Battlefield Hardline review

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The traditional nostalgic view of boys at play is that old playground classic of 'war', where kids pelt around the tarmac making "akka-akka-akka" noises and pretending to shoot each other with machine gun sticks. The alternate to that scenario is, of course, cops and robbers, so it makes sense that for its first foray outside of the military milieu Battlefield would swap tanks for squad cars.

We've already taken a look at Hardline's campaign, so won't be wasting any more time on it for this review. Suffice to say, for all its TV cop show presentation, it's a disappointingly limited, linear and lifeless effort that favours clunky stealth over full-blooded action. At best, you'll hammer through it in order to earn a stack of bonus Battlepacks for use in the real meat of the game: multiplayer.

While the campaign at least pays lip service to the idea that you're playing as an officer of the law, giving you the option to arrest enemies for more XP but not really caring if you shoot them in the back either, such details are absent from online play. Here, it's kill or be killed, due process be damned. If you shoot a criminal in the head with a sniper shot from 100m, or grind him to paste under the wheels of a truck, it's all good.

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Aliens: Colonial Marines SEGA about to pay $ 1.25 million for "false advertising"

Upon his release, Aliens: Colonial Marines was so disappointed some fans of the creature Giger ( RIP ) that a group of 135,000 individuals had filed complaint against SEGA (editor) for false advertising , claiming that the trailers and other promotional materials were deliberately misleading to knowingly sell a product of poor quality. Gearbox (developer) and SEGA had, at the time, said the trial was "baseless" .

However, the court did not agree. According to some legal documents in the California Court, the fine will SEGA was $ 1.25 million, bringing the damages at about 59.99 dollars per person.Both complainants who initiated the proceedings, Damion Perrine and John Locke, receive $ 2,500, once the legal fees (312,500 dollars) and administrative expenses (200,000 dollars) removed.

Note that the decision is not yet in force formally, it must still be approved by the court. If SEGAis willing to pay (there is still an opportunity for the studio to appeal the judgment), it would be protected from prosecution of this case. Gearbox , however, could still taste the ire of the two complainants, if they decide to continue.

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Call of Duty: Ghosts - The mine cart Goldrush in a video DLC Nemesis

On Saturday, August 2, 2014 at 11:38 by White Cloud

Spotlight on a card straight out of the Wild West.

Confirmed midweek,  Nemesis will be the  fourth and final map pack for  Call of Duty: Ghostsand published on August 5 on Xbox 360 and Xbox One, and only one month later on PS4, PS3 and Xbox 360 history. allow us to discover the different maps ,  Infinity Ward again offers us a series of videos for each of them, starting with  Goldrush .

This setting will take us in a gold mine worthy of the Far West, with many platforms that will allow us to quickly move from one level to another. Better yet, give us a sedan can cross the scenery along the rails, just to eliminate a maximum of opponents while remaining harmless.As a reminder, the other cards take the form of a base to launch submarine, an Asian village and an extremely restricted environment, the  DLC containing more the fourth and final mission of the saga  Extinction .

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Dragon Ball Xenoverse: what about resolutions, the soundtrack, the graphics, roster, gameplay and scenery?

Masayuki Hirano, the producer, told us to be determined to not disappoint the fans of Dragon Ball!

Announced a few weeks before E3 and then presented at the latter, Dragon Ball Xenoversedue out next year. It will have the burden of having to forget the previous installment of the series,  Dragon Ball: Battle of Z  which greatly disappointed fans.

After meeting  Masayuki Hirano , leading producer of  Dragon Ball Xenoverse to E3 , we had a second opportunity to question him during the Japan Expo 15th Impact in Paris. We have before in order to complete our first interview filmed in Los Angeles with more specific questions. If you have not yet seen or read, we suggest you start by doing before viewing it (read  Dragon Ball: Xenoverse - Masayuki Hirano: "We want to ensure that fans will not be disappointed" ).

  

This time, we tried to learn more about the proposed content in the game, so we asked about the graphics, the soundtrack, the gameplay , setting, and the game itself. Although in our previous meeting, he had already stated they do not want to disappoint the fans, we even asked him if he was willing to reassure them about the fact that Dragon Ball Xenoverse  may not be as disappointing as  Dragon Ball : Battle of Z.

