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Train2Game News: Top 20 UK Games Chart – 18.02.13

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Aliens: Colonial MarinesTrain2Game brings you the Top 20 UK Games Chart with another new number one this week! Aliens: Colonial Marines has taken the top spot, pushing Dead Space 3 down to number 2. At the other end of the chart, Dishonored has made another appearance coming back at number nineteen and Grand Theft Auto IV has re-appeared at number 20!

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Week ending 16 February 2013

POS.  TITLE  PUBLISHER  LAST
WEEK 
1 ALIENS: COLONIAL MARINES SEGA –
2 DEAD SPACE 3 EA GAMES 1
3 FIFA 13 EA SPORTS 2
4 CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS II ACTIVISION 3
5 FAR CRY 3 UBISOFT 4
6 ASSASSIN’S CREED III UBISOFT 12
7 – NEED FOR SPEED MOST WANTED EA GAMES 7
8 – JUST DANCE 4 UBISOFT 8
9 SONIC & ALL STARS RACING TRANSFORMED SEGA 10
10 HALO 4 MICROSOFT 13
11 HITMAN ABSOLUTION SQUARE ENIX 9
12 THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM BETHESDA SOFTWORKS 11
13 SKYLANDERS GIANTS SKYLANDERS 15
14 HITMAN: HD TRILOGY SQUARE ENIX 5
15 LEGO BATMAN 2: DC SUPER HEROES WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE 18
16 LEGO THE LORD OF THE RINGS WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE 17
17 FORZA HORIZON MICROSOFT 14
18 FOOTBALL MANAGER 2013 SEGA 16
19 DISHONORED BETHESDA SOFTWORKS –
20 GRAND THEFT AUTO IV XBOX 360 CLASSICS –

Leisure software charts compiled by Chart Track, (C)2013 UKIE Ltd

Train2Game news: Grand Theft Auto IV iCEnhancer mod looks very impressive

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Grand Theft Auto IVTrain2Game Blog readers will know what we’re big fans of mods, which can be used to make subtle changes to PC games, or alter them entirely.

This post is about an example of the latter. The Grand Theft Auto IV iCEnhancer 2.0 mod is available for free and transforms the environment into a superb looking, almost fully realistic looking version of Liberty City.

Of course, you’ll need a hefty PC to be able to run iCEnhancer 2.0, but you can see it in action in the video below.

There’s much more about modding, and the benefits it could have for Train2Game students, right here on The Train2Game Blog.

Grand Theft Auto V was officially announced last year, with the trailer available to watch here. There’s no launch window for GTA V as of yet, but as reported by The Train2Game Blog, Rockstar say it’s their “largest and most ambitious game so far”

The Train2Game Blog will be sure to keep you up to date with the latest news about Grand Theft Auto V.

What are your thoughts on the iCEnhancer 2.0 mod for GTA IV? What does it say about the power of modding?

Leave your comments here on The Train2Game Blog, or on the Train2Game forum.

Train2Game news: GTA only “scratching the surface” of open world game design

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Train2Game students will naturally be very aware of iconic Grand Theft Auto series and how it has arguably revolutionised gaming. Various other titles have used game design elements, such as open world environments, pioneered by the games in the series and Grand Theft Auto III in particular.

But despite Grand Theft Auto III breaking new ground with open worlds when it was released a decade ago, Rockstar’s Dan Houser believes there’s still plenty to come from that particular type of game design.

“I think there’s something really interesting in the open world experience. Obviously we’ve made like ten of them now and they still don’t feel boring to me. It still feels that we’re only scratching the surface of that potential. But who knows what we’ll be doing?” he told IGN.

When asked what Rockstar will be working on in future, Houser says he doesn’t mind so long as the games are of high quality and the developer is still running well in another ten years.

“We’ll hopefully have done a bunch of interesting games in the next ten years. That’s always the goal. I’ve never been that good at the futureology side of game-making. We never really care what the name is on the box, either. The name Grand Theft Auto, the name Max Payne, the name’s Red Dead, the name’s Table Tennis, it doesn’t really matter as long as the game’s cool,” he said.

“I would never have believed you would have been talking about this in ten years time. We were still talking about Space Invaders [ten years ago], and that was already 20, 30 years old then. Hopefully we’ll continue to do interesting stuff, that’s you know, that’s kind of all you can hope for.” he added.

To celebrate the ten year anniversary of Grand Theft Auto III, the game is being released for iPad and Android tablet devices. And while there’s been no official word on Grand Theft Auto V, the Train2Game blog has previously reported that analysts believe it’ll arrive in 2012.

Train2Game students may be interested to hear that the original Grand Theft Auto project was almost scrapped, before a bug made the game more exciting to play. It’s a lesson to Train2Game QA Testers that bugs aren’t always a bad thing!

So Train2Game, what are your thoughts on the legacy of Grand Theft Auto? How do you believe game design of open world titles can be improved? And do you believe Rockstar will still be doing what they do in ten years?

Leave your comments here on the Train2Game blog, or on the Train2Game forum.

[Source: IGN]