Of course, E3 could not do without chic racing games. But this time something was amazing – almost all of them could play yourself, and not just look at the presentation, like the same Driver.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit
Of course we knew that the sequel Hot Pursuit announced on E3. Our team has already visited the developers studio and learned all the details about the upcoming creation Criterion , which today lies a great responsibility – not only to revive the once popular franchise, but also to make a sequel for the best NFS in history. On E3, we finally were able to feel the game with our own hands in the multiplayer – first as a policeman, and then a criminal. Criterion very accurately approached the heritage of previous games and took the main elements from them-sports cars, juicy colors, solar landscapes and, of course, police officers with all their classic receptions like roof blocks and spikes.
The physical model of the game is very strange. She is not like Burnout or Need for Speed recent years. You need to get used to driving in the new Hot Pursuit. Perhaps the fact is that in the demo they were given only on the brand new Lamborghini; Perhaps this is done on purpose – to harden the fights between the players.
The machine is controlled very tight, has a great inertia and is extremely clumsily chosen from the roadside. At the same time, it slides perfectly in corners, for which they give glasses to all kinds of dirty tricks. Police officers in this way earn on checkpoints and air support. The helicopter can fly and throw the spikes in the way of the criminal (thank God, there are no falling burning barrels and missiles from the second part in the new Hot Pursuit).
Criminals, in turn, are drifting to make a countermeater – GPS blocks and other things that will help them leave from persecution. And all this is now happening in a conditionally open world-there are a lot of forks and all kinds of locations here in order to play cat-mouse with the police. The task of the policeman is to press the criminal to the side of the road or ram his car twice. The task of the racer is to disappear from sight, as in some GTA.
It is not yet clear how good the project will be, but one developers have already succeeded-the excitement during such games in cat mouse covers just an incredible. It was thanks to him that we at one time lost to the first Hot Pursuit for two whole years. Cross your fingers.
Gran Turismo 5
Sony Once again they showed their royal race to E3. More than 1000 cars, including F1 car, official licenses of WRC and NASCAR, real change of day and nights – all this Gran Turismo 5 , an unprecedented simulator of everything and the whole that has four wheels and a motor.
Simultaneously with E3, both good and bad news regarding GT5 became known. Only one is bad – only new cars will be recreated in the game with the whole detail, including the interior, switching the background of near and high light and a full model of damage. Such machines are 200, the rest will migrate from previous games in the form of improved models with ordinary headlights, and under external influence on them will only remain scratches and dirt.
There are much more good news – in the game there will be a test corporate track of the cult transmission of Top Gear and replai in the corresponding style; GT5 will maintain a 3D mode without falling the quality of the picture. There will be 40 tracks and 70 of their variations in 20 countries of the world, as well as the built -in track editor. Spectators will fill the stadiums in real time and arrange tents along the track. If you put everything together, it turns out some completely grandiose picture.
Every year we play GT at exhibitions, and each time we have a completely different game before us. Naturally, I could not pass by the stand with the creation of Polyphony Digital and this time. And was dumbfounded by a shown rally regime. First of all, it will be the most difficult rally race since the Richard Burns Rally, but this is not the main thing. The main thing is the recently announced change of day and night. Just imagine: you start a race in a sultry desert, go through dozens of turns, the sun sits down in your eyes, nights come, and you are rushing along the same highway in pitch darkness – a completely new sensation from the car system. By the way, the game will synchronize the inner clock with the real time of the place where the track runs.
The stand of the game also surprised a lot – on it, in addition to the usual chair and the steering wheel, the Eyetoy camera stood with the return. Yes, bye Microsoft They are trying to convince us that the future of the simulators in conjunction of Kinect and Forza (recall that the next game of the series will be controlled by hands and track the turning of the head), Sony demonstrates the finished and much more correct solution from the point of view of the hardcore. The steering wheel is in place, the chair in place, hands on the steering wheel, ass in the saddle, head – looks around. In a word, everything is like in a real car, and not a simulator in front of the TV. Not to mention the fact that tracking the head of the head is possible with a simple EYE-camera, which many PS3 owners already have, and it costs much less Kinect. In general, we will not wait for November to ride with all the bells and whistles – a steering wheel with a manual box, a hedotreking camera and 3D.
Motorstorm: Apocalypse
Another racing franchise from Sony – Motorstorm – blown up the minds of visitors E3 like no other arcade race. A popular series with an incredible variety of tracks and racing classes again makes a dashing turn. Motorstorm: Apocalypse – This is an explosive cross of the ideas of Motorstorm itself, long -forgotten Carmageddon And fresh Split/Second. And all this in 3D.
The new game takes us to a post -apocalyptic future. On the highway, as before, dozens of buggy, motorcycles, trucks, ATVs and giant beagfuses rush. Dozens of newspapers, Armaturin fly around, zombies walk along the road, which virtually fly into the air when colliding or clinging to the machine. After a few seconds, a skyscraper begins to fall into the neighboring buildings, soon we are already driving along the wall of this house, jumping and seeing how asphalt cracks under us … We fall into the subway, where the survivors of the advancing zombies are shooting in the disaster, and we find ourselves under crossfire. Against the backdrop of the lawlessness of the lawlessness, Split/Second seems to be a children's craft, and by gameplay Motorstorm is still out of competition.
Twisted Metal
Well, the final blow from Sony on all fans of racing is the announcement of the new Twisted Metal. A game that has millions in the heart from childhood returns fully armed. David Jaffa is responsible for the Professor Wins Casino project – Creator God of War , who made a similar mechanics several years ago Calling All Cars For PSN.
Those who are not familiar with Twisted Metal from the 90s, understand the essence of the game will not be difficult. This is a defmatch on cars, each of which has a variety of abilities and its own, very colorful crew. For example, if you decide to take an ambulance, then the patient will certainly hang in it on a gurney, which at the first opportunity can be launched at the enemy. Machine guns, flamethrowers, missiles, grenade launchers and complete destruction – such a Twisted Metal we always wanted.
Of the global innovations, except for the possibility of spreading everything and everything – helicopters and motorcycles, gameplay when managing them is somewhat different from the usual. But the main thing on Twisted Metal is invariably – this is chaos and excitement reigning on the battlefield. To bring down a helicopter, blow up a wagon with ice cream and have time to first drop the Eiffel Tower to pick up the most delicious bonus on the map – this is so simple, sincerely and understandable to anyone. We are looking forward to.