As a reminder, the release date of  Dragon Ball Xenoverse is not yet precisely known, but the game should be released in 2015. Meanwhile, we leave you in the company of Misayuki-san is in the video below (with VO subtitles) or by going to the next page and reading the transcript in French.

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Mortal Kombat X: different styles of Raiden video

While  NetherRealm is preparing to announce a new character for  Mortal Kombat X  during gamescom , perhaps  Kano , already seen in a German magazine , the studio reported on one of the important features of this episode. It is indeed the "variations of characters" that are highlighted, allowing them to choose different fighting styles with the same character for different offensive and defensive strengths.

Lucky day, showcased in video and images, is  Raiden , which can be played as  Thunder God , Displacer or  Storm Lord . We can try us all these styles from the next year, on PS4, Xbox One, PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.

   

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1996, the first hosted a PlayStation videogame bomb, Resident Evil . Known worldwide today, the license could enjoy a variety of suites and various spin-offs . In 2002, Nintendo got an exclusive for the GameCube, namely the remake of the first opus: Resident Evil: Rebirth .Great news, the title will be suitable for machines Sony Computer Entertainment from Microsoftand PC.

What's New for this episode revived day? An image in 1080p for PlayStation 4, Xbox and PC One, and textures and graphics reworked to all media. On the audio portion, it will be 5.1 channel surround sound . An option to select a nostalgic rendering 4:3; Obviously, this will be 16:9. Playability, it was more or less adjusted. Simply put, users will have the choice between the "moose test mode" or an alternative mode, allowing use of joysticks.

Point release date in sight, but know that Resident Evil: Rebirth , whose official name should simply be  Resident Evil will be available in 2015 current only in dematerialized release. For the first images from the PS3/Xbox 360 version it goes below.

      

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Should You Buy The Tour de France 2014 (PlayStation 3), the official game of the Tour?

Like cycling? Like the Tour de France? And you love video games? While the Tour de France, season 2014 may be for you ...

Watch the steps of the Pyrenees on the Tour de France has inspired you to give you the bike? But sporting good sofa you weary to find the motivation to get your bike garage? Fortunately Focus Home Interactive has got you covered with a new album of his official game of the Grande Boucle, simply called The Tour de France 2014 season .

  Conversely in the critically acclaimed Pro Cycling Manager PC and Mac that allows only to slip in the shoes of a manager, Le Tour de France 2014 season offers you the opportunity to slip into the skin of runners to compete in the biggest cycling race in the world and try to bring the yellow jersey on the Champs-Elysées. 

EXISTENTIAL QUESTION: But seriously, you can win the Tour de France without doping?  But seriously, cycling video game, it holds up? Well, yes! Finished the first test where we rested like a fool on a button to feed a poor runner, things have evolved over time. Sprinters, climbers, riders ...

 There's something for everyone. And objectives go with it. Attack, wait, managing efforts in race management strategy with his teammates. Focus Home Interactive has found the right gear with his series The Tour de France. 

 We like:  - Finally a license that allows cycling enthusiasts to indulge in their passion console - Multiplayer mode provides the opportunity to participate in experience two players on the same console - The new Pro Team mode to slip into the skin of a team manager and recruit new riders - Improvements to the gameplay to make the game more realistic: influence of wind management aerodynamics downhill stage recognition ... 

We do not like:  - Means graphics despite some efforts on the English stage and on the Champs-Elysées and riders who are all alike - An interface not always intuitive requiring several hours of gameplay to master all the techniques - No online mode - No other race in the Tour de France available ... 

When you have done all the steps with your team, you raced around. - much time to spend if you want to make one complete step So we buy or not? If you are owner of the previous installment, this new version does not bring enough new to hurl at you. But if you like cycling and you have never dared to pick up a game console, Tour de France, season 2014 is definitely for you! 

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The Walking Dead: Season 2: Episode 4 - Amid the Ruins

That episode 4 of season 2 of The Walking Dead was expected is an understatement as the conclusion of the previous segment left us in the middle of hell, completely clueless, thank you to a horde of undead. Newbie directly where ended In Harm's Way, Amid the Ruins chooses knowingly spent his first 10 minutes, taking his time to develop the relationships between the characters, especially through Jane, real vector of personal questions.

