Anticipation 2011: Recap

by Shack Staff, Jan 29, 2011 11:00am PST

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Over the last week, the staff at Shacknews have detailed its most anticipated titles of the year. The rules were firm: each main contributor selected a number of different titles to highlight and gave his or her reasons as to why it's on their "Watch List."

While there was a lot of crossover in the selection process, we decided to each pick different games. We did this purposefully to highlight as many games as we could. So, for example, while Alice was the staffer that named Duke Nukem Forever in her picks, everyone on staff is looking forward to finally stepping into his gruff shoes.

Here's what the Shack staff is looking forward to in 2011:

Xav de Matos

Read about Xav's picks

L.A. Noire and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Alice O'Connor

Read about Alice's picks

Deus Ex: Human Revolution and Duke Nukem Forever

Garnett Lee

Read about Garnett's picks

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and Guild Wars 2

Jeff Mattas

Read about Jeff's picks

Batman: Arkham City and Portal 2

Steve Watts

Read about Steve's picks

Dragon Age 2 and Infamous 2

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Am I the only person who is getting less and less excited about Rage as time drags on? The game looked fantastic when I first saw it...like 3 years ago. Now all I notice is how blocky and low res the characters look. The gameplay demo we saw was full of gimmicks like exploding RC cars and electric crossbows, and the acrobatic enemies doing gymnastics might be difficult to shoot using thumbsticks but looked mighty easy with my mouse.

Not to mention the engine still seems to suffer from id Tech 4's complete inability to render human fresh realistically. I guess it has something to do with how it reflects light, who knows. It looks like plastic. Compare facial closeups of Crysis with these screenshots and it really stands out.

Jan 29, 2011 6:39pm PST

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Am I the only person who is getting less and less excited about Rage as time drags on? The game looked fa... : Arachnyd
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  I agree, but the sreenshots probarry don't do it jusrice (I haven't seen the gamepray demo). : oO SilentK Oo
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    Are you saying id can't make a good game or are you saying you don't know what a good game is? >:D : rjklevels
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      .....Is this a misreply? I'm a huge id fan, from the wolf3d days on (kind of grown out of it, just becau... : oO SilentK Oo
      
      If your just looking at screens then you should look at the gameplay video. It looks great in motion. : rjklevels
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  true. they have been replaced by many other developers. hell it spells it out quite clearly when they wer... : ironhorse86
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    Doom3 was their best selling game to date. Unfortunately it was also the most expensive to create. So who knows what kind of money they actually made on it..
    Also they were not bought by Bethesda, but by Zenimax.
    
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    Doom3 was their best selling game to date. Unfortunately it was also the most expensive to create. So who... : pillzer
- The latest screenshots have certainly been a step down from the first showings.. http://www.shacknews.c... : pillzer
- It still looks better than 99% of what is coming out.. Have you seen the animation? It looks incredible. : razlebol
- it definately has its own style. it might have a really awesome atmosphere like fallout3 or red dead. t... : radula
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  Rage combat looks boring as hell : gyokuro
  - this is what i was thinking too. racing however looks fun : fw_rams
- they all seem to have that stretch armstrong thing going on with the texturing : OhMyHip

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