Play Taste

Dragon Age: Origins

New trailer for the game and some cool looking gameplay, the combat isn’t quite as fluid looking as most modern games but it still looks fine. It’s a little hard to judge how its going to work just from video but it seems as if it will play out very much like Neverwinter Nights and similar things. A major theme in the trailer, sex.

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This was kind of a surprise when it was showed off last year at E3 but for the most part it seems to be coming together nicely. It’s somewhat of a controlled setting but it seemed to work well, no one complained of lag except of course when the LACC lost all of its internet for a while. Think battlefield 2 and up the scale to 256 players and at it’s most basic level thats what it is. The way they split up each time seems interesting so you have a company commander, 4 platoon commanders and each platoon has 4 squad leaders of 8 person squads. So the voice chat works in that hierarchy, so platoon commaners talk to the company commander each other platoon leader and its squads. Seems neat and it’s made by the folk at Zipper who were the orignal creators of SOCOM so it’s certainly worth paying attention to.

Assassin’s Creed 2

More Assassin’s Creed, in short. You can disarm people and use their own weapons against them. Also the people in the city seem to be slightly more interesting as in they don’t just walk around they actually do stuff. Maybe not the best example as it’s easily scripted but during carnival it looks like people at carnival. Also you now carry a pair of hidden blades for twice the assassination goodness, no sign of the gun they showed off in the trailer when they demoed it. Also no word on wether the key assassination figures are going to be mysteriously impervious to all weapons other than the hidden blades. Also they’ve said that they are going to try to make the gamey parts of it more invisible which if you played the original were very much in your face and you could very easily tell what the mechanics were.

Andrew Games