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Battlefield: Bad Company 2 did it first and now Just Cause 2 has done the same; rack up over 2 million downloads of its demo. Nowadays it is very rare to have a demo for a game as most of the developers / publishers do not feel the need to expend any energy in making a demo for their games. Maybe they will give this strategy a re-think considering how well received some of the demos have been in recent times, boosting up the interest in the game as well as converting fence-sitters to day-1 buyers.
Besides chocking the bandwidth, Just Cause 2’s 35 square miles of the Panauan playground featured in the demo for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 has given us some interesting figures. Hit the jump to head to the trivia section and find out what gamers have been up to in the Just Cause 2 world since the demo hit the web on 4th March 2010.
Enjoyed playing Batman Arkham Asylum? How about giving it another spin, only this time, you get to see the action in 3D! The Xbox 360 and PS3 version of Batman Arkham Asylum Game Of The Year Edition will feature Trioviz™ 3D implementation along with two 3D glasses and a host of new features. Hit the jump to see what all will be in the box.
Coming close on the heels of the blockbuster The Dark Knight featuring the late actor, Heath Ledger’s amazingly spine-chilling portrayal of the Joker, fans could be forgiven to assume Batman: Arkham Asylum to be just another attempt to cash in on the success of the movie with a video-game tie in. Thankfully, for both gamers as well Batman fans, not only is Arkham Asylum a superbly executed game in it’s own right but also a great chance for fans of the series to romp through the grounds of the iconic Arkham Asylum as the caped crusader.
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Surprises come in many shapes and sizes but we certainly were not expecting one to resemble a pint-sized Ninja. Having been waiting for months now for any news of IO Interactive’s bald assassin, we sure had our collective eyebrows raised, when instead of Agent 47, IO decided to spring a completely brand new game, Mini Ninjas at us. Shoving away the piano wire quickly in our back-pocket, we set down to see if this undoubtedly kid-friendly looking game would keep us distracted until IO Interactive decided to let the bar-coded assassin loose. And oh-boy, were we distracted or what!
Just a day more to go before the doors to Gotham’s city’s Arkham Asylum, a “psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane” are thrown wide open for you. With the Joker at the helm, the inmates at the Arkham Asylum are hell-bent on seeing off Batman once and for all. By the looks of the demo, the game promises to be an enjoyable ride into the dark and sinister world of Arkham Asylum.
The Xbox 360 and the PS3 version of Batman: Arkham Asylum are all set to release in India on the 28th of August, 2009 at a suggested price-point of INR 2499. E-express Interactive will be handling the distribution reins in India. PC enthusiasts will have to wait for their fix a little while longer as the Games For Windows title is set to be released on 18th September, this year.
After having broken many of the first details on Tomb Raider Underworld, we’ve spent many an hour just running through Legend and Anniversary again and again, waiting for the day when we’d actually get our hands dirty with the new Lara Croft experience, which is exactly what the recently released demo allowed us to do.
A lot has changed in Underworld since Lara went berserk on Amanda and ran off to stop an impending catastrophe in Legend. Old foes, greater mysteries, harder puzzles and a tougher Lara, all dutifully take their place amongst the wonderfully detailed game world rendered brilliantly by the new engine. (Also rumoured to be powering the upcoming Deus Ex 3) But it isn’t just the engine that’s managed to get an overhaul – Lara herself has gotten an extreme makeover to win the hearts of next generation gamers – sporting a firmly toned athletic “Hot Mommy” body, a much more grittier look (modelled after gymnast Alison Carroll, who takes over from Karima Adebibe) and yes, to answer the burning question, quite sensible breasts.
I’ve forgotten how many times I’ve played the recent Tomb Raider games, Legend and Anniversary. After getting completely disillusioned with the franchise, thanks to Angel of Darkness, I was more than satisfied with Crystal Dynamics’ take on Lady Lara Croft’s adventures even though the puzzle elements left a big huge gap in Legend, (not so bad with Anniversary). And for those that were eagerly awaiting Eidos’ announcement at E2 2007 about the next game in the series in vain, there’s hope yet.
Talking to SPOnG.com, Eidos’ Ian Livingstone talked about how the next game in the series was already “Well in development” and said that the third Tomb Raider movie adaptation hasn’t yet been given the green signal yet, while gushing all over Angelina Jolie. Considering the cliffhanger with which Legend ended, and the seemingly obvious ties to the Atlantean storyline in Anniversary, the next game is something I just can’t wait for. On the other hand, if you don’t have any other console except a Wii, enjoy the first look at the Wii edition of Tomb Raider: Anniversary, which, according to senior producer Morgan Gray “adds more tomb raider to Tomb Raider”. Xbox 360 owners can expect to see Tomb Raider: Anniversary as Downloadable Content on Xbox Live sometime next month, whereas PSP, PS2 and PC owners can rush out right now and pick up their copies at stores, if you haven’t already done so.
Eidos’ Ian Livingstone On The Future of Tomb Raider [SPOnG.com]
Tomb Raider: Anniversay (Wii) – Preview Video
We all know how a lot of games keep getting remade now that the next-generation consoles are here to stay. Well, one game that’s rumoured to be getting the same treatment as Tomb Raider is none other than Warren Spector and Ion Storm’s masterpiece FPS-RPG hybrid, Deus Ex. Talking to the Canadian channel MusiquePlus, Eidos Montreal’s head honcho, Patrick Melchior confirms that the Montreal studio’s first assignment is already at work on a new Deus Ex game. While it is not known whether the game will be a “reimagining” like the upcoming Tomb Raider: Anniversary or a new game that continues the story from the end of Invisible War, all we can really care about is that soon we will be able to play a new game in the franchise that, along with System Shock 2, literally pushed FPSes into a new direction long before games like Bioshock were even envisioned. Hell, if all else fails and they screw it up, there’s always the Deus Ex High Definition Texture Pack to give us hours upon hours of quasi-Christian exposition and blazing gun violence!
via [IGN]