X’08

It’s appropriate that F.E.A.R’s sequel takes place in a city gone nuclear. The newly and insipidly named Project Origin blows everything you hated about its predecessor to pieces, while retaining everything that made the original such a celebrated shooter.

The section we played at X’08 opens, teasingly, in a long white hallway; a dreaded image that embodies the repetitive environments that F.E.A.R ultimately became infamous for. As you walk down the stale corridors you’ll soon realize that it’s a subway terminal, the wide open and freeing streets are above. Continue »

So far Call of Duty: World at War has been conspicuously elusive to any other release date than the broad time frame of autumn 2008. Though, at the X’08 event in Toronto (Xbox Canada’s holiday showcase) an Activision representative confirmed to us that Treyarch’s latest endeavour with the Call of Duty franchise will be hitting sometime this November, no specific day was given.

We’ll bring you our impressions of the two-player cooperative mode soon. And rest assured that even though Infinity Ward is not in the mix this time, it’s safe to say the game is in fine and more than capable hands.