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Hands-On With Lost Planet and Assassin's Creed

Posted by Zonk on from the two-games-about-being-cold dept.

Lost Planet is coming to the 360 soonish, and is a 3rd person shooter about being cold and shooting bugs. From the GameDaily Lost Planet hands-on: "Our second time through the level we used a bit more strategy by taking down the first set of pirates with our rifle, sniping them from a distance. Before the mech was alerted to our presence we sniped the pirate in the cockpit and hopped in ourselves. From there we used the dual machine guns in the mech to take down the tower guards and moved on from there." There's a demo up on Live Arcade if you're interested. And you should be, because it's very good. Assassin's Creed, meanwhile, is slated for the PS3 and has whispers of 'Best of Show' following it around. From the Next Generation Assassin's Creed hands-on: "Eliminating targets is completely up to the user. Where, when and how you take out your enemies left completely open. You can stalk your prey, scale buildings to get a better view of their actions, mount horses and follow them or just blend into the crowds and keep an eye on them from afar."

9 comments

  1. Zonk's been doing a lot of "hands-on" today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hands on this, hands on that, someone needs a girlfriend.

  2. Incorrect by Modab · · Score: 2, Informative

    Next-Gen's report is based *only* on the videos the publishers have released and the press interview. As far as I am aware no press has posted a hands-on experience of Assassin's Creed. I would love to be corrected, since the game looks and sounds awesome, and I want to know more.

    1. Re:Incorrect by imitier · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I'm almost 100% sure that you're right -- the press has only seen demonstrations of Assassin's Creed -- they haven't gotten actually to play the game. I'd like a little more clarity on whether the game is a PS3-exclusive. Joystiq is reporting it will also be released on the Xbox 360 (despite the title in this link): http://www.joystiq.com/2006/05/02/assassins-creed- ubisofts-ps3-exclusive/ (and I could swear I read some other preview also mentioning a possible PC release, too.)

    2. Re:Incorrect by Hannah+E.+Davis · · Score: 1

      The official site only had the Playstation 3 logo at the bottom last time I checked, but that doesn't necessarily mean it won't be ported to other consoles. It does, however, strongly suggest that it may well be a PS3 exclusive, no matter what they've promised in the past.

    3. Re:Incorrect by JFMulder · · Score: 1

      Well, a friend of mine did alpha testing for the game and it was done on 360s, so either they decided to make it exclusive, or they haven't announced it yet.

    4. Re:Incorrect by Doytch · · Score: 1

      The way it's being handled at E3 leads me to believe it'll either be a timed exclusive. or Ubisoft won't show off the 360 version at all.

    5. Re:Incorrect by iamghetto · · Score: 1

      UbiSoft sure doesn't seem to think it's coming out for the 360, at least not anytime soon.

      http://assassinscreed.uk.ubi.com/ (only a ps3 logo)

      Maybe Sony saw something they liked and paid for it to become an (at least temporarily) exclusive title. Seems to sound like it could've been worth it. And from the impressions I read at GameSpot an IGN they were both watching (though not playing) an actual real-time game, complete with buggy AI and framerate drops. I got this impression, because they were marvelling at how the game looked (not a press reel) and specifically mentioned the AI and framerate issues.

      Whatever system it comes out for, I hope it's a hell of a game.

  3. Demo running on 360? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Rumor has it that the demo was actually played on a 360 in the PS3 booth. The game was shown off back at X05.

    link: http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t= 12682