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May 6, 2008 2007 has come to an end, we saw many great games last year that included Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Mass Effect, BioShock and many more. The staff at XboxAddict takes a look into the biggest titles for 2008. XboxAddict presents the Most Anticipated Games of 2008: Role-Playing Games: Fallout 3 Publisher: Bethesda Softworks Developer: Bethesda Softworks Release Date: Q4 2008 Genre: Role-Playing Game Fallout 3 is being developed by the same team that worked on the last two titles in Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series, Morrowind and Oblivion. If those games are any indication of what we can look forward to from Bethesda we are in for a real treat. Like previous titles by Bethesda you can choose either a good or evil path which will change ending you will see when you beat the game. Fallout 3 puts you in Washington DC, now known as the Capital Wasteland, where for 200 years, Vault 101 has faithfully served the surviving residents. Though the global atomic war of 2077 left the US all but destroyed, the residents of Vault 101 enjoy a life free from the constant stress of the outside world. Giant Insects, Raiders, Slavers, and yes, even Super Mutants are all no match for superior Vault-Tec engineering. Yet one fateful morning, you awake to find that your father has defied the Overseer and left the comfort and security afforded by Vault 101 for reasons unknown. Leaving the only home you’ve ever known, you emerge from the Vault into the harsh Wasteland sun to search for your father, and the truth. Too Human Publisher: Microsoft Developer: Silicon Knights Release Date: Q3 2008 Genre: Action/Role-Playing Game In Too Human the player takes on the role of Baldur, one of the Aesir. In the ancient past the Norse Gods truly existed, although only in the form of cybernetically enhanced humans. Baldur, son of Odin is one of these gods and it is his charge to protect the human race from an onslaught of an advancing machine presence determined to eradicate all human life. The story chronicles the ongoing struggle between cybernetic Norse gods, the invading machine presence and mortal men through an epic story. The story features many Norse gods and character from Norse mythology including Thor, Loki, Odin, Heimdall, Freyja, and Mimir. Every event, character and location in Too Human has a direct parallel to Norse mythology. The story features Yggdrasil, the tree of life, as a gateway to an alternate world known as Cyberspace that is accessed through the advanced technology of the Norse gods. Silicon Knights has revealved that Too Human will feature 2-4 player co-op seamlessly letting players jump in and out. Denis Dyack, founder of Silicon Knights, has stated the UE3 engine has been tweaked to the point that it’s almost unrecognizable. Fable 2 Publisher: Microsoft Developer: Lionhead Studios Release Date: Q4 2008 Genre: Action/Role-Playing Game Fable 2 is the sequel to the enchanting, engrossing and award winning action role playing game Fable developed by Peter Molyneux and Lionhead Studios. Set 500 years after the original game, Fable 2 offers even more choices and features, while building on the core gameplay theme of Fable where every choice continually defines who you become, allowing you to truly live the life you choose. Fable 2 will introduce a new character to the series which is a dog that will be faithful to you and will have a deeply nuanced artificial intelligence so you won't actually control your dog at all. Instead your dog will act as a sort of living HUD. The game has no map, no other user interface on screen. Instead you will have to rely on the dog and what he sees and does. Fable 2 will feature a spawn system unlike the normal reload from a save point and play the same part again. When you fall to the ground in Fable 2 you have the ability to lose experience, gold, or reknown in order to get up. Real-Time Strategy Games: Tom Clancy's EndWar Publisher: Ubisoft Developer: Ubisoft Release Date: Q2 2008 Genre: Real-Time Strategy Game I had a lot of fun playing Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2 and Rainbow Six: Vegas over the past year and this game combines all of those games together. EndWar has a voice command system so you can control your units without using a controller. You can control up to twelve units at a time and have a