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Friday, April 9, 2010

Upcoming Video Games this Summers

Gaming is a niche and powerful industry. It has caught in the users of all age segments. The industry is catching up.

With rise in gaming industry, the consumers keep waiting for the upcoming editions of the video games. The article below lists various upcoming games:

Terminator Salvation
It is an upcoming third-person shooter action video game, slated for a release on May 19, 2009 to coincide with the release of the upcoming film of the same name on the same week. It is being developed by the Halcyon Company's gaming subsidiary, Halcyon Games, along with GRIN. The game is scheduled to be released for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PC, mobile, and iPhone OS.

Terminator Salvation is a third person shooter where the player needs to constantly move, flank, cover and utilize their squad to progress. The player must battle Skynet enemies from the upcoming film as well as new enemies specifically designed for the game.

Red Faction: Guerrilla
It is an upcoming third-person shooter video game in development by Volition, Inc. and published by THQ. The game is set to be released June 2, 2009 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Windows platforms. The game is the third installment in the Red Faction series.

In the gameplay of Red Faction: Guerrilla, the protagonist, Alec Mason, will be able to run, jump, hijack vehicles, and use weapons to traverse across the open world of Mars and fight the EDF (Earth Defense Force). Weapons in the game will include: machine gun turrets, rocket turrets, remote charges, a sledgehammer, machine guns, and many others.

Prototype
Prototype is an upcoming sandbox-style action game in development by Radical Entertainment and based on an original IP developed in-house. The game is slated for release on June 9th, 2009 for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Microsoft Windows.

The gameplay in Prototype is centered around Alex Mercer's superhuman abilities. Alex has superhuman strength, speed, agility, durability, and healing as well as the abilities of consuming his fallen enemies, shape-shifting his body and easily moving in an open-world New York City environment.

Overlord II
Overlord II is an third-person action-adventure game developed by Triumph Studios and published by Codemasters for the Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 3. It is the sequel to the 2007 video game Overlord and expected to be launch on June, 23.

The gameplay of the first game, which consisted of controlling the Overlord who in turn sent his minions to do most of the work, has been retained for this sequel, but, it has been greatly expanded. The intelligence and destructiveness of the minions have been improved and the new AI is able to do more things than before, such as riding mounts, using war machines and sailing warships.

The Conduit
It is a futuristic first-person shooter game under development by High Voltage Software for the Wii console and expected to launch on June, 23. The Conduit was first revealed by IGN on April 17, 2008 and on October 29, 2008 the developer announced that Sega had signed on to be the game's official publisher.

High Voltage Software created the Quantum3 engine to make The Conduit a comparable experience visually to games on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 despite the Wii's hardware limitations. The Conduit will also support the recently announced Wii Speak peripheral, allowing online multiplayer gamers the ability to chat as they destroy aliens in each terrifying level.

The Conduit provides an experience typical of a first-person shooter, focusing on combat in a 3D environment and taking place from the first-person perspective of a playable character.

Fight Night Round 4
Fight Night Round 4 is a boxing video game developed by EA Sports. It is the sequel to EA Sports' previous boxing title, Fight Night Round 3, released in 2006. The game is scheduled for release on June 30th, 2009 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Fight Night Round 4 will feature over 40 licensed fighters. There will be several new modes such as the Legacy Mode. The game's cover will feature Muhammad Ali and Mike Tyson.

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