We've been killing them since the moment the first person shooter was invented. Killing Nazis and Zombies is a way to let out your sadistic frustration. They're both the baddest of the bad, but who's the biggest baddie of them all? Let's take a look a the facts.
Kill Ease Underneath all that Reich brainwashing the Nazis are still men. They can be killed by any wound. Although the do experiment with eugenics and create some near invincible super soldiers (remember Hans from Wolfenstein 3D?), given enough bullets they will die. Zombies are a bit harder to kill. Only a head shot will do it. You can pump an endless amount of lead into a Zombie, but if there's no head shot they'll keep on coming. This can be bad if there's a large group of them and you're aim stinks.
Intelligence Zombies are dumb - really dumb. They are unorganized, reveal their position, make a lot of noise and only have one thing on their mind: brains. They don't care about their own well being, nor do they know any better. They just keep on coming until they get you or you kill them. It makes for a relentlessly dangerous enemy. The Nazis are complete opposites. They are very organized. They tend to sneak up on you and can organize attacks. They are also harder to kill because they realize their own mortality so they hide behind things. While Nazis attack like a military body, they do have one bad thing going for them. They're loud. They yell and give up their position as soon as they see you. Weapons Nazis are the master of weapons. They will shoot back with everything you have and more. They always have the best and newest weapons. Nine times out of ten at one point in the game you're trying to steal their new super weapon. Until you get that BFG you have to fight through their endless machine gun and Panserfaust fire - not fun. Zombies only possess one weapon, their mouth. Although they can't kill you at long range, that weapon will make more Zombies. What began as one Zombie can easily become hundreds. The Nazis don't have the capacity to regenerate more Nazis. A single Zombie bite is fatal. Even though you could potentially live on for a bit, the bite will eventually be fatal, so any physical contact with a Zombie is potentially fatal.
Apperance Zombies just look bad. They're clothes are all in taters and so aer their skin. Everything is completely decayed. The Nazis on the other hand have an elegant look of villany. Simple yet effective.
Mobility Nazis have many means to get around. They run, walk, drive or ambush you in a tank. If there's trouble they'll be there fast and sometimes weilding nearly unstoppable weapons. Zomies on the other hand always walk the same slow menacing speed. Slow and steady wins the... brains?
The Winner Nazis move faster, are intellegent and have the best weapons. Zomies look badder, are virtually unstoppable (except for destroying the brain) and have the ablitiy to create an army of Zombies. Nazis will kill you with a big bang and Zombies will kill you with one bite. Who's the better villian?
Sorry Zombie fans, but I say Nazis. These World War II villans are better than their undead counterparts because of their intellegence. While Zombies are physically repulsive and their attacks virulent, the Nazis equally match if not best the protagonist. They're basically you with better weapons. So why does the player always win? Simple - in the super effecient Nazi world the confusion of a single attacking outsider messes everything up. And that gives you the advantage.
EA is proud to announce the premiere of NoKnownSurvivors.com; an evocative, experiential site that allows visitors to explore the narrative world of EA's new survival horror game, Dead Space. Over nine weeks, the site employs interactive components, 3D animations, voice acting, original video, and Papervision 3D technology to tell two equally tragic four chapter stories. The First, "Misplaced Affection", is the story of an organ replacement technician who falls hard for a capable female security officer. The second, "13", tells of a sleeper agent who makes the wrong decisions for the right reasons. For an exclusive look behind the scenes of the launch check out IGN complete with exclusive assets including lost audio logs between a doctor and her patients, organ replacement forms, and video of the 3D body parts.
With two stories, eight chapters and an intermission unfolding over nine weeks, NoKnownSurvivors.com has a multitude of exciting, immersive content. The "hub" manages all of it. A vast cosmic deathscape, the hub features 9 severed body parts, each one representing a content release. The week before a content piece goes live, its assigned body part begins to mutate, finally evolving in to a mature necromorph body part, re-animated, mutated corpses of fallen crew members. Each Monday a new necromorph part will be live and clickable, ready to take users deep into the content featured on NoKnownSurvivors.
