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speaker-0: I need that dose, I need that weekly dose of game news, and the one person to do it is Dockey Darko. The one with all that game Doc OLED
speaker-1: News.
speaker-0: Welcome on in Dr. Haydon Brother!
speaker-1: My good boys, how are you going?
speaker-2: Always good, mate. Very good.
speaker-0: Yeah. What are you playing at the moment, Doc?
speaker-1: Mate, I've just jumped into the new S Splatoon game. It's a single player version. So you if you've played Splatoon before, they're usually like that. That's the paintball game, essentially. ⁓ what game did you say it was based on? De Blob. Yep. Yeah, so it looked a lot of fun, worth checking out. I never checked out De Blob, it was not on my list. I was playing adult games. ⁓
speaker-0: ⁓ back on the way.
speaker-1: Well game sounds so wrong. It sounds like I've gone into the wrong section of the Steam store.
speaker-0: I had it on earth.
speaker-2: Or the right section, depending on how you look at it.
speaker-1: Exactly. Right. The section people hide from their playlist. Yeah. anyway, it's out on ⁓ Nintendo Switch 2 and you're ⁓ you're it's it's a good fun adventure game, worth checking out, but I'll give you a full review on that in the ⁓ in the next few weeks. One game I can finally talk about, which I'm really excited about, which is Halo Campaign Involved. Yay!
speaker-0: I've been lighting.
speaker-2: I've just pre-ordered.
speaker-1: ⁓ can you believe it? Twenty five years ago we were playing the original Halo. Yeah. Where we jumped in that like ring shaped alien world, had that sci fi mystery, the beautiful score, the intense combat, a game that completely changed the industry forever. It was a glorious moment. ⁓ well look, it's gone full scale and they've ⁓ they've loaded it into the Unreal Five engine. Yeah. And ⁓ it looks incredible. They built it from the ground up. They've but without they've done if they've done that really good thing that only the Resident Evil games had really done before. And that is ⁓ keep the core feeling and style of that original game, but just update it. Yes. Just make it new. Like, and that's what Resident Evil does so well compared to all these other remakes. Halo has nailed the brief. They have
speaker-2: Highlight.
speaker-0: Nah, never that was an Xbox thing, I was always PlayStation.
speaker-1: ⁓ well actually we can jump in there now 'cause PlayStation's got Halo campaign involved.
speaker-0: It'll be my first experience. We'll have sniper wars and stuff.
speaker-2: It's got all the same feel and vibe to it that the original does like No and love about it.
speaker-1: Yeah, so little Yeah, there's a few ⁓ little updates. Like in the original Halo you couldn't pick up the energy sword and use it, so that that wasn't introduced till Halo two. You can do that now, which is cool. Yeah, you can jump into the to a Wraith, like Commandear a Wraith tank. ⁓ there's a there's they there's a lot of talk going around about third person mode. Yes. Which is in the game but it's a little bit harder to get than you would think. You've gotta find a skull to unlock it. And then
speaker-2: Yep.
speaker-1: And then you've got to actually set it. And so you've got to play your whole game in third person. It's not a toggle mode.
speaker-2: Okay.
speaker-0: Yeah.
speaker-1: I hate it. I think it's the worst thing. Like, I'm like, why? Nah, Halo for me it ruins the Halo experience for me. Halo is a first-person shooter. And that's exactly what I how I want to play it. So I mean, if they did a a separate third-person game that was based in the Halo universe, it might be okay, but I don't want Halo doing that. We don't want to work.
speaker-0: Highlight.
speaker-2: With ⁓ with the sniping animation, does it just like do this weird zoom in
speaker-1: Still zooms in, yeah. So it's yeah, it's a bit janky. I'm not not in love with it, but I do love like sniping in first person. It's fine. Like it's great. ⁓ what I really loved about it is they've added some extra missions and some prequel missions. Okay. And they are a lot of fun. So it's really nice to have this new story go along with it as well. So if you've played the old one ⁓ a hundred thousand times like like most of us have, ⁓ there's something new to jump into and it's a really cool little adventure with Sergeant Major Johnson.
speaker-2: ⁓ cool.
speaker-1: Who's like such a cool like he's like an eighties action hero. Yeah, yeah, totally. It's just this
speaker-2: Yeah, he's Carl Weathers for sure. This is a bridge between what was the effectively the end of Halo Reach into
speaker-1: Into Halo. Yeah, Halo combat. ⁓ I think I think one of the parts of the game that most people aren't going to be talking about too, ⁓ that I that really resonated with me was the introduction of ⁓ of ⁓ Master Chief to Cortana. Like it's that it's building that relationship again. And you forget like the whole Halo series is really built around the relationship between Master Chief and Cortana.
