Games To Look Forward To: 2007 & Beyond

[Busyman™]

Resident Evil 5

http://www.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/12/re5_in_2008.jpg

Capcom

PS3 & 360

Release Date: 2008 or '09

HD trailer with gameplay (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22800.html)

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I had RE4 as my '05 GOTY and this one looks amazing. It looks like it has the tension, difficulty, and graphics. It reminds a little of the movie Black Hawk Down. The use of black people is welcome since you don't normally see that.

Just like in RE4 it looks like you can run somewhere and the villagers can get to you. In one scene it looks like you get up on a bus and villagers pull it down. Another scene it looks like the same thing with a high shelf. The supports beam gets broken.

This seems to be a winner.

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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/mgs4-4-lg.jpg

Konami

PS3

Release Date: March 2008

HD gameplay (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22702.html)

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The gameplay and graphics look absolutely amazing!

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All-Pro Football 2K8

http://www.gamepro.com/sony/ps3/games/news/images/115628-1.jpg

2K Sports

PS3 & 360

Release Date: Out now

HD gameplay - OJ Simpson playing for the Assassins! :lol: (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22431.html)

HD gameplay - The QBs (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22485.html)

HD gameplay - Michael Vick WTF! Notice the team. (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22536.html)

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I've played this already and the game makes you forget that it doesn't have the NFL license. It looks much better than Madden and the play is similar.

[Shiranai_Baka]

Where are the pictures to wow me?!

[Busyman™]

Where are the pictures to wow me?!

Uhhh...click the links and you get moving pictures in HD.:1eye:

[rafabenitez]

yer i cant wait for mgs4 or the new fifa

[Cheese]

Beyond 2007 it's Spore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_%28video_game%29)that I'm most looking forward to.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/df/Spore%28videogame%29_creature_editor.jpg

http://www.gamerevolution.com/oldsite/previews/featured/pc/spore/spore4b.jpg



http://www.gameaxis.com/img/blog/157/Image/spore_002.jpg

Dragon Age (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age) is sounding hawt as well.

[SirGray]

Ya, im looking forward to spore aswell!

[Cheese]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Alan_wake_logo.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_wake)

[Busyman™]

Mass Effect

http://www.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/11/mass_effect_g.jpg (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/22840.html)

Developer: Bioware
Publisher: Microsoft

360

Release Date: Sept. 3, 2007

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This is an expansive RPG with twitch gameplay. It looks like some movie.

Since this is published by M$ I'm sure it'll be out for PC in a year.

[vobilli]

SimCity Societies has gotten me pretty excited, that and BioShock.. everyon's waiting for that one I'm sure.

[Cheese]

Mass Effect



Developer: Bioware
Publisher: Microsoft

360

Release Date: Sept. 3, 2007

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This is an expansive RPG with twitch gameplay. It looks like some movie.

Since this is published by M$ I'm sure it'll be out for PC in a year.

I would have said Bioware can do no wrong before today. Unfortunately I tried out Jade Empire for the first time this afternoon. . . oh dear.

[Busyman™]

Mass Effect



Developer: Bioware
Publisher: Microsoft

360

Release Date: Sept. 3, 2007

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This is an expansive RPG with twitch gameplay. It looks like some movie.

Since this is published by M$ I'm sure it'll be out for PC in a year.

I would have said Bioware can do no wrong before today. Unfortunately I tried out Jade Empire for the first time this afternoon. . . oh dear.

Yeah it was weird that it got rave reviews almost everywhere. I never really got into it but I did like KOTOR from Bioware.

I al definitely checking out Mass Effect though. I like RPGs that are traditional "roll the dice" type games.

This one, although not revolutionary, is nice in how you handle dialog in what would normally be a cutscene.

It's a movie, tactical shooter, and RPG.

I wouldn't be surprised, if it has successful sales, that it become a movie for real.

As almost always though, I will not get it on day 1.

There are a handful of games that I'll do that with.

MGS 4
Halo 3
RE 5


Project Offset
"working title"

http://www.charliecleveland.com/archives/offset_troll.jpg (http://gametrailers.com/player/22926.html)

Developer: Offset Software
Publisher: None yet

PC

Release Date: TBA

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This is a leaked video according to their website **bullshit coughcough**. The graphics are on par if not rival that of Crysis.

