Messenger Game-space # 67
Hello, dear readers!Undoubtedly, the main event this week was the announcement of Portal 2 - sequel to the wonderful puzzle game from Valve. All last week, developers toyed with the fans, tossing them all sorts of hints and tips, even released a update for Portal , changing the ending, and now that's all cleared up. Portal 2 will be more cooler, more interesting, bigger and cooperative. Among the tons of innovations will and the opportunity for a companion, though not the main campaign and individual missions. Furthermore, it seems, Valve hints at ... Half-Life 3! Look to your left arm severely peasant in the foreground. Do not see anything unusual?
Studio BioWare revealed the details of DLC Kasumi's Stolen Memory. Supplement will be released on April 6 and at this time will not be free. You will be offered a new sopartiytsa - thief Kasumi, which you for about half an hour to help resist some collector of antiques. We recall that in late March to all users of Cerberus Network will be available free of charge addition Firewalker, and now you can download a arc radiator "Cerberus".
Well, we have prepared for you a fresh issue of "Gameriady" .
Debriefing
Video units
Downloads
To help gamers
Gallery
Meridian News
Debriefing
Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - the long-awaited network command fighter from EA DICE. Perhaps the main distinguishing feature of this computer "Battle" from their predecessors - the presence of a single-player campaign. Insane, idiotic, entertainment and fun, though, anyway, who cares? The main thing - it multiplayer! And so it turned out just excellent: in front of us to really cool action movie, right glorious traditions, but which is now possible to destroy the foundation of any home. Yes, the maps have become a little less connectivity and departure are terrible problems, but these are trifles compared with a pile of existing strengths. Learn more - in our heading .Napoleon: Total War - an independent addition to the excellent Empire: Total War . This time, The Creative Assembley decided to focus not on a global basis and our history of one person - Napoleon. Alas, was not so great as it could, however, despite obvious flaws, we have all the same Total War - qualitative and beloved by all strategists. Details - a review .
Supreme Commander 2 - a new strategy by Chris Taylor and Gas Powered Games. This time the creators have decided to withdraw from the global and made "Suprimu" a chamber, thereby depriving it of its former proportions. Calling such a move a good idea do not dare, and yes even stupid plot, going arm in arm with the rather strange design that brings sad thoughts. "The single was released not so hot, but now with online battles Supreme Commander 2 looks very different and happy a good balance, interesting design maps and lots of possible tactics. Interested? Then read our review .
All articles for the week:
Reviews: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , Dragonica , Napoleon: Total War , Supreme Commander 2 .
Video units
On air Game-space.ru ninth machinima series "Phil" , which tells about the nitty-gritty fighter in multiplayer Halo 3. This time our hero to discover the joy of existence in a team of personal bagoyuzera, which could cause out of nowhere, even a tank!Note on two new episodes "Arena" - a stern and gloomy machinima-series, the main value of which is enclosed in an elegant technological basis. It's not even so much machinima as a full 3D-animation, because virtually all animation is created by man.
Well and snacks you see the fourth series of "Elite of the world" , in which the two teams finally meet on the battlefield! How will the opposition? Who will win?
In addition, we have prepared for you a video review of Supreme Commander 2 and a video preview of Blur .
Game Video: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight , Crysis 2 , Dead Space 2 , Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening , Dungeon Fighter Online , EverQuest: underfoot , Farm Frenzy 3: American Pie , Global Agenda , Just Cause 2 , Mafia 2 , Mass Effect 2 , Medal of Honor (2010) , Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten , Mole Control , Need for Speed: Shift , Order of War: Challenge , Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands , Profiler: the Hopscotch Killer , Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom, The , Sims 3: Ambitions, The , Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction , Transformers: War for Cybertron , True Crime (2010) , Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War 2 - Chaos Rising , Metro 2033 .