speaker-0: Complicated history thing. Yeah, he's still less than Halo.
speaker-2: It's one of the best platonic love stories out there.
speaker-1: Really is. Yeah, yeah.
speaker-0: Yeah. ⁓
speaker-1: And the first few moments where like you first land on the on the ring and and you are having these initial conversations where they're getting to know each other and and learn how each other work. Yeah. And I think, ⁓ wow, I missed this. This was this was really the core part of Halo, but seeing it in in glorious Unreal Five engine, like the water. ⁓ my God. I know I get I get I wax lyrical about water in games. But the water in this, the splashing of the waves on the banks and just immaculate. And looking up is ⁓ yeah, maybe. Maybe.
speaker-0: What do you think? It looks brilliant from the videos I've seen. I don't think I've ever seen water that ⁓ and waves done that well.
speaker-1: I love the water in like Sea of Thieves is great. Black Flag is still like the remake of that, the
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recynct is phenomenal. But this is up there for sure. Like I think, yeah, they've done a really great job. It's really worth jumping in and and I it I highly recommend Halo campaign about.
speaker-2: Last question, do you think this paves the way for further remakes of the original series?
speaker-1: Yeah, I think so. I think that that would make a lot of sense. What I would like to see, and I don't know if everyone is of this same opinion, but I think Halo Campaign Evolved is a great starting point for just DLC. Okay. So just let's have that main like a bit like they did ⁓ Bungie did with Destiny. So you start with that initial Destiny core game and you just keep adding stuff to it. So maybe you add Halo two to the Campaign Evolved. ⁓ that's three to it. And then yeah, d then you end up with this giant and and you know, even ⁓ Assassin's Creed do it to a certain point where you have the ⁓ the the menu at the start, you can jump into any one of the Halo games. So I forget.
speaker-2: So it ends up being ⁓ the master collection really, but
speaker-1: Really yeah, yeah, but just putting just under the banner of Campaign Evolved, which makes a lot of sense and it and it'll sell a lot of D L C packs, ⁓ no doubt about it.
speaker-0: Graphically you wouldn't need to change anything. Like it's actually at its peak at the
speaker-1: At the moment, yeah, but I mean in a year's time the graphics, you know, will improve again as they do every year. So ⁓ yeah, no, it's worth worth jumping into worth checking out.
speaker-0: Doxer, tell us about this new Marvel fighting game. ⁓
speaker-1: Marvel Token is ⁓ Mar Marvel Tokens Fighting Souls is a sort of ⁓ cross between Marvel and anime almost fighting game. It sort of sits in that it looks a bit like the Marvel vs Capcom style games, but more Japanese animation. And there's and there's even ⁓ there's a chibi section as well where you can walk around and ⁓ interact with other people in this this beautiful online world.
speaker-2: Why is that my game?
speaker-0: You keep talking about this is on your wish list of games.
speaker-1: I i it wasn't on mine, but it is now. The open beat is just open, so you can jump in and play that from the twenty fourth to the twenty sixth. The game gets released on the sixth, but so many and I think Marvel's, you know, going through a bit of a a renaissance again, you know, had a had a bit of a a rough patch in the movies. ⁓ new movie coming out. This ⁓ Doctor Doom features very heavily in this new game as well. So I think this looks really good, a lot of fun and I I don't mind a fighting game every now and again, like the old Street Fighter and things like that as opposed to like the new virtual fighters and things.
speaker-2: I'm looking at the animation style here, Dockey, it looks v straight out of the comic book.
speaker-1: Yeah, it's beautiful. It's a really beautiful animation. But it just it it feels a little bit more more Japanese animation, more manga. Yeah, sure.
speaker-2: It's always Yeah, sure.
speaker-0: When you when you achieve something in the game, like you get a trophy or something, are they called a weebments?
speaker-2: Why?
speaker-1: I'm sorry, you must have dropped out. Or no, that was just me wishing you had.
speaker-2: Yeah.
speaker-0: A weep lint Sorry, I must have dropped it.
speaker-2: Double down, don't
speaker-1: Double down. Yeah.
speaker-0: A weavement.
