DJ Hero 2

Tracklist (not mix list, yet) is out:

* 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman - “California Love Remix”
* 50 Cent - "In Da Club”
* Adamski - “Killer”
* Afrika Bambaataa and The Soul Sonic Force - "Planet Rock”
* Armand Van Helden - "I Want Your Soul”
* A-Trak - "Say Whoa”
* B.o.B feat. Bruno Mars - "Nothin' On You”
* Basement Jaxx - "Where's Your Head At”
* BlakRoc feat. Pharoahe Monch & RZA - “Dollaz & Sense”
* Busta Rhymes - “Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See”
* Calvin Harris - "I'm Not Alone”
* Chamillionaire - "Ridin'“
* Chic - "Good Times”
* Chic - "Le Freak”
* Clinton Sparks, DJ Class, & Jermaine Dupri - "Favorite DJ”
* Daft Punk - “Human After All”
* Damian Marley - “Welcome To Jamrock”
* David Guetta & Chris Willis - “Love Is Gone”
* David Guetta feat. Kid Cudi - “Memories”
* David Guetta vs. The Egg - “Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)”
* Deadmau5 - "Ghosts N Stuff”
* Deadmau5 & Kaskade - “I Remember”
* Deee-Lite - “Groove Is In The Heart”
* Dillinja and Skibadee - "Twist 'Em Out”
* Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - “Bonkers”
* DJ Qbert - "Super Battle Breaks"
* DJ Shadow - "Midnight In A Perfect World”
* DJ Shadow feat. Q-Tip and Lateef The Truth Speaker - “Enuff (DJ Fresh Remix)”
* Donna Summer - "Bad Girls”
* Edwin Starr - "War”
* Eminem - “Not Afraid”
* Estelle feat. Kanye West - “American Boy”
* Flo Rida - "Low”
* Flo Rida feat. Will.I.Am - “In The Ayer”
* Gorillaz feat. Mos Def & Bobby Womack - “Stylo”
* Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five feat. Melle Mel & Duke Bootee - "The Message”
* Harold Faltermeyer - "Axel F”
* House Of Pain - "Jump Around”
* Iyaz - “Replay”
* Janet Jackson - “Nasty”
* Justice - "D.A.N.C.E.”
* Justice - "Waters Of Nazareth”
* Kanye West - “Heartless”
* Kanye West - “Love Lockdown”
* Kaskade & Deadmau5 - “Move For Me”
* Kelis - “Acapella (David Guetta Extended Mix)”
* Kool & The Gang - "Jungle Boogie”
* Lady Gaga - "Lovegame”
* Lady Gaga - “Bad Romance”
* Lady Gaga feat. Colby O'Donis - “Just Dance”
* Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz feat. Ying Yang Twins - “Get Low”
* Lil' Wayne - “Go DJ”
* Lil' Wayne feat. Static Major - "Lollipop”
* LL Cool J - “I Can't Live Without My Radio”
* M.I.A. - “Galang”
* M|A|R|R|S - "Pump Up The Volume”
* Major Lazer feat. VYBZ Kartel - “Pon De Floor”
* Malcolm McLaren - “Buffalo Gals”
* Metallica - "The Day That Never Comes”
* Missy Elliott - “Get Ur Freak On”
* MSTRKRFT feat. N.O.R.E. - “Bounce”
* Nas feat. Keri Hilson - “Hero”
* Naughty By Nature - “O.P.P.”
* Nelly - “Hot In Herre”
* New Boyz - “You're A Jerk”
* New Order - "Blue Monday”
* Newcleus - “Jam On It”
* Nightcrawlers - “Push The Feeling On (MK Mix 95)”
* Orbital - “The Box”
* Pirate Soundsystem - "Bashy Bashy”
* Pitbull - "I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)”
* Pussycat Dolls feat. Busta Rhymes - “Don't Cha”
* Rihanna - "Pon De Replay”
* Rihanna - "Rude Boy”
* Robin S - “Show Me Love (Stonebridge Radio Edit)”
* Salt N Pepa - “Push It”
* Sam Cooke - “Chain Gang”
* Sam Sparro – “B&G” a/k/a "Black & Gold”
* Sean Paul - "Infiltrate”
* Sean Paul - “Get Busy”
* Snoop Dogg - "Who Am I (What's My Name)?”
* Snow - “Informer”
* Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - “Crank That (Soulja Boy)”
* Sparfunk & D-Code - “Apocalypse”
* Stevie Wonder - “Superstition”
* Talib Kweli - "Get By”
* The Chemical Brothers - "Leave Home”
* The Chemical Brothers feat. Q-Tip - “Galvanize”
* The Crystal Method - “Busy Child (Still Busy After All These Years Remix)”
* The Jackson 5 - "ABC”
* The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Mase & Diddy - “Mo' Money, Mo' Problems”
* The Prodigy - "Omen”
* The Prodigy - “Firestarter”
* Tiësto - "Speed Rail”
* Tiësto & Sneaky Sound System - “I Will Be Here”
* Tiësto vs Diplo - “Come On”
* Tiga - "You Gonna Want Me”
* Timbaland feat. Drake - “Say Something”
* Timbaland feat. Keri Hilson & D.O.E. - “The Way I Are”
* Tweet feat. Missy Elliott - “Oops (Oh My)”
* Walter Murphy - "A Fifth Of Beethoven”
* Warren G feat. Nate Dogg - "Regulate”
* Wayne Smith - "Under Mi Sleng Teng”
* Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Heads Will Roll (A-Trak Remix )”
* Young Jeezy feat. Kanye West - "Put On”

