Yesterday HP held a little press conference to outline their strategy for making money off of gamers and to show off some of their "advanced technologies" for the industry.
Besides talking up recently acquired VoodooPC and their other PC platform, HP demoed some of their HP Labs goodies including a curbed screen, a super projector, a coffee table with an embedded touch screen and mscape technology that turns GPS-enabled Pocket PCs or cell phones into immersive gaming devices.
Hit the jump for a run down of the four concepts and a video of the mscape in action from Barcelona last year.
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Honestly this hooked me at the start, the characters look fun, the setting looks interesting and it had a bit of humour which was very Guardians of the Galaxy like but as soon as I saw the gameplay...I don't know, another live service shooter with characters who have their own special abilities and other things we've seen before a dozen times.
I wish they kept the characters and it was single player story driven, if they pulled it off it might have kickstarted a new franchise for them.
I was like ok cinematics look good but this is a multiplayer only game which means they're filler at best. Then I saw that it looked like yet another overwatch clone. Not impressed by it at all and not only that, this generic looking gameplay was enough to convince sony that bungie got final say on how other studios projects would go. That's what really annoys me.
Lords of the Fallen is out now on Game Pass, and a new update improves performance and adds two new Boss Rush modes.