speaker-1: Lastly, anyway, let's talk about the sports games coming out. They're starting to drop all the ⁓ all the big names that are attached to sporting games over the next year. So the twenty six. Yeah, the covers. ⁓ so Mbappe is the the main dude on the cover of EAFC twenty seven, the upcoming ⁓ new FIFA game. Not FIFA anymore, obviously. ⁓ and yeah, that's like he's had four years off, so he's back. He was on FIFA twenty one, twenty two, twenty three.
speaker-2: Covered.
speaker-1: ⁓ it's good to see him back. He's had such a good World Cup. He won the golden boot and obviously a great season for Real Madrid as well. So no surprises there. That makes him he's tying with Ronaldinho for the second most features on the franchise's cover. Who do you think is the number one?
speaker-2: ⁓ is it Beckham? No, not Beckham. Ronaldo?
speaker-0: Messi.
speaker-1: Not Messi. Not Ronaldo. English player.
speaker-2: ⁓
speaker-0: ⁓ you probably not alone.
speaker-2: A striker for i for England?
speaker-1: Used to play for Everton Hill. Then played for Manchester United.
speaker-2: Timmy Kay.
speaker-1: By the name of Huane.
speaker-2: Wayne Rooney? ⁓ really? I didn't know he was on any of the cover.
speaker-1: Well ⁓ He had a seven year run. I couldn't believe it either. I'm like
speaker-2: go through my head and I'm like, Nah, it can't be Wayne Rooney, it'd be anyone else but Wayne
speaker-1: Yeah, yeah. You put Rooney on the cover from sweat from two two thousand and five. Two thousand and eleven. He's quite actually surprising, I think Cristiano Renato's only been on there twice. But I think
speaker-2: Yeah.
speaker-0: Thank you.
speaker-2: Wow. It must have been a wide cover. He's he's a block man.
speaker-1: And well they could double down 'cause the Shrek games were coming out at the same time.
speaker-0: And my craft was far off.
speaker-2: That's funny.
speaker-1: Also, ⁓ the two K games are ⁓ they're they look great this year for you know basketball, NBA two K twenty seven. ⁓ they've got I'm gonna struggle with the names. Victor Wem Wembanyama Wembanyama
speaker-0: Wemby, Wembinyana. When Banyana? Print That's gonna be a very tall C D case about I think
speaker-1: Senator Tonio Spurs. Yeah, everyone's saying that he's like a real life video game character. Wow. ⁓ Derek Rose is going to be on the cover as well, of course, from the Chicago Bulls. ⁓ he played till twenty sixteen. But the most ⁓ important one, the deluxe edition, which is the global release, ⁓ is gonna feature ⁓ Indiana fever guard Caitlin Clark, which is a pretty historic moment for the franchise. She's the first WNBA player to get her own global cover, which is pretty exciting. It's an honor and ⁓ and really is going to transform the landscape of women's basketball, I think.
speaker-0: Yeah.
speaker-1: Because it's such a huge franchise.
speaker-0: They've done well with MBA of incorporating WMBA.
speaker-1: Really well, don't they? I think ⁓ I think the ⁓ the NRL and the AFL here in Australia could take a lot of ⁓ lessons from what they've done with the WMBA.
speaker-0: It's not hard to do, like you've you've done it so many times, just add another detail. I hope two K just updates a lot and not just a little smidgen.
speaker-1: Really? You would you are you a two a ⁓ two K twenty six player?
speaker-0: No, I haven't played two K in a while because there's no point in spending a hundred bucks on a game that barely even changed from the last game.
speaker-1: Yeah, I mean the player rosters update though. That's why I get that's why I get EAFC every year because I'm like, ⁓ I need the newest players.
speaker-0: I do that myself though in the previous game.
speaker-1: Too much time. Give me the new graphics. Give me the slight improvements. I will if you love it, get it every year. I'm I'm keen for two K twenty seven anyway. Like ⁓ I it's the only chance I get to see the ⁓ LA Clippers actually win a game.
speaker-2: On easy mode.
speaker-0: Make every team has a
speaker-1: Yeah, that's it. Yeah. I said that to someone like they're like, ⁓ who do you play? Is like LA Clippers or you like playing on hard mode? Yeah. Yeah.
speaker-2: Three hundred and twenty seven to two Did it again.
speaker-0: How did we get LeBron James and Wemby on our team? ⁓ that's amazing. Docy Dargo, thank you very much. We'll catch up next week.
speaker-1: Sounds great. Talk to you then, guys.
speaker-2: Thanks, Mike.