Capcom have announed the final piece of the Super Street Fighter IV puzzle.  Meet HAKAN !!

He likes to get all oiled up, down and dirty. Hakan is an oil wrestler hailing from Turkey. Using lubricant to assist in his battles, this slippery character brings some of the most insane moves and ultra combos to the series.

Check out the video trailer below and some more screenshots futher down.

Super Street Fighter IV will be out on April 30th for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with 10 new characters, new Ultra combos, new stages, the return of bonus rounds and beefed-up online modes (including the free tournament mode DLC after launch).  Also make sure you have Pre-ordered your copy as the are some ULTRA-COOL-COMBO goodies to go with it when you do

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Let us know what you think of Hakan,  do you think hes stronger than Zangief ? or even better than him

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Capcom have announced that the new Lost Planet 2 website is now up and running and ready to kick some butt. There’s plenty of cool stuff like new videos, screens, images of Vital Suits, Akrid, a map of the episodes, and heaps more.

Check it out here !! Lost Planet 2 Official Website

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Who’s pumped for Lost Planet .. will you play as Wesker, Dom or the legendary Marcus Fenix ?  Or will stay true to the game and play as one of the original characters ?

White Knight Chronicles is Sony Playstation 3 exclusive fantasy role-playing game in which the main character can transform himself into a huge knight as he strives to rescue a princess.

Check out the promo banner below.  Wanna know more about it.  Click on the FIND OUT MORE Button below

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Who’s got White Knight ? What do you think of it ? Does it meet your expectations.

It’s slipped in under the radar, as most of us are plugging away at Battlefield Bad Company 2.  Sega’s new Sonic & Sega All Star Racing has arrived and is doing victory laps as we speak. 

Join all the popular Sega characters in this great fast paced racing game suitable for the whole family to enjoy.

Sega & Sonic All-Stars Racing is also priced quite reasonably why not pick it up for kids and also the BIG kids as well, easy to play and certainly very fun, it supports local and multiplayer as well so you can get online and whack everyone with Banjo’s Jiggis or Roy’s forklift.

Fishpond have a great deal at them moment and if you live in Australia you also get FREE delivery !! 

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Who’s already picked this up ?  Or who’s gonna buy it now.  What do you guys think of it ?

Game Name: Toy Soldiers
Platforms: Xbox 360
Publisher(s): Signal Studios
Developer(s): MGS
Genre(s): Action
Release Date: 3/3/2010
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) Alcohol, tobacco, and violence reference
Price: 1200MSP
Demo: Add to Download Queue

Story
“Put your foot soldiers, snipers, cavalry, and fighter pilots to the test in Toy Soldiers. Poised to be a smash hit on Xbox LIVE® Arcade, Toy Soldiers is an action-packed strategy-based game in which players command antique WWI toy soldiers vying for control of the trench-filled battlefields of Europe. Deploy an exciting arsenal such as tanks, cavalry, biplanes, and flamethrowers in vintage WWI toy dioramas. Developed by Signal Studios exclusively for Xbox 360, Toy Soldiers allows you to take control of individual units or control the entire battlefield from a strategic view. Integrating multiple game genres and world-class visuals, Toy Soldiers is a unique and action-packed entertainment experience!” [via Xbox.com]

Remember when you were a kid, and you used to play with toy soldiers. Well Toy Soldiers lets you reenact those good old days without the need to clean up all of the soldiers afterwards.  The only disappointment is the inability to kick over your enemy’s base and army after you lose.

Take command of your army as you defend yourself in the campaign that reenacts classic WWI battles. After you are done with WWI battle your friends over Xbox live or on the couch in verses.

Gameplay
Toy soldiers is an overloaded tower defense game. The base gameplay comprises of you setting up defensive units to keep the enemy soldiers from reaching your toy box. You can upgrade your units but can only place the units in specific locations placed on your side of the field. Think of a tower defense game and now give yourself the ability to control certain defensive units. You have now just pictured Toy Soldiers.

Upgrade your defensive units to increase their power, and defend against multiple waves of enemy units. Control your defensive units to use your advanced shooting skills to mow down the enemy waves or control the entire field from a bird’s eye perspective all while attempting to keep your toy box safe.

Every kill you get will give you a certain amount of money in order to buy more defensive units as well as barb wire. Multiple kills after each other will get you multiplier bonuses and give you even more money.

Once a certain amount of people get past your defenses and into your toy box, you lose. Different levels have different amounts of people that can break through before losing. Use your defensive units and barb wire to stop all types of enemy units and survive every wave to beat a level.

Multiplayer
Multiplayer is available for online 1v1, or local split screen 1v1. No matter what the combat will always be 1v1 though. The gameplay in verses changes slightly. While in campaign you simply defend, in verses you defend as well as attack.

Y lets you create vehicles to attack with, and depending on the level you are on, determines which vehicles you can choose from. It could be tanks, biplanes, or even agile horses.

