A few months after Jesse McCartney, the American voice of Sora, leaked this in twitter;
Recording yet another Kingdom Hearts Game. All you Gamers eat your heart out! Man what a process tho. First recordin was in 2005 for game 1.
Square Enix has finally addressed that Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep will be coming to American shores “this Summer.” This game is supposedly a prequel to all the current Kingdom Hearts games, adding yet more backstory to the origins of the heartless and Organization XIII, yet not extending the story past Kingdom Hearts 2.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep is exclusively for the PSP. You will be playing through as three different main characters named; Terra, Ventus, and Aqua. Only one of which has made any type of appearance before in the past games. Expect even more Disney worlds and characters to make an appearance as well. The announcement reveals Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Lilo and Stitch being linked to this game.
The released story so far can be read below;
Long before Sora was chosen by his Keyblade, the worlds’ safety lay in the hands of Keyblade Masters. Three youths — Terra, Ventus, and Aqua — have been training long and hard under Master Eraqus to prove that they, too, exhibit the Mark of Mastery. But they will soon find themselves in the middle of a crisis affecting worlds far beyond their own—just as another Keyblade Master, Xehanort, goes mysteriously missing.
Three friends, three destinies. Everything will link back to the beginning.
Sounds quite interesting, though I am still disapointed that they have yet to expand on the actual storyline and continue to focus on the beginning and the middle. Though they’ve also only been focusing on portable titles, instead of a console release, so that could also be the reason. Anyone else feel differently about this?
The brand new Dragon Age: Origins release is just around the corner. Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening is a complete expansion to the original Dragon Age: Origins, taking place months after the battle at the finale of the previous game.
This expansion will include a completely different storyline, with five new party members and an old face making a return. As well as increasing the level cap from the previous game, adding in new skills, abilities, brand new items, and a new origin story. The expansion will also offer the ability to import your previous character from Dragon Age: Origins. However no DLC equipment or skills will be imported alongside your character, and since this occurs after Origins, you may not take your character back in time to play DLC from Origins.
The story revolves around the gray wardens and their attempt to rebuild the order after the end of the blight. However the darkspawn are not gone, and suddenly they have grown more intelligent, able of speech and planning. With new members and a new origin story, you must travel forth as one of the sole gray wardens left alive to do battle with this unknown foe known only as the “Architect”
This expansion pack to the original DA:O will run at the price of $39.99, and can be played as a stand alone title for the 360 and the PS3, however requires DA:O to be previously installed on the PC version of the game.
Personally I am quite excited about this. After playing through DA:O multiple times, playing this extension should be amazing. Plus I can’t wait to see who the returning character from DA:O will be. It’ll be interesting to see how long the story will turn out to be, and when the time comes for Dragon Age: Origins 2, or possibly “Dragon Age: The Middle,” will our choices and actions in this expansion also be reflected? Or will it be completely stand alone.
Most of you might now Kevin Butler he’s a very funny guy, he’s done quite a few really cool Playstation 3 commercials. This one is particularly very funny as he’s taking the piss out of both Nintendo and Microsoft.
Check it out as Kevin comes to you from the future to talk to us about the Playstation Move !! yes thats right the future .. where real gamers use buttons to play first person shooters 😉
Enjoy the commercial 🙂
Classic … who else enjoyed this 🙂 I certainly did … LOL
Atlus has supplied their viewers a video walkthrough explaining certain aspects of the game. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this informative video on 3d dot heroes.
This game is looking better and better! Anyone else looking forward to it?
The game clearly takes influence from multiple other games, but is it original enough to be fun?
I just have 1 thing to say: “That is one big sword!!”
The game will release May 11th in North America for the super low price of $39.99
Ubisoft is releasing a Splinter Cell: Conviction demo onto the Xbox Live marketplace tomorrow! Leading up to the game’s upcoming release on April 13th.
The demo will only spoil a small amount of the game so I would really recommend giving the demo a download. For it has been told that the demo will show many new features added to Conviction that are different from the past Splinter Cell games.
Alex Parizeau, one of the producers for SC: Conviction was quoted saying:
“The biggest thing you’ll see when playing the demo is the change of pace. The stealth-action dynamic is fast paced and very different from the past.”
It seems that the game has been given an extreme reboot and will involve much more action, and less stealth. With combinations of the two coming into play. Let us know what you think of the demo when you get it guys? Do you like the way the series is going, or do you prefer how it used to be?
Part three in the Red Dead Redemption Gameplay Series of videos, “Life In The West” takes a deeper look at the struggle for survival on the frontier, from the everyday activities of life on the land such as breaking horses and herding cattle, to the use of stagecoaches and trains for fast travel.
