What’s Coming Out This Month? June 2011
Another month went by (with some incredible games if I might add) but a new one has come with some interesting offerings:
First of all I’ll start with Outland , a PSN / XBLA title that came out during May and kind of took me by surprise.
Coming from Ubisoft – Outland is a 2D platform game with some similarities to Prince of Persia with a twist and Tron combined with Inca aesthetics. As you walk through amazing landscapes (the landscape are colorful while the walls and platforms are black) you use different colors and abilities to interact with different elements in the screen.
While choosing some colors – you are able to ignore some elements but cant hurt others and vice versa.
It gives an interesting gameplay mechanic and something new for those of you missing this genre.
On June 7th’ Infamous 2 is coming exclusively to the PS3.
Infamous 2 is a third person sandbox game where you continue to play as Cole – a regular guy finding himself in the middle of a catastrophe in his city while suddenly having amazing superpowers.
Since adleast I missed the first title when it came out – I will wait on that one. But the good news are now the first one is free.
Since the PSN outage ended – Sony promised a Welcome back free games pack for users. One of the offered games is the first Infamous, and from the list (Dead Nation , Infamous , Little Big Planet , Wipeout fury and R&C Quest for Booty – in Europe) – It’s one of the best.
On the 17th – Duke Nukem Forever is finally coming out.
Coming to us from Gearbox Software – 14 years in the making – It will have a lot to prove. Are stripper jokes and one liners tagged with absurd action enough nowdays to hold a game?
Nothing to do but wait 3 more weeks to find out.
Other titles worth mentioning in a sentance:
- Red Faction Armageddon - The continuation to Guerrilla takes a step in another direction.
- Alice: Madness Returns – Second version of American McGee’s version of Alice.
- Fear 3 – a third title to perhaps one of the more intense horror games of our generation.
- Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D – A slightly updated port of the classic N64 Zelda game. Though if you want to play a modern take on Ocarina – Twilight princess is probably the way to go.
Well that’s it for this month, though expect more gaming news as this is E3 month and a lot of reveals and trailers should be upcoming.
Also coming during this month is Apple’s WWDC which should bare more info on Lion , the new mobile service and iOS 5.
Till next month,
Liviu
