Damnation is a third-person action title whose focus is equally distributed among various type of gameplay, including shooting, platforming, and vehicular combat. While still very much a shooter, Damnation extends its massive streaming environments vertically as well as horizontally. Characters in the game will perform death-defying acrobatics over 1,000 feet above ground in order to shake down an unstoppable arms dealer in a post-industrial conflict to save humanity. Damnation is yet another promising title set for release this fall on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 from developer Blue Omega Entertainment.
This year's E3 conference, as usual, has been saturated with multi-platform games. So I actually had to do some digging to uncover some titles that hardcore PC gamers can call their own. And I'm happy to report the discovery of three more PC-exclusive gems that you can look forward to this year.
First up, we have Black Prophecy, a futuristic MMO set in the realm of outer space. Choosing to join forces with one of two dominant human races, the Tyi and the Genides, your key to survival in the game is to infiltrate an alien stronghold who has taken over a third human race called the Restorers, whose fate marks rise or fall of mankind. Take a look.
This next teaser trailer is for Empire: Total War, a real-time strategy game published by Sega. Set in the 18th century, this latest installment in the Total War series introduces global conflict with the implementation of 3D naval combat. Excited about the new offering in the RTS genre, developer Creative Assembly's Lead Designer James Russell states, "The scale is a lot greater than previous Total War titles. The campaign map now encompasses not only the whole of Europe and the Middle East, but also North America and the Caribbean, and the Indian subcontinent. It's a truly epic canvas for the gamer to play out their strategies for world domination."
Now let's take a look at what BioWare has been up to. While the development team has been dropping hints left and right about their work on a third KOTOR game, it wasn't until E3 that gamers got a whiff of Dragon Age: Origins, an upcoming PC exclusive "dark heroic fantasy" RPG of epic proportions. Check out the teaser to see what the creators of Mass Effect have in store.
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CBone - Sunday, July 27, 2008 - link
Are there any features that the single player might be interested in?EddieTurner - Sunday, July 27, 2008 - link
Other than what looks like a kick-ass campaign, not really sure.0roo0roo - Sunday, July 27, 2008 - link
they are so phoney and annoying to watch, i wanted to turn away it was sickening. awful stuff, hire someone that won't appear to be a phoney to gamers and geeks.whatthehey - Sunday, July 27, 2008 - link
You knew it would be bad as soon as the one lady talks about "beating up on her boss". It's one thing to have the top management get up on stage and do a presentation and talk about how great the new hardware, software, etc. is going to be. To have them get up there and do a live demo of new hardware? On a Wii!? That's just asking for trouble.Hell, you don't see the execs at EA or any other major gaming company playing the games in their demonstrations. Nintendo should have figured that out. They have people in their booths that are "normal gamers" for a reason.
0roo0roo - Sunday, July 27, 2008 - link
yea your spokesman has to have some credibility. this cammie woman just reeked of a condescending soccer mom talking down to gamers with her fake act.coolsam2 - Friday, July 25, 2008 - link
SB750 article..Aethelwolf - Friday, July 25, 2008 - link
If Carmack isn't using OpenGL then OGL its pretty much dead in the commercial game rendering business. Shame too. Microsoft will never open DX. It's a cash cow for them.Pirks - Saturday, July 26, 2008 - link
Man, that's total bullsh1t. How can OGL die if PS3 uses it? Jeez... can't believe people can be sooo ignorantwhatthehey - Saturday, July 26, 2008 - link
As pointed out in the article, there is a Mac version of Rage that uses OpenGL, so for sure id isn't abandoning OpenGL. My bet is that the game uses DX9 equivalent fragment shaders (the OpenGL version of DX9 pixel and vertex shaders), just like the Doom 3 engine.Regs - Friday, July 25, 2008 - link
Im afraid this game is going to be another STALKER. When it comes out it will be drounded by other hot new releases with developers that are actually able to execute and launch with a specific dead line.And Empire Total War looks sweet! Though Feb 2009? :(