Video Blips: PlanetSide 2, Hitman: Absolution, and Red Orchestra 2

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Nothing says "immediate action" over handling dwindling resources better than expending more resources on shooting, blowing up, and knocking over other things expending resources. Humanity: Our bodies reached for the stars, but not our brains.

Video Blips:

• Fun fact: Pairing "The Ride of the Valkyries" with footage of heavy air combat is totally original. Thankfully, PlanetSide 2's impressively super-scaled shootouts compensates my bout of chronic sarcasm.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFeYfMBoBBc?rel=0]

Continue after the break for crashing a party assassin-style in Hitman: Absolution's Sniper Challenge and defending more motherland in a content update for Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad.

 

• Outsnipe your friends and competitors in Hitman: Absolution's Sniper Challenge pre-order content. You'll know your jacket satisfies the party's attire requirement if it lacks bullet holes.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGYD-CPfo5s?rel=0]


• Freeze your ass off once more in Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad's free Game of the Year content pack. "Quick, comrade! Shiver towards those Germans! They hate complicated body language!"

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDa6ITNP8L8?rel=0]