The new Cerberus Arc Projector
EA and BioWare have gifted fans of Mass Effect 2 with some new DLC, The Arc Projector heavy weapon. Here is a brief outline of the weapon’s capabilities:
The Arc Projector ionizes targets with a non-visible laser to ready them for a high-voltage electrical attack. As the lightning-like bolt hits its first target, a sophisticated auto-targeting system paints succeeding targets with the ionization laser, allowing the electricity to take the path of least resistance and arc between them. An entire enemy strike team can be shocked to death with a few pulls of the trigger. Careful aiming will also allow the user to arc shots to nearby explosives as well.
A welcome addition to your arsenal I’m sure you’ll agree. This is the first of the heavier guns to utilise an electric attack, with a quick reload time and massive damage dealing capabilities. It’s strengths lie in destroying kinetic barriers and eliminating synthetic barriers. I for one will soon be jetting around the Milky Way shocking the living daylights out of any mercenaries I may have missed the first time round. To give you even more of an indication of how it works here are a few screenshots of this bad boy in action.
Myself, Dave and Kieran headed down to HMV Oxford Street for yesterday’s launch of the latest Final Fantasy.
We watched Alex Zane hype the crowd, people who have amazing cos-play confidence oh and we spoke to the most important people at the event, you guys of course!
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Alex Zane ‘rocked the mic right’ last night at London’s Oxford Street hmv store, in front of 2,000 Final Fantasy fans! This making it the biggest game launch ever in hmv launch history!
Tim Ellis who is the head of the games department at HMV was thrilled:
“Last night’s Final Fantasy XIII signing at HMV’s flagship store on Oxford Street was the biggest game launch the store has ever seen. With thousands of fans queuing up round the block it even beats our stores previous best game launch event which was for World of Warcraft.
“They say games are the new rock and roll, and this incredible turnout certainly proves the point. We could organise album launches and DVD signings by major stars but I’m sure none would come close to attracting the size of crowd and enthusiastic response that we saw last night.
Well if they say games are the new rock and roll we truly rocked up! Our video coverage will be up sometime later today!
Is the above picture a representation of you? Is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 causing you to become frustrated, angry and possibly Mapathetic? Here is a full description of what you may be experiencing, courtesy of Infinity Ward:
“Mapathy (n.) [map-uh-thee] (often expressed as, “How the hell did you know I was there?!”) is a state of indifference to the same old maps one has been playing for the last several months. The Mapathetic individual no longer derives pleasure from blowing up people hiding in the cockpit or on top of the crane. More than 20 million people may be at risk for Mapathy.”
Well fear not my fellow FPS addicts and fellow Mapathy sufferers, a cure is at hand. On March 30th 2010 a map pack is coming for COD Modern Warfare 2 on Xbox 360 shortly afterwards for PS3 and PC.
Details are sketchy at the moment but check back soon for more info as it arrives. More people around the globe are currently suffering from Mapathy than swine flu, and tamiflu can’t help you… only more maps can.
More info at mapathy.com
Formula One will be racing its way into High Def’ this September! Pitting in on the Xbox 360, PS3 and then later on it will be arriving on your Personal Computer!
For you guys who didn’t pick up the Formula 1 Wii-entertainment last year you are going to have to wait until September for a fully fledged high-def F1 experience! phwoah.
The September launch will see F1 2010 become the first official FORMULA ONE game to appear for Xbox 360 and marks the return of FORMULA ONE to PC after an eight year absence. The arrival of the HD editions of FORMULA ONE follows Codemasters’ extremely successful launch of F1 2009 for Wii and PSP, which became a top five best seller throughout the past holiday period.
In F1 2010 gamers will take on the full, expanded grid in a variety of game modes including GRAND PRIX, Championship, Time Trial and an extensive, innovative Career mode. F1 2010 will also feature a highly advanced damage model, fully dynamic weather system and extensive competitive multiplayer options.
The last time we saw an attempt at a decent looking F1 game was way back in 2007 – so hopefully 3 years has been a good lesson?
[Available Now for 1200 MSP – Xbox Live Marketplace]
Drift around corners with guns blazing and take out legendary competitors in the fast-paced, top-down racing game Scrap Metal™. Fight your way through explosive, action-packed missions and defeat cunning bosses to add their vehicles to your garage. Customize your newly-acquired cars and then return to the track to blast through more enemies. Jump online with Xbox LIVE ® to race against your friends and crush their cars with the wheels of your monster truck in pulse-pounding online multiplayer matches.
- Racing action: It’s fast-paced, top-down racing action with beautiful HD graphics and fantastic racing physics.
- Story mode: Take on all the cunning villains and defeat the tricky bosses.
- Awesome, customizable vehicles: Drive everything from muscle cars to monster trucks to air boats and even tanks.
- Multiplayer: Try split-screen or Xbox LIVE multiplayer modes.
- 3-D support: Scrap Metal has full anaglyph 3-D support.
Time to take the soldiers out of the box, and they don’t require assembly and painting!
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With the Kaiser dealt with and the toy’s safely back in their box, it’s time to take a closer look at this XBLA game and see if the House Party has been kicked off in style. So with gun’s at the ready, we wait for the whistle to send us over the top, either to glory and victory or to certain death at the hands of the German guns. Even in a toy war there can be on only one winner, is Toy Soldiers a glorious success? Or a whimpering death rattle… |
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Codemasters’ Guilford studio just announced their new shooter IP, Bodycount.
Set to rip apart the genre Codemasters are to deliver a genre-defining gun play that you wouldn’t be able to find anywhere else! It’s being designed by the Creative Director who brought us ‘Black’ so we expect big explosions and destruction.
We’re all massive FPS fans,” said Stuart Black, Creative Director on Bodycount “and believe that there’s room for a refresh of the shooter experience. If Race Driver: GRID™ was all about the purity of racing, then everything in Bodycount is absolutely centred on the bullet and its impact on the world. Our shredding tech enables us to create a different kind of gameplay, where players and AI can’t hide behind indestructible cover and rely on whack-a-mole mechanics. Here the environment is constantly changing as the game world is shot to hell; it’s going to be a huge amount of fun.”
The game will be the front cover of this month’s OXM – on-sale March 16th.
Game informer has got themselves the exclusive info on the upcoming Portal 2. The magazine features a good few page spreads which will be in the next issue. – We can’t go about showing them to you because, well that’s highly illegal.
Although featured in the article they do explain that Portal was seen as a “Trial” and that if all went well that they would have to make a game out of it all!
Details after the break!
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This week’s Friday Funnies is one that I’m sure a lot of people have seen but it still manages to make me laugh so I hope you all enjoy it!
It comes from edited footage of the film Downfall and is a video of Hitler being told that he (along with a lot of others last year) has had his Xbox Live account banned, enjoy!
*Please be aware that (unsurprisingly) there is a lot of swearing in this clip!
