Sherlock Holmes is on a trail of clues in the new screenshots from Focus Home Interactive for upcoming game The Testament of Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Holmes is the ultimate adventure game character with his astounding leaps of logic and the collection of screenshots show off the title character investigating items and questioning people. So what has the master sleuth figured out? Well, from the make of the key above maybe Sherlock will start looking for an antique jewlery box to fit its appropriate time period and aesthetic! Or just a gold lock, cause you know its gold.
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes is setting up to be released for XBox 360, PS3, and PC in September of this year and then all the mystery’s will be revealed. Until then maybe take a good look at the screenshots below and come up with your own ideas of what they could lead to, then leave a comment on your own leaps of logic and the trails they could lead to.
Crust Developer: Nordic Mobile Labs Publisher: Nordic Mobile Labs Platform: iPad(reviewed)/iPhone/Android Release: Price: $2.99 – Available Here [Lite Version Available Here]
Overview
Remember cave flyers? Popular in the 1990’s cave flyers were usually based on a single screen, with two control inputs. Players battled it out, flying through a cave (hence the name, right?) and hopefully had some good old arcade-style fun. Regardless if you remember them, Finnish game company, Nordic Mobile Labs, remembers them. Their first title for iOS and Android, Crust, is a homage to the cave flyers of the past, hopefully introducing some new comers to the genre, and winning back some old fans at the same time.
Gameplay
The basic mechanics of Crust are simple, fly around a cave in a space ship and avoid or destroy enemy ships. The interface is pretty straightforward, weapons on the right, virtual joystick on the left. I won’t lie to you dear reader, Crust is a difficult game. The story mode starts off easy (even easier if you decide to play the practice round before hand). There is a basic tutorial that explains how items like the tractor beam work, and what power-ups do what. Then you are introduced to enemies. Then, you are introduced to way too many enemies. There are nine levels across the game, each getting more and more difficult. Don’t get me wrong, it’s nice to have a challenge, my point is just that the learning curve is steep, especially for an iOS game.
Story mode is not the only type of gameplay. There are also some multiplayer modes, which is always fun to have a go at when the AI become too taxing to tackle. As I said, there is also a practice mode so you can explore the maps that you’ll encounter in story mode at your own pace. Within each mode of gameplay, there are three ships to pick from, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, a recon ship, a fighter, and a tank. Stats for each are based on weapons, shields, bonus and cool down.
Multiplayer
There are two options for multiplayer gamelay with Crust. The first of which, I am sure many people are familiar with, is online multiplayer. There are three modes to play across multiple servers, deathmatch, team deathmatch and bombing run. Don’t feel like getting your butt kicked, or there isn’t anyone else on the servers? Well don’t worry, Crust has you covered. Just like the cave flyer’s of old, there is a co-operative option, where two players can get their hands on the one device, and pilot two ships through story mode or battle in deathmatch. Having that other player certain does help on some of those difficult levels. The only problem is trying to play co-op on an iPhone can be a little tricky. The screen is so tiny, that trying to both look for tiny enemies within the cave becomes tricky. The iPad however, now there is some fun. Sitting across from each other at a café, next to each other on a plane or bus, hell, even in a lecture theatre with the volume off. The co-op mode for Crust was a serious win for me, although I am yet to play in any of those places, I now have the option.
Visuals and Audio
Crust keeps with the visual style of classic cave fighters. The design is very minimalistic, focusing instead of the construction of a navigable labyrinth rather than a scenic world. But it works. However, Nordic Mobile Labs have, unlike a lot of iOS games, decided to not use retro pixels. They take the design principles of 1990’s game design, and update it to take full advantage of both the iPhone and the iPad’s retina display. There has been obvious attention given to creating a unique series of maps, each different from the last, to keep the player engaged. The audio follows a similar fashion, of updated retro-aesthetic. The muffled radio signals, the hyperbolic explosions – this is definitely a game you will want to play with the volume on.
Overall
Crust is a difficult game. Getting blown up, and perhaps even the act of navigating map after map may become tiresome. Of course, there are always multiplayer modes, if that is your sort of thing. Despite the gameplay being slightly repetitive, it is an ambitious effort from newcomer iOS developers Nordic Mobile Labs. The game is well designed, and I really enjoy the co-operative element using split screens. If you don’t think it’s worth the small price of $2.99, then at least download the Lite version, Crust is surely worth a moment of your time.
