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Driver: San Francisco Hands-On Preview: Tanner the Body Snatcher
The Driver franchise has struggled mightily in the years since its 1999 debut. While the original game was a bonafide PlayStation classic, the successors to that title have ranged from decent (see Driver: Parallel Lines) to atrocious (the infamous Driver 3, take a bow!). For 2011’s Driver: San Francisco, developer Reflections and new publisher Ubisoft are going back to basics — it’s a straight up open-world driving game with racing, chases, and… post-coma body shifting. There’s a lot of interesting ideas at hand here, and after spending time with the brand new demo, I’m very curious as to how the final product will turn out. This could be the fresh start the series has needed for over a decade. (more…)
Daily Scoop: August 10, 2011 – Squenix sales!
Happy humpday! So much going on today… new Dungeons & Dragons Encounter (Neverwinter FTW!), super sales on Square Enix DS games, and oh yeah – Ryan Littlefield and I beat Borderlands last night! And already started the DLC. Collecting brains has never been so fun…
Amazon’s Deal of the Day in video games is a Squenix overload! Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded is $19.99, while Final Fantasy IV, The World Ends with You, and Chrono Trigger are all $14.99. Scoop up these DS games while they are super cheap!
There’s a beautiful video game shirt at Ript today called simply “1up:” (more…)
Posted in Daily Scoop, DS, Etcetera, News, PS3
Survive this Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Spec Ops trailer
Activision has unleashed the first trailer for Spec Ops Survival Mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
You know the drill by now: survive wave after wave of enemy attacks for as long as you can. It’s like being a Cincinnati Bengals fan, only less depressing.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
Far Cry 2, demos, discounts added to PlayStation Store
It’s Tuesday Wednesday and the latest update to the PlayStation Store includes a pair of highly anticipated demos and a downloadable version of Ubisoft’s Far Cry 2.
If a first person shooter like Far Cry 2 isn’t your thing, feel free to download the demos for Madden NFL 12 or Driver: San Francisco. And don’t forget that Freddy Krueger dreams his way into Mortal Kombat in this update as well.
Oh, Sony has also marked down several DLC packs in a big way this week. Look for good prices on Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and the all of the Red Dead Redemption downloadable expansions.
More information on all of the additions found in this week’s PlayStation Store update can be found at the PlayStation.Blog.
One, two, a Freddy Krueger story trailer is coming for you
Do you want to know how Freddy Krueger gets himself involved in the Mortal Kombat tournament? Well, after Shao Kahn invades Earthrealm and begins stealing the planet’s souls, Freddy is… unhappy. The Dream Warrior considers those souls his property and battles Shao Kahn in the Dreamrealm. But Kahn overpowers him and pulls him into the waking world. Pulls him into the Mortal Kombat tournament.
Wow. You know, if Freddy Krueger didn’t already exist, he would be a perfect addition to the MK universe with a backstory like that.
Freddy Krueger is available to download on the PS3 and Xbox 360 today for $5 (400 Microsoft Points).
Posted in News, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Mortal Kombat
Red Dead Redemption sells 11 million; still no release dates for Agent, Max Payne 3
Take-Two Interactive released their quarterly financial numbers yesterday along with a little (well deserved) bragging.
Calling L.A. Noire “a breakthrough for games as a whole” and a “stunning accomplishment” that “sets a new standard for storytelling,” the publisher revealed that the detective sim has sold four million copies since going on sale in May. However, this number is absolutely dwarfed by Red Dead Redemption, which has sold nine million copies since its release in May 2010 along with another two million copies of the Undead Nightmare expansion disc.
But there’s always some bad news in these financial reports and in this case it’s the continued absence of Max Payne 3 and Agent from the company’s future outlook. Within the report, Take-Two provided solid release dates or tentative dates for every one of their announced games through the end of 2012… except for Max Payne 3 and Agent.
So don’t expect to play either game for a very long time.
Posted in News, PC, PS3, Xbox 360
Tagged Agent, Max Payne 3, Red Dead Redemption
Borderlands 2 will have new characters, customizable weapons, and Claptrap, of course
Truth be told, I still haven’t recovered from Borderlands 2 being announced. Yet here we are with even more information: there will be four brand new playable characters in Borderlands 2, with the characters from the first game (Berserker, Hunter, Siren, and Soldier) in the game as NPCs. Salvador the Gunzerker – pleasantly pictured here – is the only new character who has been announced so far. According to PC Gamer‘s reading of the Game Informer cover story:
He can dual wield any weapon and improve his abilities using the familiar three-branch skill tree of the first game. He’ll be able to choose from a wider selection of vehicles (ie: more than one), and use the new currency, Eridium, to buy new items or upgrade his armoury.
Hell yes. Gearbox also has a giant pile of brand new weapons for us from new manufacturers. I’ll miss Dahl, but I’m looking forward to customizing and enhancing my already crazy weapons. There’s also new AI, new environments, and everyone’s favorite Claptrap. Seriously, all I can say to all of this is: bring it on!
Borderlands 2 will be out for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 sometime after April 2012. Check out the official website for more details.
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Tagged Borderlands 2
Rage will have 21-22 GB install on Xbox 360, PS3 install not yet determined
id Software Technical Director, John Carmack, dropped a bomb at Quakecon: Rage will have a 21-22 GB install on the Xbox 360. “On the 360 we don’t have a partial install option; it’s all or nothing, which is kind of unfortunate,” Carmack said. “It means you have to install 21-22 GB of stuff which takes a long time, but if you’ve got it and you play it on the 360, that’s the way to go.”
That’s a lot of hard drive space to put aside for a game. Although it makes sense when you realize Rage requires two discs for the single-player campaign and a third disc for the multiplayer modes.
The problem doesn’t stop there, either – there are also latency issues on the PS3. “Once you get everything from memory that works pretty good, but if you’re coming straight from the hard drive then the first time you walk into everything from the DVD or from the Blu-ray – even worse in terms of total latency time – you listen to that Blu-ray churning around as it’s pulling everything in,” Carmack said. “It’ll be nice when we don’t have that physical element we don’t have to be working around or scheduling around.”
No word yet on whether or not the PS3 will have an install. Hopefully there will be an option for that, or else PS3 sales will certainly suffer.
[Sources: Sixth Axis, Gaming Bolt]