PlayerzBlog.com

While a lot of racing games keep popping up, only a tiny fraction of them are worth playing, and when it comes to off-road racing, there aren't that many titles belonging to this category anyway... but those from Disney Interactive Studios set their minds on changing the off-road racing games landscape in the near future, with their upcoming title, entitled "Pure".

The screenshots available so far look great, but we'll have to wait and see if this game has that feeling and that "something" required to keep you in front of the Xbox, PS3 or PC for as long as possible, and make you always want more. Let's see what reasons may offer this game for those into racing...

"Black Rock Studio has established itself as a leading developer of racing video games and we expect to continue that heritage with the creation of Pure. [..]Pure combines the best features of both extreme sports and racing to produce an extraordinary and unique experience.", said Jason Avent, Black Rock Studio's game director.

Who can say he's not right? well, not me, at least not as long as I don't get to play a demo of this game, currently under development, an expected to launch later this year, for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC, with support for up to 16-player multiplayer (this is a pretty solid reason to keep our eyes on it, apart from the screenshot at the beginning of the article...).

The Unreal 3 graphics engine is an amazing one, if used well. While games like Blacksite: Area 51 don't do much to help this excellent engine become more popular (at least for me, Blacksite: Area 51 was somehow disappointing, especially because they didn't optimize the graphics properly, and the overall "unfinished" feeling of the game), Lost Odyssey is an excellent title that uses the Unreal Engine 3.0, and today, it just got released in Northern America...

Currently, Lost Odyssey is only available for the Xbox 360, being already released back in early December 2007 in Japan, and on the 8th of February, in Australia. Unfortunately, Europe will have to wait until the end of this month, because the European release is scheduled for the 29th of February.The story of this RPG game is spinning around the many generations that are influenced by Kaim, the user-controlled character, a man who was condemned to live for 1,000 years (I wouldn't mind too much getting such a sentence!). It's a story of love, hate, peace and war, all taking place in a world getting close to a "mystical industrial revolution".

Today, we just got a message from Game Invasion's Jeff Palumbo, informing us about the latest exclusive video from Lost Odyssey, so we would like to thank him A LOT, and also share this with you. Just go here and enjoy it!

I really hope they are going to make this available for PCs as soon as possible, because otherwise I'll be forced to buy a game console... Lost Odyssey is a damn good reason to justify expenses on a game console, even if you are only gaming a few hours per week!

Sometimes, seeing is not believeing. You also have to feel, to experience yourself that which can be seen, and leaving aside everything else, computer gaming is one of those areas where this sentence is painfully true. I have seen a lot of Duke Nukem Forever screenshots so far, we all had, but none of us played that game yet, because they keep delaying it. Leaving DNF aside, today I want to tell you a few things about Call of Duty 4, a game that was voted by many publications and sites as game of the year 2007, while in other cases, it finished second, after Crysis...


A lot of reviews of this game praise the excellent graphics and the high performance of the custom graphics engine used, but I won't get into that now. I simply want to share with you what I remember from my single player campaign (I played this game back in November 2007). Since there are tons of screenshots and game videos available online, I think the image above should be enough(this was one of the few situations when, while I was playing a FPS game, I was glad to die) to show how far they managed to go with Call of Duty 4 in terms of graphics effects.

As it usually happens with "serious" FPS games, your first mission takes place in a location where rookies are trained, but it doesn't get boring even for a single minute, as it happens in some other cases (America's Army is the best example I can give you now). So far, nothing special, but soon you'll get a mission. You'll be dropped with a small team on a boat, in the middle of a stormy sea. This is where my jaw dropped, my eyes suddenly locked on the screen, and I remained speechless for a few seconds, before I had to enter into battle.

During the single player campaign, you also die once (or maybe even twice?), since an atomic device is detonated near your location and you can't do anything about it. That scene is simply amazing, as well as the movie-style that was used to create the mission where you are a simple spectator, seeing the world through the eyes of some Middle-East president that is taken to its execution place, inside an older Mercedes limo...

All in all, the single player campaign can be easily finished in about 8-10 hours, without too much efforts, but playing this game was like those times when, being a kid, I saw Rambo, Terminator and Robocop for the first time. For me, the single player campaign was so intense, that I don't even want to think about playing it online. Why? Well, I also got a (real) life to leave, and best way to resist temptation is to avoid it, at least for me.

If you missed this amazing title so far, and you would also like to play one of the best online multiplayer games available at this time, you can grab Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for your platform for excellent prices, ranging between $20 and $30 in most cases, down from about $60 in late-2007.

These being said, I conclude this PS3 game review and hope you'll enjoy playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare at least as much as I did.