[Busyman™]

Halo 3

http://www.gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/news/images/126628-1-1.jpg (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/21489.html)

Developer: Bungie Software
Publisher: Microsoft

360

Release Date: Sept. 25, '07

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I'm getting this on day 1. The motherfuckin' game now has 4-player co-op over System Link or XBL!

You play as either Master Chief, the Arbiter, or 2 other new Elite characters. You all start with different weapons but can use any weapon later.

Hell with 4-player co-op you may as well start off the game on Legendary. XBL WILL BE ON FIRE!! I see a server overload coming.

Folks that I know that don't really play any videogames besides sports titles play Halo so I won't have to play with strangers on my friends list.

[Sin4pz]

GTA4!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bioshock
MGS4
Halo3

Gonna be one of the greatest xmas for games this year 07 :)

[Necrophag]

You forgot 2 games!!! best ones this year along with GTA 4

Crysis

Crysis is an upcoming science fiction first-person shooter computer game that is currently in development by German developer Crytek

Earth, 2019: A colossal asteroid crashes down to Earth. The North Korean Government quickly seals off the island chain, claiming the mysteries of the asteroid for themselves. The United States responds by dispatching an elite team of Delta Force Operators to recon the situation and report back to the Pentagon. Amid rising tensions between the US and North Koreans, the asteroid suddenly bursts open, revealing a massive, 2km high alien ship. The ship generates an immense force sphere, freezing a vast portion of the island and drastically altering the global weather system. The invasion of Earth has begun. The two rival nations unite to stop the aliens and save mankind. The newly formed alliance fights epic battles against the marauding Aliens. With hope rapidly fading, the player must lead a crack squad through lush tropical jungle, harsh frozen landscapes, and finally into the heart of the alien ship itself for the ultimate Zero G encounter with the aliens.

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Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (ET:QW) is a first-person shooter computer game and is the follow-up to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. However, it is set in the same science fiction universe as Quake II and Quake 4, with a backstory serving as a prequel to Quake II. It is the second multiplayer-focused game in the Quake series (after Quake III Arena). Quake Wars will feature similar gameplay to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, but with the addition of controllable vehicles and aircraft,[3] asymmetric teams, much larger maps and the option of computer-controlled bots. Unlike the previous Enemy Territory game, Quake Wars will be a commercial release rather than a free download.

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[MaaxHimself]

HALO 3
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/2/926632_63166_front.jpg


and NHL 2k8 (#1 in world Xbox 360 on NHL 2k6)http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/bigboxshots/7/939597_87908_front.jpg

[tacoflavakiss]

Game I'm lookin forward to are:

Stranglehold
RE 5
GTA 4 (pissed about the delay:frusty:)
Bioshock
Spore
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Halo 3
Rockband
&
anything that uses the Wii zapper

[AmpeD]

I cant wait for crysis for pc!

1 word to describe it:
EPIC

[Busyman™]

Left 4 Dead

http://www.zombiereportingcenter.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/img_3442_left4dead_450x360.jpg (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/16134.html)

Developer: Turtle Rock Studios
Publisher: Valve

360, PC

Release Date: Feb. '08

Many gameplay vids. Don't forget to check out the ones on the bottom. (http://www.gametrailers.com/game/4094.html)
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This is going to be amazing. It will light XBL on fire also!

[fastplumb]

Im looking forward to the new MMO Pirates Of The Burning Sea (http://www.burningsea.com/pages/page.php?pageKey=home)

Pirates of the Burning Sea Teaser (http://videos.curse.com/details/453/) < click here :w00t: and here for Vidoes > E3 2k7 trailer (http://videos.curse.com/details/434/)

The year is 1720 and the New World is on fire.
England, France, and Spain have unleashed their forces on the Caribbean. Naval officers captain massive warships through bloody engagements at sea. Freetraders charge through blockades and smuggle the war material needed to conquer the enemy’s ports. Privateers raid enemy shipping, looting ships of their treasure and rival nations of their glory.
Through it all sail the Pirates. Bloody, bold, and resolute, they serve no flag and heed no king. They live free, fight hard, and obey only fate.
In Pirates of the Burning Sea you choose your destiny.
http://www.burningsea.com/images/ship-thumb.jpg Blistering Naval Combat