Some awesome tunes in there

Gran Turismo 5

There are lots of things to come out of gamescom about GT5.

I, however, am fixated on this.



No, but really:

* Course Maker: Generate your own tracks. Choose one of the game's existing settings, then section by section build the track by specifying number of corners, difficulty, terrain, topography, banking, elevation, etc etc. Up to 10km tracks can be put together, either circuit or point to point. It's not an exact 1:1 3D course modeller, but works more like a deeper version of RECS from Lotus 3.

* Day/Night transitions: Sun comes up, sun goes down. Specify whether you want real time transitions, or sped up. Conditions in the sky affect conditions on the ground, particularly circuit and air temperature which will affect car performance.

* Dynamic weather: All kinds of weather modelled, and affects car handling and the track thusly. The best thing? Circuit conditions change over time - if it's been raining heavily and the sun comes out, within a few laps the worst of the moisture will have drained off the track and give you drier lines and better handling - providing you've put the right tyres on. The possibilities for pitstops! Oh my God!

* This fucking amazing song:



* GO-KARTS!





Shoot me in the ass with a tranq and wake me up in November. Forza 3 was a beautiful bastard, but compared to this... it's a boat, and GT5 is a motherfucking torpedo.

Ace Combat: Assault Horizon

FUCK YEAH!

Some Guy Yells At Disinterested Woman

Attack Attack are a DYNAMIC band. They understand many musical genres!



They are from Wales.

Alpha Protocol

So Alpha Protocol is an RPG about spies that I was looking forward to for a long time, partly because nothing like this has ever been done before (to my knowledge) and partly because I love the idea of the setting. You take the role of Michael Thorton, a newly recruited field agent of Alpha Protocol, a clandestine agency that performs operations which have no trace to the American government. At first it appears your mission is to track down some missiles made by some Yank company stolen by some stereotypical muslim, but naturally things are never that simple - shit soon gets out of hand and you find yourself in the middle of a MASSIVE CONSPIRACY that sees you travelling all over the world and having sex with a handful of really fucking stupid women.

AP goes along the lines of this nuRPG idea - real time shooty combat and standard third person gameplay mechanics mixed with stats, abilities and character customisation. The other big selling point of AP which I've not seen done as well as this in a game before is the approach to conversations. Everytime you talk to another character, you'll get your standard conversation tree, but critically in this, every conversation you have comes back to you later on. Your approach to interrogating and questioning characters can lead to very different conversations with other key characters later on, including what support you end up recieving, what intel you'll get for missions, what evidence you can collect and so on. It's really well polished, even if the script is daft and vapid at times.

... and that concludes the things AP does well.

The gameplay itself is really awkward. I would say it comes down to three things - combat, stealth and data mining. The data mining is the least offensive and comes in a series of minigames where you have to break passwords on computers (word search), pick locks on safes (oblivion) and turn off alarms (a sorta maze game. Sorta). You can try as many times as you like with the only penalty being an alarm will go off and send more troops - but they'll only spawn once, which is just as well because it gets so ballbreakingly hard to turn off alarms later on that you'll attempt it again and again just to get a handful of XP.

The combat is horrid. Your heavy weaponary does fuck all damage and grenade AOE is so laughably small that it's almost pointless to go in with anything other than a pistol. One of the pistol abilities is chain shot, which slows down time and allows you to precision shot several targets. Ever wanted to shoot 6 bullets out of a gun at once? Good, buy this game. Regular enemies have two kinds of attack: Stay EXACTLY where they are or zergrush you. There's no counter tactics or intelligent cover AI going on here, but to their benefit anything other than a headshot is more or less ineffective.

Bosses are a different story. They go the other way on difficulty to almost stupidly difficult level. Unbreakable attack strings and weapons that can take you out in 3-4 shots are not uncommon which leaves you with one fine option... chain shot them in the head, and they go down like a sack of shit.

Stealth is likewise reliant on one ability - the one that allows you to be unseen for a short period of time. Activate it, run in, take out an enemy, swing the camera around so it's not facing him so that his body disappears, wait for the ability to recharge and do it again until the room is clear. Tedious.

Er, Dave and Will played it as well. They can talk some now.