Downloads
In our file archive you can find all the most recent and relevant content required each gamer. At your disposal a vast repository of patches , demos and modifications to the vast number of games.New sections:
Patches: AGON: The Lost Sword of Toledo , AI War: Fleet Command , Armada 2526 , Assassin's Creed 2 , BioShock 2 , Borderlands , Bungee Jumping Simulator , Cities XL , Din's Curse , Enemy Territory: Quake Wars , Field of Glory , flotilla , Football Manager 2010 , Great Invasions , Handball Manager 2010 , King Arthur: The Role-Playing Wargame , Making History: The Calm and the Storm , Mass Effect , Military Life: Tank Simulation , Mount & Blade: Fire and Sword , Out of the Park Baseball 2007 , Panzer Command: Kharkov , RTL Racing Team Manager , Sacred 2: Ice & Blood , Shattered Horizon , Ship Simulator 2008 , Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic , SimCity Societies , Star Wars: The Force Unleashed , War in the Pacific : Admiral's Edition .
Демо-версии: Farm Frenzy 3: American Pie , Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten , Profiler: The Hopscotch Killer .
To help gamers
Let us update our "cheat" headings. If you experience any difficulties with the passage, or you accidentally deleted the save games, we recommend that you immediately request that the issue of unit: Cheats , Walkthrough , Tactics and Tips , Trainers , Conservation .New sections:
Прохождения: Фобос: 1953 .
Трейнеры: Age of Empires 3 , Alice in Wonderland , Alice in Wonderland , Alice in Wonderland , Assassin's Creed 2 , Assassin's Creed 2 , Battlefield: Bad Company 2 , BioShock 2 , BlackSite: Area 51 , Dawn of Discovery , Dawn of Discovery: Venice , Jaws Unleashed , Just Cause 2 , Just Cause 2 , Napoleon: Total War , Napoleon: Total War , Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic , Sims 3, The , Sims 3: High-End Loft Stuff, The , Sims 3: World Adventures, The , Supreme Commander 2 , Supreme Commander 2 .
Сохранения: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 .
Gallery
In this section, we suggest you familiarize yourself with fresh screenshots and the most beautiful and stylish wallpaper.Скриншоты: Farm Frenzy 3: American Pie , Flotilla , Medal of Honor (2010) , Mind's Eye: Secrets of the Forgotten , Profiler: The Hopscotch Killer .
With the complete collection of pictures you can see the relevant sections of our site: wallpaper , screenshots gallery .
Meridian News
О Fable 3 и сетевом коде для ПК
Экшен-ролевая серия Fable вроде бы окончательно забыла о компьютере, но поклонники компьютера о ней не забывают и тешат себя иллюзиями, что когда-нибудь… Иллюзии в долгу не остаются и время от времени подбрасывают дровишек в огонь мечты. Чтобы не угасала.На сей раз кто-то обнаружил на сайте Lionhead (разработчик Fable ) объявление о вакансии специалиста по сетевому коду. Для какого проекта потребовался специалист, не ясно, однако среди профессиональных требований указывается «перевод с последующей поддержкой сетевого кода игры для Xbox 360 на компьютер и разработка возможности совместной игры пользователей ПК и Xbox 360».
Принимая во внимание, что главным (или даже единственным) проектом Lionhead на данный момент является Fable 3 , комментаторы объявления делают вполне логичный вывод, что студия работает над компьютерной версией игры. Нам вывод нравится. Хотя речь может идти и о Fable 2 , которая до сих пор обходила ПК стороной. Вариант, впрочем, тоже неплохой и однозначно лучше, чем вообще без Fable . Ждем, затаив дыхание, подтверждения.
Portal 2 откроет кооператив
Valve пообещала анонсировать сиквел одного из самых ярких дебютов последних лет, головоломки Portal , на Game Developer Conference и обещание сдержала. Несмотря на то, что из команды создателей оригинальной игры ушла ее главная креативная единица, Ким Свифт (Kim Swift), на разработке это не должно сказаться. Probably.Portal 2 не отступит от идей первой части, но разовьет их и сделает еще интереснее. В одиночном режиме игроков ждет все тот же научный центр, только персонажей-тестеров станет больше, головоломки окажутся сложнее, а комнаты - хитрее и разнообразнее. Компьютер GLaDOS тоже никуда не денется и все так же будет направлять и указывать. Иногда - с летальными последствиями.
