I was a bit apprehensive to try out the newest playable character in Borderlands 2. I’ve probably played Gearbox’s bullet slinging masterpiece for hundreds of hours, and the idea of playing MORE Borderlands sort of made me uncomfortable. An analogy you ask? No problem! It’s sort of like eyeing that FIFTH piece of delicious pizza when you know damn well that you probably should have stopped gobbling pie after three or four pieces. Or something like that.
Unable to resist, I plopped down the ten bucks to play as Krieg and wound up incredibly pleased with the playable psycho. While you may have thought that Krieg would simply be a re-skin of Brick from the original Borderlands, he is an entirely new character with a very different play style… hyper-aggression. After watching me play for a bit , my wife (who loves her some Borderlands) decided to hop on Mya and run through the campaign. We were already loving how the duo worked together, when this little gem surfaced today.
If this video is any indication of where Gearbox is headed with Borderlands 3, I’ll be elated. While Borderlands 2’s campaign was incredible, I longed for character driven cinematics that really let us get to know the heroes that we’d inevitably spend dozens hundreds of hours controlling. With this video Krieg went from being a mindless thug, to a character I’m dying to know more about. Rich characters make great games even more enjoyable.. plain and simple.
The highly addictive produce-karate mashup, Fruit Ninja Kinect, is Xbox’s latest offering in the 2011 Summer of Arcade series. Although the game debuted on iOS, and has recently come to the Android market, the Xbox version adds the wrinkle of Kinect functionality — turning this quick finger swiping game into a full body hack and slash. But is it worth the made-up 800 MS points?
Did you miss the demo and live chat with the folks at Bioware about their latest Dragon Age II DLC? If so we have the embed for you below. Also if you stick around until the very end one of our “hard hitting” questions gets answered (resulting in chuckles and the promise of man on man hugging).
So It’s GDC week and for the first time ever, I’m out here – and it’s amazing! Seriously, I’m as excited as a little kid going to summer camp! (well, a confident little kid, not the kind who dreads leaving their parents and is overcome with a paralyzing fear at the sight of strangers).
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