The video tours you through life in the rapidly expanding town of Blackwater in the North, to the forts across the frontier of New Austin, to the towns of a Mexico rocked by revolution in the border territories of Nuevo Paraiso.
Watch and discover the people, places and activities that populate the vast and beautiful world of Red Dead Redemption.
Let us know what you think of this cool video. Who’s excited about Red Dead Redemption
Did you buy the normal version of Alien vs Predator only to realize that the special edition came with four special DLC maps that were only included in that edition? Well we have some good news for you, tomorrow March 18th these maps are going to become available for download, though the price is going to be 560 Microsoft points, or $7.
The map pack will include 4 different maps. Two of these maps, called Docks and Machine, are incorporated in the six competitive battle modes. While the other two maps called Outpost and Hive, will place a team of human players fighting against a hoard of Aliens attacking the base, and then inside of an Alien breeding hive. Sounds vaguely like hoard mode for GoW2.
This seems to be a common trend now, though the price may be more later, bonus DLC is being released for everyone, not just those that sprung for the special edition of the game. This is a good thing, but also hurts the consumer that only bought the basic copy, because if they were to want the full experience, they would still have to purchase these maps for more money than they were willing to spend in the first place.
Many people are conversing with this twitter account and Sam Fisher has responded to a few, albeit vague and confusing responses. What mission is so secretive that you tweet about it? (I’m pretty sure there is some form of irony present here)
Follow him if you have a twitter account, and enjoy his ramblings about a mission. Hopefully his phone’s backlight doesn’t give away his position as he wait for the enemy to pass by.
Also, Splinter Cell: Conviction demo comes out tomorrow in North America, enjoy yourselves and join Sam Fisher in his mission.
Perfect Dark Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios Developer: Rare Platforms: Xbox 360 Release Date: March 17th, 2010
Story “Agent Joanna Dark hit the ground running in Perfect Dark, an epic tale of galactic conspiracies in 2023 America. Now this classic shooter comes to Xbox LIVE Arcade, rendered in greater definition and detail and sporting a silkier framerate than ever before. Fire up your Farsight and prepare for assignment—the Dark returns…” [via Xbox.com]
The year is 2023, you play as agent Joanna Dark and must unveil the conspiracy that is surrounding the artifacts. Go through levels with guns blazing as you take out humans, aliens, and everything in between.
Joanna Dark is the perfect operative, hence the name Perfect Dark. With an arsenal of weapons and gadgets at your side it is up to you to save the world.
Gameplay This XBLA game is an exact port of the original Perfect Dark, so everything in the original is exactly the same in this port. There are a few extras, but the overall gameplay is exactly the same. Perfect Dark is a first person shooter that relies heavily on auto aim. Due to Perfect Dark originally being released on the N64 precision control wasn’t easily achieved and thus auto aim was mandatory. If you want you can turn off the auto aim, but the game becomes even harder if you do.
Every level has three different difficulties, but unlike a normal game you must play all the other previous levels at the harder difficulty in order to unlock that difficulty on later levels. Harder difficulties increase the speed at which an enemy reacts as well as the damage they do. Extra objectives are also added that gives you extra things to do. This makes the game even harder when the description of the objective is extremely vague. There is no radar or nav point to tell you where to go, so every objective must be completed by using your exploration skills as well as your skills of deduction.
Even the unlockable cheat codes have been ported over, all those codes that you played so hard to unlock in the original are available for you to unlock again in the XBLA version. 4J studios have added 31 new unlockable awards for you to work towards. These awards are like in game achievements, but are extremely difficult to get unless you look them up on the internet. The reason they are so difficult is because there isn’t much clue as to how to unlock them other than their name. Some examples are the “Magnum P.D.”, “Tick Tick…Boom”, and “Can’t touch this” awards. All you have is the name, and you must figure out what to do to get them.
There is also many multiplayer gametypes to play with your friends or the world. The Co-op enables you and a friend to go through the levels together. Counter-Op enables you to go through the level, while your friend plays as the enemies to try and stop you. Finally there is online multiplayer, where you can go against up to 8 people over Xbox Live. Sims are also available for local multiplayer, but unlike the original you no longer have to play only locally.
GamePlay Video Some Notes on the video Below:
I start off going through Carrington institute; everything has been ported including background info, cheats, and simulation training.
Due to time restraints I have to pretty much run through the first level on the easiest setting.
As you can see, I ran through all the other levels in order to get all the avatar awards. This did help show that in order to get the achievement for beating the game on every difficulty; you will have to beat each level 3 times. I got the achievement after beating the first level again on the easiest setting, since I did that level initially on the hardest.
As you can see, auto aim was enabled; you can turn it off in the options.
