Choosing “The Best Games of 2007” is no easy task. Here at VGB we’re still heavily playing all the top titles of the past year, we haven’t played through all and as a result not reviewed them yet. So I thought it best to take our time to play and review them all into next year and let Gametrailer’s videos do the talking of all the choices you have for each of the following platforms. Having played all the winners and most of the nominees I can safely say 2007 might’ve been one of the best years for gamers ever!Find out which game is worth risking the Red Ring of Death for with our pick for the year’s best Xbox 360 title. The Best Xbox 360 Game = Halo 3.
Looks like Gears of War fans may soon be able to see just exactly how the world got into such a bad state at the beginning of the game. In late August of this year, a prequel novel is slated to be released, titled Gears of War: The Pendulum Wars. If you’ve played the game, you may remember these wars being mentioned as an almost legendary event, which gained the protagonist, Marcus Fenix, some notoriety. The book promises to reveal more of the characters’ back stories and some of the events leading up to the beginning of the game. Unfortunately, it’s also being penned by Steven L. Kent, who’s kind of built a reputation as a sci-fi hack writer; the Uwe Boll of literature, I guess. Of course, that’s not going to stop rabid Gears of War fans from snatching this up once it come out.
This is exactly how rumors get started, but… One sharp-eyed poster at the AltGN forums noticed an interesting question on a quiz at the Microsoft Retail Zone. The quizzes are meant for MS employees to brush up on their electronics retail knowledge, and one surrounding Universe at War included this question:
Which of the following are defining features of Universe at War?
1. The first ever Xbox 360/PC cross-platform RTS
2. Tactical dynamics create the best RTS until Starcraft 2.
3. Truly unique factions and customization
4. Free one-month Games for Windows LIVE Gold subscription
5. All of the above
6. None of the above
Could this be simply bad wording or does someone know something that the rest of us don’t? Guess we’ll have to wait and see, but for now let’s open things up for wild speculation.
During the second week of December ’07, Electronic Arts unveiled Tiberium, a first person/squad based shooter which will take place within the Command and Conquer universe.
Mike Verdu of Electronic Arts Los Angeles has noted that the game, which is scheduled to hit stores until sometime during the autumn next year, is the start of a franchise.
Earlier this week EA released the first official batch of screenshots from the game. You can find all of these new images in the gallery above this post, just click on the thumbnails to be taken straight there.
If you can’t wait for Blizzard to release Starcraft 2 and/or are sick and tired of playing the ol’ 2D Starcraft at a tiny 640×480 resolution, here’s something that might raise an eyebrow (or two). The team over at Snowflake Entertainment have been working (for three years) on a Starcraft total conversion using the Warcraft III engine. It seems (as of late) they have put together something they feel is worthy of public release:
Finally! After more than 3 years in development, Snowflake Entertainment (a modding community) has announced that Project Revolution demo is now downloadable. This demo allows you to play Starcraft Terran race in 3D using the Warcraft III Engine. You must have the Starcraft: Brood War and Warcraft III: Frozen Throne CDs installed and updated with the latest patches (All English-version) and load the CDs on your CD-Drive when asked by the installer in order to play this demo. Installation won’t work on non-English versions of the Game CDs. No Mac installer at this time. Windows Vista is not supported.Project Revolution mod is meant only as a preview of what Snowflake Entertainment has done thus far. It’s not a complete or debugged demo. There are many bugs, and adjustments that will be fixed in the final version of the demo. In this demo, Terran race is around 90% done (lot of bug fixes not implemented). Zerg is very incomplete (60%). The demo offers you a taste of what has been done in the past 3 years, and to show the potential the full mod will have when it is released in the future.
So yeah, it’s an unfinished mod - albeit, a pretty good looking one. However, the chance to play Starcraft at a scalable resolution sounds mighty enticing. With Blizzard being a complete tease with Starcraft 2 media and Starcraft 2’s release date yet to be announced, this might satiate your hunger - at least for a while.
You can download the installer for the mod from the link below. You can also read a checklist of (important) requirements, install instructions, and a brief FAQ after the break. If reading isn’t your thing, here’s a link to an install tutorial as a nifty YouTube video.
