THE MOST EXPENSIVE VIDEO GAME: DESTINY by NewDawnBrothers

The most expensive game ever made is coming your way in two months from now. The budgets for developing and marking the game is $500million (over a 10-year lifespan) eclipsing Grand Theft Auto V as the most expensive video game ever produced.

What could this game look or be like?

          Destiny is an upcoming online multiplayer action role playing first person shooter video game in a mythic science fiction open world setting. It is developed by Bungie and published by Activision as a part of a ten year publishing deal. The game will be published on September 9, 2014 with beta testing phase coming in July. The beta will launch first for Playstation3 and Playstation4 on July17, 2014. Bungie demoed live gameplay footage of Destiny at Sony’s E3 2013 conference. Bungie has emphasized that the Universe of Destiny will be “alive”. Events may happen in-game that are not necessarily controlled or planned by the developer, which will help to create a dynamic developing experience for Bungie and a dynamic playing experience for gamers.

 

Destiny will incorporate a new game engine that allows global illuminations and real-time dynamic lightening to occur together. An innovation in Bungie’s “hopper” technology which has been the backbone of Halo’s matchmaking system will allow better matchmaking in order to create natural experience in either cooperative or competitive multiplayer modes.

         The cost of Destiny is the overall cost for Peter Jackson’s Hobbit Trilogy. We might have it in mind to see Tom Cruse or Will Smith character with their futuristic action personae that’d make everyone wish Destiny can be made a movie. Well we’d find out about that.

         Bungie plans to incorporate social media into Destiny, allowing players to remain connected to one another even when offline. With the in-game universe being in a state of perpetual change, Bungie is exploring the potential of using a mobile phone application to update players about new quests and inform them as to what their friends are doing in-game.

On June 17, 2014 Sony computer entertainment announced that Destiny will be released exclusively for Playstation3 and Playstation4 in Japan, meaning that the game won’t be released on the Xbox360 and Xbox one in that country. On June 26^th, 2014 Bungie confirmed that Destiny is rated “T for Teen” by the ESRB.

         If you are in Nigeria, I believe something need to be done over cheap and easy internet connection, if you think Playstation3 and Playstation4 is for playing of video games only, this is a wake up call. The consoles are designed in such a way that you can browse the net, watch movies online, listen to unlimited music, videos, know what’s happening on the PlayStation network and even download games by just a simple click. OMG this is amazing, I’m praying and looking forward to a time where we can have reliable Wi-Fi in the country but in the main time, get your cash ready for mind blowing games coming out later this year. Stay fresh ya all…