Gameloft has revealed the first screenshots of its upcoming game, Assassin's Creed, although since they're a teaser on the publisher's website, there's no other information about.
That's no barrier to speculation, of course, but we do know Assassin's Creed is coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.
Set in 1191 AD, a time when the Third Crusade s tearing the Holy Land apart, you play Altair who's intent on putting a stop to the hostilities by suppressing both sides of the conflict. Which is a nicer way of saying that you go around killing people – that is what assassins do, after all.
How much of the console game will translate to mobile remains a mystery (much as Altair himself) but from the screenshots we should expect flawless platform action, exquisite scenery, and pursuits on horseback to break things up a bit.
Hopefully the decent assassin-style special moves from the console versions will make it across, too. We can't get enough of sneaking up behind enemies and doing vicious, nasty things to their veins.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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Delta Force
Almost no book or film about war claims that it's anything but miserable. Fighting soldiers are under constant threat of death, and to avoid it they have to kill. They carry huge amounts of equipment, freeze in winter, broil in summer, sleep on the ground, and rarely wash. Nevertheless, games that simulate war are permanently billeted in the sales charts, and more surprisingly, the closer to real life they are, the better.
Delta Force was one of the first to try and recreate the knife-edge, sudden death nature of military combat, and while this mobile version doesn't match the realism of its PC cousin, it maintains the game's well established standards.
The narrative places you at the centre of an eastern European terrorist crisis, in which it's your job to destroy a paramilitary organisation before its members manage to make a nuisance of themselves.
To accomplish this, you have a squad of three soldiers, each of whom has a different skill. One is a GI with an automatic rifle, one is a sniper with a scope that you can activate with '*' and hover above the screen, and one is an engineer who can heal wounds, disarm mines, and call air strikes on groups of enemies.
Delta Force was one of the first to try and recreate the knife-edge, sudden death nature of military combat, and while this mobile version doesn't match the realism of its PC cousin, it maintains the game's well established standards.
The narrative places you at the centre of an eastern European terrorist crisis, in which it's your job to destroy a paramilitary organisation before its members manage to make a nuisance of themselves.
To accomplish this, you have a squad of three soldiers, each of whom has a different skill. One is a GI with an automatic rifle, one is a sniper with a scope that you can activate with '*' and hover above the screen, and one is an engineer who can heal wounds, disarm mines, and call air strikes on groups of enemies.
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