Flashback 2013 Video Game

Flashback 2013 Video Game

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Flashback video game is a science fiction game remake of original 1992 Flashback. Game was developed by original game designer Paul Cuisset. Game published by Ubisoft and released on 21^st August2013 for XBOx Live Arcade and will release for PlayStation in Q3/Q4 of 2013.

Due to fan interest VectorCell approached to Ubisoft about remaking of Flashback 1992. Ubisoft’s Guillaume Da Costa Viera said the company’s employees were fans of game and ‘jumped at opportunity’. They sought to remake game’s ‘original spirit’ while attempting to improve game. Paul Cuisset, original Flashback team lead is directing the remake. There are five members from original 1992 join the team. Cuisset had acquired license for game and was waiting for right time to start. Game was unveiled in 10^th April 2013 in Germany.

Team considers a remake of original. Improvements include features from both player feedback and improved technologies since 1992. For example new sill system that trades the points for skill improvements and character customization. Story has also been expanded and graphics updated. Story adds new plot twists, voice acting and dialogues. New graphics put gamin 2.5D from original rotoscoped 2D. Now system aiming is 360 degrees. Games difficulty was decreased.

Game a part of Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade and released on August. Game will include a part of original 1992 game along remake.

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Dead Space – 3

Dead Space 3

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Dead Space – 3 is a third person shooter game.  Dead Space – 3 published by Electronic Arts, and developed by Visceral Games. E3 2012 announced on 4^th June 2012 and released in February 2013. Game sequel to Dead Space – 2 and 3^rd entry in series.

Game follows protagonists Jhon Carver and Isaac Clarke as they attempt to end Necromorph threat once and for all. Dead Space – 3 puts returning protagonist Isaac Clarke and the new co-op of character Sgt. Jhon Carver against Necromorphs, humans corpses reanimated by signal of an alien artifact known as Marker.

Resource intergration Gear (RIG) suit returns using the holographic displays projected from player’s weapons and suit to display ammo and health count. In areas of vacuum a timer will appear on player’s shoulder that showing how much oxygen of character has left before suffocate.

Aside from returning Necromophs game features a large cast of new enemies. 

The Bench weapons upgrade system from Dead Space and Dead Space – 2 has been redesigned as new upgrading system called ‘Weapon Bench’. Players are able to construct weapons from parts gathered throughout game. If player does not want to make weapons, they can choose from readymade blueprints and including classic Dead Space and Dead Space – 2 weapons. Built weapons can be shared in co-op mode. 

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Tom Clancy ‘s Splinter Cell – Blacklist

Tom Clancy 's Splinter Cell Blacklist

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Tom Clancy ‘s Splinter cell – Blacklist is a stealth, adventure and action game.  This game is released for windows, Wii U, Xbox-360 and PlayStation-3. Blacklist is published by Ubisoft, its sixth unstallment of Tom Clancy Sprlinter Cell series, game sequel to Splinter Cell – Conviction. In North America on 20^th August 2013, in Australia on 22^nd August 2013, and will be released in Japan on 5^th September 2013.

Game produed by Jade Raymond and Deigned by Mazime Beland and Alex Parizeau. It has two mode of playing single-player and multiplayer. Blacklist introduces new gameplay mechanic called killing in motion. Allowing player to targets and take them out in succession while on run. Game set in third – person perspective so protagonist and objects around him are visible. Player can use Kinect sensor to control protagonist with their body instead of Xbox - 360 controllers.

In November 2010 Jade Raymond from Ubisoft announced that studio was developing new splinter cell game.  It’s also announced series vetern Michael Ironside would not reprise his role as voice of Sam Fisher.

Upon release of windows version several users with slightly outdated graphics cards causing issues with game crashing running Direct X-11 version of game. Many solutions posted on various game forums worked for until Ubisoft finally released a patch on same day to resolve these and other types of small bugs with game.

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The Bureau – XCOM Declassified

The Bureau XCOM Declassified

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The Bureau – XCOM Declassified is a science fiction based video game in the X – COM series, released by 2K Games and developed by 2K Marin for Windows, Xbox – 360 and PlayStation – 3 on August 20, 2013. Gme was development under different titles by three different studios since 2006. Unveiled as a First – Person Shooter titled in June 2010 and it has been repeatedly delayed as changed then. In April 2013 this game was rebranded as the Bureau - XCOM Declassified in its final version third person view tactical shooter element are provided.

In 1962 US, the game tells story of CIA special Agent name William Carter working for the US Bureau of Strategic and Emergency command, tasked with stopping and investigating an extraterrestrial incursion on American soil, all keeping it secret and erase all evidence.

Already prior to the games E3 2010 debut the developers of game began experiencing different difficulties both technically and creatively. 

Early year 2K publishing had a large portion of 2K Marin to assist 2K Australia in developing this game. Soon the two studios were merged under name of ‘2K Marin’. Australian branch worked over single player components and California was assigned multiplayer mode. These tow studios were slowed down due to communication issues and they found it difficult to implement the Stealth gameplay.

Initial public reaction to reveal of XCOM in 2010 was negative. Julian Gollop alsp criticized original announcement version of game.  The reactions have improved when XCOM was redesigned. 1UP.com version called as ‘dark horse’ of E3 2011.

