If there's one thing you can say about trailers for Japanese video games, they all have a certain epicness to them that almost never translates to the actual gameplay. Freedom Wars is a PS Vita multiplayer game that can be played with up to seven other people. From what we can draw from the trailer it looks like you will be running around a destroyed city attempting to fight giant robotic monsters. I'm kind of getting a…

Usually when a game adds in a CoOp aspect to it they just allow for two players to play through the single player campaign and rarely do they create something new just for CoOp. It's good to see that Blacklist is falling into the latter category. I'm always interested to see stealth games use a Co-Op mode. The problem is most of them devolve into a big shoot out if one of the two players gets spotted, but Splinter Cell games have always been unforgiving if the player does in fact get seen.…

Hell. Fucking. Yes. Everyone flipped out with excitement when the CGI trailer for Arkham City was shown even though it was just a pre rendered video. This new one they have done for Arkham Origins blows that one out of the water. Pretty smart move releasing this on the same day that it was announced that…

So this is what Ron Gilbert left Double Fine to do huh? Ok. Sure there's money to be made in the mobile market but maybe I was just expecting something at least resembling clever. Pirate jokes have been done to death, and mostly by Ron Gilbert himself! He is teamed up with one of the guys who created Deathspank, a game which Ron Gilbert also wrote for. I just hope this isn't the place where Ron Gilbert's career in video games goes to die. Nothing would be more depressing than seeing…

Alright maybe I need to shut up about the PS Vita. There would be a part of me that would be lying to myself if I said I wouldn't want to have a game that looks this good available on a handheld. Even if what they are showing in this gameplay trailer pretty much looks like every other Killzone game. Die hard fans would probably kill at the chance to just bust out their PS Vita when they're waiting for something and hop into a game of Killzone. If Microsoft offered the same…

For a game that is touting itself as having a variety of different and unique weapons I'm not really seeing a single thing in this trailer that hasn't already been done. Most of which was done in Red Faction. One thing I did actually get some minor entertainment out of in this trailer was the humor. They main character doesn't seem to be taking any of what's going on around him seriously and that's an improvement from most game's central protagonist. Who honestly wants to see…

I've mentioned in the past few weeks how if you're going to make an all CGI or live action trailer at least make it interesting. The first teaser trailer for Batman: Arkham Origins straddles that line barely. It is cool to see Deathstroke and Batman fighting it out but what we see is really short and doesn't give us any information about the game other…

Contrary to the trailer that was released on Monday this one actually has gameplay in it. Good show Ubisoft. Now we get a basic idea of who Edward Kenway was before he became a pirate and some knowledge of who he will be hunting as…

Now that's how you do a trailer. A combination of gameplay and cut scenes has rarely proved the wrong rout to take in the past. The visuals used in this trailer are quite spectacular, and a bit jarring. However you shouldn't really expect a trailer for a game about a post nuclear apocalypse Russia where people are living underground and have to fight each other and mutants for survival to be all sunshine and lollipops. So far this game is getting pretty great reviews all around, but I…

From what they originally showed of Rayman Legends it just looked like they took the exact same engine used for Rayman Origins and put in some new levels. Now that we are getting closer to the game's official (though not original) release date I'm actually starting to see how this is a entirely new game. Rayman Origins had a fantastic 2D art style that flowed really well…

In a surprising piece of news today Capcom has announced that the upcoming fifth installment in the Ace Attorney series, now called Phonenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies, will only be available for purchase via the 3DS eShop. Capcom cited…

A new trailer for the next numbered iteration in the Assassin's Creed franchise just hit today. This one actually shows off gamepl... oh wait. No it doesn't. Just images on a screen with an unfitting voice over behind it. The only new piece of information to get out of this trailer is the names of some of the other pirate captains you will be encountering throughout the game. No word yet on whether or not these characters will end up being enemies or not. Being that they are all pirates it…

I may not be the right person these games are marketing to. The level of insanity and silliness that Saints Row the Third amped the series up to was fun for a while, but lost its' charm around half way through. Saints Row IV looks to be almost the exact same level of silliness and insanity, and maybe that's why I'm not that interested. This new trailer shows off the different sorts of superpowers you…

Well that didn't take very long. Yesterday Bethesda teased a new game via some screenshots posted on twitter, and now that new game has been revealed as Wolfenstein: The New Order. I've gotta say I like this method of teasing a game the same week that they announce it rather than months beforehand. Once again we are treated to a trailer that shows no gameplay. As I've said…

From what I had seen previously of Remember Me it looked like an interesting enough game, but not something I would rush out to buy. Strangely enough with this new trailer that shows off the the different ways the main protagonist will be interacting with the world, my interest has somehow decreased. The fighting mechanic does seem to be a really cool idea where players can customize combos to fit their play style, but the story and memory hacking fell flat for me. Maybe I'm just tired of…

Splinter Cell fans should be overjoyed about this one. The fan favorite multiplayer mode from Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory will be making a return for the upcoming iteration in the franchise. Spies vs. Mercs pits... well, a team of spies vs. a team of mercenaries. The spies' goal is to remain undetected while hacking data from various computers placed around the map, while the mercs' job is to stop them. Putting motion sensors on the guns the mercs get to use adds an "Aliens" vibe to the…

Look I really don't have a problem with live action trailers if they are actually doing something cool. Take for example almost any of the live action trailers Bungie did before any of their Halo games launched. This however is just a bunch of people standing around with masks to get you exited because the main character(s)... wear masks. We can't really expect them to show off any gameplay at this point otherwise they…

Oh no not the dubstep! NOT THE DUBSTEP! Anyway typical video game story, or even just typical story at this point. Evil organization finds untapped power source, uses said power source to build some kind of super weapon, threatens to use weapon on world to gain power/money/world domination, only one team of badasses can stop them, and one member of team has some sort of personal grudge. We've all heard that before right? Great, moving on. It is good to see that the game looks to be focusing…

OK if there was ever any perfect example of the craziness of Suda 51's games this would be it. This trailer is like somebody took Suda 51's brain then hooked it up directly to the internet and this is what came out. Obviously the oversexualization of women is present (nothing new for Suda) but having cyborg hitmen set in a neo-noire world looks fantastic. Suda 51 said in an early interview about this game that he thought of an assassin going after a target who had a house on the moon, and…

Why are you still reading this? I'm serious, start watching the damn trailer! As promised Rockstar put out three new trailers for GTA V today, but they rolled them all into one video. The next trailer begins after the one before it ends. Each part of this super trailer highlights one of the three main protagonists in GTA V. It begins with Micheal, who is a middle aged rich father seeking purpose in his life. Followed up by Franklin, a young gang banger who is trying to get out of the life.…