Allow Tommy Jacob, creative director of Ghost Recon Future Soldier’s Multiplayer to talk you through the new adversarial mode in the latest trailer for the game.
As well as the new maps and weapons that come with the Arctic Strike Map Pack DLC, a new mode is unlocked for competitive multiplayer called Stockade. Hopefully this can add a new tactical depth to the shooter with something different to the modes shipped with the game.
As well as on the three new maps – Riot, Evicted, and Skyline – the Stockade gametype will be playable on the rest of the maps that shipped with the game.
Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns Developer: Marvelous Entertainment Inc. Publisher: Rising Star Games Platform: 3DS (reviewed), DS Release Date:29th June Price: £29.99 – Available Here
Overview:
Arriving as the umpteenth Harvest Moon game but the first on 3DS, Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns needed to find another slightly different way to do the same thing. Its gimmick: the titular ‘Two Towns’. Most Harvest Moon games let you grow crops, others allowed you to rear animals, and a number of them encouraged you to do both. Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns is different in that both aspects of farming are present, but you are forced to choose between the life of a livestock farmer or an agricultural farmer from the very beginning when the mayors of the two towns of Bluebell and Konohana ask where you’ll be staying.
Story:
As the Harvest Goddess explains to you, relations between Bluebell and Konohana are strained. A long time age their relationship couldn’t have been better; Bluebell was yin to Konohana’s yang, the two types of farming complemented each other and a tunnel through the mountain promoted prosperity through the townsfolk trading and socialising amongst themselves.
But some things were said which shouldn’t have been said until they came to the conclusion they didn’t want to see each other anymore. The Harvest Goddess closed off the mountain underpass and many years down the line the two towns still don’t get along, a though it’s tradition more than anything else, and while there is still access going over the mountain, the only time they tend to come together now is for a food festival on top of the mountain.
It’s this food festival that the whole game revolves around. You may have thought the theme was rearing animals or growing crops, but in actual fact these are just ways of cultivating ingredients for the cooking event. Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns sees an extra emphasis put on cooking; no longer is it just a method to recover some of your stamina. As the plucky young farmer tasked with improving relations between the two settlements by the Harvest Goddess, you use this regular food festival (which takes the format of a competition, with a new category of dish each week) to piece together the old friendship.
Gameplay:
When the game starts out and the townsfolk are doing their introductory waffle and explaining the various processes, it can be hard to see how Harvest Moon can be described as addictive. And then it gets its hooks in. Once you’ve got past the ‘how to’s, the meetings and the greetings, this small virtual safe haven can get a hold on you. There’s something about it that appeals to the hoarder in each of us, a satisfaction to converting a crop watered everyday for five days into hard-earned gold, becoming rich in the process.
As your wealth grows, so does the scale of your operation. As an agricultural farmer, you plant a wider range of seeds and have a larger crop yield as you go on. Or if you are a livestock farmer, you can breed your animals by leaving them with the Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns equivalent of the daycare lady in Pokemon. Upgrading your horse and cart so it can carry more will help with running errands also.
Although it mostly comes back to cooking and the food festival, there are lots of different elements to gameplay like in other Harvest Moon titles. As well as a farming sim it’s a village sim, so in addition to caring for livestock and harvesting crops (there is the option to swap farming disciplines should you regret your first choice), interacting with the towns’ inhabitants can potentially fill some of your time. The more you talk to them the more you’ll get to know their favourite things, so you’ll know what gifts to give them if you’re looking to get in someone’s good books or woo a spouse. They also set you errands to keep you busy, and although it isn’t the most exciting part of the game owing to the dull dialogue and limited character animation, the odd-looking cast is charming it its own way.
There is some exploring to be done, as the mountain path constitutes for the wilderness, offering a space big enough to create a mild sense of adventure initially but small enough to get to grips with fairly quickly. God knows what kind of ecosystem it is as there’s everything from monkeys to ducks to bears lurking out there, but it provides a good spot for fishing and bug-catching, two other past times in the world of Harvest Moon, and for scavenging for resources such as cooking ingredients.
Visuals & Audio:
The game may not make full use of what the 3DS is capable of, but it has no problem creating a visually inviting world nevertheless. A bright palette of colours and two very different themed towns cover the graphics front, and it’s surprising how, despite being simple, techniques such as the one used atop the mountain for a sense of scale and a pretty backdrop. The music remains almost constant throughout, a cheery jungle you would expect from such a title. It’s unobtrusive enough not to grow irritating too hastily.