Each weapon has a secondary fire mode, the pistols secondary fire is a pistol whip.
On the easiest setting the game is quite easy, but the more difficult settings are quite hard since they add more objectives and harder enemies.
Graphics The game has been ported to the XBLA with everything from the original game intact, gameplay, secret areas, unlockable cheats; as well as a hand full of new Xbox live features. The game has gotten a graphical overhaul though. Everything visual has been redone. The original full game beautifully restored and back in full HD, 1080p at 60 frames per second!
Achievements – 20 achievements for 200 gamerscore.
The achievement list is almost completely comprised of random achievements. There are 4 achievements related to the missions but they are only worth 55 of the total 200 achievement points. The rest of the achievements will require you to do specific tasks that are not part of the story. Such as completing the challenges and getting all bronze at the shooting range. Then there are a few multiplayer achievements but they can all be done local with another controller. The hardest one is the new crown system which comprises of 31 miscellaneous in game achievements that have no other hint of how to complete it other than the name. The achievements list comprises of a whole bunch of random achievements that should keep you playing for a long time to get them all.
Perfect Dark also includes 2 avatar awards:
Perfect Aim – Kill any enemy with a headshot (This will happen by accident)[Perfect Dark Shirt]
Top Secret – Complete any Special Assignment on any difficulty. [Alien (Elvis) Doll Prop]
The Achievement List is:
How’s that for starters? – Complete dataDyne Central – Defection.
Both Barrels – Kill an enemy when dual-wielding.
Act your age, Joanna – Destroy Carrington’s wine collection.
Double 64 – Kill 128 enemies using secondary fire mode.
Camera Shy – Destroy 5 security cameras.
Deadly Laptop – Kill 50 enemies using the laptop in sentry gun mode.
Paci-Fist – Complete any Solo Mission on Special Agent or harder using only your fists.
Tools of the Trade – Get a Bronze rating or better with all 32 weapons in the Firing Range.
Versatile – Complete a Combat Simulator game using each of the six Scenarios.
Golden Days – Complete a Combat Simulator game on Felicity, Complex or Temple using Classic Weapons.
Prime Target – Complete every Challenge up to and including 29, the 10th Prime number.
A Friend Indeed – Complete any mission in Co-operative Mode.
…Who needs enemies? – Complete any mission in Counter-Operative Mode.
dataDyne Specialist – Kill at least one enemy with each of the dataDyne weapons.
Carrington Institute Specialist – Kill at least one enemy with each of the Carrington Institute weapons.
Maian Specialist – Kill at least one enemy with each of the Maian weapons.
Agent – Complete the Solo Missions on Agent.
Special Agent – Complete the Solo Missions on Special Agent.
Perfect Agent – Complete the Solo Missions on Perfect Agent.
Crowning Glory – Earn all the Leaderboard Crowns.
Overview
Perfect Dark on the XBLA is a blast from the past that any Perfect Dark fan will love. All the extra touches you came to love are still included within the game, such as the unlockable cheats. There is so much in this package and for the price of 800MSP it would be hard for anyone to pass up; 2 gamerpics, 2 avatar awards (3 if you count the different genders of shirt as 2), and a theme. I give Perfect Dark for the XBLA 9 capsules out of 10.
Pros
This Classic Port is very well done, and keeps all the stuff that was great about the original while making it HD.
2 gamerpics, 2 avatar awards, and a Perfect Dark theme to unlock; all within an 800MSP game.
Tons of Replayability, with 3 different difficulties, fun extras, side missions, and online multiplayer.
Cons
The AI acts extremely stupid.
The game is dark, really dark. I had to mess with my settings because I was unable to see where I was.
No sense of direction. Without a radar you can easily get lost within a level if you aren’t good at remembering landmarks within a level.
Optional
It is a port of a the classic Perfect Dark but in HD. Some people might like this, while others will not.
No checkpoints, you must beat a level completely without dying. (This could be a Pro for people who like a challenge, and a Con for those who don’t)
Even the Classic glitches were ported, for fans of the original this will bring back memories, but for newcomers it may seem like sloppy work.
Capcom’s 1942 : Joint Strike will be 50% off tomorrow (March 18th) on the Playstation 3 Network Store for only $5.50 !! THATS A SUPER BARGAIN !!
1942 has and will always be a classic, I remember playing this in the arcades back in the day. Nothing will come close to its originality and amazing gameplay for its time it was the king of the vertical shooters.
Another note : PSN store also has AGE OF BOOTY at half price as well. But this will end tomorrow. So make sure you grab it before it goes back to its normal price.
Stay tuned for the weekly Playstation Store update tomorrow for the rest of the cool deals, demos and movies 🙂
