

It's a full-blown survival RPG, being developed by some veterans from Troika (Bloodlines) in their own indie outfit.

Still sitting on the list from last year, our interest in zombie RPG Dead State is nevertheless undiminished. Read our most recent interview about Planetside 2 right here.

The mix of territory war across infantry and vehicular action kept us engrossed for several months back in 2003, and if they can keep the server populations up for the remake, we'll probably be counting this as one of the great games of 2012. There's not a whole lot of faith out there that SOE will get the MMOFPS thing right with Planetside 2, but they came so close with the original, and delivered such epic combat, that we can't wait to see what they achieve here. Find out what we know about the game by reading more here. With Deus Ex lead Harvey Smith plus Dark Messiah brain Raphael Colantonio at the controls, and a mandate to make things stealthy and sneaky, this could well be the most interesting game to appear in 2012. EXCITINGNESS IS MEASURED INDEPENDENTLY BY SWISS SCIENTISTS.Īrkane Studios' weird fiction of an alternate universe and an assassin with strange (and occasionally rat-based) powers promises to land squarely in the sort of territory we like to explore. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LIST IS ORDERED BY APPROXIMATE EXCITINGNESS DIVIDED BY LIKELIHOOD OF ACTUALLY BEING RELEASED IN 2012. But what dark delights await? Wonder not, for we've sent our tobacco-powered robot down into the game-mines to report on what is being hauled to the surface by the terrified ponies of development.