Maneuver your ship in real time, turning one way to unleash a broadside and then cutting back to guard your damaged armor. Drop sails and heave to while your opponent sails forward so you can fire at his vulnerable stern. Work together with your friends to choose your targets and your aim points: small, fast ships can swoop in close to rake the enemy crew with swivel guns while your bruisers blast chain shot at the enemy sails. Once you’ve crippled his ability to move, send in a boarding ship laden with armed men to grapple, board, and seize the prize.
Ship combat in Pirates of the Burning Sea has all the action, intensity, and tactical gameplay of a single-player game. Speed, direction, and facing all matter, and you fire and sail in realtime. As captain of your own ship you balance your crew, sails, armor, guns, and maneuverability, making snap decisions while planning what’s going to happen in thirty seconds. It’s a white-knuckle experience, whether against determined NPCs or wily players.
http://www.burningsea.com/images/swordfight-thumb.jpg Savage Swashbuckling

Our swashbuckling system is something you’ve never seen in an MMO before. Hundreds of handmade animations capture every bold gesture in three fighting styles. Whether you go for traditional Fencing, or the dual-wielding showmanship known as Florentine, or the treachery of Dirty Fighting, your very stance will display your chosen mastery and your every move will be distinct. Every combat skill is uniquely animated with corresponding responses and fighting is fast and fluid. Keep your Balance high and you can parry attacks; build up your Initiative to unleash powerful finishing moves; and if desperation strikes, you can whip out a pistol for a devastating attack.
Our cinematic adventures pit you against hordes of enemies, cutting your way through the thugs who stand between you and the enemy you’re here to duel. You’ll have to make fast use of skills and tactics to beat the toughest swordsmen in the Burning Sea!
PvP-Conquerable World

The Caribbean of 1720 is home to many dozens of ports belonging to the three great powers: Britain, France, and Spain. Each port is a valuable source of goods, equipment, and mission patrons. Players use PvE missions to destabilize a port, making it eligible for conquest by their nation. With enough players keeping up the pressure, the conquest mode begins and the ocean for many leagues around the port becomes an open PvP environment. This unlocks new PvE missions to smuggle in supplies, destroy fortifications, and tilt the odds in your favor. Scheduled PvP battles culminate in a final conflict to either save the port or conquer it.
Every day, each nation receives victory points on the basis of its port holdings. The first nation to reach the goal is declared the victor, and celebrations and awards ensue. Then treaties are signed, ports revert to their original sides, and a new round of conflict begins.
Sophisticated Missions

Our mission system gives you a starring role in your own epic. Each player accumulates a personal supporting cast of NPCs, including old enemies, new friends, lost loves, and treacherous allies. No two players have the same cast, and their stories will take them to different places and fight in different battles. And since each NPC can have multiple roles, the pirate who is your arch-nemesis may be the good friend and ally of an enemy player. Your long-lost cousin may turn out to be your best friend’s sweetheart – or a treacherous spy! We bring the plot twists and the bold adventure of classic adventure fiction to life every time you play.
Ship battles aren’t just spawn camps. Our AI personalities and dynamic goals ensure that no two battles are alike. Unexpected reinforcements, nighttime stealth missions, and secondary objectives mean you get gameplay as intricate as any handcrafted single-player game level.
Dramatic Avatars

http://www.burningsea.com/images/woman-pirate.jpg You don’t have to look like everyone else. Our avatars are built with sixteen customizable slots. Choose hair, faces, footwear, hands, coats, hats, belts, jewelry, and much more, selecting from a library of parts and textures and assigning the colors you want. Most games with customizable avatars use flat gray textures that are then customized with flat, featureless colors. Our full-color customizable textures mean we start with gorgeous, photographic color and then apply your custom shades selectively, preserving details such as gold buttons, fabric coarseness, or bloodstains while still allowing for tremendous creative freedom. And of course, you can choose from the eyepatches, hook hands, and peg legs that every pirate craves.
Action For Every Play Style

Whether your interest is in ship combat, piracy, commercial trading, or adventure, you have a role to play, and all your adventures take place in a dramatic world of conflict and change. A dynamic commodities market provides opportunity for clever traders to turn coin, navy missions throw you into the thick of combat, and pirates have ample targets for plunder. Our strategic gameplay keeps the world in flux, offering ample opportunities for both PvE missions and PvP battles & ambushes to affect the ongoing struggle. The Caribbean of 1720 is a world at war, and all players can take part on their own terms. Whether you want to join a major port conquest battle, pursue smuggling missions to help your side in secret, or organize your guildmates to bolster a port’s defenses in the face of enemy plotting, your efforts are meaningful and the stakes are high!

