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As gamers we usually assume a few things about the fantasy setting in terms of gameplay. After all, most titles making use of the setting are RPGs, usually tactic heavy, and slow to play, something that isn’t appealing to a huge amount of people. Looking at Hunted: The Demon’s Forge, you may well draw the same assumptions but you really shouldn’t. Instead of Dragon Age, game director Maxx Kaufman thinks you should be more looking towards Call of Duty for this 3rd person action game.
We asked Kaufman what holes he thought the game was filling at the Eurogamer Expo this year, to which he replied: “For me it scratches that itch for people who love fast-paced action and like fantasy. It’s kind of in between those two areas and I just think there’s a tremendous audience for it. Look at the FPS genre; 25 million people buy Call of Duty right? So of those 25 million, I’m sure a lot like fantasy, I mean The Lord of the Rings is a huge movie.”
This puts Hunted in an interesting position indeed, mixing one of the biggest movie franchises with one of the biggest game franchises? Why has no one thought of that before? ”We thought there was a bridge there, something that we could do that was a unique take on both genres and bringing them together. That’s how we’re looking to appeal to players.”
We’ll find out if Hunted has been successful on its quest early next year. Check out our full interview with Kaufman here.
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New information on the Nintendo 3DS has surfaced, and IGN has reported on the supposed specs of the next-gen handheld. The system is said to include two ARM11 CPUs, which are also found in smartphones and in the Zune HD. The GPU being utilized by the 3DS is the DMP PICA200, which is being slowed down to about 200MHz. Though these numbers indicate a dip in power from the previously speculated Nvidia Tegra, IGN reported, “Numerous developers working on the platform have likened the graphical capabilities to current-generation consoles like the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, albeit on smaller, lower resolution screens.”
The 3DS also contains more internal storage space than the DSi (as expected) and has bumped up the DSi’s 256MBs to 1.5GBs of flash memory. Quite the increase in memory, and one that will likely come into play with downloadable games and other built-in features on the system. Of course, gamers will also be able to add to it through the system’s SD slot.
It’s interesting to learn all of these new little details about the internal capacity of the 3DS, even if everything is just in its rumor stages right now. We’ll keep you posted on further details regarding Nintendo’s next-gen handheld.
Article from Gamersyndrome.com
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