Rod Land: Fairy Tale has gone through many stages and consoles, from Arcade cabinet to the NES and finally now DotEmu has released it on iOS. For those of you who want to travel back to the 90s but not sacrifice your touch controls, Rod Land is a great reboot of a classic.
You are a small fairy whose mother has been kidnapped by a giant scary crow, and you have to fight your way through 60 old-school levels to rescue her. There are two modes, story mode where you try to get the highest score and survival where you only get 5 lives to try and make it through.
As well as being a throwback, DotEmu have included modern-day features with Facebook, OpenFeint and Game Center features for your enjoyment to unlock, share and boast.
Check out the trailer below and take the trip back to good ol’ 90’s gaming!
Rod Land is available for $1.99 from the iTunes store. So go get reminiscing!
With Borderlands 2 in the works for a 2012 release, developers Gearbox want your input on the franchise. A short survey has just gone live, with a handful of questions about the things that are important to you about the game and it’s sequel. What’s most important to you about enemies? Do you want different options for vehicle control? Do you want to be able to smash that little introductory robot to smithereens?
Ok so that last one was mine, but Borderlands was a fantastic game and it’s great to see that Gearbox are going to try and take into account what the fans want from a sequel – after all, we already know there is going to be local co-op online this time around. Hand over your name and email address (totally optional) and complete the short survey to be in with a chance to win some Gearbox goodies.
Love your zombie games but keen to see what it’s like on the other side? Well you’re in luck because Infect Them All HD has arrived on iPad. Magic Cube and AQSystem has teamed up to develop this table-turning zombie game. Infect Them All HD gives you the chance to wander around with your glazed over yet threatening stare and bloody features to your heart’s content. The aim of the game is to infect and eat as many healthy humans as possible, making a contribution to the zombie apocalypse and the inevitable demise of the human race.
Fight as five types of playable zombies against over twenty enemies, in a variety of campaigns and modes such as Infinite, Survival and Blitz.
While the team over at HotGen have been in the kitchen busily preparing a sequel to their amazing iOS title, To-Fu: The Trials of Chi, they have also managed to dish out a deal for those of you who have yet purchase the original. For a very limited time, To-Fu: The Trials of Chi will be free on the App Store. Get in quick while this offer is around, this is a game you don’t want to miss. The sequel, To-Fu 2 is due out on Thursday 8th of September. Check out the trailer for HotGen’s brand new game below, or you can also read our review of the original To-Fu, or interview with To-Fu developer here at Capsule Computers.
Following from the slight kerfuffel on Microsofts behalf regarding the official release date of Guardian Heroes for XBLA, Sega have come forward and announced a new release date for the title. Originally seen on the old Sega Saturn, Guardian Heroes will return to XBLA on October 12th much to manies delight.
Guardian Heroes is a massively popular side scroller, which upon initial release received praise from all facets of the gaming industry. From its innovative style of play through to the magically crafted music, Guardian Heroes compiled a huge fan base who will delight in its HD upgrade.
Guardian Heroes will be available through XBLA and will cost 800 MP or $10 in real money so check out the trailer and get a glimpse of what will be a fantastic and nostalgic journey.
Golf is just one of those sports, either you like it or you hate it. Personally I can’t stand watching golf, I like sports that make you get on your knees and yell insults and get your blood pumping. Maybe when I’m older I’ll enjoy golf for its peacefulness and soft golf claps. Golf simulation games, however, are a different story. For me they fall just below tennis, they’re easy to understand, take some tactical planning, and I get into them far more than team sports.
Gameplay
For me the most difficult part of Real Golf was choosing my golfer. Real Golf comprises of a selection of Real Golfers from a variety of countries. Since there was no Tiger Woods or any other golfers I knew (my golf knowledge is limited to Tiger Woods, Greg Norman and Stuart Appleby) I decided to go with the only Aussie in the lineup, Karrie Webb. I seem to have made a great choice with Karrie Webb, out of all the chicks she’s got the best drive and there’s nothing I love more than driving that tiny ball down the range. That may be because I suck at putting.
The game consists of several different modes, Instant play, Career mode, Challenge and Free play. Instant play lets you choose a golfer and then you play three holes on three different courses depending on which golfer you picked. Career mode involves you participating in tournaments (which vary in rules and length) around the world as provided by your handy little Real Golf Inbox. Challenges are self-explanatory, there are challenges that you either pass or fail. Some are easy; some are the most annoying things of all time – as with most challenges. Free play pretty much just lets you go through all the holes of a particular course and drive, putt and recover to your little heart’s content, in total there are ten courses which you have to unlock as you go.
The controls are pretty standard for a golf simulation. First you choose your club (I tended to skip this as I have no idea what the difference between any of those are, but it didn’t seem to affect my game too much which was good), then where you’re aiming, the power of your swing, and where you hit the ball – or if you hit it at all. There’s also a wind-meter but I never found that to be too effective either. The game makes it pretty straight forward, the power meter has a little flag as a reference to what power you should aim for, there’s another big yellow arrow to show you where to aim your drive, and the centre of the ball where you should hit it is the green part of the meter.