[Busyman™]

Im looking forward to the new MMO Pirates Of The Burning Sea (http://www.burningsea.com/pages/page.php?pageKey=home)

Pirates of the Burning Sea Teaser (http://videos.curse.com/details/453/) < click here :w00t: and here for Vidoes > E3 2k7 trailer (http://videos.curse.com/details/434/)

The year is 1720 and the New World is on fire.
England, France, and Spain have unleashed their forces on the Caribbean. Naval officers captain massive warships through bloody engagements at sea. Freetraders charge through blockades and smuggle the war material needed to conquer the enemy’s ports. Privateers raid enemy shipping, looting ships of their treasure and rival nations of their glory.
Through it all sail the Pirates. Bloody, bold, and resolute, they serve no flag and heed no king. They live free, fight hard, and obey only fate.
In Pirates of the Burning Sea you choose your destiny.
http://www.burningsea.com/images/ship-thumb.jpg Blistering Naval Combat

Maneuver your ship in real time, turning one way to unleash a broadside and then cutting back to guard your damaged armor. Drop sails and heave to while your opponent sails forward so you can fire at his vulnerable stern. Work together with your friends to choose your targets and your aim points: small, fast ships can swoop in close to rake the enemy crew with swivel guns while your bruisers blast chain shot at the enemy sails. Once you’ve crippled his ability to move, send in a boarding ship laden with armed men to grapple, board, and seize the prize.
Ship combat in Pirates of the Burning Sea has all the action, intensity, and tactical gameplay of a single-player game. Speed, direction, and facing all matter, and you fire and sail in realtime. As captain of your own ship you balance your crew, sails, armor, guns, and maneuverability, making snap decisions while planning what’s going to happen in thirty seconds. It’s a white-knuckle experience, whether against determined NPCs or wily players.
http://www.burningsea.com/images/swordfight-thumb.jpg Savage Swashbuckling

Our swashbuckling system is something you’ve never seen in an MMO before. Hundreds of handmade animations capture every bold gesture in three fighting styles. Whether you go for traditional Fencing, or the dual-wielding showmanship known as Florentine, or the treachery of Dirty Fighting, your very stance will display your chosen mastery and your every move will be distinct. Every combat skill is uniquely animated with corresponding responses and fighting is fast and fluid. Keep your Balance high and you can parry attacks; build up your Initiative to unleash powerful finishing moves; and if desperation strikes, you can whip out a pistol for a devastating attack.
Our cinematic adventures pit you against hordes of enemies, cutting your way through the thugs who stand between you and the enemy you’re here to duel. You’ll have to make fast use of skills and tactics to beat the toughest swordsmen in the Burning Sea!
PvP-Conquerable World

The Caribbean of 1720 is home to many dozens of ports belonging to the three great powers: Britain, France, and Spain. Each port is a valuable source of goods, equipment, and mission patrons. Players use PvE missions to destabilize a port, making it eligible for conquest by their nation. With enough players keeping up the pressure, the conquest mode begins and the ocean for many leagues around the port becomes an open PvP environment. This unlocks new PvE missions to smuggle in supplies, destroy fortifications, and tilt the odds in your favor. Scheduled PvP battles culminate in a final conflict to either save the port or conquer it.
Every day, each nation receives victory points on the basis of its port holdings. The first nation to reach the goal is declared the victor, and celebrations and awards ensue. Then treaties are signed, ports revert to their original sides, and a new round of conflict begins.
Sophisticated Missions

