The semi-official PS3 blog, Three Speech, released some release dates for upcoming downloadable titles from the PlayStation Store.
The first game to come will be Calling All Cars on May 18th. Shortly after, we’ll see Nucleus on May 25th. Lastly, we get Super Stardust HD on June 15th.
Good to see some new IP coming for downloadable titles.
Hit the jump for descriptions of all the games.
Calling All Cars
Almost unbelievably, this comes from the planet-sized brain of Dave Jaffe, who created God Of War. Not that it’s anything like God Of War – but it is our personal favourite of the PlayStation Store downloadable games. It’s laughable simple, with over-the-top cartoon-style graphics that will make you laugh, destructible scenery and a two-thirds view that puts you in mind of Micro Machines. Set in an area around a jail, you drive a car around in search of escaped prisoners. When you find one, you must pick him up and return him to the jail – the jail entrance you use dictates the number of points you get. But there are other cars trying to do the same – either powered by AI or other people – and question-mark signs dotted around which get you power-ups that could have been lifted from Wacky Races, like giant hammers attached to your bonnet and so on. Which enemies will use against you if you are driving a convict around, or which you can use against them. Or, if you don’t have a power-up, crashing into them will dislodge their occupant. Madcap stuff which is hugely addictive. And an absolute must-download.
Nucleus
This one isn’t entirely dissimilar to Blast Factor, in that it uses the same control system – but it’s an awful lot more elaborate and sophisticated. You pilot a tiny jellyfish-type thing, again in a sort of human-body environment (made to look as though it’s seen through a microscope). Again, you must take out bacteria, viruses, super-viruses and so on, either by clearing screens or surviving for a certain amount of time. Power-ups greatly increase your firepower and you can hide behind protein cells. Surprisingly hard, intriguing visually and sure to be a PSN hit.
Super Stardust HD
This one owes a debt to Asteroids, except you aren’t cruising randomly around space – you’re defending a series of planets from attack, and are positioned on a sort of spherical matrix above the surface of each planet. And you aren’t just dealing with asteroids – there are all manner of hostile ships and nasty enemies. But there are also plenty of power-ups to find – crystals hidden in asteroids yield them, for example, and you swiftly gain things a flame-thrower which melts enemies (and requires much less aiming precision than a conventional weapon. And as seems to be the vogue, you fire using the right analogue stick – although different power-ups do require the use of various triggers. Classic-style, yet modern-feeling, shoot-em-up action that proves pretty addictive.
