NIS America has announced that they plan on releasing Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy for the PlayStation Vita April 14 in North America and April 17 in Europe where it will be available for purchase at digital and retail stores in both regions. This includes a limited edition featuring a visual fanbook, soundtrack CD, collectible box, and the game itself for $54.99 from NIS America’s online store.
Developed by Experience Inc., the same studio that worked on Demon Gaze, Operation Abyss: New Tokyo Legacy was released in Japan last summer and takes place in the near future where Tokyo is under attack by creatures called Variants that come through portals leading to a mysterious dimension called the Abyss.
In order to try and investigate the source of these creatures, the Code Physics Agency has been formed and players are part of Xth Squad, a group of teenagers modified with the help of Code Physics Agency’s Code technology and are tasked with defeating enemies and learning the secrets of the Abyss.
It has been a long time since we’ve heard about State of Decay coming to the Xbox One but now Undead Labs has not only announced a release date for State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition but also what type of improvements will be made to this release of the game.
State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition will cost $29.99 / ₤19.99 / €29.99 when it releases for Xbox One on April 28th in North America and May 1st elsewhere. This release will contain both the Breakdown and Lifeline DLC as well as 1080p visuals, fancier lighting, textures, and shadows as well as completely overhauled combat mechanics and animations. Anyone who owns the Xbox 360 version of the game will be given a 33% discount on the release until June 30th as well as an exclusive character named Gurubani Kaur.
When released, State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition will feature new achievements up to 1500 Gamer Score, a new mission type that involves collecting supply crates from remote areas on the map, stronger vehicles such as SUVs and new weaponry to take down the undead.
Bandai Namco are really treating Dragon Ball Xenoverse like a AAA title and that can only mean one thing… DLC! The first DLC pack will be available in March and will focus on GT with three new characters in GT Kid Goku, Pan & GT Trunks. There will be 4 new Time Patrol (story mode) missions with one confirmed to be centered around Golden Great Ape Baby Vegeta, 12 new Paralell Quests, 15 New Special Moves for the players’ avatars including Vegeta’s Final Shine attack and 5 new costumes which seem to revolve around Dragon Ball as we can see a Devil Man Suit and Launch costume. The first DLC pack lands in March, one month after the game releases.
The second pack is a complete mystery at this point with nothing being unveiled besides the fact it will contain exclusive Playable Characters, Quests (it is unclear if they are new story missions or the online co-op parallel missions), Special moves and costumes. Interestingly, the third and final pack will contain content Japan is getting as a pre-order bonus. So far all we is that it includes Jaco the Galactic Patrol Man as a playable character and a Master Roshi costume set. It will also feature some ambiguous highly exclusive content. Both these packs do not have specified release dates. The season pass costs $25 in America, with each individual set costing $9.99.
We also have a heap of new screenshots for you to feast your eyes on showing a mix of standard in game content and the new DLC. There is also some sweet artwork of some of the ‘villainous’ Saiyans and of the newly announced GT characters. They confirm some interesting things such as the ability for your created avatar to use the Power Pole (this may just be a special move but fingers crossed it changes your basic move set), a new GT based stage in Tuffle Planet and a new Destroyed City stage, however this may just be the Capsule Corp. City stage we have seen previously with the time of day changed. You can check all those pictures out in the gallery below.
No one is a fan of DLC but I’ll look on the bright side here and be happy we are getting new content, especially new characters and story quests. Let us know in the comments how you feel about the new DLC and what you think is in pack 2 and 3 or what you want to see!
Moon Studios has recently revealed that they plan on releasing the absolutely gorgeous looking puzzle platformer Ori and the Blind Forest on the Xbox One and Steam on March 11th for $19.99 in North America. It is worth noting that an Xbox 360 release was previously announced but Moon Studios did not mention anything about that version during this announcement.
To go along with this announcement the development team released a new five minute gameplay trailer showing off a previously unrevealed part of Ori and the Blind Forest called the ‘Forlorn Ruins’ that features Ori’s gravity warping mechanics.
Capcom has released a pair of new gameplay clips for Resident Evil: Revelations 2 that not only focus on Barry Burton with Natalia Korda, a little girl that seems to have the ability to sense enemies, but also introduces two new enemies that will be appearing in the game.
The first trailer is for a creature called the Revenant that appears to be stitched together from the remains of other corpses with weak spots hidden within their disgusting flesh while the second is for the Glasp, a creature capable of secreting gas to impair the vision of its prey before attacking without warning.