choose of seven different unit types. Ubisoft is going to more of a third-person camera view where the camera takes on the view of one of the twelve squads under your command instead of the more common top view you see in most RTS games. EndWar puts you in the year 2020, the United States is trying to end strategic nuclear war through an anti-ballistic missile shield with their ally, the European Union (EU); Russia designs their own missile shield independent of the US or EU. As the major economies of the world consume natural resources at an increasing rate, Russia, the owner of most of the oil deposits, benefits from the skyrocketing price of oil and begins to upgrade their military, creating tension with the West. While the US is launching a space station that will house first-response military units, a terrorist attack against the launch pad leaves the superpowers on the brink of war. In 2011, the US and EU sign the historic SLAMS (Space-Land-Air Missile Shield) Treaty, agreeing to co-develop technologies for a comprehensive, interlocking anti-ballistic missile system. Left out of the treaty, Russia accelerates development of its own system. SLAMS is activated in 2014. The US and EU launch test salvos against each other, which the SLAMS weapons completely destroy. Emboldened by the success of the tests, the US and EU pronounces "the end of strategic nuclear war," and the world celebrates a new age of peace and security. Halo Wars Publisher: Microsoft Developer: Ensemble Studios / Bungie Software Release Date: TBA 2008 Genre: Real-Time Strategy Game Ensemble Studios, the creators of the Age of Empires series, is bringing real-time-strategy to the Xbox 360 and to the Halo Universe. Designed Exclusively for the Xbox 360, Halo Wars allows you to take charge of the human UNSC armies and see the Halo universe from a totally new perspective. Halo Wars will take place prior to the events of Halo: Combat Evolved. The game is set in 2531, in the UNSC's first battles with the Covenant around the planet Harvest. It will allow the player to control the crew and vehicles of a UNSC ship, CFV-88 Spirit of Fire, and receive instructions and commands from its AI Serena. Racing Games: Race Driver: GRID Publisher: Codemasters Developer: Codemasters Release Date: Q2 2008 Genre: Racing Game GRID is a true evolution for Codemasters' acclaimed racing series, which first appeared as the TOCA (DTM/V8) Touring Car games (1997–2000) and became the TOCA (DTM/V8) Race Driver series (2002-2006). GRID will use Codemasters new EGO Game Technology Engine. GRID challenges players to become the number one race driver in a new world of exhilarating motorsport. GRID will take players to beautifully realised and dramatic race locations over three continents to compete in an unprecedented variety of racing events. Packed with the most powerful race cars (new and classic, circuit and drift), players will compete to conquer the most prestigious official race tracks and championships and then go beyond to compete in challenging city-based competitions, through to road events and urban street races. Midnight Club: Los Angeles Huxley Publisher: Webzen Developer: Webzen Release Date: TBA 2008 Genre: Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Shooter Huxley looks amazing, the very impressive gameplay trailer showed off the depth-of-field effect that realistically blurs objects in the foreground or in the distance, depending on what you're focusing on. The characters themselves are rendered in vivid detail. For example, you can see the bulging forearms of a soldier, as well as facial self-shadowing, like the shadows on his cheeks and neck. A swarm of giant insect like creatures then entered the scene. Aside from the amazing visuals, Webzen is promising to provide gamers with the biggest online multiplayer experiences we have ever seen on any console. Huxley is a massively multiplayer online first person shooting game utilizing the Unreal 3 engine to create a world of up to 5,000 players in the same gaming environment. Huxley takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where human beings have mutated and are divided into two opposing races, Sapiens and Alternative. At the center of the battle for survival is Lunarites, a promising new energy source highly coveted by both races. Forced to battle against one another for the continuance of each race, Sapiens and Alternatives will do whatever