Fall 2009 is here, and with it comes some amazing games that have been hyped up since the better part of last year. Yet this year has also seen one of the greatest disappointments ever, as many games such as Bioshock 2 and Starcraft 2 were delayed release until early next year from the massive hype and market of Halo 3: ODST. Nevertheless, some big names have come on in the end of 2009, and we shall see if they can make it to the record books in the annals of gaming history.
On October 26, 2009, Borderlands, by 2K Games, was released on PC. It is considered an First-Person Shooter Role-Playing Game that features four-player online cooperative gaming. Like all RPGs, the focus of the game will be quests, as nearly 30 quests are part of the actual story line of the game, with over 130 additional side quests. It also features a brand-new state-of-the-art generation program, making a nearly unlimited amount of combinations of guns and items that can be found in the world. Borderlands is also the first FPSRPG to feature actual vehicles, where players can fight AI enemies in vehicle-to-vehicle combat. With bandits and over nine different hostile alien species on the planet Pandora, players will be able to experience a unique and dangerous world in Borderlands.
By the time Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is released on November 10, 2009, there will be a long line of hardcore gamers who will boycott it. Infinity Ward’s sequel to the ever popular Call of Duty 4 will be a lot different from previous PC games. The game developers have decided to take away all dedicated servers and replace them with public servers. Instead of a server browser, the game takes into account your performance, ping, and preferences based on your location and individual connection as well as matching you with players of your same skills. No more server choosing, no more server modding, and no more server admins. Replacing the private dedicated servers are fully public servers employing game hosts. In an unprecedented and arrogant response to the loss of the dedicated servers, Infinity Ward has claimed that this was the best move to ensure that hacking and cheating are kept to an absolute minimum. Not all gamers agree, saying that the move will not only serve to ensure a large number of admin abuse, but also create a bad mix of noobs and pwners in the same room. What Infinity Ward has done was take away the only boundary that kept noobs and pwners apart, and the fallout from that move could be ugly. As of this writing, more than 100,000 people have signed a petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?dedis4mw) to restore the dedicated servers, but, so far, Infinity Ward has no plans to retract their decision.
Left 4 Dead 2, Valve Corporation’s sequel to the ever-popular Source game Left 4 Dead, is set to release on PC and Xbox 360 on November 17, 2009. It takes place in the southern United States, one week after the first Left 4 Dead storyline, and introduces four new survivors. The game brings five new campaign maps with a whole host of new weapons, like chainsaws, as well as new, even stronger zombies from which to slaughter.
There you have it, a concise list of what you want for Christmas. Happy Gaming!
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