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Fortnite
This adorable zombie defense game was only just revealed at the Spike VGAs earlier this month. In case you missed its debut, Fortnite is being brought to us by Epic Games—you know, the guys that brought us that other game, the one filled with blood, chainsaws, curb-stomping, and macho men wearing trash cans. This is a pretty drastic departure from what we’re used to from Epic, but if there’s one thing we can be certain of, it’s that Fortnite will be gorgeous and insanely fun.
Resident Evil: Revelations
Sadly, I don’t own a Nintendo 3DS, but that doesn’t mean I can’t ogle every screenshot and gameplay video that comes out for the game. What I mean to say is Revelations is fucking gorgeous. Like, it looks so good that I’m considering buying the game even though I don’t own a 3DS just so I can take the game out of its case and rub it ever so slowly on by bare nipples. Oh, and it also promises a return to the horror and puzzles of past Resident Evil games, though I really haven’t seen too much that confirms that. Really, it looks like it has the atmosphere of the fourth game and the gameplay of the fifth. And you know what? I’m all right with that.
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
I’m a little worried about how Operation Raccoon City is going to turn out, because it looks like it’s relying a lot on action over anything else, and it’s being developed by Slant Six Games, as opposed to Capcom. Slant Six is the developer behind a handful of SOCOM games, so that means they’re more than capable of creating good multiplayer games. Hopefully they’ll nail the atmosphere and excessive goofiness that we all love about the Resident Evil series, and judging from the trailers I’m certain they’ve already accomplished one of those.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Gearbox Software’s next game is a departure from their past work, which includes Borderlands (awesome!) and Duke Nukem Forever (abortion!). It looks like good fun, I’m just a little worried that this is yet another game that, like DNF, has been in development limbo for quite some time. Only time will tell if this is the Aliens game that fans of the series have hungered for since Colonial Marines was first announced back in 2006.
Diablo III
I am a huge Diablo nerd. If I was trapped on an island with a couple other people and could only bring one thing to keep me occupied, it’d be Diablo II. In fact, I welcome the opportunity to play that game on a deserted island while I use a bone to pick the flesh from my teeth after I’ve eaten my fellow survivors. Knowing Blizzard, Diablo III will be an incredible experience that promises to be as cataclysmic to my social life as Skyrim is right now.
Silent Hill: Book of Memories
If I had to pick a game from this list that I was most worried about, it’d be Book of Memories, and for obvious reasons. I’m all for horror series testing the multiplayer waters, but I can’t for the life of me see this experiment turning out well. In its defense, I was also skeptical when Resident Evil 5 and Dead Space 2 tried their hand at multiplayer, and those didn’t completely suck, so this might be blow us all away. Maybe.
Silent Hill: Remastered Collection
It’s finally happening; Konami is jumping on the HD remastering bandwagon and giving us Silent Hill 2 and 3 in HD with updated textures, voice work, and all that jazz. The Remastered Collection joins the God of War Origins collection, Ico/Shadow of the Colossus HD, and of course, Resident Evil 4 and Code Veronica X HD. What’s most exciting about the Remastered Collection is Konami’s doing much more than simply slapping on some HD visuals—a lot is being redone to make these easier on the eyes. I also didn’t play either of those games a billion times like I did with God of War, Shadow of the Colossus, and Resident Evil 4.
Silent Hill: Downpour
The third Silent Hill game we’re getting is the long anticipated Downpour. I’m all right with this one being in the hands of a different developer, because it looks incredible. The use of rain instead of the traditional fog we’ve all grown used to over the years was a pretty big risk, but it’s one that I think will pay off.
Amy
This game came out of nowhere and now that I’ve seen some pretty spectacular looking gameplay, Amy won’t be leaving my radar any time soon. I like how it takes the all too familiar “helpless woman against terrifying creatures” idea and adds a young girl that the woman also has to protect. Then they sprinkle on a few twists in that you’re infected by whatever it is that turned everyone into savages, and your pint-sized companion has special powers, and I am so in.
The Darkness II
What I like the most about The Darkness, other than the amazing story the first game had, is it let you be the bad guy, or, the guy who’s being controlled by the bad guy. Other than giving us a sexy new art style, The Darkness II is also gifting gamers with an incredible new term: Quad-Wielding. This might be my new favorite gamer term since Dead Space introduced the world to “Strategic Dismemberment”, and I’m looking forward to blasting enemies with my guns while I impale their friends with my tentacles.
The Secret World
TJ loves this game with a burning, itching passion, and I’m pretty excited about it too. For one, it’s just different, and that’s refreshing when every other game is a sequel or a shooter. It also has some beautifully bizarre enemies and environments for us to explore, a story brimming with secret organizations, urban legends, and ancient myths that go back 100 million years. That’s a really long time and it’s about how long the wait has felt for this game. Hurry up Funcom.
Dead Rising 3
Not much is known about the third installment in everyone’s favorite kill-zombies-with-shit-you-tap-together series, other than a few leaked rumors regarding its story and characters. Knowing Capcom, we’re bound to learn a lot more pretty quickly and I’ll even go so far as to predict at holiday 2012 release for the game. I wasn’t a big fan of Dead Rising 2 or its Off the Record expansion pack—the lack of any real substance or substantial additions to the series has kept me from maintaining much interest in it. Dead Rising 3 sounds interesting, I just hope Capcom tries something new with it.
Alan Wake’s American Nightmare
I am madly, deeply in love with Alan Wake. It’s creepy, rich with atmosphere, has a strong cast of characters, great combat, and incredibly fun. That’s why Alan Wake’s American Nightmare has me so excited, because while it isn’t a full sequel, it certainly looks like one. I’m also a fan of the story, which has Alan hunting down his evil urban-myth-turned-real doppelganger that’s trying to kill his wife. I totally stood in front of the bathroom mirror with the lights off and said Bloody Mary three times as I stood shaking, waiting for something terrifying to happen to me. Then a few years later after I saw Candyman for the first time I did the same with his name. When American Nightmare releases you can be sure I’ll be in the bathroom again only this time it’ll be Mr Scratch’s name I’ll be saying three times over.
The Last of Us
Apparently, this is less of a horror game than one about survival. Calling The Last of Us a horror game is like calling Uncharted a shooter—sure, it has creepy fungus zombies, but that’s really not what it’s about. With that said, it still looks freaky, takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where much of human civilization has been wiped out and a majority of the rest are crazed plant people, and will undoubtedly have an amazing story.
