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The Tuesday Cap is a new regular column capping of and commenting on game news for the past week. Here's the bits, bobs, doobalackeys, and thingamajigs in the world of gaming of note for the past week.
The Big News
Battlefield 3 kicked off its Beta last week ahead of it’s October 25 release. If you’re keen on what looks to be an epic military shooter you’ve got until October 10 to get online and download a copy on Xbox, PS3 or PC. The first map available is the soldier focused Operation Metro that focuses on the games rush mode, one team defends a set of objectives while the other attempts to destroy them. Naturally this has led to hundreds of outraged comments and posts about camping by people who fail to understand the difference between deathmatch and attack and defend game types. Oh well.
Much like the exciting launch of Battlefield 2 many years ago, the initial thrill is quickly tempered by a flood of bugs and technical issues. Of course this is a Beta, designed for identifying and squashing bugs in a live environment. But there are only twenty days until the games official release. EA has all ready started addressing some of the problems with glitched kill cams and spawn problems, even going so far to change the view on some weapons iron sights, but it seems they have a lot to. One of the team leads for Battlefield 3 also made an extremely restrained post in reply to the flood of complaints as to why Operation Metro was the only playable Beta map and not others, specifically Caspian Border. Team member Daniel Matros posted that Beta access was a 'privelege not a right' and players should shut the hell up and just enjoy this free early access to a highly anticipated game. While he might be fully justified in his remarks, this is clearly someone unfamiliar with the usual hornet nest like mindset of the gaming community at large. Throwing rocks is usually not advised, no matter how small or politely worded they are. One warning for PC players, if you were thinking of rorting EA’s unpopular Origin service and using a hacked server to play the Beta, you might get a considerable ban slap. EA are hitting people who partake of this particular piece of dastardly with a complete ban of the Origin service, meaning you won’t be able to play any games that utilise the Origin service. Harsh.
Movie News
Enterprising film maker Kevin Tancharoen is that rare breed of aspiring film maker for whom hard work has paid off. he basically made the most elaborate studio pitch in history with a series of web shorts based on Mortal Kombat characters that were actually kind of good. Featuring alternative interpretations of characters like Raiden and Johnny Cage, his Mortal Kombat videos have earned him the budget and rights from Warner Brothers to make a Mortal Kombat feature film.
In other movie news Dead Island, about a zombie outbreak at a resort island, has been optioned as a film before the game was even released. It bears repeating that a Halo movie directed by the man behind District 9, backed by Peter Jackson and supported by the award winning effects company he founded Weta Studios, was considered ‘too risky’ and ‘potentially uneconomical’ by movie studio executives, upon all of whom I wish the bubonic plague.
Anthropomorphic Brawling Animal NewsIn my ongoing quest to find a brawler that isn’t generic I’ve played a number of weird fighting games, but few weirder than Bloody Roar, a game were fighters turned into a variety of were animals with a button press. Yes, it’s a fighting game for furry enthusiasts. And now there’s a sequel coming, the fifth in the series in fact.
Hudson Soft, the company behind the fox people fighter, actually announced a sequel back in February. But the company seemed to enter a rough period and shutdown. Their twitter feed has just announced that they’re back and working on Bloody Roar 5 with a 2012 release scheduled.
Green Tights NewsI don’t like Nintendo, maybe it’s the lack of nostalgic love for Mario, the chronic migraines I suffered playing Golden Eye or the soul sucking misery that is the Wii Store, but I will never be a Nintendo fanboy.
Then again, I’ve always kinda liked Zelda, although I missed the classics like Majoras Mask and Ocarina of Time that are the reason people get triforce tattoos on their buttocks, but I loved the more recent DS games. So I must confess to secretly planning on stealing my Wii back from my daughters room, where it’s been bedazzled and stickered, and getting a copy of Skyward Sword. If you weren’t excited for Skyward Sword the following images and videos may tip you over.
Street Breaking News
In other Nintendo news, it’s been confirmed that Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword and Super Mario 3D Land will be available in Australia within a week of their European release date. Currently Skyward Sword is listed as 18 November through UK retailers and 25 November through Australian stores.
It’s not an ideal solution but it’s an improvement on the huge disparity between Australian and other Pal regions getting the 3DS release of Ocarina of Time. The delay there saw stores like Gametraders selling grey imports from the UK weeks ahead of the official release and other stores with stock eventually breaking street date, but not advertising the game for sale, or contacting preorder purchasers before the official release date.
Syndicated News
Here’s the first trailer for Syndicate and it looks kind of amazing. First thing to note, this thing is coming out in February of next year, not too far away, so why are they only marketing it now? I’ll give you a hint it begins with D and rhymes with Juice Ex. While the trailer looks rather impressive, it doesn’t look particularly special. Visually it looks almost like a DLC pack for Deus Ex, but I’ll bet both my pinky toes it won’t have the variety of options to tackle of objectives that this years number one cyberpunk game could. It looks interesting, but it does not look like Syndicate.
Bargain News
Xbox Live arcade games have had a major price crash. Here’s some of the major deals on the go. Here’s the games you should definitely get: Monday Night Combat – 600 MS Points (down from 1200 MS Points) Outland – 400 MS Points (down from 800 MS Points) And, not to denigrate them because there are some damn good qualities titles in there, but here are the others: Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter –- 400 MS Points (down from 1200 MS Points)
Law and Order News Mark Bradford is a name who will live in infamy. Internet infamy at least, which means about a fortnight, maybe a month if a funny meme takes off. An unemployed 46 year old father of three from Devon, Mark spent an entire day doing what most unemployed men with three dependents should not do, playing round after round of Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer on his PS3. Much of his game time was occupied with being baited and harassed by a 13 year old boy. Eventually Mark located the kid at a friends house through unknown means, walked over to his house and, to paraphrase the Daily Mail, choked the shit out of him. He was eventually pulled of the child by his friends mother after which he simply walked out. She offered these sage words, “If you can’t handle losing to a child then you shouldn’t be playing games.” Bradford supposedly suffers from mental health issues and had a momentary madness. He has since apologized to the boy and, in a bizarre twist, has played with him again since and described him as, ‘an all right kid’. The lesson here is twofold: first, if you’re playing a game with a loud mouthed little bugger, just play something else, assault of a child never looks good on a record, and second, if you have or are a tween who plays games online, note how easy it is to be back tracked and strangled by unemployed mental patients before they start harrassing people. And before you even think of deifying such an individual take a look at his picture at the Daily Mail article.
Weird Game News
I've spent a ridiculous amount of time this past week playing a little browser game called Glitch. Probably the most noteworthy feature of Glitch is that one its creators was formerly retired game desgining weirdo/genius (terms I consider equally honorable) Keita Takahashi, maker of Katamari Damacy and Noby Noby Boy. Glitch casts you as a strange little person in a world imagined by several giants. Your role in the 2D platform like realm is to interact and encourage the world, along with other players, to grow and develop. It's a collaborative MMO about world building, nibbling pigs and harvesting bubble trees. It's extremely weird and oddly enchanting. Also free for the first month. Check it out at www.glitch.com If you want to add me to your Glitch friends my character has devil horns, kilt and casual Friday shirt and goes by Barno.
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