As we’ve previously written, when Senran Kagura: Estival Versus is released on the PS4 and PS Vita it will feature a new dress break feature called “Purupuru Finish” as well as an enhanced Dressing Room and recently a large batch of screenshots for the game showing off these improvements have been released.
In case you didn’t read the details, PuruPuru Finishes are finishes that are triggered due to specific conditions such as slipping on soap that results in the complete destruction of the costume, a number of which are shown below. As for the Dressing Room, a number of new outfits have been revealed and shown in the screenshots below and players will now be able to have five girls in the room at one time as well as the ability to pull clothing and various other actions.
Eden Industries’ RPG with plenty of familiar aspects from a certain classic SNES RPG, Citizens of Earth, is now available for purchase on the PlayStation Network for the PS Vita and PlayStation 4, on Steam for PC, and the Nintendo eShop for the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. Atlus USA has released Citizens of Earth for a base price of $14.99 though at the moment some platforms currently have the title on sale.
If you haven’t been following Citizens of Earth, then you’ll want to keep on reading. Players will take control of the Vice President of the entire world only to find that, the night after winning the election the world has gone crazy. As such it is up to the Vice President to find out why the world is going bezerk and to keep your hands as clean as possible, this means recruiting from forty different crazy citizens to fight for you.
If you happen to be looking for something a little different with your adult PC games then you’ll be interested to hear that the adult version of HuniePop is now available for purchase through MangaGamer. Developed by HuniePot, HuniePop is a unique type of visual novel sim is part puzzle game part dating sim with RPG type elements.
HuniePop is an OELVN or “Original English Language Visual Novel” and is available for PC, Mac, and Linux and can be purchased here (18+) for $9.99. Anyone who purchases the game through MangaGamer will be given the uncensored adult release as well as a Steam Key for the basic game. HuniePop features eight girls (with more to unlock) with their own personalities, preferences and style, twenty different in-game locations to visit, 250 unique items such as food and gifts to unlock and buy, as well as thousands of fully voiced lines of dialogue.
The slightly controversial and much awaited Exo Zombies game mode for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfarereceived its first gameplay trailer today. Exo Zombies is part of the upcoming ‘Havoc’ DLC that will also contain the AE4 directed energy assault rifle, the AE4 Widowmaker custom variant, and four new multiplayer maps.
The Exo Zombies trailer stars actors John Malkovich, Bill Paxton, Rose McGowan, and Jon Bernthal as they fight off zombies outfitted in exo-suits, zombie dogs, and the much plainer but just as deadly vanilla zombie.
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare ‘Havoc’ will cost $15 USD or $19.95 AUD on its own. The season pass containing ‘Havoc’ and three other DLC packs is available for $49.99 USD or $64.95. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is available now for PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Windows.
Overview Volition and Deep Silver have gone to space and taken on aliens, now where could they go now you ask? To hell of course. Or at least a few of them will as Saints Row: Gat out of Hell pits players against the forces of Hell in order to save a friend. Is the unique experience of visiting hell in one of the most ridiculous game series worth picking up? Let’s find out.
Story
Now it is worth noting that Gat out of Hell does contain spoilers if you haven’t actually completed the main storyline of Saints Row IV, though it is obviously predictable what the outcome will be. That being said, the story picks up after the events of IV with the surviving members of the gang aboard the Zin Ship. The crew has organized a birthday party for Kinzie Kensington and Mat Miller has decided that everyone should play a party game involving a Ouija board.
Unfortunately, this Ouija board happened to be owned by Aleister Crowley and it opens a portal to hell sucking “The Boss” into it. In an effort to save their leader, Kinzie and Jonny Gat enter their own portal into Hell where the first person they meet happens to be an old enemy, Dane Vogel, the head of the Ultor Corporation. Dane informs the pair that he is more than willing to help out The Boss as Satan is planning to marry his daughter Jezebel off to him/her but they can try and get his attention by wreaking havoc throughout Hell.
In order to do this, Dane gives Johnny Gat Lucifer’s Broken Halo, giving whoever possesses the halo arcane powers and the ability to use fallen angel wings to fly around. Unfortunately the whole point of wreaking havoc is about the only thing to do in Hell as the actual story here is paper thin. The more players complete various missions or challenges the more a bar will fill up on the pause menu before triggering a cutscene.
This means at most, there can be three or four actual story events in the entire Gat out of Hell storyline which means it is entirely possible to complete the story in three or four hours as gaining Satan’s attention is extremely easy to do. The lack of any actual story missions or a solid enough plot is disappointing as the familiar faces we run into in Hell as well Jezebel and Satan could really have created a more compelling tale but instead it’s mostly a setting for destruction.