Overall:
Based in a setting that doesn’t do too much to shake up the tried and tested formula for Harvest Moon, The Tale of Two Towns doesn’t make for a particularly special Harvest Moon game, with more appeal for first timers than those familiar with the franchise. It has the balance of menial, everyday tasks and the overall goal of uniting the two towns, as well as plenty of accumulating and upgrading stuff and expanding your repertoire or recipes, even if the bed-at-the-end-of-the-day save system doesn’t make it a game you could play on the go. The fact that nothing really happens will put some people off, but those looking to lead the simple (virtual) life, this cute village sim has been around the black and knows its cows from its bulls.
Welcome back for this week’s iOS Game Suggestions. If you missed or are new to the suggestions, click on the link below and check what cool games you should be picking up for your iOS along with the introduction and disclaimer on how the suggestions work. (suggestions 1 has the disclaimer and how it all works)
Another quite week on iTunes, as always it started slow and also ended slow, but as always there certainly is a few must buy games this week in all departments, FREE, 99c and over 99c. This week i’ve suggested a total of 18 great quality titles.
Break down below :
6 – FREE Games 5 – $0.99c Games 7 – Over $0.99c Games
As always for this week’s suggestions are all new titles that you should take a look at and consider spending your hard earned iTunes cash / time on. Well the Free games just below should all be given a shot as they are FREE!
For The Cheapskates – FREE GAMES
Mutant Roadkill – Price : FREE – Publisher – Glu Games (Race through an apocalyptic wasteland overrun with mutants and other hazards! Blast your way through city ruins as you try to escape a world overrun with danger. Drive as far as you can and compete against the world on the online leaderboards! Can you make it out alive? Intuitive tilt and swipe controls make driving and shooting easy! ) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Fishing Superstars – Price : FREE – Publisher – GAMEVIL (Experience the most dynamic fishing experience on your mobile device! Go fishing in the most tranquil and exotic fishing locations of the world and see if you have what it takes to be the Fishing Superstar. Boast your fish in the Hall of Fame or grow them in your very own aquarium. With the most realistic touch and balancing controls, cast out your fishing rod and reel ‘em in!) on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Feudal – Price : FREE – Publisher –IS Intelligent Solutions (Very fun game that allows you to interact with all your friends that play this amazing game. You can decelerate the war to all people that you want. Winning the war you can request for tribute from the opponent, but if you lose… you got to pay to your enemy with your game resources.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Pet Hospital HD – Price : FREE – Publisher –Toy Box (Open and run your very own Pet Hospital! Decorate it with lots of cute backgrounds, upgrade your equipment, and hire more doctors and nurses for help as you become more and more successful! Treat and care for all sorts of cute animals! Ask for some help from different doctors and nurses to cure and treat the pets! Cute and lovable pets and their owners! Choose from many stunning backgrounds! FUN mini games for you to earn MORE coins!) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Pocket Army – Price : FREE – Publisher – Pine Entertainment (Play with your friends, build your army and lead them in frantic real-time battle against evils of ever increasing power. Pocket Army brings together army-building, RPG elements, hack and slash action quests, and friend competition, resulting in an engaging gameplay experience.) on iPhone & iPad. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
Jelly Jumpers – Price : FREE – Publisher –Chillingo (Jump Jellies Jump! You love jelly, right? You love jumping? Then what are you waiting for, grab Jelly Jumpers and get tapping! Get as high as you can in this high-jumping, high-scoring game. Choose your jelly hero and leap skyward, sticking to rotating platforms and putting together high-scoring combos.) runs on iPad & iPhone. GET IT NOW FOR FREE
For The Bargain Hunters – 99c Games
Sly Fox – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Chillingo (Mmm…chicken. Play as the inventive—and very hungry—black fox as you attempt to plunder the farm of all it’s chicken-y goodness! Fly around each stage and pluck the chickens up by swooping down from above. Use your head to get to those hard to reach hens and beat the timer!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Follow The Rabbit – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Armor Games (Follow the Rabbit on a wild chase in this addictive casual game. Hop, Dodge and Fly through 5 worlds and over 100 levels of imaginative and brain teasing game play. Collect the Coins dropped by the mysterious Rabbit and unlock new challenges. Wind your way past Bats, Cannons and Angry Villagers who block your way and defy the most persistent enemy of all… gravity.) runs on iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
