REVIEWS
GAME REVIEW: The Penny Arcade Expo
The Penny Arcade Expo drew more than 45,000 gaming fans to the Seattle Convention Center this past weekend for games, concerts, presentations and more. A slew of new games coming this fall were on the show floor being demonstrated to the public. Here is a rundown of the outstanding games shown.
LittleBigPlanet is quickly becoming the best reason to own a Playstation 3. Played from a quasi-2D perspective, LittleBigPlanet is the most user-customizable game ever created. Players build their own planets and create their own characters and can share this with other gamers throughout the world. Players can "paint" in pieces of the levels like in Photoshop, and then detail their levels with motors, switches, moving platforms and thousands of other
possible mechanisms. The game comes with more than 60 levels based on various countries around the world, but what will keep this game going is the YouTube-like online sharing of levels created by the game's players.
Ubisoft had a multitude of excellent games at the show. The fully voice-controlled strategy game Endwar works nearly flawlessly, even on a noisy convention show floor. The new Prince of Persia, with its gorgeous flowing art, stylish acrobatics, and innovative "single player co-op" gameplay looks like an intriguing new adventure. Finally, Far Cry 2 looks to open up gamers to a new setting, the African Serengeti, by letting them explore nearly 50 square kilometers of open terrain. Carrying out missions against arms
dealers and warlords,the game is extremely open about how it lets players carry out their missions, whether stealthily sneaking into a base, diverting attention with a brush fire, or using an explosive heads-first assault.
Clayton Ashley
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September 4,2008