EA’s attack on the Tony Hawk series offers innovative controls and a realistic mechanic that has been largely absent from the Birdman’s series. Considering that the intuitive controls were what allowed the Tony Hawk Pro Skater series to maintain it’s foothold over these years, it will be interesting to see if skate has the same legs, er, wheels.
Having been officially announced just a few months ago, StarCraft 2 has been making waves in the PC crowd nonstop. A playable build was shown off at Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, Germany just this week, so the thought of a playable build at PAX shouldn’t be that crazy of an idea. Plus, when you’re putting out the sequel to one of the most successful PC games of all time, you can bet that fans will be clamoring for any snippet of the game they can get.
On the other side of the fence for Blizzard, the company is gearing up to release their second expansion to the wildly successful MMORPG, World of Warcraft. Wrath of the Lich King is poised to be quite the expansion, too, adding Hero classes and a ton of new content, including a huge new continent to explore and brand new story elements. Having been an off-and-on WoW’er in the past, I’d love to test drive a new Hero character to see if I’d be willing to take the plunge once again.