Wannabat – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Vitusoft (A town in Brazil. Silva was born in this town, and when he retired, he did so as a major league baseball legend. Now, he is back, after 15 years. Disappointed that his townsfolk have hardly an interest in baseball, he decides to hold a tournament called “Baseball Showdown,” a one-on-one style baseball competition, in order to stir up some excitement for baseball. “Baseball Showdown” attracts many people looking to try their shot at winning the huge prize money, with poor youths making up the bulk of the contestants. The one-on-one style baseball tournament kicks off. It is their last hope out. ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Mega Kart Madness Battle Racing Game – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – Mega Rock (One of the CRAZIEST Racing Games to hit the App Store this year! Fans of Nintendo’s classic “Mario Kart” will love this MEGA FUN, addictive cartoon racing title. Challenge your friends via Facebook.. Multiplayer action with up to 4 friends! Beautiful retina graphics! Smash the competition with INSANE Power Ups!) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Gyro The Robot – Price : $0.99 – Publisher – LanziVision (Your home world Pax is under attack, and it’s up to you to save it. Take control of Gyro in this epic adventure across the galaxy. Using unique physics, Gyro the Robot allows you to control and manipulate gravity to your advantage. Help Gyro collect energy, upgrade his weapons, and save Pax by destroying the Vorag horde. Pax needs your help, are you ready?) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
For The Millionaires – All games over $0.99
MasterAbbott’s over 99c Pick Of The Week!
The Dark Knight Rises – Price : $7.49 – Publisher – Gameloft (The epic conclusion to filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy arrives on iPhone and iPad in the exclusive video game inspired by the movie. After being gone for eight years, Bruce Wayne gets back into action as Batman. Waiting for him are the mysterious Selina Kyle, and Bane, a lethal adversary on a crusade to tear apart Batman’s legacy piece by piece. Meet all of Batman’s allies and regain your strength to protect Gotham City from Bane. Become completely immersed in the story thanks to likenesses of all the movie’s main characters like Catwoman, Lucius Fox and Commissioner Gordon.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Party Wave – Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Mistwalker Corporation (“Party wave” A phrase you may have heard in the crystal blue ocean as several locals catch a wave. Jump into the water and join the surfers for an epic ride. The objective of this game is to guide the surfers to catch a wave and avoid the obstacles. Touch the surfers to make them turn and jump so they won’t wipe out. Can you dodge the dolphins and sea turtles and continue surfing? Can you get closer to the mermaids sisters for a surprise? ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
Fur Fighters: Viggo On Glass – Price : $1.99 – Publisher – Muffin Games. (The critically acclaimed classic retro adventure ‘Fur Fighters’ comes to iOS. When nature calls, shoot it! Introducing the Fur Fighters, an elite squad of six animated animal commandos on a quest to rescue their families and save the free world! The malevolent fat-cat General Viggo has kidnapped the Fur Fighters’ families and mutated them for his own fiendish ends. Now it’s up to you, playing as all six animal liberators, to knock the fluff out of Viggo’s army of dimwitted bears, save your babies and rescue the planet from the claws of evil.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
The Secret of Moonwall Palace – Viva La Future Revolution HD– Price : $2.99 – Publisher – The Moonwalls (The ancient race able to destroy the Emperor truly exists… It awaits its moonlit awakening, hidden deep underneath the Emperor’s palace – in a place that officially doesn’t even exist. What secrets are kept there? How potent are the powers of the ancients? It’s up to Martin to find out. Fighting against time, the military forces loyal to the Emperor and fanatic rebels on the other side, he must find his family before it’s too late… ) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
My Little Plane– Price : $1.99 – Publisher – VOLV (Engage a world Air Combat now! Take off your egg plane with advanced technology to crush your enemies and get more XPs to level up! Compete with your friends and experience the best attractive 3D aerial battle! Collect more coins and credits to upgrade your super weapons!) runs on iPad. BUY NOW
Great Big War Game– Price : $2.99 – Publisher – Rubicon (A tap and swipe turn-based strategy game with a huge sense of humor, featuring funny cartoon military units set in a stunning fictional world. “Great Big War Game” is the much anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed “Great Little War Game”. (See what we did there?) With a greatly expanded single player campaign, brand new online multiplayer and a whole raft of other cool new stuff, there’s plenty to please that 2.5 million strong player base.) runs iPad & iPhone. BUY NOW
CRC Pro-Cycling – Price : $5.49 – Publisher – BillyGoat Entertainment. (Take to the roads in this fast paced, arcade cycling experience from ChainReactionCycles.com and BillyGoat Entertainment. Keep hydrated as you speed through city centres and rolling hills on a host of challenging circuits. Beat the competition to unlock new bikes and gear (including equipment from Vitus and Mavic). Challenge computer controlled competitors or a friend (via Bluetooth) to a road race, or enter a time trial and compete against the clock. Shaving legs prior to playing is optional.) runs on iPhone & iPad. BUY NOW
There you have it folks, these games should keep you busy for quite some time, well till next week at least. I’ll be back next week for another dose of iOS goodness, in the meantime if anyone would also like to suggest their own suggestions, please feel free to share them in the comments section below or in the iOS forum section on the site here.
