Lista de Jogos pra Ficar de Olho em 2012

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Star Trek

And lo, another game from the same studio that is doing The Darkness II. The action game based on the recent reboot of the Star Trek franchise! That is not a pleasant sentence to have been responsible for, but it could still turn out to be a decent action game. Let us not dismiss an egg before it is revealed to be a holodeck trick.


Darksiders 2

Man, I got pretty pissed off with DarkSiders, but it was still a well put together sort of game. The next one has Death as the main character, too, so where can it go wrong? We actually got an early look at the game, to see where it might go wrong, and you can read that here.


Miegakure

Calling itself “a garden in four dimensions”, Miegakure promises to be the puzzle game which curdles our brain milk in 2012. Well, there had to be at least one, didn’t there?


Prison Architect

Last year’s list had Subversion on it, but that game might now never come to be. Instead Introversion are working on a game about successfully imprisoning people. I played a bit of an early build of Prison Architect and wrote about it here.


Wargame: European Escalation

The Cold War becomes hot, Hot, HOT war in Eugen Systems’ next game. Yes, they were the chaps who made RUSE, which we were rather fond of. Doesn’t look like Ubisoft were too fond of it, because they aren’t the publishers for this next game…


Age Of Decadence

Will Vince D Weller bring us his RPG in 2012? Only time will tell. Whatever happens, we’ll always have that interview.


Lucius

Looks like Lucius didn’t quite make the Q4 2011 release date, but I trust it will land in 2012 because I do rather what to see demon-child vs household in a game that looks a bit like The Omen crossed with Hitman.


Botanicula

John made me put this in the list. These are his reasons.


Carmageddon: Reincarnation

There’s a certain wistfulness in the eye of anyone who takes time out to recall the cartoon violence of Carmageddon. It really was something special. It’s with that glee that the original dev team, Stainless Games, have returned to the franchise. They’re raising money for the remake now, and they had a chat with Alec about their plans for the game itself, which you can read here.


Stacking

Double Fine’s brilliant puzzle adventure based on nesting dolls is coming to PC. Funny and clever, it’s an ideal game for the one true platform.


Gotham City Imposters

Monolith seem to be doing something genuinely ludicrous with Gotham City Imposters, a multiplayer game about everyone pretending to be the Gotham heroes and villains. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but you can examine the clues we’ve gathered here.


Project CARS

The boldest attempt at user-generated content we’ve seen in the racing world, with a crowd-sourced model. Yep, they’re basically trying to get the community to build the content while relying on the enormous tech expertise of race game veterans Slightly Mad Studios. A bold idea, and I will be fascinated to see how it pans out in 2012.


Brothers in Arms: Furious 4

Well, it’ll be interesting to see what Gearbox do with this four-player co-op reboot of the Brothers In Arms series. It’s always interesting when an FPS studio tries to do funny, isn’t it?


World Of Darkness

With the layoffs at CCP priotising bizarre PS3-only crossover shooter DUST 514, I have no expectation of World Of Darkness making a showing in 2012, let alone being released, but I add it here for the sake of optimism. It remains the one MMO I think could truly change things for the genre, and I live in hope.


S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

At the time of writing it’s not entirely clear whether there is even going to be a Stalker 2, let alone whether it will appear in 2012, and that is the ONLY reason it appears at the bottom of this list. If it were definitely happening then it would be at the top, and I would be doing a dance while singing: “Yeah, yeah, apocalyptic dys-topi-aaaaAAAAaaa!”