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Opinión | Reportajes | Noticias | Avances Alien: Isolation Promete Ser Un Juego Que Pondría Orgulloso a Ridley Scott OPINIÓN EN MODO HARDCORE TodoOCTUBRE 2014 JuegosNÚMERO 6 OPINIÓN | REPORTAJES | NOTICIAS | AVANCES ALIEN: ISOLATION PROMETE SER UN JUEGO QUE PONDRÍA ORGULLOSO A RIDLEY SCOTT TERROR EN EL ESPACIO MORDOR SMASH BROS TGS 2014 UNA AVENTURA EL EXITAZO DE JAPÓN VUELVE A A LAS PUERTAS NINTENDO LLEGA SER EL PARAÍSO DE LORD SAURON A LA PORTÁTIL PARA LOS GAMERS UNA REALIZACIÓN DE PLAYADICTOS TodoJuegos TodoJuegos Un mes de terror Equipo Editorial a recta final de este año de transición en- DIRECTOR tre generaciones, que los chilenos palpi- Rodrigo Salas tamos como nunca de primera mano, JEFE DE PRODUCCIÓN L Cristian Garretón llega al fin cargada de novedades, con una serie de lanzamientos para todos los gustos. EDITOR GENERAL Jorge Maltrain Macho Este mes, no obstante, los amantes del terror pueden irse preparando con dos juegos que EQUIPO DE REPORTEROS prometen mantenerlos en la cornisa y, ade- Felipe Jorquera más, retomar mucho de lo más clásico del #LDEA20 género: Alien Isolation y The Evil Within. Andrea Sánchez #EIDRELLE El primero es nuestro título de portada... ¡y el segundo lo será a mediados de mes! Jorge Rodríguez #KEKOELFREAK Claro, porque ya no tendrás que esperar 30 Roberto Pacheco días para leer todas las novedades del mun- #NEGGUSCL do de los videojuegos, pues a partir de este número saldremos de forma quincenal. Raúl Maltrain #RAULAZO Las razones de esto son varias, pero funda- David Ignacio P. mentalmente debemos agradecerles a uste- #AQUOSHARP des por su permanente apoyo, por las 30 mil lecturas que estamos teniendo mes a mes y Ignacio Ramírez por sus consejos, sugerencias y buena onda. #MUMEI Jorge Maltrain #MALTRAIN Nuestro compromiso es seguir madurando como equipo y seguir mezclando la actuali- Patricio Makievsky dad -con meses como este y el próximo que #CLINT EASTWOOD estarán más cargadas a las noticias por la Benjamín Galdames abundancia de lanzamientos- con otro tipo #TATSUYA-SUOU de reportajes que sólo leerás en TodoJuegos. DISEÑADOR Jorge Maltrain Macho Y, por cierto, con la idea de seguir apoyan- do al desarrollo de la industria en Chile, tal UNA PRODUCCIÓN DE como hemos hecho hasta ahora. Esperamos seguir contando con ustedes en este nuevo desafío y ojalá disfruten esta entrega. Jorge Maltrain Macho Editor General UNA REALIZACIÓN DE Pincha sobre este símbolo para acceder a contenido multimedia. TodoJuegos Indice 06 EL TERROR DE ALIEN: ISOLATION ZONA RETRO Super Mario Kart sigue siendo el 14 mejor juego de karts de Nintendo. 16 CHOZA INDIE Los juegos multijugador se toman 20 tu sillón con estos sencillos títulos. DESTINO JAPÓN Cargado de polémica llega desde 30 oriente Akiba’s Trip. ¿De qué va? TOKYO GAME SHOW Los desarrolladores japoneses SUPER SMASH BROS 32 dejaron la vara alta en su feria. DRIVECLUB NBA 2K15 ¿Habrá valido la pena la espera? Un Los chicos de 2K Sports se vuelven 38 año se tardó. Veamos qué nos trae. 42 a lucir con gráficos para alucinar. PRIMER PLANO Te contamos la historia de John 24 46 Carmack, el padre de los FPS. BORDERLANDS La saga de Gearbox regresa este 52 mes. Revisa toda la cartelera. OCTAVO PASAJERO SHADOW OF MORDOR Godzilla llega al Bluray con una 58 película que al fin está a su altura. 04 Todo Juegos El Cuestionario ¿Cuál es tu género favorito? ANDREA SÁNCHEZ FELIPE JORQUERA PATRICIO MAKIEVSKY DAVID IGNACIO P. RAÚL MALTRAIN #EIDRELLE #LDEA20 #CLINT EASTWOOD #AQUOSHARP #RAULAZO Creo que me es Me cuesta elegir ¿Mi tipo favorito Tengo bastante Más allá del géne- imposible deter- sólo un género, ya de juego? La ver- definido que mis ro, soy fanático de minar un género que disfruto de la dad es que me géneros favoritos los juegos bue- y asignarlo como mayoría de ellos, costó decidir, ya son dos: los jue- nos. Mis preferi- mi favorito. Qui- con excepción de que suelo jugar y gos de pelea y los dos, sin embargo, zás podría men- los simuladores disfrutar casi to- FPS (de disparos son los JRPG y los cionar a las aven- de carreras. Pero dos los géneros. en primera perso- de pelea. Los pri- turas gráficas, ya si tengo que ha- Para comenzar, na). Los nombro meros porque al que si bien no cerlo, me quedo me gustan bas- en este orden no contrario de los he tenido mucha con los RPG y los tante los survi- por que el prime- occidentales, te experiencia con juegos de acción val horror, los de ro se encuentre ponen en los pies este tipo de jue- en tercera per- verdad, esos que más arriba que el de personajes ya gos, debo reco- sona. Los prime- provocan síndro- segundo en mi definidos en vez nocer que se han ros, porque me me de Tourette. ránking personal, de modificar a transformado fá- ofrecen una his- Por otra parte, sino