Author Archive

DRAGON AGE – ORIGINS

June 6th, 2009 | Author: Peter Blank

Origins E3

By Peter Blank

Dragon Age: Origins was introduced at the 2009 E3 by Lead Designer Mike Laidlaw. This 1 player D&D style game, is built on Bioware’s Eclipse game engine, and from what was shown at the E3 has an awesome story line and promises to be one of the best RPG’s ever released. The game play, storyline, and NPC interaction kicks ass, all decisions made, effect how the story goes and how the NPC characters interact with you as a player.

Dragon Age: Origins is a dark heroic fantasy set in a unique world. As the spiritual successor of BioWare’s popular Baldur’s Gate series of games, it uses a pause-and-play tactical combat system. Play in over-the-shoulder mode, or the more tactical top-down view. Dragon Age: Origins features a stunning amount of cinematic dialog. Players will be able to acquire unique party members. These party members will have their own motivations for accompanying the player.

Dragon Age is set to ship 10/20/2009 and will be available on the PC, Xbox 360, and the PlayStation 3 and YES there will be a World/Tool set builder for the PC.

DRAGON AGE ORIGINS E3 TRAILER

FALLOUT 3 DLC – BROKEN STEEL

May 4th, 2009 | Author: Peter Blank

brokensteelscreen 09b 300x168 FALLOUT 3 DLC BROKEN STEEL

BROKEN STEEL

By: Peter Blank

Bethesda’s third DLC Broken Steel, set for release 05/05/2009 is said to start where players left off at the end of the main quest in the Fallout 3. This is the DLC that many have been waiting for. This will allow you to continue past the end of the main Fallout 3 quest. Another bonus will be the experience cap will be raised from level 20 to level 30. This added with the weapons brought to you in the first two downloads; Operation Anchorage, and The Pitt, will complete this masterpiece first conceived by Interplay in the 1990′s. The anticipation of this third and final add on is incredible. I can’t wait for the new weapons, and to fire up Liberty Prime to kick some enclave ass.

brokensteelscreen 01b 300x168 FALLOUT 3 DLC BROKEN STEEL

There are rumors of a forth DLC from Bethesda called Point Lookout, and some claim this will add multiplayer to Fallout 3, but I can assure you this is not true. Bethesda does not own the multiplayer rights for the Fallout series. Interplay, the original developer of the Fallout series with, Fallout 1, Fallout 2, and Fallout Brotherhood of steel still retains ownership of the MMO rights to the Fallout franchise. The Interplay MMO is scheduled for release near the end of 2010. The rumors that Interplays announcement of Project V13 is this very much anticipated MMO.

———————————————————————————————

Fallout 3: Broken Steel DLC (Xbox 360, Windows PC)
Developer: Bethesda
Publisher: Bethesda
To be released: May 5, 2009
Price: 800 Microsoft Points ($10)