Для кооперативного режима на две персоны разработчики создадут отдельную кампанию с независимыми от сингла сюжетом и миссиями, а также двумя новыми персонажами. По словам девелоперов, кооператив позволит взглянуть на игровую механику Portal совершенно другими глазами, и для успеха в нем пользователям потребуется не просто сообща действовать, но даже думать сообща. Выйти Portal 2 должна в конце этого года.
Time of stars for space rangers
When a developer of the famous "Space Rangers" studio Elemental Games was regarded as perhaps the leader of domestic igrostroya. However, after separating the major creative forces in the studio Katauri Interactive (birthplace of half-naked, but for some reason still think skinned princesses) Elemental fame gradually descended into the cellars of public attention where it is either blocked up, or crushed, or flooded, or in general ate a rat ...So we thought literally, until recently, and thought quite unfair: the studio is still alive, just particular does not advertise its activities, but the glory of it, quite possibly, soon will come out to light and remind people of who, where and how. In the meantime, developers modestly and without the pump working on the online project "Time Stars", continuing if not history, then the chronology of the world "Space Rangers".
In the game we are waiting for the familiar star system (and probably too unfamiliar, because the stars in online Anything placed more), planets and satellites, and most importantly - the inhabitants. Which are all the same, including the dream of revenge Klissans and dominators. Home in Time Stars "will be standard for MMO - players create characters, choose the boat for a shower and go into open space. Then - only the freedom and choice in favor of an activity. It will be possible to do economics, politics, trade, research, war and God knows what.
Compete with users "Time of the Stars will be controlled by the computer pilots, so the lack of inhabitants of the universe will not. In the description of the game also mentioned the possibility to create their own squadron, and then the state, which suggests a major strategic elements. Other information about the game will be available later. Intrigued by waiting.
RUSE opens doors
Publisher Ubisoft Entertainment officers report that already from tomorrow, all Steam users will be able to participate in open beta testing of a promising real-time strategy called RUSE, to develop a lint studio Eugen Systems.In the game you play the role of General in the Second World War. However, the general in RUSE - not the man who was carefully studying the reports from the front and gives orders to the troops. In RUSE general sits in a comfortable chair by a unique system scalability can be traced to the fighting in any area of land immediately give orders and control the flight of the camera by moving it to the height of the clouds to the level of the tower out of the tank.
For victory to be pretty to try and use all available means. Mislead the enemy using a variety of maneuvers, as well as unique skills - for example, activating the "radio silence" or "camouflage", you can hide your team from the eyes and ears of the enemy. Decode talks enemy and open his offensive plan. Intimidate him non-existent companies, and a very strong fighter, who actually are not.
All this you have to do, defending the interests of one of the six nations, split the Allies and the Axis countries. " Single campaign with the offer you get all the way up the career ladder - from the captain to commander Army. Multiplayer allows us to fight eight players simultaneously.
Recall that the publication RUSE in Russia will be occupied by Buka, and release the Russian version is planned for the second quarter of this year. In expectation of release the full version and began open beta testing suggest once again see the preview of Game-space.ru - both in text and in video format .
Ezio already in Russia
The company "Akella" reported on the flow of Russian PC-version of one of the most anticipated action games this year - Assassin's Creed 2, which was responsible for the development studio Ubisoft Montreal. The domestic edition went to the store shelves in three different configuration. First - Jewel-Packaging, nothing but the disc with a game that does not contain. II - DVD-box, containing user guide, CD with a video on the establishment of the project, as well as the access key to one exclusive location. Finally, a third option - Collector's Edition, which includes the user manual in Russian, a CD with the soundtrack, DVD with a video diary of developers of the game and the short film that describes the background of Assassin's Creed 2, a metal figure of the protagonist, a book in Russian with art materials "explanation", as well as access key to an exclusive three locations.Recall that the second part takes you from the Middle East since the Crusades in Italy of the Renaissance. In the main role now - a young Florentine aristocrat Ezio Auditor da Firenze, who for the sake of vengeance is ready to deliver on its head the whole Venice. Of course, you will again enjoy a fully open world, plenty of opportunities for the killing of opponents, "the dynamic crowd" and a meeting with legendary personalities of the era, among which appeared as Leonardo da Vinci himself.
