Developer: Square-Enix & Tri-Ace
Publisher: Square-Enix
Projected Release: January 2012
I can’t wait to see how Square-Enix handles this game, and it is easily my most anticipated title personally. I loved XIII. It was one of my favorite games of this generation, and I am very excited to see how the story continues for Lightning and company.
- Don Parsons
NeverDead
Developer: Rebellion
Publisher: Konami
Release Date: January 2012
With the exception of Bayonetta, the character action genre has been feeling extremely tired recently. Rebellion’s NeverDead hopes to breath some life into it. On the surface, NeverDead looks to be nothing special, just another character action game with a moody hero. But NeverDead has a secret weapon in the form of its gameplay mechanic (gimmick), where players can be completely dismembered and continue to fight on. It is an interesting gameplay choice and with the proper aesthetic, NeverDead could be an early surprise of 2012.
- Chris Scott
Resident Evil: Revelations
Developer: Capcom
Publisher: Capcom
Release Date: February 2012
The notion that Resident Evil has lost its way is at this point so widely held giving up on the series for good is understandable. However, that might turn out to be a mistake in the near future. Enter Resident Evil: Revelations, a touted return to the slower pace, denser atmosphere and lower focus on action of Resi’s past. Luckily, while the atmospheric elements of classic Resident Evil are resurrected, the infuriating controls and clunky gameplay is left in the grave, as the game uses a tweaked version of the RE4/5 template that allows free camera movement, strafing while shooting and other such modernities. Revelations sports cooperative game modes, wide location variety, a seemingly twist-tastic plot, and most noticeably of all, graphics just inches away from current-gen console-quality. Brush up on your herb-mixing skills and combine SHOTGUN AMMO with SHOTGUN in February exclusively for the Nintendo 3DS.
- Magnus Risebro
Syndicate
Developer: Starbreeze Studios
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: February 2012
Remakes are all the rage, we had quite a few HD remakes we wanted to include in our list even, however complete re-imaginings of a franchise are always a tricky prospect. Electronic Arts is hoping that the name Syndicate still holds some amount of weight in the gaming world and that Starbreeze Studios can capitalize on that and give EA an early year hit. What is most interesting about Syndicate though is that the original game was a strategy game and this rework is a first person shooter. Fans of the original are already in an uproar over the change of focus and that alone warrants some added focus on the title, additionally however Starbreeze has developed some of the most interesting FPS games of the past few years and seeing what they can do inside the world of Syndicate is truly the most interesting thing about it all.
- Chris Scott
SSX
Developer: EA Canada
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Release Date: February 2012
At one point in time SSX was one of the biggest franchises on the market but this generation has not been kind to the extreme sports genre, with even the mighty Tony Hawk struggling to maintain a hold in the highly competitive marketplace. Thus this new SSX has a lot of questions surrounding it. Amongst them, can it capture the magic of the original games and do so in a high definition world? But maybe most importantly, can it revitalize a struggling genre that was once a dominant force in the industry. So far everything looks great and provided they can implement a simple to use, yet complicated to master trick system, SSX could be the breath of life this genre needs.
- Chris Scott
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