Putting is the most annoying part of the game for me, at first there is a grid with a line that shows you the path the ball will take and then you can aim the ball accordingly. As with all putting there are those near misses that will make you want to tear your hair out, but the biggest issue that really annoyed me was that there was a huge lag when it came to a ball being sunk. Not all the time, but half the time the game would freeze a couple times for a few seconds as the ball would stagger its way to the hole.
Playing competition mode, or just against any other characters, can be frustrating because you have to watch each player line up his or her swing. There is a ‘next’ button which fast-forwards from there to where their ball landed but if you’re playing through several holes you get tired of watching and waiting for others to finish their turn.
There is also a multiplayer version where you can either play online or create your own LAN room to compete against people you know. To be honest, I’ve always seen golf as a fairly solitary sport, but for those of you who would like to get their competitive spirit on, I encourage you to give it a go.
Visual
Visually, as with most animated Real people, it’s pretty shocking. The golfing greens and whatnot are fine, but the people are this awkward mess of angles that move unnaturally and don’t swing a club in a believable way. When you take a far shot the angle will change from behind the golfer to shooting from the hole and follow the ball in a way that isn’t necessary because you can’t see the thing anyway.
Audio
Real Golf 2011’s backing soundtrack absolutely screams golf game. The music wouldn’t have worked with anything else, either it was written for the game or chosen out of the variations of golf game soundtracks there already are.
Conclusion
Despite lag and graphic issues, Real Golf 2011 is still a decent golf game. It’s fun and a bit addictive, the career mode and challenges give you enough to do while also making you want to play through and earn that Real Golf cash.
The time has finally come for the return of Rayne in Majesco and Wayforward’s Bloodrayne Betrayal. Today officially marks the release of the PSN version, which means those with the console can log in and download the full game as of now with the Xbox Live Arcade version launching tomorrow. Both of these releases will be priced nearly the same for both platforms, with the bloody side-scroller being priced at $14.99 for the PSN, and 1200 points for the XBLA.
Now if you have by chance been living under a rock and haven’t heard of Bloodrayne Betrayal as of yet, this game puts players in the role of the world-famous Dhampir Rayne as she infiltrates a secluded castle to put a stop to an evil master’s sinister plot. The last time Wayforward and Majesco got together for a re-imagining, we seen the simply delightful Boy and His Blob hit the Wii. While that title is far away from that with the over-the-top hack and slash action we see here (I really doubt there is a “hug” button”, the quality and retro vibe that have been displayed thus far have made Bloodrayne Betrayal shape up to be one of the most anticipated and promising downloadable titles to come out this year. So go! Download! Make a bloody mess, and keep an eye out for our review which is coming soon.
There is a good chance if you read the heading on this article, you might be a bit confused as glass slippers really don’t mesh too well with the upcoming Supremacy MMA. The Glass Slipper is actually a strip club though which will act as an extra level for players to beat eachother’s brains out in. This level will only be available to those who pre-order at Gamestop locations and will also offer up some roster expansion in the form of undefeated Strikeforce icon Shane Del Rosario.
This “slipper” seems to be a perfect fit for the brutal MMA title, and with the lovely dancers in the background there is sure to be many who house this area as their fighting setting of choice. With that said, there is only two weeks left until Supremacy MMA knocks it’s way out on to the PS3 and Xbox 360 (September 20th, to be exact), so it would be a good idea to run out and lock in a pre-order while this promotion is still active. You can see both Rosario and the new location on full display in a brand new trailer that 505 released earlier today down below.
Circle November 2 if you are anticipating the release of the Playstation 3DTV… if you live in Japan. Sony has narrowed down the November release date for the TV. It will sell for US$499.99 and you will receive a pair of 3D glasses, a HDMI cable and a copy of Motorstorm: Apocalypse. Pre-order before September 30 and receive an extra game, Resistance 3, which sees a release this week. Extra glasses will set you back US$69.99
The TV features SimulView technology, using the 3D effect to display each player a separate screen, which rids of the half screens of the split screen. The TV is also a perfect companion for you cable TV and can be used as a PC monitor.
Below, you may notice a video. This is the commercial for the TV which is now airing, showing off the various features, including SimulView.
Earlier today Konami released a new video that details all of the different game mechanics that players will be using when Blades of Time is released next year. There is of course your standard fighting with a sword and gun but also you can see a number of other features as well, namely the time-rewind that players will be using.
Time-rewind is going to be used for puzzle mechanics as well as for combat, as you can see in the trailer below. The time-rewind ability allows players to make clones of Ayumi and allow her to fight alongside herself against stronger enemies such as a boss. While Gaijin Entertainment is still at the helm for Blades of Time, it is not a sequel to X-Blades but more of a completely separate title with the relatively same looking and same named heroine Ayumi.
