Prince of Persia: The Lost Sands
Yay, a new Prince of Persia game! And it's..... not a sequel to the last one. Huh.
While Ubisoft's latest PoP game may have had some serious flaws, I still enjoyed it, so this is a bit dissapointing. A lot of people are speculating that a return to the original franchise is being driven by the upcoming movie, a theory that gains some credence when you consider that they're coming out around the same time. The trailer even feels like an attempt at copying a movie teaser, with the gravelly-voiced narrator going on about the stregnth of stonn (he actually says it like that).
A lot of people are making predictions about movie tie-ins, but given how good the Prince of Persia games are I'm going to give Ubisoft the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed 2
The first Force Unleashed was one of those mystifying cases where I seem to have been playing a different game from the majority of fans and critics. The general consensus seems to be that it was a good idea that fell short- an "ok" game that could have been great. A lot of people just straight up hated it.
I thoroughly enjoyed Force Unleashed and thought it surpassed it's potential, which is saying something since hack and slash games usually bore me to tears after the first five minutes. I really don't see why everyone was so dissapointed with it. (See also: Superman Returns (the movie), Silent Hill Homecoming and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Halo and all of the Grand Theft Auto games except the fourth one are examples of this in reverse).
I'm happy that they're making a sequel that can hopefully iron out the first game's few flaws (no more goddamn quick time events), but how can this work story-wise? As everyone who played the original knows, it ended pretty conclusively.
Medal of Honour
This game looks stupid.
In an effort to revitalize the franchise, EA have moved it from the tired, over-used setting of World War 2 to the tired, over-used setting of the Middle East. It's essentially a more gung-ho Modern Warfare rip-off (did you catch that aerial bombardment scene?) with a stupid looking main character. And no, the fact that he's apparently based on a real person doesn't excuse that.
Nice graphics, though. It's cool that they went for a slightly less realistic style.
Batman Sequel
An Arkham Asylum sequel? Yes please!
After playing the original I really wanted a free-roaming Batman game set in Gotham, following Batman as he goes about his day to day crime fighting duties. That doesn't seem to have happened, but the action is moving to the streets of Gotham at least. I'll be keeping an eye on this.
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