There's a trailer for Two Human's coop gameplay on Gametrailers that had me salivating. I'm not a big fan of the "juggling" mechanic in games like DMC but overall, it looks like a great Diablo-clone.

Also I'm extremely disappointed that Alan Wake didn't either. I keep hoping for some new info on it but its in a perpetual blackout.

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KingGorilla wrote:

Decent list, but there is no way in hell that Rare gets two games out in the same year.

Stranger things have happened.

Also, the new Banjo Kazooie sounds fantastic.

So they are porting gamecube games still?

I'm really torn on Banjo-Kazooie 3. I really, really wanted an experience closer to the first title rather than the second, and we're getting something completely unlike either.

However, if it weren't for the "Banjo-Kazooie" name, I think I'd be completely gonzo for this. It's just like Viva Pinata: a game that's wildly inventive and, if it's what they say it is, will end up being another high water mark for gaming. Viva Pinata and Banjo-Kazooie 3 may mark the return of what originally made Rare so great: truly inventive games.

The video of Banjo is pretty damn awesome. It looks like you construct your own vehicles out of lego like parts to get around. I approve.

It's a bait-and-switch. In their effort to -- in their own words -- try and "evolve the platformer," Rare have moved his abilities to external proxies. Or,to use a less high-falutin' term: Parts. That is, parts of vehicles, which Banjo collects and then assembles. So, to choose a hypothetical example, if Banjo wanted to get across an ocean, he could add some floats to the side of a car and trundle across. Or maybe some jets and wings. Or balloons to lift the thing. Or even go the other way, and add ballast to create a submarine.

It's not just simply adding objects to pre-defined chassis to create the desired effect, although the game does have some pre-built ones for you to add on to if you like. Every block can be placed individually including all the superstructure, and then the game's physics goes to work and, voila, a vehicle.

Before being thrown into a multiplayer game (and, yes, all this works in a multiplayer environment, which may make Banjo gaming's closest equivalent to Robot Wars) I set about making an enormous monster-truck wheeled beast. It starts as a bicycle, but proves somewhat unstable. It becomes an odd three-at-back-one-at-front bike. Then another two wheels at the front. And a small one at the back. And about six rocket launchers, which when I initially fired in an early version, pretty much flipped the contraption.

As the race kicks off, I'm left with a glorious twisted mad-machine that can barely move, let alone compete. And I'm laughing very hard indeed at my obvious over-reaching ambition and the unalloyed joy of creation. An aborted creation, admittedly, but still joy.

Clearly, much could still go wrong with something so new: Multiplayer balancing, performance, accessibility... but when failing is as much fun as winning in most other games, you suspect they may be on to something.