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    This June, there are several wars happening: Enemy Front in WWII, Valiant Hearts in WWI and E3 in a war between game companies. Grab a blanket and keeping your head down in the trenches. This is going to be a long drawn out battle. Don’t be a hero, just try and survive. Now here’s the plan.

   Enemy Front is a WWII shooter that recalls to my mind the old Call of Duty games before Modern Warfare: Call of Duty 1-3, Big Red One, and World at War. It’s out June 10 and if I’m finished with Wolfenstein: New Order by then, I may trade it and get Enemy Front.

                      

                                               "Ah! No more neck-stabby!"

    It looks really good using CryEngine 3 which was used for Crysis 2. It’s a great engine, iterations of which have produced all the Far Cry and Crysis games. Polish developer CI Games has also done the Sniper: Ghost Warrior series. The game, in addition to France and Germany, will focus on Poland and Norway, areas not covered much in previous WWII games.

    Stuart Black was the original producer on the game, but left during development. This really excites me because his game Black on Xbox/PS2 back in 2006 is one of my favorite shooters. I wonder what he’s doing now?

    Enemy Front will be coming to PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. These releases late in a console’s life are sometimes some of the best. Just look at some of the great games that came out in 2006 when Xbox 360 and PS3 were coming out: Black, Urban Chaos: Riot Response, Okami, Destroy All Humans 2, and Final Fantasy XII.

     E3 is June 10-12. I'm looking forward to a possible reveal of Crackdown 3. Ruffian Games is apparently working on it according to their wiki page but there’s no mention of it on the IGN list. Other than that, there are so many interesting titles I’m going to check out like new entries in big series like Dragon Age, Mass Effect, Halo, Costume Quest, Gears of War and Disgaea. It’s going to be exciting this year as MS, Sony, and Nintendo really fight for my console dollars. I want to join the next gen, but which do I pick?

     Valiant Hearts: The Great War is out June 25! This is a comic book style puzzle adventure game using the UbiArt Framework development tool used in the recent Rayman games and Child of Light. So this game is going to look amazing!

                       

                                        Even the trailers make me cry every time.

     The story takes place in WWI and it’s guaranteed to pull some tears from your eyes.  I’d like to play this on Vita but so far it’s only for PC and consoles. I love WWI airplanes and just watched The Blue Max on DVD which is all about the battle in the air in WWI. The watercolor style art in Valiant Hearts, reminiscent of the art in Valkyria Chronicles to me, makes the planes look so detailed and colorful.

                     

I can’t wait to play this.