This week is harsh for full-size console co-op releases, but we do have a downloadable title and some portable gaming goodness heading our way. The godfather of dungeon crawlers gets some love, and the DOA girls go 3D.
We - - - report - the g- f-s over at Bethesda and Splash Damage are - content - simply rest - their laurels while we try - - the incredibly - - lag-plagued shooter, Brink.
We've seen the trailers, both of them. But what about the gameplay? Is Dead Island going to be a moody survival horror game, an action-packed race to safe houses, or something else entirely? The following video has some answers for us. Dead Island's gameplay is looking more like Fallout 3 than Resident Evil or Left 4 Dead. You'll meet up with NPC's, repair your weapons, and numbers will spray from your enemies as you damage them. You'll also see different enemy types as well as get a sense of scale for the island of Banoi (it's big enough to incorporate a fast-travel system). The video shows only single player footage, but we can get a good idea of where things are going from here. It looks like consoles may finally get a giant open world action RPG that supports cooperative play.
A what? A graaaaaaaail? Yes it is a quest for the Holy Grail in The First Templar, a hack and slash co-op adventure for the PC and 360. We take this title for a spin in our latest review and see if this is a quest for glory...or doom.
Its been some time since Sega announced Renegade Ops, a digital download title on the PC, 360, and PS3 from Just Cause 2 developer Avalance Studios. Today though we finally have some details about the game as well as the first gameplay footage.
Not all of us are asked to go into battle with no top on either
We've updated our Fable 3 review to include impressions and details about the recently released PC version of the game. Ready to head back into Albion? Read on!
In one corner, we have a gritty, brutal sword and sorcery beat 'em up. In the other, two hyper-adorable reptilian grinners who use bubbles as weapons. The two games could hardly be more different, yet each was highly successful in arcades and has spawned many follow ups over time.
Viva el verano! Call of Juarez: The Cartel is being shipped out this summer, but so far a solid release date has not been set by Ubisoft - at least, not publicly. Luckily, our friendly retailers have tipped us off. Best Buy and Gamestop have it listed as June 28th for the United States. Amazon UK shows July 01st as the PAL release date, which seems to confirm the former.
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It looks like the survival horror puzzle platformer (try saying that ten-times-fast) simply titled Catherine is going to offer a co-op mode of sorts. Our early reports are pretty vague, but it looks like completing the game will unlock a colosseum mode where you and a friend work together against the forces of the Catherine Universe.
It's another late spring weekend, but the Co-Optimus staffers are too busy playing lots of games to enjoy the great outdoors. As usual, recent releases are quite popular on the weekend's gaming buffet. LA Noire, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean, and Brink make multiple appearances, as does Sony's venerable handheld, the PSP.