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Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons

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Brothers – A Tale of Two Sons is a downloadable story driven adventure game. This video game is developed by Starbreeze Studios and published by 505 Games. Brothers released on 7^th August 2013 for Xbox Arcade. It’s also will be released on 28^th August 2013 and 03 September 2013 for Steam and PlayStation.

Gameplay revolves around interaction between two brothers with each other and the world. They must solve puzzles and overcome obstacles by helping to each other and working together. Player controls each brother with one of analog sticks. This stick allowing each players character to move individually and freely.

A man clinging to life and his two sons, desperate to cure their unwell father, are left with one option. They must set out upon a journey to find and bring back the ‘Water of Life’ as they come to rely on one another survives. One surely is strong when the other is weak, they must be “Brothers”.

There are positive previews for Brothers, and parallels have been drawn with Fable and Journey. Game Master rated the game 91/100. And saying “Short but immensely satisfying- its lco meets limbo in fables‘s world”. Bothe PC gmer and IGN forecasts that Brothers can be best games of 2013.

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Payday 2 PC game

PayDay 2

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Payday 2 is a first person shooter PC video game. Game developed by Overkill Software. This is sequel of Payday – The Heist. It was released on 13 August 2013, for Microsoft Windows, Xbox-360 and PlayStation-3. Payday 2 involves the player and their team which consists on friends or other players which assigned randomly assigned, performing robberies and bank heists. Gameplay has been heavily improves and expanded since its predecessor, with a new abilities. Game firstly announced in February 2013, later in March of that year.

In Payday-2 PC game while very much same as the original in base game play. Improve on a number of flaws from the last games in that it’s a sharper experience. For instance gun combat is improved and the stealth mechanic from previous game is given a larger emphasis. Carrying loot is also modified and creating actual loot bag and adds weight to carrier.

Cash loot from the game is no longer a substitute for experience points. Actually it is used as cash for actually making purchases of player‘s gun and upgrades as well as.

New in game is Crime Net, it’s a new mission interface. The phases system displays this in effect most accurately players may under take longer mission which are broken into a separate.  Story connected levels called phases which can take place over days. Depending both on a player’s course of action, or little luck in random generation. Payday-2 is overkill’s game to have a boxed retail release.

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Shadowrun Returns

Shadowrun Returns

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Shadowrun Returns is a role playing game self published and developed by Harebrained Schemes and compose by Marshall Parker and Sam Powell, it’s an independent video game company led by Jordan Weisman creator of Shadworun tabletop role playing game. Shadowrun released in 25^th July 2013.

Player is able to customize their player gender and looks. There are 5 Races to choose from: elves, orks, trolls, dwarves and humans. Player choose to play as one of six classes Mage, Decker, Street Samurai, Rigger, Shaman, or Physical Adept, or the player can choose to play as no class. As the Story progresses the user is given Karma to spend on make better their characters. While classes control what equipment and skills of character starts with, player can choose to get any skills which they wish.

While gameplay is linear, small amount of exploration is possible while all objectives are completed. User can enter dialogue with different characters. Player can choose their character to have different Etiquettes to add more dialogue options.  Combat is turn based with player handling the actions of their followed team member by enemies taking actions. All characters can moves based off of their Action Points. Every character carries up to 3 weapons and can change between them at no AP (Action Point) cost.

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Takken Revolution

Takken Revolution

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Takken Revolution is a free fighting game to play published and developed by Namco Bandai.  Taken new series is released on June 11, 2013 for PS-3 via play station store. This is first game in Takken franchise to be made as free play.

Taken Revolution takes the series to new ways of playing. Many new mechanics introduced in it, such as Critical Arts moves and Special Arts designed to help new user. Taken Revolution is a fighting action game, where the characters can be staggered to allow higher chance to inflict attacks have mostly been removed, with only way for activate it is through stage interactions. First time in Takken series a stat upgrade feature us provided, in which user can spend skill points to increase your character ‘s Power, Vigor and Endurance.

Online mode, where user battles each other through online player matches and ranked. In Practice mode, which was added as update, as was the option to deactivate character ‘s stats during matches as well as costumes and added effects.

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Remember Me

Remember Me

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“Remember Me” game is a type of an action adventure video game published by Capcom and developed by Dotnod Entertainment. This game was released in month of June 2013 for windows, Xbox-360 and PS-3.

“Remember Me” features exploration, platforming and melee combat. This game introduced the mechanic of memory remixing, rearranging targets memories and entering to manipulate them. Players did this through replaying memory and details to change target’s recollection of the outcome. Another key of gameplay is stealing memories from targets and using points called remembrances to replay memory in real time.  When the player is low health the screen will glitch until a sufficient amount of health is regained.

The game is about within the year 2084, in a very art movement version of Paris referred to as Neo-Paris. The study corporation has made-up a brand new brain implant referred to as the feeling Engine (Sensen), that permits roughly ninety nine of the population to transfer and share their reminiscences on world wide web, similarly as take away sad or unpleasant reminiscences.  This offers study associate degree huge degree of management over the population and permits them to determine a police investigation state. This, in turn, results in little cluster of rebels forming beneath the name "Errorists": their mission is to bring down study. The invention of the Sensen has additionally resulted within the creation of Leapers; memory-addicted humans WHO have absorbed such a lot of reminiscences that their Sensen has degraded and that they have mutated into a subhuman type, currently living within the sewers of Neo-Paris.

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