If video games have an equivalent, it is Hideo Kojima, the brilliant and exhausting Japanese game designer who makes some of the most interesting big
budget action games.
Not exact matches
The
game is the height of big -
budget world - building, a playground where the thrill is that
actions have no consequences for their perpetrators.
If you like driving
games you'll probably be sold from the word go, but if you've ever enjoyed
games like Burnout, Test Drive Unlimited or even some of the Need for Speed Hot Pursuit
games, and you fancy a whole parcel of low -
budget arcade
action then this could be right up your alley.
Heading into
action territory with the high - profile video
game - to - screen adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in 2001, Taylor straddled the line between big -
budget excess and independent credibility with an appearance in the little seen but curiously titled He Died With a Felafel in His Hand that same year.
Three of the most beloved platform /
action games ever created on a single disc and with a
budget price.
Connery has since provided the voice for a low -
budget Scottish animated film called Sir Billi and the video
game adaptation of From Russia With Love, but has been adamant that he'll never return to perform in a live -
action role.
Even then, what other Western
game is releasing soon that has enough of a
budget to secure a live -
action trailer?
To some, the story of Jack and the Beanstalk may have seemed nearly as preposterous for big
budget action spectacle treatment as the board
game Battleship.
We may never get a proper, big
budget action / adventure
game based on the Earth's Mightiest Heroes, but the success of turn - based social RPG Marvel: Avengers Alliance suggests fans are willing to accept substitutes.
Now that Konami seems more interested in making slot machines than video
games, it's doubtful that we'll ever get another big
budget Castlevania
action title from the studio again.
Runic Games has announced that its
budget priced
action adventure
game Torchlight has surpassed 500,000 in sales as of a few weeks ago and has officially gone Gold.
Earth's Dawn is obviously lacking in some areas where Vanillaware
games shine, but it's also being released at a
budget price of $ 30.00 — There is fun to be had with Earth's Dawn, and if you're a fan of the side - scrolling
action genre, you probably won't regret purchasing it.
I am positioning it as a AA co-op
action game (with a mission structure akin to Monster Hunter) with a substantially lower
budget than a
game like that is generally done in
games.
Sadly, despite the
game having a couple of terrific set - pieces that are exciting and play out like a high -
budget action movie, the
game is a mess.
Usually, you hop online to read me waxing lyrical about whatever forgettable indie
game I've gotten into that week, or slate a big -
budget action title...
It's not impossible to make a scary, low -
budget Indie
Game — look at games like Slender, or SCP: Containment Breach — but it does need a certain touch, and without that touch all you've got is an action game with a thin aura of «horror» lumped on top of
Game — look at
games like Slender, or SCP: Containment Breach — but it does need a certain touch, and without that touch all you've got is an
action game with a thin aura of «horror» lumped on top of
game with a thin aura of «horror» lumped on top of it.
«A triple - A
game is just like a large
budget Hollywood
action movie.
Simultaneously Twisted Pixel's most sophisticated and ambitious
game, as well as its most amateurish and home - spun, The Gunstringer stitches Wild West handicraft, enthusiastically low -
budget live -
action, and simple, tactile Kinect controls into an experience that's gleeful in its ridiculousness.
Think about it, modern big -
budget horror is twitchy and
action - focused, with
games like Dead Space and the modern Resident Evil titles.
I'm glad to see the new President is also willing to give the
games the development
budget and length they need to be as great as possible but I think we've already seen this in
action.
Upon watching it in
action, it's pretty obvious that this is more than the lower -
budgeted licensed
games that Platinum has made in recent years and closer to the level of
games like Bayonetta.
These days, however, most FPS and
action games (such as Resident Evil 5 and Grand Theft Auto 4) are highly polished, have multi-million dollar
budgets, and are being created by huge powerhouses.
It is rare for any publisher except Nintendo to put out a big -
budget Wii exclusive, but that's what happened with Disney Epic Mickey, an
action - adventure
game designed by the brilliant Warren Spector.
While the series» first leap into 3D was a relatively decent mission - based
action driving
game on the PS2 in 2001, the last we saw of the series was back in 2006 with Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run, a
game that wasted most of its
budget on licensing Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson's bulging biceps.
After discounting a variety of big
budget shooters and independently developed puzzle
games during last week's sale, this week's Xbox 360 and Xbox One weekly Spotlight and Deals With Gold sales see a variety of third - person
action games discounted.