With regard to system requirements, the minimum is as follows: Intel Core 2 Duo 1,8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 GHz, and a half gigabytes of RAM, graphics card with 256 MB memory and support for DirectX 9.0, as well as eight gigabytes of free space on your hard drive. For maximum comfort the same trip to Venice will have to get a Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2,6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000 +, as well as graphics-level GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700.
Recall also that much more detailed information about Assassin's Creed 2 is waiting for you in our preview, presented both in text and in video format .
"Playboy" for the Mafia
Developers and Publishers gangster sandbox »Mafia 2 climb of all, they have to prove to potential users, like everyone else in the game to be realistic and the atmosphere (this is in addition to the freedom and scope, of course). Thinking that this would still make an authentic, they are thinking shove protagonist collection of magazines. And because the main character - cool and most likely, an Italian macho, it is unlikely that he will read "Murzilki" (with a Russian he had quite bad, yes). Therefore we must find something of such things, modern and typical of the era and place (40-50's, America).As a result, agreed to Playboy, as the most typical and macho. And so we do not have dragged to court for breach of copyright, have agreed to the publication of the respective rights and responsibilities. Contract both parties were satisfied. Mol, and realism intact, and the atmosphere enough to eat, and generally Playboy and Mafia 2 are united! It is unclear just how to look at the agreement and its ESRB rating, falling into a swoon, even from a weak hint of a bare female breast. But this problem developers.
Movies about soldiers of the future
The duo of French filmmakers, animators Francois Alo (Francois Alaux) and Herve de Gressy (Herve de Crecy), won this year nominated for an Oscar, hired by Ubisoft to produce 20-minute film, which will be a prequel recently announced shooter Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. The project budget is estimated at $ 10 million, and it will be a story of an elite squad of U.S. Special Forces of the future.Ubisoft is not the first time uses animated films to promote their games. The same film was made for Assassin's Creed 2, and it seemed to even enjoy the success. Ubisoft owns the whole studio in Montreal, Canada, specializing in filming animated films and commercials, and is generally better to promote their games to their movies than to promote someone else's movie of your games as not very nice happened to Avatar.
Golden Metro
Publisher THQ reported sending a print of one of the most promising shooters of the year - Metro 2033, which was responsible for the development of Kiev studio 4A Games. In the sale in the U.S. game will go for 16 March this year."We are very excited, because the produce to the market is really an original project. Metro 2033 combines a deep and interesting history and an incredibly atmospheric shooter with exciting gameplay. In addition, 4A Engine provides cutting-edge image. This is the tech game, you've seen so far on PCs and consoles "- immodestly said Richard Williams (Richard Williams), one of the key people in the THQ.
Recall that the action of the game will unfold in 2033-year loan. Over twenty years before the world was completely destroyed by a global catastrophe, which turned the surface of the Earth unfit for life wasteland. A handful of survivors find refuge in the depths of the Moscow subway, which has become their new home. Your hero - just a simple guy Artem, who grew up in one of the stations, within which he had never left. But now circumstances have changed and Artem will go on a dangerous journey to the center of the Moscow Metro and warn the remnants of human society of the impending danger. In the pleasant company hoped not have - around full of mutants, which your character really annoying. Sedative, he must constantly seek to weapons arsenals, which promises quite impressive.
