Watch Out, Its Darth Santa

This week Germany was the host to gamers from all over the world, this week gamescon came and gave us what we all need to know about our Christmas shopping.
This is a countdown of what we think looks the must have for christmas.

5. Medal of Honor (2010)

Yes another game that thinks counting to 14 “cough” final fantasy “cough” or just putting a word begining with “re” like Deus Ex and Halo is just stupid, no EA seems to think that if you make a game, then make another game 11 years later people won’t notice that you have just destroyed everyones filing system but hay ho here we are. Now for a reason that only the most ingorant person in the world couldn’t figure out Medal of Honor has decided to go into the well worn path of modern warfare (current conficts), but unlike Modern Warfare (game) and Bad company 2 your not fighting Russian’s trying to take over America as even Tom Clancy thinks that a bit old, so now you play as U.S. troops in the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, a war still bringing home coffins every week. Yet everyone who has played it has said the single player is very tasteful. Given that Medal of Honor was set up by Steven Spielberg, director of Saving private Ryan, meaning it will be very tasteful. The single player has been shy and only a helicopter mission has been reveled but from what has been seen it looks very impressive and most importantly there WILL be no nukes, you listening Activison.
Now the multiplayer has already been attacked by the usual suspects to name one “Fox”, no not the news network the Britsh politican, Fox (the man) came out with things like “to play this game is un-british” and has asked for retailers not to sell the game in support of our troops. The problem Fox (the man) thinks is in the Call of Duty style multiplayer, see Medal of Honor has the guts to call the Taliban well the Taliban so when you are playing in the Helmand Province map it could be seen as fighting British troops when you are on the Taliban side of things. If you think you would find offence at this then don’t demonise the game, think of it like gamings ‘Apocalypse Now’ or Saving private Ryan” and that alone is good enough for me and if you have lost family or friends in Afganistan remember that it was people like Mr Fox who sent them there in the first place.

4. Two worlds 2

Now if you didn’t just try and get  me put into a mental hospital  after seeing this then you never played the first one, lets put it like this, in an interview the devolpers said they would never actually play the 1st ever again as it was THAT bad. So they went home hard a year long look in the mirror then set about making a whole new game engine apparently so good that they have been on tour of American Collages “showing it off”. So what else is new, well hopefully the plot as that was worse then a space marine falling in love with an off world 9 foot hippy then fighting to save her from the evil earth army (yeah take that Cameron) but as it’s a western RPG don’t get your hopes up, you know evil force, only hope and some busty barmaids. One thing that has gone is the aweful Shakespeare slang from the first as that made me want to rip out my own eardrums but the biggest change is the world itself, with sceneic forests and living towns all in a very nice next gen look and with a very cool phyics engine making it hopefully one of the best open worlds ever to come to a consol. The thing that really made us personally stop wetting ourselfs is the way you can make countless types of armour by combining differant materials and styles to make your avatar yours but this comes with one huge promise and if this doesn’t make me happier then Kim Kardashian as the new Lara Croft  then we will have to make sure nobody ever plays another game from southpeak studio’s. Although they usually do a good job themselves.

3.Gran Turismo 5

Now this is almost a no brainer for all those with a Sony Playstation 3 but here’s some things you may not know about it thus far. The locations are all real race courses in some of the most historic places on earth eg Rome but a mode allow’s you to take control of a man with no name, a man with no face and a man with no voice that’s right you get to play as Top Gears tame racing driver The Stig and if this is not enough for you then you can drive the Top Gear test track and possably there’s some form of Top Gear career mode. There is also rally and NASCAR and for all you out there with a hatred of kart games with blue turtle shells your in luck as GT5 has a full Go Kart mode. The biggest change is now there is damage so when you miss that turn you and the rest of the race can see it like a embarressing bluge in the trouser area in the looker room. But really this looks to be the best racing game ever made it’s by far the prettiest.

Now the last 2, will your favorite hit the no.1 spot well lets see

2.Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (not Ac 3)

Now this would have been no. 1 but for some reason Ubisoft seem to think all of history is boring apart from the early 1500′s in central Italy, yes we are back with Messer Ezio Auditore da Frienze making his return. Now this was put back a spot due to the fact that Ubisoft need extra time to learn how to count  to 3 and so this must be better then the new Ridly Scott film. I just can’t shake the feeling that AC might go the way of Zelda with about seven million bastard love children with numerous studios leading to a never ending tide of vile that only fanboys can defend, nevermind lets take a look. The major thing is that Brotherhood will have Multiplayer where you play as a templar training for combat using the Animus, now i personally believe that for a game to be classed as good or even great it must stand up on single player alone, also nobody can tell if multiplayer is good till it’s out on the shelves and so a review will be written on that after the Beta next month. No what looks so good is how you can command other assassin’s to do your bidding or how you can collect contracts from all over europe or even how you can try and rebuild Rome from the missery the Borgia left it in or even how you can destroy certain buildings to bring down the ideal of oppression, for all intents and purposes you are a terriost leader (don’t tell Fox). Again though if this game differs from the amazing story or too much of the game is being a office clerk then it truly will be a sad day for all gamers. If you want to see the single player in action here’s a link to the footage shown at gamescon.     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJW4u-kk_nY

1. Fallout: New Vegas

Thats right we are back in the world of super mutants and well…well thats all thats really the same about these too worlds sure the way it’s played is the same but is AC and AC 2 the exact same game as some have claimed Fallout: 3 and Fallout: New Vegas are. Sure it looks similar but hey what’s a nuclear holocaust meant to look like. Well ok it’s kinda the same but new guns, moves, currency, area, people, enemies, plot and most importantly new music so yeah it’s safe to say it’s the same on some levels. Ok it’s the same but with some new toys and reasons to shoot them at new enemies . Now the world, plot and all that stuff is for you to find out as that’s the fun of Fallout but the fact that there is a new hardcore mode means the people who said they found Fallout 3 too easy need too put up or shut up. Hardcore mode means you need to sleep, eat, drink, stimpacks heal over time, ammo has wieght and we assume the enemies are harder then year old bread. Now if you didn’t like Fallout 3 2 things must have happened, either you never played it or you played it for around 5 minutes and had to stop for ever (probably some to do with some red lights) and if you did love Fallout 3 then get over to any website that sells games and pre-order your copy NOW. Now this won’t go any further in describing this game as i really don’t want to ruin it for anyone so buy it and if you don’t like it send your hate mail to cartman1066@rocketmail.com and a response will be posted on this website.

That’s all just remember spend your money wisely and don’t just listen to this look around and find the game that will make your Christmas magical.