Action News is back!
SupaScoot gained a new level by getting a new computer! So since I spent a lot of my time waiting for said computer playing video games, I think it's time to update on some VG news that's been floating around on the web. Because we all love video games...
So let's get started with the recently revealed trailer for Green Lantern:Rise of the Manhunters:
Warner In the game, players will utilize over a dozen constructs and take flight across the deepest parts of the Universe to restore intergalactic order by wielding the ultimate weapon: the Green Lantern power ring. Ryan Reynolds provides the voice of Hal Jordan in the game as well. Not bad but still no gameplay footage, so I'll have to wait before I decide on this one. I don't think we've ever had a really good GL game, a mediocre try with Justice League Heroes so at least we'll get a chance to play as a Green Lantern. Next we move over to one of my most highly anticipated games of the year, Batman: Arkham City. Some new screenshots have been released along with word on whether or not there will be a multiplayer mode, which was previously rumored. SuperHeroHype reports:  IGN talked to Rocksteady Studios Game Director Sefton Hill who cleared up rumors that Batman: Arkham City will have multiplayer mode:  There have been a number of rumors circulating about a multiplayer mode in Batman: Arkham City so let me start by saying, once and for all, that Batman: Arkham City is a "single-player only" experience. Our thought process behind this was fairly simple: when we investigated adding multiplayer we asked, "If we use all of the energy that is required to create multiplayer and instead focus this on the single player, would that deliver a better overall game?" With the game now coming to the final stages, I can honestly say it would not have been possible to deliver Arkham City the way we wanted to if we'd have added multiplayer. So it might not be the fashionable choice, it might not get us an extra tick on the box, but we are convinced, and we hope that gamers will agree when they get to play the finished game, that we have made the right decision. Sounds good to me. Multiplayer does have it's possibilities, but that's not the game I want to play. Maybe bring out a Gotham Knights game or something similar where you could really explore the characters and team. For now, give me Batman kicking a lot of ass, repeatedly.    Could the popular zombie series by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard be moving from comics page to television screen to game console? Signs point to … maybe.  Video-game website 1Up reports it received an invitation from Telltale Games to a Feb. 17 event at which the developer will announce five new multi-platform projects, including “one based on a just-launched property from the TV and comic It’s a fine bit of hyperbole that, nevertheless, hints atThe Walking Dead, whose TV adaptation broke ratings records for AMC and received critical acclaim (including a Golden Globe nomination). The only other “just-launched property” that comes to mind is Cartoon Network’s Young Justice. However, that fledgling series has yet to achieve the heights — or the hype — of life-changing popularity. As 1Up’s Frank Cifaldi notes, while there’s no evidence to push this beyond a tantalizing theory, the property “fits Telltale’s style of games rather well.” The San Rafael, Calif.-based company has developed episodic games based on CSI, Wallace & Gromit and Jeff Smith’s Bone. It’s now working on series for the Jurassic Park and Back to the Future franchises. That could be interesting. I feel like it would be good done in a kind of Heavy Rain mixed with a little Resident Evil. I don't really need another mindless zombie blasting game, that's not good enough for TWD. And now what could be one of the coolest effing superhero games ever, or one of the worst. While there is no official confirmation, it looks like Marvel might be interested in making a Secret Wars video game. Robot 6 repots:  Siliconera discovers that, just last week , Marvel filed a trademark for “Secret Wars” that covers everything from software and video-game cartridges to bicycle helmets and sunglasses. The website points out the registration could be for the third installment of Activision’s Marvel: Ultimate Alliance; the second game, released last year, closely followed the events of the 2006-2007 crossover Civil War. There’s little preventing a sequel from mimicking a decades-old Marvel miniseries (Destructoid certainly hopes it isn’t for another Ultimate Alliance, saying “that cash-cow has been milked rotten at this point”). However, it’s perhaps just as likely that, following Disney’s $4-billion purchase of Marvel last year, any plumbing of the publisher’s back catalog would be done by Disney Interactive Studios for its own games. “We are evaluating the entire Marvel library,” Disney Interactive’s Mark Orgel said Iast spring. “Not just the characters that everybody knows and loves from the motion pictures today, but the little-known characters.” So, sure, why not the 25-year-old Secret Wars? Although conceived by then-Marvel Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter to help introduce a line of Mattel action figures, the series’ concept translates easily to role-playing video games: A cosmic entity known as the Beyonder teleports numerous superheroes and supervillains to a world stocked with alien weaponry and technology, then pits them against each other, with the winners promised anything they desire. I agree that I wouldn't want to see it as another installment of Ultimate Alliance, but that seems most likely. This could also be Marvel's foray into the MMO world to compete with DC Universe Online. Well, that's our look at some upcoming Video Games for now. What are you most looking forward to this year? Sound off in the comments section below.  |
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