Posted on: September 25th, 2009 Bleep, Bleep. Bloop, Bloop. Video Games. 09-20/26-09
For the week of September 20-26: Tokyo Game Show 2009 is upon us. RUN! Also, Halo 3: ODST
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Halo 3: ODST
Out this week is Halo 3: ODST. You may have heard of it. This time around, you are playing as a Orbital Drop Shock Trooper (ODST, get it?) Personally I would prefer to play as a Goof Trooper, but life’s not perfect now is it. The time line of the game runs along the Halo 2 events and rather than the linier play though of a typical Halo game, ODST is structured a little differently.
As a Shock Trooper, you’ll be exploring an open ‘hub’ world looking for missions activated by finding special objects. A short movie will play showing the history of why the object you’ve found is the way it is, an then you play a mission based around that particular event.
Since the game is based on the Halo 3 technology, expect it to look and play a lot like Halo 3. It should be also noted that the game comes with a second disc containing all Halo 3 multiplayer maps currently available and more maps and modes have been added.
The good guys over at giantbomb.com have done a review of the game in the video format.
NEWS
It’s fall, and that can only mean one thing. That’s right, the Tokyo Game Show! You can think of it as the E3 of Japan, but only smaller with less announcements and a lot of games you probably don’t really care about.
Unlike E3, two of the days are open to the public and boy to the people ever turn out. Back when I lived in Japan, I made the trek out to Chiba a couple of times to attend the show and totally ran into Cammie from Street Fighter. At least that’s what s/he told me…
Ha, ha. Yikes! Those are some mad muscly thighs.
So while the games are fun and interesting, I find the articles of what the foreign press is getting up to be much more interesting. Because much of the time, it’s their first time to Japan, or they’re experienced and go to some really cool places. Jeremy Parish of Retronauts and his crew from 1up.com are currently in Japan and have been posting some great footage of all the retro game stores they’ve been hitting during their stay.
Jeremy is an extremely knowledgeable guy on all games retro and has a fantastic podcast called Retronauts that I recommend to everyone with a niggling interest in the history of video games. He also keeps a blog over at 1up that I’m a big fan of as well. (and a Retronauts blog! Busy guy.)
Until next week.
Dale can also be found over at www.8bitcyclops.com, looking at design, photography and old video game magazines.