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A View of Statue of Liberty in GTA 4

GameWiz — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:26:51 +0000

GTA 4 alone is accounting for about 20% sale of the Xbox 360. That’s definitely because GTA 4 is the best game ever created for Xbox. The reason that it is not yet launched for any of the other major search engines and not even for PC make gamers willing to do a kill for Xbox 360. The realistic graphics, addictive game play et. al are some of the reasons that this game is big hit. You can see the example of the realistic graphics on this page. The MetLife building and the Statue of liberty look so realistic and freaky.

Here is the Real Building of MetLife in US.

And here is the same building in GTA 4.

Dawn of War II: New Screenshots and Videos [Dawn of War 2]

GameWiz — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:25:44 +0000

Some of us are too curious about the latest game releases, myself being no exception. So, I took my time to search for this all new game release called Dawn of war 2. This is a scary game and scared the hell out of me. The graphics have been the subject of an overhaul since the first game, but I’m expecting them to make good on the promise of an evolution in gameplay than in visuals. This game is a RTS and will be released for PC. Other details as quoted by PCGameplay are given below.
- Uses the Essence 2.0 engine with Havok physics, all optimised for DX10 and multicore support.
- It looks great, think of the DoW intro but with a bit less polygons here and there (in terms of lighting and all that it looks almost exactly the same).
- Units also use CoH-like unit AI for awareness and pathfinding to find cover and such.
- While DoW 2 shares the same (upgraded probably) engine as CoH it won’t be “CoH in space”,while soldiers in CoH will ask themselves if flanking the enemy is the right option, in DoW2 it will be more like Space Marines asking themselves if they should use their jetpacks to jump over an Ork squad to attack them in the back. Different settings, different kinds of warfare.
- Preview only showed a destroyed city landscape, akin to DoW (but more detailed), other tilesets will offer deserts, jungles, mountains and other cities.
- Only the Orkz and Space Marines were revealed, more races on the way obviously and to be to revealed later this year (though how many isn’t known).
- Co-op campaign for both the Orkz and Space Marines, apparently not for the other to-be-revealed races.
- More focus on making units and squads unique; every unit has got a name (at least in the campaign it seems), more details and more animations.
- Relic wants to give players rewards at the end of a mission like wargear (armor, weapons, rare objects); “Let’s pimp out squads with cool stuff!”, you will see these items in-game as well of course.
- You’ll fight your way through the campaign with the same squads.
- You can’t control more than six squads! I am not sure if this is campaign-only but the preview made it sound like it wasn’t.
- The squads are going to be a lot more interesting than before though.
- A squad leader (one or several?) will need to survive if you want to complete a mission; you really have to look out for your squads and don’t treat them like cannon fodder.
- There is a lot more interesting commentary from the units as well; if your SM commander is holding a Thunder Hammer f.e. then the opponent will specifically comment on that, Ork Warchief saying something like “Ooh, nice hammer, but mine is bigger!”. The warchief will say something else if the commander doesn’t have the hammer.
- The campaign lets Space Marines operate from a spaceship, you’ll get a view of an underlying planet and you’ll be able to choose from different missions (which are tagged with difficulty colours, green, blue and red).
- Certain reward items won’t be useable at once in the campaign, so they’ll be taken back to the SM spaceship for research.
- Dreadnought can now also trample Orkz.
- No sea or air units (though jetpacks are still in of course).
- Development team of 55 people has been working on it since September 2006.
- Release in early 2009 or later.

Below is the Dawn of war 2 Gameplay Video and some screen shots right after it.

(Click on an image to view it in high resolution)

Prince of Persia Coming to Wii at last [Wii Games]

GameWiz — Sat, 31 May 2008 04:13:44 +0000

From what we have heard today, Ubisoft’s famed Prince of Persia franchise is coming to Wii platform. According to Ubisoft’s announcement in April, the Prince and his newly stylized digs would appear on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, with an entirely separate version also for the Nintendo DS. But nothing was said about the game coming to the wii platform. Hopefully it will look better than the PS3 version.

First Gameplay Video of Gears of War 2

GameWiz — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:33:26 +0000

Just to let you know that first Gameplay Video of much awaited Gears of War 2 has been released recently. You can Download the Video or Watch it Below.

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Prince of Persia : The Journey Begins – Screens and video

GameWiz — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:22:07 +0000

We all have been fans of the great Prince of Persia series do far. Time now my friends, is for another great release of Prince of Persia. This time Elika, the girl which helps Prince throughout the game, is the best part of the game. She helps Prince fight the bosses and takes him through wonder places. UbiSoft has done everything to make Elika your best AI partner and much more helpful. The stunning graphics is just a single addition out of the many big changes brought to Price of Persia: The Journey Begins. As seen in the trailer Elika is now the source of many of your time powers, and she’ll be integral to the new combat system. The Prince of Persia – The Journey begins will be launched somewhere near the end of this year or in the beginning of the Next year. It will be launched for PlayStation 3 and rumors are that it will be lauched for all the leading game consoles soon.

First Screen Shots of the Much awaited BioShock

GameWiz — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:15:50 +0000

After announcing the launch of BioShock for PS3 this morning, 2k Games has realease the first screen shots of the BioShock. The game’s graphics look like promising but we will have to wait till October so see the game ourselves. Till then let us stick to the Screens.

UbiSoft’s Avatar Game will be 3-D

GameWiz — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:06:11 +0000

Remember the previous year Ubisoft has announced that it would launch an Avatar game. They have Released some more details today. During the Ubidays 2008 conference in Paris today, Yves Guillemot confirmed that the “wonderful” game adaptation of James Cameron’s Avatar will have new, true 3-D technology developed by Ubisoft itself in-house. The game is expected to ship in the middle of next year. This game will also have some form of 3-D glasses to enjoy the screen-popping action. That is one features that is making us to wait so long for this game to Launch. The Film Avatar will also be released in the summer next year.

THQ delays Saints Row 2

GameWiz — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:48:41 +0000

THQ has delayed the launch of Saints Row 2 until the 3rd Quarter of this year. For the reasons, they are telling they did so to increase the product value and due to other marketing issues. They will be adding much more feature and improving the current ones. They now have two more months at their hands to iron out bugs and fix other known issues.