Gaming Games to Watch in 2009

Oooh, yeah. Alan Wake is the one to watch for my money, even if it WILL be 2010! BF3 would be sweet too.

I highly doubt Elite 4 will hit before Frontier finish The Outsider, which still doesn't have a date yet.

 

Nothing about God of War 3? I'm more excited for that game than I am for every other PS3 game combined; the prospect of watching Kratos tear his way through the entire Greek Pantheon in glorious 1080p is probably what's going to drive me to HD if I haven't already by that point.

 

Just thought I would question that. Not to be picky and I hope you dont take offence, but I would hardly call Halo tired or overhyped for that matter?

Halo 3 is the 3rd game in the series, there are game franchises out there that I think are really more deserving of the tired/overhyped tag *cough* Need for speed, mortal combat, street fighter, Sonic, fifa etc etc the list could go on forever*

Overhyped? Well perhaps slightly but in all honesty - and im not even a major FPS fan (apart from Gears of war but thats not even a FPS game really, more tactical) the halo games have all been exceptionally good and really show how to make a solid game.

Halo 3 is awesome, so much depth, great gameplay and online multiplayer is still constantly the most played on xbox live against other games.

I think if it was truely bad from the first to third and now fourth installment, I would label it as you have - but honestly its not like that, is it?

 

A FPS without a mouse? :O

/me runs in horror

 

a few titles there convince me it was worth buying a ps3:

heavy rain
resi 5
brutal legend
street fighter 4 being another one

as far as pc titles are concerned i cant wait for:

diablo 3 (cant really see why it didnt get a mention tbh)
fear2
dragon age

looks like an ok year, nothing particularly ground breaking

 

seems to me that halo is probably the game most deserving of being branded tired and overhyped. apart from the fact that it is an FPS on a console (which is never going to work properly imo) it feels more like a day out at disney land to me than a sci-fi FPS.

i have always thought that titles like gears of war, resi 4 and more recently dead space work because the developers found a good way to work around the inherant control problems with 3d console shooters

 

hmmm, nothing really inspiring on there. No decent racing games, or fps like HL2 or BF2 that I'm really looking forward to

 

You have Ghostbusters in the co-op, but I'm sure that I read somewhere that there was no co-op?

 

A lot of fun looking titles for sure... but it really is D3 that will steal my life away!

 

I am looking forward to Spore: Hot Date...or was that just a dream that I had....

 

I have been waiting a long time for DoW2 and Project Origin.

Are you sure it's called "F.E.A.R2: Project Origin" I thought both designers had a falling out. After a court battle one got the naming rites of "F.E.A.R" and the other got the game hence the lack of "F.E.A.R" marketing on the Project Origin web site.

 

What about HL2 Episode 3?

 

I was wondering the same thing, episode 3 would be nice...

 

We all know that duke 4 ever won't make this year also.

FEAR 2?? With Monolith? i am sooo buying this game!

Mafia 2, warhammer 40k (THQ, we love you), batman and project offset.
Long time since i last heard of Project: offset. The most impressive video i ever saw in a game!

I wish we had a release date for Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2....

 

No release date. Last I hear they hadn't started production in earnest because of L4D too.

 

a) I don't understand what's so impressive about that P:O trailer? It looks like a cheap rip-off of PoP and LotR. Sure, the graphics look good but you can say that about a lot of games that end up being average at best.
b) D3 and SC2 didn't get a mention because they won't be released in 2009! Let's face it: The chance for SC2 to be released this year might be there but not high by any means. And D3? Yeah, right... 2010 the earliest.
c) Not really waiting for any of those except the DUKE!

Will give SH5 (I don't take Origins seriously enough to let it count) a try though. Absolutely loved 'The Room'.

 

They haven't started Episode3?

So knowing Valve, we won't see it for another 2 years at least

 

I was reading this and thought to myself, "hmm I wonder what ever happened to Project:Offset" and BAM - next game you mentioned.. ha! I can't wait for that and I'm quite intrigued by DragonAge now!

 

Well it's nice to know it'll be a properly finished article like all the hl2 series! If only everyone made games so well.

 

By the time it comes out, the Source engine will be very outdated..