The Crew Becomes the World's First CAR.P.G.

 

               For the most part racing fans and petrol heads had two types of games to play at their disposal. On one side, games like Forza focused on tweaking a vehicles' functional attributes in highly detailed simulated environments  while titles like Need For Speed were more about showing off ones ride while avoiding the law in an more arcade fashion. Both genres have attempted to bring these two different groups together but have yet to fully accomplish that goal. At E3 last week a new challenger competing to become the new driving heavyweight appeared and will be brought to us by the same company that brought many other racing franchises like..... Assassins Creed and Splinter Cell? Ok Ubisoft is not known for bringing epic triple-A driving titles to consumers as of yet. "Driver San Francisco" (their highest rated driving game to date) was fun but certainly didn't set the gaming community on fire. But what started out looking like another commercial for Michelin tires quickly became an amazing trailer that likely had EA and Turn 10 Studios feeling bits of jealousy. That newcomer responsible is "The Crew" and it hopes to be one of the first great releases for the next gen systems along with PC and is due out in early 2014.

Mad Max Gets a New Game for Next Gen Consoles

2014 is quickly shaping up to be a great year for fans of the Mad Max series. With the new movie Fury Road already in post production, it was announced Monday at E3 that a new videogame adaptation featuring the infamous anti-hero is also in the works. The last time any console saw Max was in 1990 on the NES, but Avalanche Studios -the same team responsible for the "Just Cause" games- has teamed up with Warner Brothers to bring the road warrior back in an all new interactive adventure that will be coming to PC as well as current gen and next gen consoles.

State of Decay Review

 

Title: State of Decay
Platform: Xbox 360
Developer: Undead Labs
Genre: Sandbox, Survival,
Rating: M

 

     There's no denying that the current gaming scene is oversaturated with zombie titles. If fighting the undead is what the premise of your game is about, you really have to go the extra mile in order to make your title stand out among the others. "State of Decay", is from what I can tell is the first release from the new creative minds of Undead Studios -a company name that I'm sure will not feel the least bit out of place if they go into making more, family friendly IPs. Suffering multiple delays, SOD is now finally available on Xbox Live and at the time of the writing of this review, is the second fastest selling arcade title to date falling only short of Minecraft. Needless to say that alone is a remarkable feat for a debuting indie company, but is this hot release living up to the hype, or like any zombie apocalypse, is it plagued with problems?