2008: the Year Ahead

Shacknews takes a look at the major PC releases for 2008 and speculates on how they’ll end up on the pages of history.

Fallout 3
Bethesda Softworks
PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Fall

Will it be the Phantom Menace that taints the franchise, or the Empire Strikes Back that only enhances it? Either way, Fallout fans will be on the edge of their seats for Bethesda’s effort to create a new post-apocalyptic experience using a first person perspective.

Age of Conan
Funcom
PC
Spring

Promising an innovative combat system, Funcom’s Conan MMO hopes to spice up perpetual war enough to pull you away from your perpetual Warcraft binge. Player-created cities and DirectX 10 graphics sweeten the pot.

Warhammer Online
EA Mythic
PC
Summer

Another hopeful in the race to true Warcraft competitiveness, EA Mythic is banking on wide-scale player vs. player warfare to interest persistent RPG fans yearning for something that feels new. Will they pull it off?

Amusingly, they also list Duke Nukem Forever. Hey, there’s always hope.