PC Role Playing Games » Avatar game http://roleplayingpcgames.info Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:41:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Avatar game http://roleplayingpcgames.info/avatar-game/ http://roleplayingpcgames.info/avatar-game/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:14:00 +0000 GameLover http://roleplayingpcgames.info/?p=243 New game by Ubisoft, hot on the heals of the movie release. How does it rate as an online role playing game? Predictably, like most games that have oodles of cash chucked at them this is little more than a marketing cash cow for the game company to ride the wave of enthusiasm for sci-fi following the success of the blockbuster film. Did I expect any different…perhaps… given the title ‘avatar’.. and the central them of occupying and acting as another creature from another world… I thought perhaps this PC game might might try to develop the genre in terms of RPG.  In many ways the game is quite constricting in terms of what role one can play, Commander Falco or Tan Jala and so forth.  Creatures include Viper Wolf and Thanator, vehicles such as the Samson or Banshee. Naturally the game looks great, how could it not based on ten years of film art development, and utilizing all the awesome skills of Weta digital and Peter Jacksons film companies leading design team. All Ubisoft had to do was implement the art and ADD some core game-play originality…but in this they failed horribly. Most disappointment is the lack of use of nature as anything other than disappearing foliage.

In years to come Avatar will be remebered as the ‘Star Wars’ of this decade, revolutionising the film industy…but the pc game or RPG, weather online game MMORPG or whatever…this Avatar game will not be rembered at all. If I was James Cameron planning my two sequels.. I would get a new game company, or at least insist upon some original thinkers at the game company being brought onboard to develop and revolutionise what a RPG game can really be about. Head hunting the likes of film set and game play designer Philip Thomas from Weta Digital, best known for his work on the Matrix sequels and ‘The Lord of the Rings’,  might inspire some groundbreaking development in both console and pc games.

]]> http://roleplayingpcgames.info/avatar-game/feed/ 0 Hobbits http://roleplayingpcgames.info/hobbits/ http://roleplayingpcgames.info/hobbits/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:00:09 +0000 GameLover http://roleplayingpcgames.info/?p=229 With the upcoming Peter Jackson, Del Toro movie the ‘Hobbit’ now in production, I can see a resurgence of of these rosy cheeked hardy folk as a role play favourite. I predict the Hobbit will an incredible movie, far outstretching The Lord of the Rings in its visual granduer and effects. Why? Because in the interveneing years both Jackson and his effects house Weta FX have come along way. Their facilities have expanded tenfold and the amount of in house effects software has grown, they have also had much more experince on major motion pictures and visual effects such as for the movie Avatar.

Anyway… as for roleplaying a Hobbit. If you wish to try your hand their is of course LoTRO (Lord of the Rings online), but for something differnt try RoME, The Return of Middle Earth, a persistant world for the gam Neverwinter Nights Storm of Zehir. Here you can even play a corrupted evil hobbit race known as Angmaran hobbits, which are Gollum like. The game is set far in the future in the sixth age, well after the reign of Aragorn, this is good because it means whilst you are in Middle Earth.. you are not polluting your view of the world as found in the books. As a role playing PC game this is one of the best.

Hobbits or ‘halflings’ as they are sometimes known are always great because they are sneaky and small and very full of personality. Tell us about your favourite hobbits!

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