Gameplay On the surface, it seems like what Gat out of Hell is has been taken mostly from Saints Row IV, but look beneath that surface and you find a lot of things have been changed this time around. Sure the game uses the same standard engine as before but players are now in a completely different game world that may bear some similarities to Steelport but little else.
Players are also gifted a set of powers right from the start and must power up these abilities by gathering souls which are this game’s variation of the data clusters. Some of these powers such as blast, power stomp and speed running through the streets or up walls are the same but all of them have been changed up with unique elements and some are completely new. For example the blast power can now turn enemies into stone or send a damned soul to hold them in while the new powers involve summoning minions to fight and die for you as well as actual flight.
While the player could previously glide through the air in Saints Row IV, Gat out of Hell gives both Gat and Kinzie wings that allow them to fly through the air, using flaps and various aerial maneuvers to get around. Perhaps the best aspect of Gat out of Hell is actually flying as players will quickly be able to level up this ability to the point that they can stay in the air for an extremely long time and use dive bombing techniques to fly incredibly fast, allowing players to gather souls for power ups or travel across the map at speeds much faster than the core game.
Players are also given a set of new guns to play with in Hell. There are standard variations to use as well as demonic equivalents but where the real fun comes into play is when you can track down the weapons based off of the Seven Deadly Sins. These weapons are a blast to use and are absolutely ridiculous looking at times, such as the Sloth sin weapon which is literally a floating recliner with Gatling guns in the arm-rests and missiles that shoot out of the foot-rest. It is worth noting that some of these weapons are easy to obtain, such as Greed and Sloth, but others require entire side-missions to unlock meaning that there will be some hunting required to obtain them.
As mentioned before, there are no real missions here and players are instead told to complete various side activities instead. Some of these side-activities have been changed to reflect Hell and your new super powers, such as “Salvation” which involves the player flying through the air attempting to save souls falling from the sky, but many of them are simply re-skinned variations from the past game. Even the allies that you can attempt to recruit only offer missions that simply involve these basic activities so don’t expect anything solid even here or any development with some familiar names from history.
There are various collectibles to find such as lost journals for each of the allies as well as Satan’s “Damned Souls Guide” to provide a bit of extra context and backstory as well as unique commentary points for Kinzie and Gat but other than that you won’t find much extra here. It is entirely possible to face off against Satan without even trying to meet up with potential allies as the entire thing is tied to how much chaos and activities you’ve completed more than anything else. This means that the story, or at least what is there, is incredibly short but if you are looking for plenty to do in a unique new world with a new set of toys then Gat out of Hell has it in spades.
Visuals
Being set in Hell, Gat out of Hell features an entirely new aesthetic consisting of lava and brimstone. The new city that players will be exploring has been completely re-done with new high-rise buildings, slums, shinging billboards advertising hells amenities, succubus’, and more which creates a world you will want to stop and look and take a look at. As you explore the fiery world at high-speed you’ll notice that the populace is now replaced with husks suffering in hell and the police are now demons that drive around in monster trucks or creatures capable of summoning shields to protect themselves.
It is worth noting that the whole customization option has been removed in Gat out of Hell. Players cannot change the outfits or anything else of Gat or Kinzie, though they can swap between the two characters by returning to Ultor HQ, and the appearances of the weapons cannot be altered at all. This is a minor complaint as Gat out of Hell’s aesthetic and special sin weaponry’s unique affects really make the most out of the Hell theme.
Audio
One thing that players will notice once they find themselves in Hell is that there is no music there outside of what the characters happen to sing themselves. This means that as you fly over lava pits or through various hellscapes you’ll be doing it simply listening to the atmospheric noise. The lack of music is disappointing, especially since there are so many songs that come to mind that would work perfectly well in this situation.
Other than that the voice work is about what you would come to expect in Saints Row, with all of the characters retaining their previous voice actors and the new cast being voiced well enough and provided with good enough material to keep players laughing.
Overall While the lack of a consistent storyline is disappointing and rather short, Saints Row: Gat out of Hell feels like the best place that the series could have gone at this point. Offering a brand new area designed perfectly, a set of mostly new powers and flight which is an absolute blast to use, and a new insane arsenal to unleash on the demons that stand between you and Satan, Gat out of Hell is a strong release and is probably best seen as a true conclusion to what we found in Saints Row IV and one hell of an experience despite its flaws.
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