Crystallizing all the attention of the player but also revolving around her character, Clementine was freed from its status as a kid bit lost in the space of a memorable finish at episode 3. If it had player left speechless, Telltale nevertheless chooses to make us relive this tension through a "calculated previously" while allowing us finally to discover the rest of this season of The Walking Dead. Thus, if the episode begins on 4 wheel caps resuming exactly where left off In Harm's Way, adrenaline resulting from this sequence evaporates later to allow time for the writers to dig different tracks reflection, all related characters lived.

Survival Guide The Zombie

Meeting seems more anecdotal and more important it is in the end ...

Thus, it is indisputable that Amid the Ruins is also wordy that episode 3 was energetic, he returned in a logical, already at the center of the comics and the eponymous series, taking us from a focus on the narrative choices the reflections of the characters and actions arising through more rhythmic passages.Episode 4 therefore defuses some of the tension synthesized by the evil Carver in episodes 2 and 3 to take time to breathe and also to the review what took place since the beginning of the season . One way as another, at least one imagines, to better prepare a final hoped for already at the height of an exceptional season. In fact, here we have the opportunity to discuss at length with Jane, wife of character, cold, but with a very pragmatic view of the situation.

Jane demonstrated a pragmatism that has its place in this crazy world.

These dialogues have double interest to forge a little more determination and character Clem, while also laying the foundations for his own survival at the expense or not the unity of the group. 's quality writing help, we will delight So these times sometimes with sharp passages unattractive research and bringing unintentionally comical situations . To this end, we will remember for a long time this scene in the museum or how totally discredit adults surrounding Clementine to put forward again the girl while offering a semblance of interactivity to the player. This sequence is rather symptomatic of this series is that "real passages of gameplay," as opposed to "QTEsques" sequences and especially those in dialogue, often defuse the tension inherent in the story.

Friends for life?

Give me five!

If the purpose of Amid the Ruins is to gradually bring Clementine, and by extension the player to question even more confidence that it can give to others in extreme situations, he does not forget for many give us some more dynamic passages during which we will dispose of zombies while helping his neighbor. As mentioned before, the two central elements of the comic book by Robert Kirkman therefore found here and allow this episode to rely primarily on intimate scenes interspersed with some more muscular intervals. If the balance of this episode is preserved it does nevertheless generally lower In Harm's Way, would that in the decisions that are less critical to the group . However, some very interesting ideas already giving us a glimpse of episode 5, would that through the evolution of Kenny, more lost than ever, or even the final choice of which potential impacts resonate in your head until the arrival of the grand final.And therein lies the genius of this saga that always manages to make us forget his recurring problems with a controlled realization, a real screenplay quality and empathy every moment for our Ripley shorts. Just have to hold his breath and pray that Clementine choose quickly and well ...

Images from the Xbox 360 Version

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An output window for Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain

The next Metal Gear will be released, according to Konami, early 2015.

Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain has attracted a lot of people when it was presented at the last E3. Thirty minute presentation of gameplay of stealth game Kojima Productions have actually lifted the veil on the playful possibilities of the game, that goes well beyond the draft drawn with Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeroes . Nevertheless, it remained to set for Konami, the question of the release date of this ambitious blockbuster . Through an "error" of the British newspaper The Guardian, we now know more: after a interview the creator of the series Hideo Kojima, our colleague had initially announced the release of the game for 27 March 2015. An information quickly denied by the publication, which has since rectified by an "Early 2015" (early 2015) blown by Konami. All remains very vague at the moment (until TGS?), but has the merit to specify the window that we hardly dared to whisper the last month, as the game looks ambitious, and the current development status unknown . Also remember that the next adventure of Big Boss is provided on PS4 and Xbox One, but also on PS3 and Xbox 360

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E3 2014: The RPG of living that should be monitored

Few RPG this year, but those that have been presented are the most famous. And there is something for everyone, with J-RPG, highly anticipated Western games, and other more general public, who will be a place in the heart of many fans of the series. It even has the right to a bit of novelty. What more, finally? Quality always prevails over quantity!

Bloodborne / PS4

What's the story?Nobody knows yet nothing Bloodborne, fruit of the work of studio From Software (Demon's Souls, Dark Souls ...). Also recognizes her leg pretty well, since the game immerses the player in a clearly as dark as violent world, with high and disturbing gothic buildings. So far the game was known as Project Beast, which we do not already know much, not to say anything.

