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Pc gaming show2/5/2024 When you play a round in this Arena based shooter, you take 25 second turns instead of continual play. Lemnis Gate is set in a sci-fi world with time travel as a core concept. Don’t worry if that makes your head spin, because this concept feels truly unique. Onto something more experimental: an FPS that’s also a turn-based strategy game. I don’t do this often, but Orcs Must Die 3 will be a day one purchase for me. In this new game, their adding ‘war maps’, where the scale ramps up to give a more open field view rather than having just cramped hallways to defend. To see Robot Entertainment adding a new game to the standard series was a very welcome surprise: even better, the game is coming in just over a month! July 23rd is when you’ll be able to rejoin the heroes of the Order to push back otherworldly invasions. I really enjoyed Orcs Must Die: Unchained, and was sad to see it close down. With the CEO “Vanir Dolos” giving a speech about the need to push forward into the stars to save humanity set to an angelic choir, the overly dramatic shots of his silhouette against a destroyed earth gave it a mood most games only dream they can invoke in a trailer. Most of these games don’t shell out for evocative cinematics however, so this felt positively decadent. The game itself is going to be a deep space colony simulator: many press briefings are calling it Frostpunk in space. Ixion’s trailer, in comparison, was created to be a 2:40 long masterpiece. It’s a careful balance of trying to attract interest in a very short amount of time. Games like Far Changing Tides give you just enough information to be drawn in by their art style, where others like The Wandering Village give you just enough hints about how gameplay might work to make you want to look them up. The PC Gaming Show covers a lot of ground, with tempos switching between longer interviews with devs to sometimes simple minute-long teasers about games which we might find out more about maybe in a few months time… or next year’s E3. So, what exactly happened over the nearly hour and a half trade show? Here are some of the games that stood out the most to us. When you watch the show, you get exactly what you bargained for… with perhaps a bit of silliness on the side. Advertisements for things such as PC parts or particular sponsors are very obvious. The PC Gaming show feels strangely refreshing in comparison: there is no thruline, no singular goal besides “Here’s lots of cool new things”. Many other shows come across as a corporate selling pitch: a single company like Xbox or Nintendo trying to brand themselves as the edgiest or the most understanding of what the ‘gamers’ want. This year was no different, with over 35 games being displayed alongside a lot of airtime for Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries. Hosted by Sean “Day 9” Plott since 2015, the show comes across differently from other events due to its more mercenary nature. Maybe it's just me, but after years of watching E3 presentations, it just feels more honest than most. Exciting stuff.I’ll be blunt: I have a soft spot for the PC Gaming Show. The location of the game has moved from the Middle Eastern setting to The City, based in Europe, and comes with a map that’s four times bigger than the original game’s.įrom the interview during the PC Gaming Show, Dying Light 2 looks like it will take what we loved about the original and improve on almost every aspect of it. There will be over 3,000 parkour animations to make traversal even more smooth and natural, and you can also use tools like a grappling hook and a paraglider to get around. Set 20 years after the original game, you play as Aiden Caldwell, who like the protagonist of the first game, Kyle Crane, uses parkour to fluidly move around the world. The original game came out back in 2015, and we loved how it brought parkour to the first-person horror genre, offering a unique way to get around the large open-world while avoiding zombies. (Image credit: Techland) Dying Light 2: Stay Humanĭying Light 2: Stay Human is the long-awaited sequel to the survival horror action game.
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