Rage 2 And DOOM Preview: PC, PS4, And Xbox One Versions

Arguably Microsoft's biggest game, Halo: Infinite , was back at E3 this year, getting a featured spot at the very end of its annual press conference. discover this year's footage was more story-centric, revealing an unnamed UNSC pilot discovering Master Chief floating in space. After reviving the iconic hero, a mysterious yellow lightning strikes the USNC Pelican, prompting Master Chief to grab a gun and jump out of the ship. For fans wanting more, Microsoft is essentially putting Halo Infinite back on ice until E3 2020 ahead of its holiday 2020 launch on Project Scarl

RAGE 2 is incomparable with other post-apocalyptic games coming out this year, and looking to shake up the formula. Merging open-world gameplay with break-neck close combat action, the game will scratch a DOOM itch while we wait for DOOM Eternal . However, Avalanche Studios is setting up to evolve how we look at combat in a modern open-world FPS, and you should be exci

The second of two Smash Bros DLC reveals, this one came at near the end of Nintendo's E3 2019 presentation. It smartly reused King K. Rool's reveal trailer, this time putting the King inside of Donkey Kong's house with Diddy. The trailer played out similarly with the Duck Hunt Dog trolling the group until Banjo and Kazooie finally showed up and revealed their inclusion at long last. For many fans, it was also a cool moment to see King K. Rool, Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Banjo, and Kazooie all together once again considering their shared history under the development studio R

Luigi doesn’t get enough love within the Nintendo hierarchy, but he finally gets his much-requested sequel with Luigi’s Mansion 3 . Going hands-on with the game brought back memories of the Gamecube-era experience, from flashing ghosts to inhaling them with your Poltergust 3000. The Luigi’s Mansion formula doesn’t feel sufficiently mined yet, and so this third entry will try to combine a modern platform with new puzzles, clever design, and a charming main charac

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is a remake built with care and detail. The visual style is the obvious selling point, but there is so much about the way Link’s Awakening plays, looks, and sounds that makes it extremely charming. If you’ve never played the original game or it’s your favorite Legend of Zelda , Link’s Awakening is going to be another retro-style hit for Ninte

French video game company Bigben Interactive may not be the most noteworthy publisher at E3 2019, but the company has been around since the early 80's, making it one of the oldest video game companies in the industry. Arguably the most noteworthy game Bigben will showcase at E3 2019 is The Sinking City , a horror game based on the mind-bending works of H.P. Lovecr

But that isn't to say the world is bereft of humor and variety--the world is anything but brown and drab, with heavy highlights of neon to offer visual diversity. In my hour or two of gameplay, I got to meet a Guy Fieri-like club owner with insidious plans for the city, an indulgent past-prime television host that was an equal fan of blood-lust and orgies, and a racecar driver that was really insistent about getting in my pants. Despite the serious world, RAGE 2 doesn't take itself too seriously and has plenty of callbacks to other media points that inspire

Meanwhile, the more gun-based gameplay also comes with different scenarios and twists. While I spent a substantial portion in objective-based missions, I also hit checkpoint to checkpoint on the map, "liberating" gas stations and reinforced outposts with an iron fist and blazing shotgun. Other times, I was taking on War of the Worlds monolithic bots, dodging and sprinting from lasers within an abandoned town. I haven't seen a fraction of what RAGE 2 has to offer, but I'm expecting a veritable playground of death and may

I'll be honest and say that this is perhaps jarring, and it isn't entirely RAGE 2 's fault. First-person shooters, most notably open-world FPS games, have conditioned us to focus on range, sniping, and distance. Stripping that away from players is a sacrifice of comfort and safety; don't expect to be able to take pot-shots at an enemy from across the

Google has promised that Stadia will be compatible with a variety of controllers, and specifically showed the Xbox One controller during its GDC 2019 keynote presentation. However, Stadia will also have its own specific controller, which looks somewhat like a cross between the Xbox One controller and the DualShock 4. How the Stadia controller feels and operates compared to the competition remains to be seen, but it will be interesting to see what consumers think once it's finally available to the mas

Outside of Final Fantasy 7 , the other major title fans were anticipating from Square Enix was Marvel's Avengers . While this game had been previously announced, nearly nothing had been shown. The E3 2019 trailer gave fans their first look at the game and its five starting heroes: Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, and Black Widow. As the trailer reveals, a celebration turns deadly, splitting up the team until five years later when new threats force them to reassem