The only main problem with the multiplayer is two good players can keep a game going on forever, and there isn’t really anyway for either side to gain the upper hand. While on the other hand, if either player is clearly better than the other there isn’t any way for the worse player to stand a chance.

Audio
The soundtrack is comprised of music that feels like WWI. Even though you are fighting using toy soldiers, the game partially reenacts scenes from classic wars. The music simply helps to push the effect completely through.

The sound effects are also nice. All the weapons sound heavy when firing them, the heaviness kind off pulls you out of the feel that you are in a toy box playing with toy soldiers, but it doesn’t really matter since it is still a fun game.

Achievements
The Achievements in Toy Soldiers are based mostly within the campaign, and will require you to play on harder settings as well as getting certain scores. If you are good at tower defense games, the achievements in this game should be pretty easy. A few may take a while though, such as beating every level with a general rank.

There are also 2 avatar awards in Toy Soldiers.
A gas mask for buying the game.
A German helmet for beating the game.

The Achievement List is:

• Jumped the bags: Complete level 1.
• Old Contemptible: Defeat Tsar Tank.
• Flying Pig: Defeat Zeppelin.
• Old Sweat: Defeat Uber Tank.
• Coffin Nails: Complete the Campaign.
• Foot Slogger: Earn General Rank on any level.
• Pickled Monkey: Win a Multiplayer Match on every level.
• Throw a Seven: Complete any level in Elite mode.
• Pip, Squeak & Wilfred: Survive until Round 5.
• Fire in the hole: Guide a shell to its destination.
• Sweet Fancy Adams: Earn General Rank on all Campaign levels.
• Brass Hat: Complete Campaign+ and earn all Ration Tickets.

Overview
Toy soldiers is an extremely fun tower defense game, but it is still only a tower defense game. The ability to control certain units is what makes this tower defense game stand out. A majority of you game won’t be spent building defenses, but rather upgrading your current units and jumping from one to the next to use your superior shooting abilities to mow down the enemies rushing you. I give Toy Soldiers 8 Capsules out of 10.

Pros

• Split screen verses leads to fun on the couch games with family and friends.
• The ability to control your units makes this tower defense game stand out.
• Multiple difficulties and bonus objective for extra hours of play time.

Cons

• Two good players in verses mode leads to a game that will never end due to any chance to gain the upper hand.
• Once you get your units placed, the remaining of the match is usually played out in control of only one unit.
• Lack of options.

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Little Big Planet (LBP) prides itself on the ability for everyone to make any kind of level they can think up. Recently LBP has hit 2 million user created levels. That is a lot of content for people to play.

This means that LBP is still very popular and if you have a PS3 and want endless levels you should probably pick this game up, but what do i know.

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Who else agrees with me on this one 

According to Chart-Track, Heavy Rain is now at the top of sales in the UK.
Look at it for yourself here.

Heavy Rain surpassed ‘Alien vs Predator’ and ‘Just Dance’; which come in second and third respectively.

This gets me questioning what decides a game purchase in the UK. According to the purchases made in the UK, Just Dance must be pretty good to be coming in third. Maybe I should go pick it up and see what all the fuss is about. But then again, I still have my dignity.

Do you still have your dignity ? 

How Far Will You Go To Save Someone You Love?

That’s a pretty hardcore question.  Would you kill to save your loved one ? Would you die to let them live ?  The possibilities are endless, is there a right or wrong decision ? what are the repercussions after you’ve performed these actions ?  Well these sorts of choices are what you will need to make plus many more in Sony’s new psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns, where choices and actions can result in dramatic consequences.  Welcome to the world of HEAVY RAIN !!

Heavy Rain is by far one of the most interesting games I’ve ever come across.  A mixture between a game and a film with great gameplay, brilliant graphics and superb audio, where you control four main characters, spanning over four days (within the game) filled with mystery and suspense as they all attempt to track down a murderer known only as the Origami Killer, a name given to him/her by the calling card they leave behind in the form of a folded paper origami shape at the crime scenes.

Let me start off by saying that Heavy Rain’s storyline has a total of 23 different endings.  I don’t believe any other game currently available at the moment comes even close.  Not even interactive movies have that many possible endings.  This certainly provides players with a different experience nearly every time.  With every choice you make, the storyline will go down a specific path, and it will make you think… did I pick the right option ? did I ask the right question, should I done this that way or this way.  There are too many possibilities, but the great thing is at least you know that Heavy Rain has a huge amount of re-playability value, which will drag you back to play it again and again to see how the story ends in a different way.