Konami has announced that the first demo of Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 will be released on July 25 on the Playstation Network, Xbox Live and on PC via www.konami-pes2013.com. This date is for Europe and Australia. The demo will allow players to experience PES FullControl, where players are given total control over every pass, shot and the first touch with the ball. Similarly, Pro-Active AI ensures that players move intelligently both on and off the ball.
The demo will contain the international teams of Germany, England, Portugal, and Italy and South American clubs Santos FC, SC International, Fluminense and Flamengo. The demo allows any difficulty setting to be used and localised language settings for all European languages. Konami have also released a trailer for the demo. The full game will be available just in time for the new season, Spring 2012.
THQ has uploaded the final part of a behind the scenes featurette on Darksiders II on to Youtube. This final instalment in the Behind the Mask series features input from some of the main people responsible for the development of Darksiders II.
Vigil discusses skill trees, magic, and nearly limitless loot, mixed with fast-paced combat. In the words of producer Ryan Stefanelli, “it’s a game made for gamers by gamers”, and it’s looking pretty incredible thus far. The video features footage of the game, including fights with massive creatures from the underworld. Keep an eye out for a glimpse at a War vs Death face-off.
The Dark Knight Rises Studio: Legendary Pictures, Syncopy Films, DC Comics Publisher: Warner Bros Pictures Format: Cinema Release Date: July 16, 2012
Overview
In his Batman trilogy Christopher Nolan has done what many would call impossible, rid the public of the image of the campy, Bat-suit-nippled Batman and given it instead an incredibly dark hero.
Dark is the key word above all else when talking about Nolan’s creation, it started off dark, got even darker, and the last film seems to vanish completely into that darkness. Which is ironic, since it talks about hope a lot of the time. Nolan seems to have gotten so preoccupied with darkness, and giving the audience a sense of just how tortured everything is, that it lacks the emotional heart and push to keep it going. It has lost that spark that made The Dark Knight a truly epic movie, in it’s place there is instead a sulking Bruce Wayne, a strong political message, and characters that are left undeveloped in favour of a complex storyline.
Story
The Dark Knight Rises is full of plenty of political commentary, with particular focus on what Occupy Wall Street was all about. And with a very unsubtle use of New York as the stage of Gotham, and a president calling it America’s ‘finest city’ (which I never knew, I always thought Gotham was meant to be a blemish, even after it’d been all ‘cleaned up’), it is no surprise Nolan took this route.
The movie is blatantly punishing on the greedy and rich, while not really all that much about the poor. In the past there has always been that part of the movie where you root for the people of Gotham, but to be honest no such part came up in this movie. There was a certain emotional nature lacking, that thing that really draws you in. For The Dark Knight, that was the Joker and the legitimate tragic love story between Wayne and Rachel Dawes. There is a vague attempt at love stories, although neither is capturing nor all that believable, it seems to be inserted just for the sake of it. And, with a three-hour movie, having the feeling that there still isn’t enough development behind a storyline is not something you want to have.
The movie is intended to have several twists and turns that leave you breathless (a Nolan favourite, to be sure), however these are either quite unsubtly winked at earlier in the film, or they aren’t really that impactful because of a lack of investment. The movie is just spread too thin to really allow the impact of what could have been a really great turn around.
Anne Hathaway plays a Catwoman far better than we’ve seen in past reincarnations. She takes on the cynical smirks just as well as the emotional moments that give the character more depth than usual. She may be a little softer than fans may be expecting, but again this probably comes down to story and time constraints.