Our mission system gives you a starring role in your own epic. Each player accumulates a personal supporting cast of NPCs, including old enemies, new friends, lost loves, and treacherous allies. No two players have the same cast, and their stories will take them to different places and fight in different battles. And since each NPC can have multiple roles, the pirate who is your arch-nemesis may be the good friend and ally of an enemy player. Your long-lost cousin may turn out to be your best friend’s sweetheart – or a treacherous spy! We bring the plot twists and the bold adventure of classic adventure fiction to life every time you play.
Ship battles aren’t just spawn camps. Our AI personalities and dynamic goals ensure that no two battles are alike. Unexpected reinforcements, nighttime stealth missions, and secondary objectives mean you get gameplay as intricate as any handcrafted single-player game level.
Dramatic Avatars

http://www.burningsea.com/images/woman-pirate.jpg You don’t have to look like everyone else. Our avatars are built with sixteen customizable slots. Choose hair, faces, footwear, hands, coats, hats, belts, jewelry, and much more, selecting from a library of parts and textures and assigning the colors you want. Most games with customizable avatars use flat gray textures that are then customized with flat, featureless colors. Our full-color customizable textures mean we start with gorgeous, photographic color and then apply your custom shades selectively, preserving details such as gold buttons, fabric coarseness, or bloodstains while still allowing for tremendous creative freedom. And of course, you can choose from the eyepatches, hook hands, and peg legs that every pirate craves.
Action For Every Play Style

Whether your interest is in ship combat, piracy, commercial trading, or adventure, you have a role to play, and all your adventures take place in a dramatic world of conflict and change. A dynamic commodities market provides opportunity for clever traders to turn coin, navy missions throw you into the thick of combat, and pirates have ample targets for plunder. Our strategic gameplay keeps the world in flux, offering ample opportunities for both PvE missions and PvP battles & ambushes to affect the ongoing struggle. The Caribbean of 1720 is a world at war, and all players can take part on their own terms. Whether you want to join a major port conquest battle, pursue smuggling missions to help your side in secret, or organize your guildmates to bolster a port’s defenses in the face of enemy plotting, your efforts are meaningful and the stakes are high!

That game looks great!

The only problems it looks like I might have with it:

1. The graphics are just average

2. The combat looks turn-based

The adventuring looks great though and you do lots of varied things.

[fastplumb]

That game looks great!

The only problems it looks like I might have with it:

1. The graphics are just average

2. The combat looks turn-based

The adventuring looks great though and you do lots of varied things.

1. they have been busy reworking the graphics and the graphics in the videos are pretty old and videos don't do it justice either, they now have problems running the game on low and machines. this games been in the making for 6 years now!

2. the combat isn't turn-based, its real time :w00t: so if you dither you sink or die( but its not like in EVE where you lose your hard earned ship, you get sent back to port and all you lose is your cargo and 1 durability point from your ship) they tried to make the game as fun as possible.

3. Over 1000 missions (http://www.burningsea.com/pages/page.php?pageKey=news/article&article_id=10300)

[Busyman™]

That game looks great!

The only problems it looks like I might have with it:

1. The graphics are just average

2. The combat looks turn-based

The adventuring looks great though and you do lots of varied things.

1. they have been busy reworking the graphics and the graphics in the videos are pretty old and videos don't do it justice either, they now have problems running the game on low and machines. this games been in the making for 6 years now!

2. the combat isn't turn-based, its real time :w00t: so if you dither you sink or die( but its not like in EVE where you lose your hard earned ship, you get sent back to port and all you lose is your cargo and 1 durability point from your ship) they tried to make the game as fun as possible.

3. Over 1000 missions (http://www.burningsea.com/pages/page.php?pageKey=news/article&article_id=10300)

Wow! Then it looks like I'll be getting this one.

This is for PC right?

edit: Nvm, I see it is. Cool,

[OnurIV]

Many thanks, to watch this Video is requesting Quicktime!!! :(

[hippychick]

Sadness for wii

[silent h3ro]

Halo 3

http://www.gamepro.com/microsoft/xbox360/games/news/images/126628-1-1.jpg (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/21489.html)

Developer: Bungie Software
Publisher: Microsoft

360

Release Date: Sept. 25, '07

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I'm getting this on day 1. The motherfuckin' game now has 4-player co-op over System Link or XBL!

You play as either Master Chief, the Arbiter, or 2 other new Elite characters. You all start with different weapons but can use any weapon later.

Hell with 4-player co-op you may as well start off the game on Legendary. XBL WILL BE ON FIRE!! I see a server overload coming.

Folks that I know that don't really play any videogames besides sports titles play Halo so I won't have to play with strangers on my friends list.Helll yeah! :01:

[idel1990]

Unreal tournament and winning eleven are pretty close and exciting :D