In Russia, we recall, "Metro 2033" will publish the company "Akella", and release the Russian version will be held three days later - 19 th of. The game will go on the shelves in Jewel-box, and in DVD-box, which will include a user guide and map of the Moscow Metro after the apocalypse. For ardent fans of the same will be Collector's Edition, which includes all of the above, as well as a disc with videos on the establishment of the project and watch with logotitpom. In the mean time we suggest reading our preview, which can be found at this address .
Return of the Formula-1 "
Codemasters and her studio in Birmingham, England, announced F1 2010, the official game's most popular car racing world. Queen racing returns to the main video game platform after a three-year hiatus caused by the refusal of Sony Computer Entertainment to extend the licensing agreement with the International Federation of Autosport (FIA). License, in the end, acquired Codemasters, having achieved in the field of virtual motor sports great success (GRID, DiRT). Therefore, there is hope that the game is in good hands. Availability of good hands with the developers Codemasters successfully supplemented the lack of ideological considerations (Sony, for example, produced a series of games exclusively for their consoles), so F1 2010 and will leave on a PC.The game will use the same engine as the last projects Codemasters (DiRT 2, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising), so for her appearance may seem to not be afraid. Out of game modes announced Grand Prix Championship, race at the time and some featured the original (all - from the words of the developers) Career. Of the pilots promise Schumacher, of Trues - still under construction Korean ring (and that, and more - in addition to all that exists). Quit F1 2010 should fall.
Revenge Lechaka at its best
LucasArts gradually remembers all the good that the company has made for lovers of adventure. And why is it suddenly drawn to the nostalgia? However, strange sentimentality - not our problem. And in this particular case, we do welcome it. For a series of Monkey Island - is sacred, and remakes of classic games - better than nothing.Following the release last year, The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (our review ), the company announced Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge, an all-out processing of the second part of the adventures of Guybrush Threepwood, published in 1991 year. One of the best adventure in the history of video games will get a new graphics, visual effects and full voiceovers. History is left of the old: Threepwood returns to the island to find the treasure and return the location of Elaine Marley. But the seemingly defeated in the first part of the captain ghost Lechak again appears more alive all living things (these ghosts are sometimes annoying) and tries to avenge the main character.
A brilliant history of the genre of legend Ron Gilbert (Ron Gilbert), Tim Schafer (Tim Schafer) and Dave Grossman (Dave Grossman) once again returns to our computers, and if you miss it - it means you adventure on the drum. Exit Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge should be this summer.
Fifteen hours Mafia
Producer Mafia 2 Denby Grace (Denby Grace) spill the beans in an interview that the pass game will be for 15 hours. Hopefully, he meant some sort of storyline, which in games of this kind usually stringing dozens (even hundreds) of side quests and stories that as a result increases the travel time of three to four times.Indirectly, our expectations are confirmed by additional statistics: a scenario game took 600 pages of typewritten text, and it had accumulated much as 160 000 words. In addition, in a game expected 300 voiced characters. If you chat with all of them for fifteen hours, this is one conversation every three minutes. But still have to drive a car and shooting at rivals and cops ...
Recall that the repeatedly delayed release Mafia 2 seems to be finally scheduled for next May. Mr. Grace explained the delay in the scale of the project and the desire to 2K Games to produce only perfect game. If you believe him, then check out our thumbs , if you do not believe, then check our video preview . Or do the opposite - is unlikely to change these terms is something different.
Thieves in Law
The first downloadable mini-addition to Mass Effect 2 will be Kasumi's Stolen Memory. Supplement should go on sale on April 6, price not yet determined. Bought the expansion pack players will receive a new sub-machine gun "locusts", stun grenades, achievement and the lady with criminal tendencies Kasumi. The latter can be found in the Citadel and help her solve the problem with the sinister art collector. Help would be like during the passage, and after completion of main storyline.Mass Effect 2 is the second part of the unscientific-fi saga about the Commander Sheppard and his team. Great heroes once again save the galaxy and do it in an exciting action-form. The people appreciated the new game BioWare, bought it several million times. Our review , and video review with the people agree.
