this May (PC, Xbox 360, PS3) with the third, messed up adventure featuring the troubled undercover policeman Max Payne: this time the set is a Brazilian city full of gangs, cops and killed corpses, many of which owe their status to our trigger-happy hero. Max Payne 3<\/strong><\/em> will not have the noir settings<\/strong> typical of the series but will keep the violence and the complex plots of the previous chapters, the developers promise<\/a>. And on the PC the game will look gorgeous<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Shank 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bad, nasty and ugly two-dimensional beat’em up\/action game named Shank<\/a> is back badder, nastier and uglier than ever: available since February on PC Windows, Xbox 360 and PS3, Shank 2<\/strong><\/em> improves<\/a> the cartoonish ultra-violence<\/strong> formula of the original game with updated fighting mechanics, new weapons and a new multiplayer survival mode.<\/p>\n

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Syndicate<\/strong><\/p>\n

The gaming industry tends to devour itself more than other entertainment sectors, and generally the result is negative<\/strong> proportionally to the greed (foolishness) of unrestrained publishers like Electronic Arts<\/em>: this new Syndicate<\/strong><\/em> is the reboot in first person shooter form<\/a> of the isometric tactical shooter created by Peter Molyneux’s Bullfrog<\/em> away back in 1993. The original game was (and still is!) fun, engaging and well done, the remake is painfully poor<\/a> but it has nice ASCII graphics<\/a> for pirates. The “masterpiece” from Starbreeze Studios<\/em> is available since February on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.<\/p>\n

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