E3 Roundup: Games that are now less interesting
Alan Wake
This was cool when they showed off that original trailer so many years ago, now we have gameplay footage. It basically shows Alan Wake running about and shooting enemies as well as dodging telekinetiaclly controlled objects presumably. Now the shooting involves you pointing your flash light at enemies to weaken them and then putting a bullet in their head. I think I would feel better about the game if there was less shooting in it and also the objects floating in mid air being thrown at you, it just makes that game so much less compelling to me. Still the enemies that all got scared when he lit a flare, that was kind of cool.
Halo 3: ODST
To preface this I’m not a huge Halo fan to begin with, but seriously its way more halo than it really should be, you can still take a couple shots before dying but you aren’t quite as hardy as master chief. But other than that you might as well be the same guy. The only interesting thing is that apparently the game is a sort of semi-open world as you can move about the city in any way you like and then there are mission trigger points. Not sure how limited or not the city is but it is you by yourself so chances are its more a mission hub than free flow open world that you can do stuff in.
The Beatles: Rock Band
The game looks neat and is totally Beatles, but also announced you can’t export the songs at all and that the game will not work at all with your current DLC. Lame.
I think the strange thing about Alan Wake is that he uses the flash light to “de-demon” them, then guns them down, that’s where he crosses the line from exorcist to murderer. It seems like the light would be good gameplay to just exorcise them. But then you’d have a load of people just standing around so… The bit where he shot one of them with a flare and it exploded was amazing, especially in slow-motion.