Now Playing (31/03/09)
By Steven Perdikis - Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:30pm
Welcome to Now Playing, where each week, Games On Net invites you to enter a specially crafted theatre filled with the most irresistibly interesting, marvellously magnificent, or downright dire trailers from recently released or upcoming games.
To accompany the trailers, the much celebrated rants of an embittered gamer emanate through the jolly halls. This week, we team up once more with some bad company, who force us to throw a spanner into a universal clock which sees us DESTINED to endure over-enthusiastic voice acting in space. We then come back down to Earth to deal with some sort of red alert regarding an uprising of sorts. Finally, our hectic schedule closes with charming, highly destructive meteor shower.
In the past week, the notion of what exactly constitutes a "game trailer" has been challenged. With the announcement of Modern Warfare 2 - it seems that EA must be struggling somewhat to remind everyone that they've got DICE busily working away on Battlefield: Bad Company. The response? A teaser-trailer that shows very little actual gameplay, and instead looks like someone has let the concept artist work some over-time in After Effects with a bunch of 3D assets from the game and the layermask / paint-brush tools. No gameplay is revealed, silhouettes are made, and disappoint shall be had by those hoping for some actual gameplay footage.
Download Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Trailer
The crazy Ratchet, and the crazy Clank return to the PlayStation 3 in what is billed to be a time-bending adventure. Time travel as a mechanic in video games hasn't been done all that well from a gameplay perspective in the past, presenting little else than a novel way to prevent spamming the load button in quick succession when something happens that you don't like. While the Ratchet and Clank brand is adored by fans, the latest instalment appears to have a heavy focus on the back story and already developed characters, which may alienate newcomers to the franchise. In any case, props to who ever can time-travel to the future, come back, and let me know if the game is any good, I'm just dying to know...
Download Ratchet and Clank: A Crack In Time Trailer
Black Prophecy is a space-based MMO with grand ambitions. Set in the darkened recesses of the universe, players assume the role of a fighter pilot across "countless hazardous missions" (hazards may or may not involve RSI-related grinding conditions) that, according to this new trailer, is their destiny. It's a pretty bleak destiny, as one might expect from a name such as Black Prophecy, which is filled with asteroids, planets, and other space-junk such as space-craft and stations and everything one might expect from a space-based MMO such as this. On the bright side, it won't cost you around US$30 million to get a glimpse of space - even if it is through a simple LCD display and without the weightlessness and other issues of "real" space-travel.
Download Black Prophecy 'Cinematic' Trailer
Malcom McDowell apparently stars in Red Alert 3: Uprising, the downloadable expansion to last year's fairly woeful innuendo ridden Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. Attempting to capitalise upon his role in Wing Commander, the gentleman, who is "never wrong" asserts that Uprising may just be the greatest game ever. Personally, I don't think so, and the new trailer does little to convince me of any-ground breaking RTS conventions or gripping storylines, or epic battles, or fascinating units, or more accurately, everything that was and is currently missing from the Red Alert franchise compared to other RTS properties
Download Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising 'Wing Commander' Trailer
An action adventure title from developers Offset, who were recently acquired by Intel, the Games Developers Conference of 2009 saw a flurry of new activity from the company, which includes this impressive new trailer that shows a meteor storm disturb an otherwise idyllic fantasy setting. While little is known regarding the actual game, the trailer is pretty, and demonstrates (what appears to be) real-time weather changes, impressive dynamic lighting, and incredible physics simulation and destruction. I want real-world rain to be more like the meteor shower depicted in the trailer. It would make life so much more exciting.
Download Project Offset 'GDC 2009 Meteor' Trailer
This week's pick is the inFamous 'Karma Moments' Trailer which combines a graphical style and character acting that one may have expected from the PlayStation 2 era with the two-pronged sword of choice - good and evil. It doesn't raise my hopes for the title (or indeed, my black, behemoth of a PlayStation 3 which has remained idle since my last Blu-Ray purchase) - but as an exclusive, expect it to sell a great deal of copies due to the lack of any other highly unique software on the platform at this stage in time.
If that's not to your tastes, you can always check out some of thefinely crafted, hand picked trailers listed below.
To accompany the trailers, the much celebrated rants of an embittered gamer emanate through the jolly halls. This week, we team up once more with some bad company, who force us to throw a spanner into a universal clock which sees us DESTINED to endure over-enthusiastic voice acting in space. We then come back down to Earth to deal with some sort of red alert regarding an uprising of sorts. Finally, our hectic schedule closes with charming, highly destructive meteor shower.
