E3 2011: The Best of the New

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Killer Freaks from Outer Space
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With the launch of the new system at least a year out, hardly anyone was showing any actual games for the Wii U. But UbiSoft proved the exception with this in-development first-person shooter. Players control Darren Boyle, a conspiracy-minded gun freak who’s trying to single-handedly repel an alien invasion of London. The single-player portion of Killer Freaks looked like typical FPS combat controlled through the touchscreen controller. But a demo of multiplayer showed off an ambitious feature called the Real-time Enemy Director (RED), which lets players see opponent action on the touchscreen. You can then launch enemies at an opponent’s position, making it like Gears of War‘s Horde Mode with another person in charge. It’s a safe bet that Killer Freaks will be a Wii U launch game, so it might be a while yet before we hear anything more about it.

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