Vanquish: Oath of Brothers Preview

Vanquish: The Oath of Brothers is the newest Action RPG from the guys at Gamevil.  That should tell you something right away; Gamevil is the same developer that came out with the  fantastic RPG, Zenonia, in 2009.  The hands-on video from Gamevil is below.  The action depicted shows you on horseback taking it to your enemies chariot style.



With a  variety of upgradable items and several different characters to play with, this game is sure to please the role playing crowd.  At the same time, the lightning quick gameplay and gory action should be exactly what the typical hack and slash action gamer is looking for.  Something both sides can agree on, the $2.99 price point.  This game will be released on Friday, February 5th and our review will be up the same day.

Firemint Announces Development of iPad Optomized Flight Control

After today's iPad announcement by Apple, Firemint (developer of both Flight Control and Real Racing had their own announcement.  In that release Firemint said, "We're delighted that we can now make our own announcement: we will bring an optimised and re-imagined version of Flight Control to iPad. Like almost 140,000 other apps on the App Store, Flight Control will work perfectly on iPad without any changes from us, but we want to ensure a delightful experience on iPad that feels just right.

We started developing Real Racing before the iPhone 3G was announced. Similarly, we are already building our next generation of games for higher definition, more powerful devices than are available today. We like to imagine what the devices of tomorrow will be capable of, and invest in bringing our games to the next generation of hardware. The iPad announcement and Apple's A4 chip have come at a fantastic time for us. We are working on some incredibly fun and exciting games that will look amazing on iPad and take full advantage of its features, as well as working brilliantly on iPhone and iPod touch."



Time will tell if Firemint will be bringing their world famous racing game to the big screen.  Haven't you always wanted to play it on a bigger screen?  More details to come.

Spore Creatures First Impressions for iPhone and iPod Touch

Spore Creatures was released over the weekend for the iPhone/iPod Touch and we started playing it early Monday. If you’re unfamiliar with the Spore universe, it was Will Wright's (The guy behind both SimCity and The Sims) final game he created while at EA. The general scope of the PC game took you from being an incredibly small single celled organism to eventually building up your species through a series of evolutions into a galactic traveler/dominator. When EA Mobile brought Spore Creatures to the mobile, it was done on a much smaller scale but with the same basic principles. You design a creature and take it from its infancy to be the dominant creature on the planet.



As opposed to the PC version, Spore Creatures feels much more constrained and restricted. Instead of the entire universe, the game offers only 20 levels and 4 unique land zones. As we traverse through for our review, we are finding that these zones don't necessarily last quite as long as you would expect from a typical $6.99 game. Expect the review tomorrow.

Three or four games

I'm working on three or four reviews including Dead Strike and Shaun White Snowboarding. Dead Strike feels like I played it before when it was called Resident Evil 4. We'll get a new review up tonight/early tomorrow.