Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier
Ubisoft Paris brings back the latest in the Tom Clancy Ghost Recon tactical shooter series, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Future Soldier. I am looking forward to doing team-based missions in multi-player and “optical camouflage,” a new feature using that enables a type of active camouflage which allows team members to become instantly invisible, and the ability to control active drones. There will be full Kinect integration in customizing and shooting weapons.
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Inversion
Namco Bandai’s new game Inversion has main character (and cool dad, naturally) Davis Russel fighting bad guys to save his daughter, and ultimately, to save the world. But he gets to play and shoot guns in zero gravity. The Gravlink device in the game can manipulate the gravitational force on objects, crush things in the way, float enemies at will and pick up cars. FINALLY I can channel the Force — well, gravity, at least.
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Call of Duty: V.next
The much loved Call of Duty series from Activision studio Treyarch is very much anticipated by core FPS aficionados. The intense fighting as an infantry grunt in the D-Day invasion, the Pacific theater of WWII and the Cold War has created a fan base ready for more combat, different and bigger maps and different guns. And, of course, who doesn’t love fighting Nazi zombies?
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Firefall
I first encountered Red 5 Studios’s Firefall at PAX Prime, a free-to-play FPS-MMO hybrid, which has open-world cooperative campaign and competitive multi-player modes. You join one of the three Assault, Media or Recon Battleframes (classes) to defeat the Chosen, the invading aliens and save the earth from the Melding, a freak energy storm. The game also has customized weapons and abilities with module “packs.” And, you get to fight giant arachnid-tron-thingies.
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Sound Shapes
Sound Shapes is one of Sony Playstation’s game offerings for the upcoming Playstation Vita platform in 2012. I demoed the game at PAX Prime. It’s not just a side-scrolling platform game. The game is both a sequencer and an art maker. Sound Shapes uses the Vita’s full range of functionality, including the back-touch panel, to create and manipulate levels of shapes that launch musical notes, and still further, to create more sounds by your interaction with the musical shapes in the course of a game. Different instruments can be used as “sound elements” to compose a graphic obstacle course using the interactive musical shapes. Players can upload and share their musical-shape-art levels with other players. The future does sound bright indeed.
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I realize there may be some readers who feel strongly about some games that may not be on my list. Please feel free to list your suggestions in the comments below this post, and tell us why it’s your anticipated favorite for 2012. We’re looking forward to a great year in gaming at GeekDad.
