The 2009 Summer Games Preview

Originally Posted by Combatus
What I'd like to know is how a family of 5, plus Jet Ski, plus hang glider, lilo, skateboard and boogie board all fitted in an original VW Beetle...

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No Mass Effect 2?

Ok, I can't figure out why anyone liked Assassins Creed. That game had so many stupid illogical flaws that I couldn't bear it. Not to mention it bored me to death.

Wow, that picture on the front page for this article took me back... Those were the days...

How about Battlefield 1943? (BF3 is in development, but 1943 should be out in the next quarter or so). And what ever happened to Starcraft 2?

is it me or the forum link has an extra /ds in its address?

Scribblenauts looks fantastic, wishes there's an iphone version of it.

doesn't it strike anyone, that apart from Borderlands and Brütal Legend, it's all squeals.

Originally Posted by CardJoe
Who says they didn't just steal all that stuff?

Besides, if you're going to take that line, then sure there are six of them? Somebody has to take the photo, naturally.

Meh. Maybe the took a tripod too - even more rediculous.

Originally Posted by Bindibadgi
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Good answer

Originally Posted by wafflesomd

Ok, I can't figure out why anyone liked Assassins Creed. That game had so many stupid illogical flaws that I couldn't bear it. Not to mention it bored me to death.

/me agrees.

When I saw the trailers I thought it was going to be great, but I had to force myself to complete the game. It could have been so much better.

Originally Posted by undertheradar
How about Battlefield 1943? (BF3 is in development, but 1943 should be out in the next quarter or so).

BF1943 is only available for digital download and is basically 1942 reworked with with the frostbite engine, hardly anticipated I think. However I am hanging out for BF3, should be out for BETA next year.

some great titles coming out this year, thats before even christmas! how am i supposed to afford all this?

Originally Posted by Dreaming
ArmA 2?

So many good games.

I haven't played Armed Assault 1 yet but from what I read on Wikipedia, it's not very good but of course I'm looking forward to play Operation Flashpoint 2 because I'm very much impressed with OFP1. Ohh.. it was a nice memory back then, when I'm basically crawling for 3 hours just to get to the camp LOL

Borderlands art style is really nice...hope it plays just as well.

As with everyone else, im waiting for the sequels of allready epic games!

Originally Posted by crompers
some great titles coming out this year, thats before even christmas! how am i supposed to afford all this?

Student loans... :p

Originally Posted by undertheradar
And what ever happened to Starcraft 2?

It won't be out anytime soon, same goes for Diablo 3, Wolfenstein 3, Mafia 2 and so on:'(

you forgot Duke Nukem forever

Originally Posted by Nature
you forgot Duke Nukem forever

Originally Posted by naokaji
It won't be out anytime soon, same goes for Diablo 3, Wolfenstein 3, Mafia 2 and so on:'(

Blizzard said SC2 (part 1) is aimed for a 2009 release.

A slightly off topic personal comment: I don't appreciate the inclusion of console games. While this may be nice for some people who own consoles and a PC, this is a PC-centric website, if that was diluted I would move elsewhere. I have increasingly felt the merger with Custom PC has not been positive. Stick to what made you made you so popular bit-tech.

BiT has been doing console game reviews for a long, long, long time mate. Way before the CPC merger.

It's a fact that most games which come out for PC these days have a 360 or PS3 counterpart, so a logical step is to do console reviews.

Most people have at least one console, why not have some reviews on here for console games? This is still a PC-oriented place, but with a bit of diversification to stop it getting boring.

Originally Posted by Krikkit
BiT has been doing console game reviews for a long, long, long time mate. Way before the CPC merger.

It's a fact that most games which come out for PC these days have a 360 or PS3 counterpart, so a logical step is to do console reviews.

Most people have at least one console, why not have some reviews on here for console games? This is still a PC-oriented place, but with a bit of diversification to stop it getting boring.

Agreed.

Bit-tech's game reviews are generally the only reviews I take seriously, so it's nice to get some advice on gaming outside of the realm of PC games.
I would like to see more PC Game reviews overall, but then I'd like to see more reviews in general overall anyway. :p

Originally Posted by Krikkit
BiT has been doing console game reviews for a long, long, long time mate. Way before the CPC merger.

It's a fact that most games which come out for PC these days have a 360 or PS3 counterpart, so a logical step is to do console reviews.

Most people have at least one console, why not have some reviews on here for console games? This is still a PC-oriented place, but with a bit of diversification to stop it getting boring.

More than that, it's a fact that most PC games come out AFTER their console counterparts.

We're still a PC site. I'm very much a PC gamer and the only console I even own at home is a Wii that was bought for me. That said, there simply aren't enough PC exclusive releases to keep us busy and what ones there are are usually shockingly bad. We're not going to cover bad games just because they are on the PC, just like customers won't buy them.

Instead, we look at the games that are worth looking at regardless of platform. If they come out on every platform then we'll look at them on PC wherever possible (even though publishers rarely send out PC code nowadays for fear of piracy). If we can't look at them on PC then we'll take the next system which is representative of our audience - which the figures suggest is the Xbox 360. If the releases are staggered then we'll look at both PC and console. With console exclusive releases we only cover the ones which are important to our audience - so Resident Evil, not Wii Play.

There's no real point limiting ourselves to just PC games for the sake of PC games. Is it more important to people that we review dross like Hired Guns: The Jagged Edge (which I have laying beside me) instead of Halo: ODST?

I haven't had an issue with the Xbox360/PC reviews, generally speaking the Xbox360 versions of a game is fairly close to what the PC version plays and feels like, minus the fact that the graphics won't be as awesome.

the bioshok relise date in the article is wrong... the game comes out in February I believe...

great list =D
I just want that dantes inferno for pc, who knows maybe a year after the consoles