Posted on 11 April 2012.
2011 was a good year to be a gamer, but can the same be said about this year? It can be hard to gauge an entire year from the beginning, but by looking at some of the titles announced for 2012 and the hype behind them, we can at least get excited about our personal anticipations. Some of these titles are well known and are destined to do well, while some are more of a risk.
Some might know about Blizzard?s stake on the gaming world, but for those who may have missed the news, ?Diablo 3? has finally been given a release date of April 15. This game has been in production since 2007 and is finally coming out this year. Fans of the ?Diablo? series are sure to enjoy this iteration with new classes such as the Demon Hunter, the Monk and the Witch Doctor and returning classes like the Barbarian. Blizzard seems quite excited about this sequel and being the company they are, they always put out a polished game.
Gearbox?s ?Borderlands 2? promises to have ?870 bajillion more guns,? ?1000 degrees hotter,? and ?96.5 percent more ?wub wub?? As ludicrous as this sounds,?Borderlands,? is a game based on crazy statistics. There are new classes and apparently a lot more guns. The joke about that is the guns have randomly generated statistics, so the chances are innumerable. ?Wub wub? apparently has to do with Gearbox?s new fascination with the popular dubstep music genre. Sept. 18 will be known as the day of crazy numbers.
?The Last of Us,? to be presented by Naughty Dog, is definitely going to be a triple-A title. A post-apocalyptic adventure game where the focus is more on the survivors than the zombies/mutants/what have you. From the makers of ?Uncharted,? Naughty Dog knows how to set a stage and tell a story. The most interesting part of the game is the scarcity of ammunition and guns. A survival game doesn?t do its job very well if the player doesn?t feel threatened because he has a small arsenal in their pocket. If anyone can make a more realistic survival-horror game, it?s Naughty Dog. The day of the apocalypse hasn?t been announced yet, but it will apparently be some time in 2012.
Firaxis came back from the dead to make ?Xcom: Enemy Unknown.? With the first-person-shooter simply named ?Xcom? coming out in the same year, some fans of the old series were upset by the change in direction; changing from a tactical game to a first-person-shooter. To appease these fans, Firaxis stepped in to make a more accurate sequel of the ?90s games. Of course both games have their fans, but being that the tactics market has been very small lately, ?Enemy Unknown? could very well reboot the series, or at least to the hopes of some of us. In the fall of 2012, aliens and super cool agents will fight over Earth.
Another triple-A title every gamer should be looking forward to is ?Assassin?s Creed 3.? Finally departing from Ezio?s timeline, the overarching story will continue and will most likely answer many questions. The game will follow an assassin named Connor in the times of colonial America. There hasn?t been many details revealed, but the developers promise the change of setting, being from large cities to small colonies with huge forests in between, will be an exciting change of pace, altering the gameplay with a breath of fresh air. The answers to ?The Truth? will be revealed on Oct. 30.
2012 has some good hype to it, but will the games live up to it? I guess we won?t find out until we are knee deep in games. If all goes according to plan, my readers, I will give you my review or all of the previously mentioned games and you can decide for yourself if they are worth it. So, here?s to a new year in gaming.
By: Steven Knauer
Staff Writer
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