Thomas Hardy takes on the role of Bane well enough, although the character remains fairly cut and dried for most of the movie. There is one particular scene in which he excels, and it is a shame that this isn’t explored further, although again time constraints. He is intended to be the main enemy for Batman, but his lack of character development leaves him far behind from Batman’s previous enemy, the Joker.
While trying to pack so many characters, so much plot, and in an effort to bring the trilogy around to a circular end, Nolan seems to have put a strain on all three parts of that. While I’m not a huge fan of two-parter finales, this may have been a movie that benefitted from extra breathing room and the ability to expand and draw the audience in more.
What also sets it apart and lacks in this movie that was present in the previous installment is, of course, Heath Ledger. His performance in the previous film was what really left an impact on people, his ability to truly absorb you in every single way. It was one of the most amazing performances, and unfortunately is not matched in this film. The performances here are good in their own way, but they do not transcend like his did, and they aren’t the sort of thing that will make people want to watch it for an actor’s performance alone.
Visuals
As was to be expected there are some epic scenes in this movie, it is Christopher Nolan after all. However, the most amazing scene that will truly take your breath away comes in the beginning of the film and all of the other seem to pale a little in comparison.
The terrorized Gotham is another strong image, and there is some truly amazing set design that goes into the city of Gotham. Explosions are plenty, as well as huge mob scenes that really deliver on that epic scale.
One little thing that kept bugging me throughout the movie, which may seem like pointless nit-picking, was Batman’s cape. It appeared to be made out of some sort of velvet-like material that contrasted terribly with the rest of his slick armour, and seemed to be constantly drawing my eye and distracting me in the fight scenes. I truly can’t recall it looking like that, and I know it seems like a small issue, but I couldn’t help but wonder why exactly it looked like something that Batman might take to bed with him if he gets cold.
Audio
The soundtrack is the same sort of blaring bass that Nolan loves to put in his movies, with the same track that was used to promote it when it first started being advertised. It aims for epic and does tend to make the hair on the back of your neck rise and give you that little tingle in your spine that reminds you that this is a Christopher Nolan film. It starts from the second that the film starts, and doesn’t stop until the film ends.
Overall
The Dark Knight Rises was probably never going to be able to live up to the hype, and maybe that’s why it feels like it has been packed with so many things that it is bursting at the seams. Don’t let this discourage you from seeing it, it certainly isn’t a bad film by any means. It just feels as if Nolan kept fretting that people wouldn’t find it epic enough so he kept trying to throw things in to convince people of it.
As a movie it suffers a few flaws, as a sequel to The Dark Knight, however, you may find it rather lacking. It just doesn’t leave you with the same feeling as the previous film did.
As with any good movie, there is always a video game spawned from it. So, with the release of The Dark Knight Rises in cinemas, a Dark Knight Rises app has been released onto the App Store. It will loosely follow the storyline of the movie, meaning that you get to meet some of the main characters like Catwoman, Lucius Fox and Commisioner Gordon. Plus, of course, Bane.
There are a whole bunch of missions, as well as some random events, in which you get to play the super hero and deal with hostage situations, bomb squads, jailbreaks and car chases. You also get to put into action an awesome fighting system with a tonne of different moves and cinematic effects. Plus, if you collect hidden items then you can also unlock upgrades and new fighting skills for Batman.
In addition to his fighting skills, you can also have access to his arsenal of weapons, such as the Grapnel or Batarang. And, the most fun part, his vehicles. Drive the Bat-Pod or pilot The Bat for the best way to get from A to B in style.
The Dark Knight Rises is available NOW for $7.49 for iPhone, iTouch and iPad. Get it HERE.
Square-Enix and United Front Games bring us a brand new behind the scenes trailer for their upcoming Hong-Kong Police Drama game, Sleeping Dogs. Players take control of the player character Wei Shen who must take down one of the largest crime syndicates from the inside out.
In this behind the scenes trailer, the developers introduce us to MMA fighter, GSP, who has assisted in creating the best combat system for use in the game. On GSP the developers had this to say –
“Having a guy who embodies what MMA is today come in and help us tweak our fighting,” commented Senior Producer Jeff O’Connell, “absolutely helped us take the game to another level.”
Be sure to check out the video, embedded below, for more info.