Fans of Mortal Kombat, rejoice! You no longer have to learn about the “issues” in order to determine who you want to vote for in the Presidential Election this November, you can have them duke it out at Atom.com’s Kung-Fu Election: Wives
That’s right, Atom.com has created a brand new addition to the Kung-Fu Election series that allows you to battle as Barack and Michelle Obama, John and Cindy McCain, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, John Edwards and even Hillary herself!
This way, the only reason your favorite doesn’t make the grade is because you didn’t learn the right moves. There’s no “hanging chads” to mess up the results, no “voter disqualifications”. With Kung-Fu Election, only sick ninja moves matter.
The Deep Focus team has just kicked off a campaign for the newest survival horror game from EA. Check it out for a chance to win an awesome prize pack.
The Electronic Arts (EA) Dead Space team has watched a ton of Horror and Science Fiction films while developing and creating the scariest, most realistic survival/horror game to ever hit the streets, and now they want to pass their collection on to you! By registering below for the Dead Space Newsletter, you will be entered to win a hundred DVDs, hand picked by members of the Dead Space Development Team. Users have until midnight on July 27th, 2008 to sign-up, and a winner will be notified shortly thereafter. With films that range from 12 Monkeys to 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien to Predator to Alien vs. Predator, this giveaway is the most comprehensive way to own the very best collection of Horror and Sci-fi films to date.
Check out the Dead Space website for behind the scenes looks at making the game, as well as the newly created "Developer Diary" chronicling the painstaking efforts that went into designing the game. Enter the Sweepstakes Official Game Website
Launched on to the arcade scene in June of 1983, Dragon’s Lair received worldwide acclaim with its ground-breaking animation and interactive gameplay. This would leave a mark on a generation of millions of faithful followers who fondly remember their first ‘Lair’ experience. More recently, Digital Leisure gave Dragon’s Lair the royal treatment and remastered the original film onto Blu-ray High Definition to ensure this classic animated game could be enjoyed by an all-new generation of gamers. “I can’t believe it’s already been 25 years!” said Dragon’s Lair creator and legendary film animator Don Bluth. “To think a small project conceived by Rick Dyer would become such a beloved classic is something I couldn’t have foreseen. I don’t think Dirk and Daphne have aged a day!”
During the 25th anniversary week, Digital Leisure will be offering 25% off all Dragon’s Lair games from its website. As well, with your purchased copy of Dragon’s Lair your copy will be personally signed by original creators Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, John Pomeroy and Rick Dyer.
To top off the celebrations, Digital Leisure will also be giving away a giclee of the opening castle scene from Dragon’s Lair, hand-signed by all of the creators, a $500 value. This limited piece of animation art will be given away to one lucky Dragon’s Lair fan who enters their name at Digital Leisure during Dragon’s Lair Week! Dragon’s Lair fans will also have the opportunity to purchase an original Dragon’s Lair movie-style poster autographed by all four creators!
The Princess Bride Game is available for $19.99 on the game’s official site, http://www.princessbridegame.com/. Here’s a new trailer that will give you a sneak peek of the game. . You can also check out behind-the-scenes footage and notes from the game’s creators by visiting the game’s official blog, www.princessbridegame.com/blog.
The Princess Bride Game combines spectacular animation with the best of casual, narrative and adventure games. Help Princess Buttercup and Westley manage life on the farm, outsmart Vizzini in Battle Of The Wits, use teamwork to survive The Fire Swamp, find hidden objects with Miracle Max, and collect inventory to storm the castle. The game, rated E for everyone, features original cast voices from Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright Penn and Wallace Shawn.
In its first week on the market, Grand Theft Auto IV sales topped $500 million, surpassing the $400 million in first-week sales for last year's "Halo 3."
Take-Two Interactive Software said it sold around 3.6 million units of the game globally when it debuted April 29, and approximately 6 million units in its first week out.
"Grand Theft Auto IV's first week performance represents the largest launch in the history of interactive entertainment, and we believe these retail sales levels surpass any movie or music launch to date," said Strauss Zelnick, chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, in a statement.
In the game, the player is cast as an Eastern European immigrant who falls into a crime syndicates and becomes a drug-runner who shoots police officers and beats up prostitutes.
It has received near-universal accolades and was hailed as a brutal and satirical masterpiece comparable to "The Godfather" and similar films.
