Major Game Anniversaries in February 2019
Flower – 10th Anniversary
Thatgamecompany has released a couple of masterpieces over the years. The first that comes to mind is Journey, of course, but Flower is still an incredible game, and it’s ten years old as of Feb. 12.
It’s more simple than Journey, with you controlling the wind, blowing a collection of petals through the beautiful and vibrant fields of flowers.
The visuals, serene score, and straight-forward design made for an extremely relaxing experience. You could sit back, relax and let the wind wash over you. Since its release on PS3, it has come to other PlayStation consoles and handhelds, and even iOS devices.
Since Journey’s released in 2012, Thatgamecompany has been pretty quiet, with their next game still yet to have even a vague release date.
Major Game Anniversaries in February 2019
Mario Party – 20th Anniversary
February might be a quiet month traditionally for high-profile video game releases, but the original Mario Party came to N64 on Feb. 8, 1999.
Gamers in the US had to wait a little while longer to get their hands on it, though, since it first released in Japan just under two months earlier. It still went on to be one of the best-loved games on the platform, though.
It focused on the classic Mario Party board game style, featuring 50 unique mini-games that see players battle it out to get the most stars and coins that they can.
Just as the rest of the Mario Party series has been, the N64 game was designed to be played in groups, but it featured a single-player mode called Mini-Game Island that saw you work your way through its set of mini-games.Â
The most recent game in the series came to Switch just last year, with it returning to the board game style that the original introduced.
Major Game Anniversaries in February 2019
Killzone 2 – 10th Anniversary
Guerilla’s first-person shooter series may have been replaced at least temporarily by Horizon Zero Dawn, with us seeing nothing from the series in more than five years, but Killzone made its PlayStation 3 debut ten years ago this month.
Once again following a war between the Vektans and the Helghast in the 24th century, Killzone 2 was a huge step forward for the series. Its graphics, tight shooter gameplay, and varied multiplayer action were better than even some of the biggest shooters on the market.
While it wasn’t played by as many as the likes of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, which released later in 2009, it was praised critically, hitting 91 on Metacritic.
It performed well enough for a sequel to be released, though, with Killzone 3 coming just two years later. Killzone Shadow Fall was then a launch title for the PlayStation 4 before Guerilla moved on to the aforementioned Horizon series.
Hopefully, we’ll see Killzone’s resurgence soon.
Published: Feb 6, 2019 12:24 pm