Here's a mini-trailer for Call of Duty: World at War.  It looks pretty sweet graphically, but I'm not sure we really need another World War II FPS.  It's been done to death.

I'd like to see a "Cold War gone hot" FPS with the Call of Duty 4 engine.  That would be freakin' sweet!  Anyway, here's the trailer.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35341.html

Unfortunately, the people making CoD:WaW are the same people that developed Call of Duty 3.  Which sucked.  Chances are good that this game will suck too, but it is too early to tell.


-b0b
(...will probably get it anyway, though.)

Yeah when I loaded up Blizzards page and saw the Diablo 3 logo I just about nearly crapped myself....true story b0b.

Stick wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 11:05am:


I love CoD4 as much as the next person, but I wouldn't go that far.

I might even be willing to admit that it's the best modern military FPS ever, but I definitely wouldn't give it the title of "Best FPS EVARRRR!!!!111"

Leave that title to the real FPS blockbusters, like the original Unreal Tournament.  That game single-handedly defined a new niche in the FPS genre.  Not even CoD4 can't claim that honor.

-b0b
(...w00t!)

ya i finally fired up cod4 on the xbox and after the first couple levels i gotta say its pretty amazing. Like playing a movie. kudos to the devs.

Jus out of curiousity have any of you played the new Civilization: Revolutions?  It looks pretty neat from the commercials and I've been wanting to get a good strategy type game for the 360.  Thought about maybe checking it out, but I hate to drop 60 dollars on a game that sucks....

Any opinions out there on it?  Briney? Pat?...I don't want b0bs cuz he has a horrible taste in game in my opinion

The_Fat_Man wrote on Jul 12^th, 2008 at 2:41pm:


Yeah, I've got horrible taste in women, too, but you should be thankful that I keep your mom in business.

I love real-time strategy games, but I'm not a big fan of turn-based games.  Might & Magic was the shiznit back in the day, but Civilization never really held my attention.  My attention span is too short for that kind of game.

Civilization: Revolutions looks pretty interesting, though.  Meredith loves the Civ series, so I might pick it up eventually.

-b0b
(...w00t.)

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19394

Wii Is 'Expensive Niche' Says Sony’s Stringer

Wii Is 'Expensive Niche' Says Sony’s Stringer Ahead of this week’s E3 expo and the all important pre-conference media briefings from the three console manufacturers, Sony CEO Howard Stringer has spoken out against the Wii – again dismissing it as not being a direct competitor to the PlayStation 3.

Speaking at a media conference, Stringer was quoted by a new Bloomberg report, as stating, "I've played a Nintendo Wii. I don't see it as a competitor. It's more of an expensive niche game device. We're selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it's still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.”

Stringer dismissed the Wii as a director competitor due to its lack of media features and, according to the Bloomberg report, access to the Internet.




Quote:


Hahahaha! Proof that all sony is trying to make is a blu-ray player. Niche game device... haha What are you trying to make sony? I know microsoft and sony are both trying to push a super multimedia device, but at what expense?

Jan-May 2008 sales:

Ps3:   1.2 million
Xbox: 1.12 million
Wii:    2.8 million

Looks like people want  this "niche gaming device" more than your ps3, sir.