The Four characters, each following their own leads and with their own motives, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from claiming a new victim.  The storyline of the game is complex and very impressive. The four characters you control all have their own strengths and weaknesses.  Ethan Mars who we see at the beginning of the game waking up, spending time with his kids and enjoying his daily life, just seems a little to good to be true.  This is the calm before the storm, and let me tell you the storm hits and it hits pretty hard on poor Ethan,  Ethan is asked to prove how far he would go to save his son, by taking on a number of tasks set out by the Origami Killer.  Whilst Ethan is proving his worth we also have Scott Shelby a private detective, who is trying to gather details on the origami killer by interviewing parents of the killers victims. Next we have Norman Jayden a FBI profiler with some ultra cool gadgets, Jayden is sent in to assist the local police with their investigations, if you enjoy crime scene investigations and searching for clues then Jaydens character is perfect for you.  His sci-fi style ARI (Added Reality Interface) is something I’ve never seen before but works really well with his character and in finding clues to help gather information.  Finally we have Maddison Paige a chronic insomniac who’s riddled with bad dreams, and can only find sleep whilst in cheap and seedy hotels. But also enjoys hot steamy showers

During the course of the game, any or all of these four main characters can die.  Depending on your choices.  If by any chance one of the characters die, the main story will continue, but the dead characters chapters that would of been available will end.  Whilst playing their deaths will be referenced within the game but the game will continue to play out to its final climatic conclusion,  I know a few of you are probably thinking.  What happens if I kill them all off before the actual game ends… what then ? Do I have to start from the begining ? Well Quantic Dream have also covered this base quite nicely as well. If everyone does die by the choices you select, there is an ending that also ties up everything very neatly, and the game ends. Probably not the best ending to have but an ending none the less.  (NO SPOILERS)

The control system takes advantage of nearly every available option that the Playstation 3 controller has.  True hardcore vetrans that sleep with their Playstation controllers under their pillow will have absolutely no problems what so ever with the game mechanics and controls.  Predominlatly Heavy Rain incorporates simple and at certain times very challenging button press/quick time moments, where you will need to learn and master the the playstation buttons.  If you’re new to the controller, then I’d recommend becoming familiar with it, map it out in your head, quiz yourself where all the buttons are, including the triggers, then when your ready to take the test turn on Heavy Rain.

Moving around is the easiest part of the game, holding down R2 will make your character walk while the left stick will move them in the direction you choose.  It’s a little fiddly to get used to at first but it soon becomes second nature,  you can also move the characters head by simple moving the left thumb stick left and right to interact with items.  As explained things get a little tricky when you start interacting with objects and puzzles.   For example an early scene has you climbing up a muddy and very slippery slope.  To climb up involves the player to hold down a series of face buttons such as holding down the X then whilst holding down the X you need to start holding down the Square button, then once you’ve done that release the X and press and hold down the Triangle.  This sort of action is just one example, which is a little tricky at first but will become easier over time.  Other such moments will have you repeatedly pressing the the face buttons to overcome specific situations like a struggle between your character and an an enemy.  Other moments have you shaking your controller left and right or up and down to open a drawer or to shake a bottle of orange juice you’ve taken our of the fridge. (yes even in games we still drink out of carton)

**Check out this little video walkthrough on how the controls work in a fight scene **

One new option never seen before in any game I’ve come across is the characters thoughts,  something that most of us completely forget about whilst playing on your first run through.  The characters thoughts are available to us by pressing the left trigger.  If the character has thoughts in his mind then words start floating around their head, to initiate these thoughts a face button is associated it to it, pressing that face button will make the character think to himself or ask questions to a non player character in the game.  There are certain moments where questions must be asked and this is where you  have to react very quickly to pick them otherwise they will just like in real life, you run out of time to ask it and the character your asking the question will not want to answer you anymore.  So reaction times are very important if you don’t want to miss out on asking that specific question.  Once again a keen reflexes and button familiarization is recommended.

With every game there are some good and bad points.  With all the great points out of the way, I’ll go through some of the darker points.  Graphically Heavy Rain looks brilliant, but in certain moments, lip-synching and character models look a little average, the voice acting is not 100% but this is mainly due to non-english speaking actors used to cast the game.  The control system even though is fantastic does takes a bit of time getting used to, if your new to the Playstation 3 controller.  It’s recommended learning where each button is located as you’re going to need them for the multitude of quick time events/puzzle/object interactions that the game throws your way.

With these little hiccups out of the way.  I have to say that I have never played anything so epic, momentous or revolutionary as Heavy Rain.  Quantic Dream have done a fantastic job at introducing what I believe is the next step forward in the world of video game storytelling and interactivity.  I hope we see many more games such as Heavy Rain moving forward from other developers and I cant wait to get my hands on the episodic DLC for the game.  Just when you think you’re done with the game Quantic Dream have more Heavy Rain episodes planned. Stay tuned for them to appear via the PSN store in coming months.

Capsule Computers gives Heavy Rain : 9.5 Capsule Out Of 10

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Let us know what you thought of the review, and also what you thought of Heavy Rain.  How many times have you finished it.  How did it make you feel ? Does it have what it takes to be the game of the year ? Your thoughts.  Leave a comment below.

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