Pride of Nations
Pride of Nations is a turn-based global strategy game which covers the late Colonial era (1850-1920). Players can choose to take one of eight different nations through this 70 year period. If you’ve played other glovbal strategy games from Paradox, you’ve got the idea already, but there are a few new features: The fleet/army build screen has been revamped, the Diplomacy model is ‘the most original … ever created”, and there is a new simultaneous turns mode for multi-player.
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters is the tie-in game for the upcoming Green Lantern film. As has been par for this course for a while now, the game will not follow the plot of the movie. It will feature the voice and likeness of Ryan Reynolds as Green Lantern, but otherwise it’s a separate story. The manhunters are back, and causing trouble. For those not Comics-savvy, the Manhunters are a corps of androids which were created by The Guardians in the pre-Lantern days. They were decommissioned when it was realized that sentience was required in a good police force. Now, however, they’re coming to Oa to combat The Guardians as a misinterpreted part of their original tasks. Hal Jordan, the newest Lantern, must fend them off. The gameplay is that of a third-person fighter, with the primary gimmick being the use of the ring. Players will be able to use the ring in a variety of ways, including lots of differnt weapon constructs and for space battles. The game also features 3D graphics in several flavors. On the 3DS, there is the 3DS ‘s own native graphics. The other editions will come with 3D glasses, or can work with existing 3D televisions.
Red Faction: Armageddon
The Icrontic Spotlight this week glistens on the shattered ruins of Red Faction: Armageddon. Fifty years after the Events of Guerrilla, the Mars colonists have been forced underground to escape the terrible storms on the surface. In this new game the player takes on the role of the ancestor of the protagonist of the previous game, as he must fight to free Mars from a mysterious and deadly alien presence. As in past games in the franchise, the gimmick here is the destructibility of the environment. The dynamic physics and materials engine allows players to break almost any structure in many ways, even reducing a building down to complete powder if desired. The game will also feature lots of weapons and vehicles, including a mech, and the new toy is the hand-forge, which is essentially a techno-magic system. It allows the player to raise shields, buff damage, freeze enemies, reconstruct destroyed buildings, and lots of other things. The multi-player vs. mode has been removed from this iteration in favor of a co-operative mode in which players defend against a horde of aliens. Red Faction seems to have been perpetually ahead of the curve in destructible environments, so if you’re into that sort of thing, you’ll want to pick this one up. Our full review will be forthcoming.
Following is a full list of this week’s announced North American releases:
Windows
- Operation Flashpoint: Red River
- Pride of Nations
- Red Faction: Armageddon
Wii
- Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
- Super Adventure Island (VC)
DS
- GO Series: Picdun
3DS
- 3D Classics: Excitebike
- Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
- Pokedex 3D
Xbox 360
- Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
- Homefront: Fire Sale
- Operation Flashpoint: Red River
- Red Faction: Armageddon
PS3
- Call of Duty: Black Ops – Escalation
- Green Lantern: Rise of the Manhunters
- inFamous 2
- Kevin Van Dam Fishing
- Operation Flashpoint: Red River
- Red Faction: Armageddon
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