E3 2015 is less than a week away and we’re already being bombarded with a slew of game announcements, some small and some incredibly huge. Last week we got our first look at the highly anticipated Fallout 4, and just recently the release date for Three One Zero’s horrific “first-person experience” in space, Adr1ft, leaked via
Why did DmC: Devil May Cry fail and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance succeed? What can we learn from the stark contrast of these two very different attempts to outsource popular franchises? You might argue, of course, whether the former failed at all. After all, the aggregate scores on Metacritic place the two roughly in the
DmC: Devil May Cry, Ninja Theory’s new title, bills itself as a Devil May Cry game, but it’s clearly aimed at non-fans and new audiences. If the public-relations trainwreck of its development process hadn’t made that obvious, the game’s defanged combat, bland boss battles, brooding atmosphere and absurdly unconvincing anti-corporatist pretenses will not satisfy series