por un tema uno al extremo cilmente en uno toria, personajes en mi colección cronológico, ya de no tener un de mis preferidos y ambientacio- no pueden faltar que comencé a contexto correc- últimamente. En nes magníficos,los títulos de de- convertirme en to para éste (si todo caso, todo que difícilmente portes: FIFA, UFC un gamer propia- bien Mass Effect título que se en- pueden entregar o cualquier otro mente tal jugan- es una excepcion marque en el los juegos que que ayude a pa- do sagas como a la regla por She- género de “aven- te limitan sólo a sar el rato. Pero si Street Fighter, pard, tenemos turas” llamará mi seguir un patrón tengo que elegir KOF y Samurai como paradigma atención desde determinado. Y a uno, definitiva- Shodown. Poste- a Skyrim, que es un inicio. Soy, en cuanto a los mente los de ac- riormente, al pa- un jueguito de en todo caso, de juegos de ac- ción y aventuras sar al PC, le tomé mierda por esta quienes disfrutan ción en tercera son mis favoritos. el gusto a juegos razón). Los de pe- todo tipo de gé- persona, porque En especial si lle- como Quake o lea, en tanto, me neros e, incluso, me entretienen van consigo una Unreal y de ahí en encantan por las convierto en un como ninguno buena historia, adelante he se- combinaciones desafío el enfren- pese a ser títulos, bien narrada y guido siendo asi- extremas que se tarme a géneros por lo general, que genere más duo a esta clase pueden llegar a que no frecuento. algo simples. de una sorpresa. de juegos. perfeccionar. Todo Juegos 05 Alien: Isolation RETORNO A LAS RAÍCES LOS AMANTES DE LA SAGA FÍLMICA PUEDEN COMENZAR A CELEBRAR. ES QUE EL JUEGO DE THE CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, AL FIN, PARECE COLOCAR A LA FRANQUICIA EN EL LUGAR QUE SE MERECE. EL SIGILO Y LA PACIENCIA SERÁN TUS PRINCIPALES ARMAS UNA VEZ QUE TE SUBAS A LA NAVE SEVASTOPOL. JORGE MALTRAIN MACHO #MALTRAIN TodoTodo JuegosJuegos TodoTodo JuegosJuegos ara cuando se estrenó Alien, en 1979, la cin- Pta tomó por sorpresa a todo el mundo. Su direc- tor era un casi desconocido Ridley Scott y su protago- nista la aún más anónima Sigourney Weaver. No obs- tante, la cinta se convirtió en un clásico instantáneo desde que la Teniente Ellen Ripley se enfrentó al mons- truoso xenomorfo a bordo de la nave Nostromo. Era una cinta de máxima tensión, donde la valerosa Ripley luchaba por su super- vivencia ante un alienígena que parecía imposible de derrotar. Su segunda parte, aunque igualmente buena, tenía otro tono. Se filmó siete años después y esta vez fue el taquillero James Cameron, quien ve- nía de romperla con Ter- minator, el encargado de retomar la aventura… am- bientada 57 años después y nuevamente con Weaver como protagonista. Si tuviéramos que hacer un paralelo con el mundo de los videojuegos, la transición entre una cinta y otra fue como la que vivió Resident Evil con su cuarta entrega. Si antes primó la tensión y la supervivencia, acá ya la acción comenzaba a tomar un rol preponderante, con un grupo de musculosos marines enviados a investi- 08 TodoTodo JuegosJuegos gar una colonia invadida por chos sobre la saga, al siem- gañosa” y de la primera em- hordas de xenomorfos. pre competente Gearbox. presa contra la segunda por Estos, sin embargo, actua- el pésimo trabajo. Por desgracia, a la hora de ron de la forma más antié- llevar la saga Alien a los vi- tica posible y, en medio del El daño a la marca fue enor- deojuegos, los estudios han proceso de desarrollo, inclu- me y, por lo mismo, muchos tendido a irse por esta se- so diezmaron el equipo para de los fanáticos de Alien gunda vertiente, a contar reforzar los que trabajaban temíamos que sería el fin de aquel “Aliens: The Com- en Borderlands y Duke definitivo para una franqui- puter Game” desarrollado Nukem Forever. cia que nunca ha tenido un en 1986 por Activision o el videojuego a la altura de la “Aliens” de 1990 de Konami. Para colmo, Gearbox pre- saga fílmica. Eso hasta que, Solemos tener un variado sentó en la E3 de 2011 un en enero de este año, se de- arsenal de armas a nuestra demo del juego que, para veló un título que, por fin, disposición y los monstruos los fanáticos de los títulos de parecía olvidarse de los dis- no son más que monigotes acción, lucía impresionan- paros y las balaceras, para ir para matar uno a uno. te. Sin embargo, tras varios al origen: al terror de la cin- retrasos, al salir el juego las ta original de Scott. La guinda de la torta fue el diferencias fueron obvias e, desastroso “Aliens: Colo- incluso, hay demandas judi- PURO AMOR nial Marines”, encargado ciales en curso contra Sega y Siendo sinceros, la elección por Sega, dueño de los dere- Gearbox por “publicidad en- de The Creative Assem- TodoTodo JuegosJuegos 09 bly me generaba dudas.
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