Why does it keep an eye on?After a few solid tracks (Armored Core series), From Software has rapidly made ​​a name in the world of RPG "for large," delivering quick succession Demon's Souls and Dark Souls. Difficult, demanding, mature licked and especially in terms of artistic and technical achievement, the next effort should not distort. Bloodborne probably suggest a similar approach, but in a world farther from the medieval fantasy, darker and even dirty.

Dragon Age Inquisition / PC-PS3-PS4-360-One

What's the story?Return to Thedas, the world created for Dragon Age and Dragon Age 2! War rumbles Orlais, since the cousin of the Empress has some views on the throne. Taking advantage of the political instability, and following the events that took place in Dragon Age 2, the Circle of Magi and the Templars are now facing. Y has water in the gas ...

Why does it keep an eye on?Simply because after a very good first episode, Dragon Age II was overall disappointed. Many players have tried to Electronic Arts, responsible under them to have rushed out of the game the same criticisms were subsequently issued once Mass Effect 3 out (despite all its qualities).Inquisition will have the task of showing that the duo EA-BioWare still works, and that Dragon Age Origins was not just a good one-night stand. > We could try Dragon Age Inquisition in August 2013, here's our preview. > Anagund talks about Dragon Age Inquisition, since E3.

Fable Legends / One

What's the story?There is still little known, except that the game take place 400 years before the first Fable. At that time, the Heroes Guild did not exist, and it was not uncommon to see in the corner a Hero, these characters with extraordinary powers. The player will just take in hand the destiny of one of them to find an ancient and powerful magical artifact.

Why does it keep an eye on?Very classic in its gameplay or its universe, Fable Legends stands out mainly through its online mode and asymmetric gameplay. Between 4 heroes fifth player who can control the various existing mob. For the latter, so the game takes an interesting strategic move, as can try all possible dirt to triumph over his enemies. Enough to lose some friends in one evening. > If the title interests you, Anagund has concocted a nice overview.

Sapphire Alpha - Omega Pokémon Ruby / 3DS

What's the story?Sapphire and Ruby Alpha Omega, logically, should respect the scenarios of the original games, as had before them the Fire Red and Leaf Green versions. They should still see some slight innovations happen, induced by changes in the series. You play as a young trainer traveling the plains of Hoenn, and will therefore have to collect badges, and ribbons Pokémon Contest.Hundreds and hundreds of hours of gameplay for Pokémaniaques.

Why does it keep an eye on?These are remakes, so difficult to compare this with the future release of a Witcher 3 or Bloodborne. Pokéfans the other hand will be happy, since Ruby and Sapphire are often cited as the best installment of the franchise. It will be for them the opportunity to recover plethora of Pokémon lost during the transition to the DS, for those who had failed or had not had the opportunity to transfer their protégés. For those who have never played these two episodes, this is an opportunity to get serious!

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt / PC-PS4-One

What's the story?third installment of the adventures of Geralt of Rivia, the Witcher / monster hunter! And this may be the last since Wild Hunt is supposed to be the conclusion of the adventures of our friend with white hair. Little has filtered through the game's storyline, but we already know that Geralt will embark himself in a dangerous mission, when a foreign army (the famous "Wild Hunt") invade the Northern Kingdoms. Our Witcher would be the only one able to stop them ...

Why does it keep an eye on?Well just because so far, The Witcher has never disappointed us. And this may be the last episode of the adventures of Geralt! The game will feature the same time as some new combat system will be more dynamic, but because it is a "real" open world. This open world is also assumed to be 30 times larger than in previous games. Nothing much ... > See our report E3 2014 The Witcher. Wild Hunt > You can also read our overview sent directly from Los Angeles!

Xenoblade Chronicles X / Wii U

What's the story?relatively little is known about Xenoblade Chronicles X, until recently known as X. It should be a sequel to Xenoblade Chronicles released on Wii, but it does not even know yet if we find the characters of the first game, or even if it will be a true sequel. Of course, we will be entitled to a futuristic scenario and we understand that the Earth is invaded by gigantic creatures, following an intergalactic war that devastated humanity.

Why does it keep an eye on?Xenoblade Chronicles was probably one if not the best Wii game, and undoubtedly one of the best J-RPG released in recent years. It's hard to imagine how the creators of masterpieces like Baten Kaitos and Xenosaga may disappoint us, knowing that their new title will allow players to move in a vast open world, aboard mecha hyper-stylish. But caution that if the first big trailer presented at E3 2013, we had put water in his mouth, he presented this week was much more common.

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