MSNBC's tech & science department has created a list of the top 5 sexiest video game characters. They include Lara Croft of the 'Tomb Raider' series, famously played by Angelina Jolie on the big screen; strong Gordan Freeman from the 'Half-Life' series; the appropriately-named Jade from 'Beyond Good and Evil;' confident Agent 47 from 'Hitman' and the cool Dante from 'Devil May Cry.' What do you think? Would your top 5 match these?
CELEBRATE THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CLASSIC HIT MOVIE THE PRINCESS BRIDE WITH THE FIRST-EVER DOWNLOADABLE VIDEO GAME
The Princess Bride Game
Official Game Designed with Spectacular Animation and Challenging Gameplay for
Women Who Love the Movie and a New Generation of Tween Girl Gamers
Available Summer 2008
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Game Unveiled at the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco on February 18th and on the Official Princess Bride Game Blog
New York, NY, February 11, 2008 – As You Wish…Marking the first time the 1987 classic hit movie The Princess Bride will be brought into the interactive entertainment arena, digital entertainment studio Worldwide Biggies has created “The Princess Bride Game.” Combining spectacular animation with the best of casual, narrative and adventure gaming experiences, the downloadable Princess Bride Game has been developed for the fast-growing demographic of women gamers and a new generation of tween girl fans. The game will be unveiled at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, CA on February 18-22, 2008 at booth #338. Additionally, the Official Princess Bride Game Blog with exclusive behind-the-scenes content and special offers is now available at www.princessbridegame.com. The downloadable game will launch this summer on the site and on game portals for the suggested price of $19.95.
“The Princess Bride Game” is easy to start, addictive to play and challenging to master. Players will journey through the classic story to help the Princess and her True Love defeat the dastardly villains, survive the Fire Swamp, gather valuable inventory items, concoct miracle remedies, storm the castle, defeat Prince Humperdinck…and win the game! Along the way, players can act as and interact with their favorite characters from the movie, such as Buttercup, Westley, Inigo, Fezzik, Vizzini and Miracle Max. Additionally, they will compete for high scores and advance through dozens of levels in 5 Game Episodes, including As You Wish, Battle of the Wits, The Fire Swamp, Miracle Max and Storming The Castle.
“Worldwide Biggies is honored to bring one of the most popular romantic adventure movies of all-time to life for the first time as an interactive gaming experience,” said Albie Hecht, founder and CEO of Worldwide Biggies Inc. “We are confident that “The Princess Bride Game” will excite loyal followers as well as a whole new generation of fans, especially the growing number of women and girl gamers. Finally there’s an opportunity to actually play the movie. As a huge fan of The Princess Bride myself, I know fans will love the chance to finally fight the R.O.U.S.’s!”
Additionally, fans will find special offers and the ultimate behind-the-scenes look at the making of “The Princess Bride Game,” by visiting the official Princess Bride Game blog, “Your Studio,” at www.princessbridegame.com/blog. “Your Studio” is the destination for Princess Bride fans, featuring exclusive interviews with members of the design and development teams, never-before-seen artwork, details about the characters and gameplay as well as “The Ultimate Fan Site”, hosting the definitive portal for Princess Bride content and online communities.
About Worldwide Biggies Inc.
Worldwide Biggies, is a new digital entertainment studio creating web-based intellectual properties for kids, families and young adults that are designed for additional distribution in the film, TV and licensing arenas. Worldwide Biggies launched its first multi-platform hit on Nickelodeon and Nick.com early last year with The Naked Brothers Band and has produced the Video Game Awards on Spike TV, which Hecht created during his tenure as the network’s president. In March of 2007, Worldwide Biggies launched www.worldwidefido.com a website dedicated to user-submitted dog videos – one of the most popular categories of web video. Worldwide Fido is “the place for the best dog videos on the web” with monthly contests and prizes in several categories. Worldwide Biggies has also partnered with TMZ.com to launch www.starvsstar.com an online celebrity fan community that features a celebrity fantasy league, a weekly video webcast and amazing Star Card artwork. Most recently, Worldwide Biggies' affiliated non-profit Shine Global was nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Feature category this year for War/Dance, a documentary set against the backdrop of Uganda's 20 year civil war.
