August- September big releases
The summer is almost over and developers are putting the final touches to their games in the lead up to the busy Christmas period, while publishers are busy putting pen to paper to hype their games to the max!There are some great looking titles out between now and the festive season, including Fable III, Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood and Call of Duty Black Ops, not forgetting the launch of Microsoft and Sony prospective motion-sensing controllers over the next couple of months.
So, what will your money be spent on?
Mafia II
Platforms – PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Release Date: 27 August, 2010
2K is putting a heavy emphasis on story-telling (written by the Mafia I team) and characterisation to make the world of the Mafia II feel alive and intense. Expect bouts of ferocious hand-to-hand combat, gun-fights and car chases across a sprawling open world environment.
Click for larger imageMetroid Other M
Platforms - Wii
Release Date - 3 September, 2010
For decades, Samus Aran has been known as one of the first female protagonists in video games, and one of the most enigmatic. Having traded her haunted past for the solitary life of a bounty hunter, Samus finally tells her own tale in this revealing, personal story of her failings, her flaws and ultimately her motivation.
H.A.W.X. 2
Platforms – Xbox 360, PS3, Wii
Release Date – 7 September, 2010
H.A.W.X 2 will include “all aspects of aerial combat” including takeoffs and landings, air-to-air refuelling, dog fighting, recon missions in UAVs and even laser-guided target bombing.
Platforms - PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Release Date - 10 September, 2010
In this real-time strategy game from Ubisoft you'll have to fight a war of perception using recon units & your spying network to gather intelligence on your enemy and then strike at his Achilles heel!
Platforms – Xbox 360
Release Date – 14 September, 2010
Bungie is putting everything it's got into the last major Halo game. Halo: Reach tells the tragic and heroic story of Noble Team, a group of Spartans, who through great sacrifice and courage, saved countless lives in the face of impossible odds. The planet Reach is humanity’s last line of defense between the encroaching Covenant and their ultimate goal, the destruction of Earth. If it falls, humanity will be perched on the brink of destruction.
PlayStation Move
Platforms - PS3
Release Date - 15 September, 2010
Claiming to offer a motion-based, high-definition gaming experience unlike anything on the market, Sony's magic wand arrives shortly with games such as Sports Champions, EyePEt, Kung Fu Rider and Tiger Woods all ready for launch.
F1 2010
Platforms - PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Release Date - 24 September, 2010
As the official game of the 2010 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, F1 2010 will include all of the official teams, drivers and circuits from the coming season.
Dead Rising 2
Platforms - PC, Xbox 360, PS3
Release Date - 24 September 2010
In Dead Rising 2 former motocross champion Chuck Greene arrives at Fortune City, America’s latest adult playground, to participate in the zombie game show Terror is Reality, a gruesome test of strength and agility through excessive and imaginative dispatchment of hundreds and hundreds of zombies.
PES 2011
Platforms - Nintendo Wii, PC, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and Xbox 360
Release Date - September 30, 2010
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