Tuesday evening I saw the game Dark Sector at a D3 preview event. The game pleasantly surprised me with both its technical achievements and some neat little gameplay features that showed that at least the team was trying to do something new with the action genre. But what impressed me most was how much it looked like Resident Evil 4.
It hadn't really occured to me until that night how influential RE4 was - is, I should say, for it continues to be so; the blockbuster title of the this year is an ardent homage to RE4. By contrast the other big fancy game, Resistance: Fall of Man looks... almost primitive. What's new in Resistance? Nothing. We feel like we've seen it all before.
Is it just me or are we experiencing FPS fatigue? Of course, Halo 3 might still change all that. But until it comes out, I have to say that FPSs are looking just a little bit old-fashioned.
Yeah, FPS games are feeling prtty stale lately, but that's because Half-Life 2: Episode 2 isn't out yet :P
Posted by: ryan | 12/08/2006 at 08:19 AM
Yeah, stupid Valve, keeping Gaming Nirvana out of our hands because they take time to perfect things to utter perfection...
I WANT PORTAL NOW DAMNIT!
Posted by: DannoHung | 12/08/2006 at 10:08 AM
I think we're all forgetting how Gears of War revolutionized the genre. GoW's creativity in weapons, story, and most importantly, gameplay has set a new standard to FPS's. I'm perfectly fine sticking with a GoW (even though I don't own a 360) until Halo 3 comes out. Even then, I think Halo 3 will be too much like the previous two to have as big an impact as GoW does. It will be interesting to see how developers tackle the ideas brought forth by GoW
Posted by: karyu | 12/09/2006 at 10:01 PM