it takes to wipe out the opposition and gain control of the world and its resources. Ghostbusters: The Video Game Publisher: Sierra Developer: Terminal Reality Release Date: Q3 2008 Genre: Action Game The Ghostbusters: The Video Game storyline is being written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the writers of the original films and they along with Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson will lend their voices and likenesses to the game. Several supporting cast members, such as William Atherton (Walter Peck), Brian Doyle Murray (as the team's psychiatrist, who may be the same character he played in Ghostbusters II) and Annie Potts (Janine) have also signed on. The game puts you in the middle of Manhattain where ghosts and other supernatural beings have overrun the city, it's up to you to take on the role of a new recruit joining the original, famous Ghostbusters team. Equipped with a variety of unique weapons and gadgets, you will hunt, fight and capture a wide range of uncanny phantasms and demons in an all-new, funny and frightening battle to save New York City from its latest paranormal plague. -- Well there you have it, XboxAddicts' Most Anticipated Games of 2008. Looks like 2008 is going to be another great year for the Xbox 360 gaming community. |
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| Wednesday, May 21st @ 4:17 PM MrGTI wrote..."Yes,... time to update the list. Gears of War 2 needs to be mentioned for sure!" |
| Sunday, May 18th @ 4:10 PM SilentFatality-XBA wrote..."Sorry that we left out Gears 2 as well as a lot of others. This was actually written a long time ago, back in January. New game announcements were never added to it." |
| Tuesday, May 13th @ 7:07 PM Steeps5 wrote..."Wow, there aren't any shooters on this list. I don't see why you left out Gears of War 2, Mercenaries 2, Fracture, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed." |
| Tuesday, May 13th @ 6:43 AM Axxeman wrote..."I did not see Gears of Wars 2..." |
| Thursday, May 8th @ 11:44 AM Thomas_Bunny wrote..."Is Alan Wake actually expected to hit this year? If so, yeah." |
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1. David Creech - 132,505 2. Unreal - 73,530 3. Repo Man 360 - 68,675 4. CrazyCougar-XBA - 64,769 5. moltenluv - 48,740 6. Symmetric - 39,503 7. Nato King-XBA - 38,029 8. Ninja Scroll - 38,010 9. hellonearth159 - 37,875 10. falldowndrunk - 36,664 11. tacohead - 35,151 12. Chupacabra - 34,872 13. PLAYMKR - 31,154 14. Ranzo - 29,733 15. goldeneyez9 - 26,898 16. y2kash_14 - 26,406 17. ali rock 110 - 26,385 18. Chris W - 25,215 19. UNV Meeks - 24,874 20. MosleyTank - 24,257 21. Moparwill - 24,180 22. Enamelized420 - 23,470 23. spartan_043 - 22,935 24. Omen28 - 22,215 25. UNV Superkid - 22,009 |
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1. l Maximus l - 16,979 2. mattgame - 14,566 3. laughs - 14,336 4. Casper - 14,150 5. Whisper - 13,688 6. Reclaimer - 11,727 7. Snake Eyez - 11,111 8. JJaX - 10,207 9. Variation - 9,896 10. No Fear 23 - 8,867 11. MerimacHamwich - 8,367 12. LynxFX - 8,076 13. Snoopy7548 - 7,657 14. Ford Mustang - 7,622 15. Slowride - 7,485 16. Chaotic - 7,263 17. Conchord - 7,211 18. Yankeez - 6,764 19. ll Mista GT ll - 6,645 20. Ninja Scroll - 6,601 21. DZNUTZ - 6,369 22. Xbox Owner - 6,357 23. RudedogX - 6,268 24. Sheeyt - 6,128 25. Duke - 5,888 |
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1. Yellowlab - 121 2. mattgame - 94 3. Highlite23-XBA - 83 4. Young_Fledgling - 82 5. Sam-XBA - 80 6. The Jackal - 74 7. xj74 - 73 8. Megaherz *RAGE* - 72 9. Shadow20002 - 66 10. mrmp3 - 65 11. xdragon - 62 12. oddworld20-3000 - 59 13. SilentFatality-XBA - 59 14. (ScArab) - 56 15. natewebb - 56 16. BlindSniper - 54 17. Jo35 - 53 18. Marc - 53 19. Whisper - 47 20. Kamshaft-XBA - 45 21. Xbox Masta 4 - 43 22. Sharky53 - 42 23. Y2D - 42 24. Lord Vivic - 41 25. JediMasterChief - 40 26. thunder0810 - 39 27. adzmullz1 - 39 28. Blind-RazoR - 38 29. Ninjermy - 38 30. MixMasta - 38 31. kenji - 37 32. JayMan36 - 36 33. DaGameBoy - 36 34. Liquid Gears - 35 35. mentat - 33 36. murken - 33 37. RichVGS - 32 38. asammw - 31 39. wweomaniac - 31 40. George89 - 30 41. BillyDKid - 30 42. J Deezie1311 - 30 43. pvsurfer03 - 29 44. colosso - 28 45. CrazyCougar-XBA - 28 46. super_ryu - 28 47. CrazyKane - 28 48. BIGHARV - 28 49. BunnyRabbit - 28 50. zhiwiller - 27 |
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