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With the launch date of "Global Agenda" upon us, its time to give you a brief overview of what "Global Agenda" is all about. I've been in the preview for the past few months, and I also took part in AvA, in one of the largest alliances in the beta. In short, I experienced everything "Global Agenda" has to offer with the expectation of vehicles (they weren't in the pre-order beta).
 
So what is "Global Agenda"? It's HiRez Studios' attempt to mix traits found in MMORPGs like "World of Warcraft," with the first person team games like "Team Fortress 2″ with jet packs thrown in. You essentially have four "agency" classes: Recon, Medic, Assault, and Robotics. Like a typical RPG, your agent will gain new skill points to use on the skill tree and unlock new equipment for them to abuse on the field.

Wow! That's the first thing that comes to my mind when I saw the new Monster Hunter Frontier web site.  If you haven't heard already, Monster Hunter Frontier will hit the 360 sometime this year.  For those of you who don't know what Monster Hunter is exactly, it is as the title suggests; players take on the role of a hunter in a fantasy environment and complete quests by seeking out monsters to hunt or capture. Originally released on PlayStation 2, the game was a cult, and then a raving success in Japan.

A PlayStation Portable and PC version were later released and what was a rave turned into an epidemic.  Capcom had taken on the project of building a PlayStation 3 version for the franchise but several of you already know that that project was canned.  Even though the title was promised some time around the release of Resident Evil 5 and Devil May Cry 4 on PS3 it never saw the light of day.  Ah well, c'est la vie.  What is even more crazy is how the 360 got involved in all this. Perhaps when you consider the PC version of the game spreading to even more gamers, it might make sense given how compatible XBox360 and PC games could be.  While I know a few people who actually picked up the PS3 for this game, it's a shame for them as their dreams "may" have been thoroughly crushed.  If you want to see more about the game, click the image below to get to the Japanese Capcom site for Monster Hunter Frontier.

Elves, Orcs, Dwarves, and other fantasy characters aren't new to video games. They have become a cliche and are often seen in online roleplaying games to make a quick buck for investors. However, in those types of games you often align yourselves with friends to defeat a great evil or just grab some loot. None of these games give you the option of playing a violent variation of football. This is where "Blood Bowl" comes in; a grid-based board game developed by Games Workshop which made its debut in the 80s and still has a strong following today. This isn't the first time "Blood Bowl" has been made into a video game, but it is the first to make use of the internet and the latest version of the original rules.

Unlike most games based around a fantasy setting, "Blood Bowl" does not take itself seriously. There are no major rules to follow, and your overall goal is simply to make your ball carrier run to the other side of the field. There are no downs, no quarters, and the only way you can get a penalty is if you try to stomp on someone who is already knocked down. You can expect to see large ogres tossing tiny goblins across the field and rocks being thrown by the crowd to smack the rival team's star player. You could safely say that "Blood Bowl" is more of a parody than an actual game.

There’s hope yet for “BioShock 2.” It’s not like there was ever really any question about how good the follow up to one of 2007’s best games would be, but, there was one fatal flaw with the original – the last boss encounter.

 
After hours upon hours of both challenging and rewarding gameplay throughout the sunken city of Rapture, Jack Ryan works his way up to (spoiler alert) fighting Frank Fontaine in, what should have been, ultimate fight to end the game. However, for all the greatness that went into the rest of the game, the final fight was a bit of a letdown, feeling flat, and fairly easy compared to some of the other inhabitants of Rapture that Jack had to battle.

 
At a recent demo I asked “BioShock 2”’s Creative Director, Jordan Thomas, about whether or not whatever the end of his game holds a similar encounter, and, while there was very little he would actually confirm, here’s what he had to say:

“I am very spoiler adverse, so I won’t say much about the endgame, but I will say that it is heavily informed by all of your choices, and that we try hard to learn from the mistakes of the past. That’s as best as I can tell you about endgame stuff.”