Alright gang, today we enter the most easy-going month of the year and summer is so close we can practically feel the revitalizing sea breeze! You may check past the break, for my thoughts on May’s most interesting videogame releases!
13th: LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game (Multiplatform)
17th: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (PC)
20th: L.A. Noire (X360, PS3)
My affection for both the LEGO: [Insert Franchise Here] concept and the Pirates of the Caribbean setting is common knowledge nowadays, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that I’m happily looking forward to LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game. Sure, it’s not likely to set the world ablaze, but it will be a very fun cooperative platformer nonetheless.
The original Witcher was an ambitious variation of the standard “Neverwinter Nights“-style for PC RPGs and Assassins of Kings looks set to be as pleasingly familiar, but still weirdly exotic as the first one. Of course, the thing I’m really curious about is whether I’ll be able to actually play it: DRM is always a hot topic on the Internets, but it’s with the Witcher that I’ve personally felt its sting, as no matter of customer, technical, or psychological support could get my legitimate copy to run past its unapologetically daft copy protection system.
Finally, L.A. Noire seems to be the game adaptation of your token “Gritty Police Procedural” TV show and has already picked up loads of press for having the most realistic facial animations ever rendered by a computer. It is also the latest in a string of Rockstar games that interest me immensely more than their Grand Theft Autos and I really hope it’ll hold up better than its honorary predecessor, boRed Dead Redemption.
There is also one more game that was in the Brink of making the list, but the bar has been recently set a bit higher for cooperative First Person Shooters. In unrelated news, 100% new JRT by the end of the week!
