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After an almost non-existent video game release schedule last week, the week of August 23rd is the kickoff for the video gaming release season we have all been waiting for. Square Enix’s Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Codemaster’s Bodycount and 505 Game’s Rugby World Cup 2011 are all being released this week.
Welcome to the beginning of the gaming season!
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Square Enix – Playstation 3, Xbox 360 & PC
Deus Ex: Human Revolution is the third installment of the Deus Ex series. Human Revolution, a first person role playing game, is a prequel to the first game of the series, Deus Ex.
The game is set 25 years before Deus Exin the year 2027. You play Adam Jensen, an ex-SWAT specialist who’s been handpicked to oversee the defensive needs of one of America’s most experimental biotechnology firms. Your job is to safeguard company secrets, but when a black ops team breaks in and kills the very scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes
Badly wounded during the attack, you have no choice but to become mechanically augmented and you soon find yourself chasing down leads all over the world, never knowing who you can trust. At a time when scientific advancements are turning athletes, soldiers and spies into super enhanced beings, someone is working very hard to ensure mankind’s evolution follows a particular path.
You need to discover where that path lies. Because when all is said and done, the decisions you take, and the choices you make, will be the only things that can change it.
Features:
- A divided near-future: discover a time of great technological advancement, but also a time of chaos and conspiracy. Mechanical augmentations of the human body have divided society between those who can afford them, and those who can’t. Opposing forces conspire from the shadow to control the destiny of mankind: a human revolution is coming.
- A mix of action and role-play: the game uniquely combines action-packed close-quarter takedowns with intense shooting, offering a vast array of character augmentations and upgrades for the many weapons at your disposal. Unlock new abilities and increase your stealth, social, hacking or combat skills: the game rewards all styles of play and approaches. Determine how you want your character to evolve, based on how you want to play the game.
- Choices and consequences: shoot your way through your enemies, sneak up behind them without being traced, hack systems to retrieve crucial information, or use your social skills to extract information from key characters – there are always choices, multiple approaches, multiple paths and multiple tools at your disposal. Choose your playing style and face the consequences of your actions: you decide how the story unfolds.
Bodycount
Codemasters – Playstation 3 & Xbox 360
Bodycount is a first person shooter where close-quarters combat and fire-fights come alive in campaign, co-operative online play and multiplayer modes.
Become a powerful combat asset ordered to eliminate enemies known only as ‘Targets’ on behalf of the ‘Network’, enforcing a global power struggle that does not depict traditional headlines or conventional war zones.
The game drops players into areas of operations equipped with a selection of contemporary weapons to battle through environments and enemies, chaining kills, earning power ups and building up a bullet meter to unleash air strikes on enemies.
Rugby World Cup 2011
505 Games – Playstation 3 & Xbox 360
Take on the world by being right in the middle of the mud, sweat, tears and passion to guide your team to its path of winning the Webb Ellis Cup. Whether your battling through the pool, knockout or final stages,your will fight for every inch against your hardest rivals in order to be Rugby World Cup 2011 champions.
Features:
- Familiar, Fast, Fun and Flowing Gameplay – play as one of twenty teams, with official England, South Africa, France, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Argentina and USA licenses.
- Five Game Modes – Tournament, International Test, Warm-Up Tour, Place Kick Shootout and Online play via Xbox Live and PSN.
- Three commentary teams – Eric Bayle/Philippe Sella for France, Greg Clark/Sean Fitzpatrick for ANZ and Sky Sports commentators Miles Harrison/Stuart Barnes.
- Play between 1 and 20 human controlled teams in the Tournament Mode, allowing up to 4 player simultaneous action during each match.
- Intuitive Player/Team Editor – modify line-up, set play selections, positional preferences, players details, attributes and abilities.
- High Definition detail – extending to the inclusion of thigh tape, wrist tape, finger tape and scrum caps.
- Feel your nation’s support as the 3D crowds react to your performance.