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
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In the past week, the notion of what exactly constitutes a "game trailer" has been challenged. With the announcement of Modern Warfare 2 - it seems that EA must be struggling somewhat to remind everyone that they've got DICE busily working away on Battlefield: Bad Company. The response? A teaser-trailer that shows very little actual gameplay, and instead looks like someone has let the concept artist work some over-time in After Effects with a bunch of 3D assets from the game and the layermask / paint-brush tools. No gameplay is revealed, silhouettes are made, and disappoint shall be had by those hoping for some actual gameplay footage.
Download Battlefield: Bad Company 2 Trailer
Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time
)
)
The crazy Ratchet, and the crazy Clank return to the PlayStation 3 in what is billed to be a time-bending adventure. Time travel as a mechanic in video games hasn't been done all that well from a gameplay perspective in the past, presenting little else than a novel way to prevent spamming the load button in quick succession when something happens that you don't like. While the Ratchet and Clank brand is adored by fans, the latest instalment appears to have a heavy focus on the back story and already developed characters, which may alienate newcomers to the franchise. In any case, props to who ever can time-travel to the future, come back, and let me know if the game is any good, I'm just dying to know...
Download Ratchet and Clank: A Crack In Time Trailer
Black Prophecy
)
)
)
Black Prophecy is a space-based MMO with grand ambitions. Set in the darkened recesses of the universe, players assume the role of a fighter pilot across "countless hazardous missions" (hazards may or may not involve RSI-related grinding conditions) that, according to this new trailer, is their destiny. It's a pretty bleak destiny, as one might expect from a name such as Black Prophecy, which is filled with asteroids, planets, and other space-junk such as space-craft and stations and everything one might expect from a space-based MMO such as this. On the bright side, it won't cost you around US$30 million to get a glimpse of space - even if it is through a simple LCD display and without the weightlessness and other issues of "real" space-travel.
Download Black Prophecy 'Cinematic' Trailer
Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising
)
)
)
Malcom McDowell apparently stars in Red Alert 3: Uprising, the downloadable expansion to last year's fairly woeful innuendo ridden Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. Attempting to capitalise upon his role in Wing Commander, the gentleman, who is "never wrong" asserts that Uprising may just be the greatest game ever. Personally, I don't think so, and the new trailer does little to convince me of any-ground breaking RTS conventions or gripping storylines, or epic battles, or fascinating units, or more accurately, everything that was and is currently missing from the Red Alert franchise compared to other RTS properties
Download Command & Conquer Red Alert 3: Uprising 'Wing Commander' Trailer
Project Offset
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)
)
An action adventure title from developers Offset, who were recently acquired by Intel, the Games Developers Conference of 2009 saw a flurry of new activity from the company, which includes this impressive new trailer that shows a meteor storm disturb an otherwise idyllic fantasy setting. While little is known regarding the actual game, the trailer is pretty, and demonstrates (what appears to be) real-time weather changes, impressive dynamic lighting, and incredible physics simulation and destruction. I want real-world rain to be more like the meteor shower depicted in the trailer. It would make life so much more exciting.
While there is literally hundreds of trailers released for games each week, some simply don't make the cut, or try so hard to be good, that I like to make it an effort for those who really want to see them.Didn't Make the Cut
This week's pick is the inFamous 'Karma Moments' Trailer which combines a graphical style and character acting that one may have expected from the PlayStation 2 era with the two-pronged sword of choice - good and evil. It doesn't raise my hopes for the title (or indeed, my black, behemoth of a PlayStation 3 which has remained idle since my last Blu-Ray purchase) - but as an exclusive, expect it to sell a great deal of copies due to the lack of any other highly unique software on the platform at this stage in time.
If that's not to your tastes, you can always check out some of the
Guitar Hero: Metallica Launch Trailer
Atlantica Online 'GDC 2009' Trailer
Project Offset 'GDC 2009 Prefab' Trailer
MADWORD 'Making Of' Trailer
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Trailer
BattleForge 'Launch' Trailer
Ninja Gaiden 2 Sigma GDC 2009 Trailer
Gears of War 2 Snowblind Map Pack Trailer
Indiana Jones and the Stafff of Kings GDC 2009 Trailer
Red Faction: Guerrilla Tools of Destruction Trailer #3
Elven Legacy 'War is Upon Us' Trailer
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