First Impressions – Sentinel (iPhone)

Ah, another day, another tower defense game for the iPhone to cover.

There’s no doubting that the genre has definitely found its home on the iPhone.  The touch interface is all to friendly to this manner of gaming, and the relatively low-intensity from a hardware perspective allows the iPhone to handle most of these games fluidly, and with a level of presentation that is pleasing and acceptable by modern standards.

Of course, some times, these games just suck balls.

Fortunately for the folks at Origin8 – the company behind this particular offering – this doesn’t appear to be the case with Sentinel.

Dead Space Extraction Gameplay

OK I know I keep coming back to this game but this has some actual gameplay footage to show off. As I’ve said before Dead Space Extraction despite the game’s rail shooter nature it’s looking pretty crisp and cinematic.

My only concern is that the game will never get played a second time. Rail shooters are linear by nature and I fear that without some advanced pathing options or control over which direction you’re going to go there will be little reason to run through this game a second time.

Nonetheless it will be an excellent first run through the game. Hopefully EA and Visceral Studios put me in check and unveil some true advancements for the rail shooter genre.

Hit the jump for the trailer.

Metroid Prime Trilogy

Our first person shooter hating friends over in Japan have a Metroid compilation brewing. This of course is a Nintendo Exclusive as anyone would have guessed and although the trailer is in Japanese I think all of our non-Japanese speaking readers will still enjoy it immensly as they watch the noble cherry blossom tree sway gently in the breeze.

I have a small confession – I put down Metroid Prime 3: Corruption after about 10 minutes with it. I’m not sure if it was the Gamecube era graphics or the awkward Wiimote controls for aiming (it didn’t work for me as well as I thought it would) but that game just didn’t sit right with your brave hero. Oddly I never thought I was missing out on much.

Well here comes word of Metroid Prime Trilogy and perhaps it will give me a good reason to dust off my Wii.

Hit the jump for the trailer.

Dead Space Extraction Coming September

EA’s follow up to the excellent Dead Space game, Dead Space Extraction is due on shelves September 29th in North America.

At first I was a little put off by this title with the adventure moving to an on-the-rails shooter format. I’ve played enough Virtual Cop and Carn-Evil in the arcades to get my share of light gun games but the more we hear from EA and Visceral Games on the title the better it sounds.

In addition to the game being a prequel to the events that transpired on the Ishimura the developer released a statement saying that game will feature new weapons and enemies in addition to a co-op mode.

The Tank’s On Empty

As a kid I loved watching the Road Warrior. Mainly just the whole chase scene towards the end. I suppose the rest of the movie was alright but let’s be real here – it was all about that post-apocalyptic road battle going on and guys in gimp suits and hockey masks trying to keep Max from getting the fuel tanker to a safe place.

Well just like the tanker Mad Max was driving was filled with sand so too seems to be Codemasters’ FUEL coming to the XBOX 360 and Playstation 3 June 2nd.

Halo 3: ODST Teaser

The following teaser video is promotional material for the upcoming expansion for Halo 3 cleverly titled Halo 3: ODST. Captain Obvious swooped in and told me that this expansion will see you in the boots of an ODST trooper kicking some covenant ass.

Bungie always rolls out the hype wagon for their Halo games and it’s with good reason – they rock! Although if they don’t close up the whole bit about the Master Cheif’s fate I’m going to throw a conniption fit – kicking and screaming on the floor – tears and all. You don’t want to see a grown man throw a tantrum do you?

Hit the jump for the trailer.

The Ballad of Gay Tony

Coming this fall to XBOX 360 is Rockstar’s latest add on for Grand Theft Auto 4 entitled The Ballad of Gay Tony.

This will be the second story add on release for Rockstar’s hit game and will cost XBOX Live subscribers 1600 points ($19.99). Alternatively the game will be available at retail bundled with the last episode titled The Lost and The Damned for $39.99. Best of all – the original game is not required to play the bundle.

Diablo 3’s The Fallen

Diablo 3 looks to be sporting some pretty nice artwork if the following trailer is anything to judge by. The Fallen are a set of creatures within the upcoming Diablo 3 game by Blizzard.

I hope they show off some more of this game off at E3. PC gaming by and large has lost it’s luster for me except where the Diablo series is concerned.

Whoever started the rumor on the internet that the new artwork for Diablo 3 looked too cheery needs to reevaluate that statement.

Hit the jump for the trailer.

Like The Plague

Red Faction: Guerrilla isn’t doing so well on pre-orders according to Cowen Group analyst Doug Creutz. He adds that his face is stupid and with a last name like Creutz he got beat up in school a lot.

I kid, I kid. The real story is pre-orders are usually a pretty reasonable indicator of how well a game is going to do and with THQ’s latest title coming out soon things aren’t look exactly firey hot.

So what does all this mean?

Modern Warfare 2 – Gameplay Trailer

The long anticipated (?) trailer for Modern Warfare 2 that has been teased with a pre-trailer (which was also teased with a teaser trailer…) has finally released and, well, it’s not exactly anything we didn’t expect.

Don’t get us wrong – I’m sure Modern Warfare 2 is going to be an excellent game but how many teasers are we going to see before the game is in our hands?

Well – nothing could compete with the year and a half hype wagon that Halo 2 built up back in the day. Hit the jump for the trailer.