{"id":45885,"date":"2012-10-15T10:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T08:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=45885"},"modified":"2012-10-16T10:38:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T08:38:33","slug":"games-you-can-play-this-week-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45885-games-you-can-play-this-week-25","title":{"rendered":"Games you can play this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>Last week, gamers were treated to a not-so-surprising hit in the form of Dishonored, and if some gamers have finished up with Bethesda\u2019s new IP (or face-stabbing is not really your thing), you\u2019re in for some high-octane and horror-filled action this week.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The War Z<\/h3>\n<p><strong>15 October 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Being unable to decide between making a zombie game, or a game title featuring the letter \u201cZ\u201d, Hammerpoint Interactive couldn\u2019t choose and went for both.<\/p>\n<p>Jokes aside, The War Z puts players into a post-apocalyptic world where they must use skill and cunning to acquire food, weapons, and other supplies that are needed for survival. The War Z will have two modes of play: Normal, in which a downed player can be revived after a period of time, and Hardcore, where death is permanent. Players will also be able to switch between first and third person perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>The War Z is available today (15 October 2012), so head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/account.thewarz.com\/preorder\/preorder.html\" target=\"_blank\">the War Z official site<\/a> and stand your ground in the zombie apocalypse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5vz80ozM57Y\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">007 Legends<\/h3>\n<p><strong>19 October 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>007 Legends will feature an overarching storyline which links up pivotal missions and events from past James Bond films, meeting up and concluding with the 23rd film scheduled for later this year, Skyfall.<\/p>\n<p>In traditional James Bond fashion, players will be geared up with state-of-the-art gadgets, vehicles and weapons in order to take on the movies\u2019 most notorious bad guys from the series in the most dynamic 007 experience to date.<\/p>\n<p>007 Legends is being developed by Eurocom, which handled development duties for 2011\u2032s GoldenEye 007: Reloaded. The studio also worked on Goldeneye 007 for Wii in 2010 and 2002\u2032s James Bond 007: Nightfire.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kvpBYTxkVZ0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">All game releases this week<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/PC-release-tag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44687\" title=\"PC release tag\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/PC-release-tag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The War Z<br \/>\n007 Legends<br \/>\nOf Orcs and Men<br \/>\nRealms of Ancient War<br \/>\nDOOM 3: BFG Edition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Xbox-360-release-tag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-44690\" title=\"Xbox 360 release tag\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Xbox-360-release-tag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">007 Legends<br \/>\nOf Orcs and Men<br \/>\nDance Central 3<br \/>\nDOOM 3: BFG Edition<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/PS3-release-tag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-44689\" title=\"PS3 release tag\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/PS3-release-tag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"39\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">007 Legends<br \/>\nOf Orcs and Men<br \/>\nDOOM 3: BFG Edition<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/45840-rage-cheating-and-the-meaning-of-insanity.html\">rAge, cheating and the meaning of insanity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45876-halo-4-reportedly-been-leaked-3-weeks-ahead-of-release.html\">Halo 4 reportedly leaked 3 weeks ahead of release<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45879-mech-shooter-hawken-readies-closed-beta-for-end-of-october.html\">Mech shooter Hawken readies closed beta for end of October<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/45836-god-of-war-ascension-special-and-collectors-editions-revealed.html\">God of War: Ascension Special and Collector\u2019s Editions revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/45072-borderlands-2-review-pc.html\">Borderlands 2 review (PC)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zombie insanity and shaken Martinis await you this week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":45886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[4552,6436,4407,21,6983,7197],"class_list":["post-45885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-game-releases","tag-game-releases-this-week","tag-games-you-can-play-this-week","tag-headline","tag-october-games","tag-this-weeks-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45889,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45885\/revisions\/45889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}