Slice and dice machete action
Valve may have pumped the hype on it’s new upcoming game Left 4 Dead 2. Pre-ordering the game allowed us to play the demo about a week ahead of releasing it to the public. As previously reported, we waited all day on Tuesday for the game to be available. The time kept getting pushed back and people were getting anxious and pissed off. Though outwardly it could be seen as a bad move on Valve’s part, the buzz was going around and people were talking. The delays pretty much fueled the human desire to want it more.
After waiting for over 24 hours Valve finally unlocked the Left 4 Dead 2 demo at around 8:00 pm EST. After restarting Steam and waiting another 20 minutes for the game to decrypt, I was finally able to play. The demo consist of two maps from “The Parish” campaign, set in the New Orleans French Quarter. It was daytime and having been to New Orleans several times, the setting was very realistic. It even had the old corner bar with a jukebox that played Jonathan Coultan – Re-Your brains. It didn’t take long for the zombies to find us and the fun to begin. The regular horde zombies come in a wide variety and when you shoot them, they really blow apart. Lot’s of blood, guts and gore, if you shoot one in the back, you can even see their backbone.
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Left 4 Dead 2 Cricket Bat
Where the hell is my Left 4 Dead2 demo?
For unknown reasons, the PC version of the Left 4 Dead 2 demo remains locked on Steam. I pre-ordered this game so I could get an exclusive cricket bat and an early look at the demo. We were told that we would get to play the demo at 2:00 pm on Tuesday Oct. 27th, then the time moved to 4:00 pm, then to 11:00 pm and then 2 am. So I set my alarm to get up at 2 am and I now learn that the demo won’t be available until later today at 4:00 pm EST. The worst part of all this, the XBox version was available at the first time posted. They got their download codes and were playing and streaming on Justin.TV all night. I’m happy for them but it sure sucks for me.
The Need for Speed franchise has slowly gone down the shitter over the course of the last few video games in the series. Need for Speed: Undercover ended up getting an average Metacritic Rating sitting around the 60 mark between the PS3 and 360 versions, and NFS: Carbon got a better rating around 76 rating on the Xbox 360. Overall, not great, but not bad. Passable if we were going by school grades, but nothing spectacular to take home to mom. The new Need For Speed, entitled “SHIFT” looks to revamp the franchise, crank up the intensity, and pull the Need for Speed franchise kicking and screaming out of the late Fast and the Furious era, and hopefully give you a break from running from those pesky cops.
Does the new Need for Speed game do it’s 84 Metacritic Rating justice? Do you care? Does the title need to have that “f” taken out of the “Shift”? Find out after the jump when I give my impressions of the Need For Speed: Shi(f)t demo.
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No, my name isn’t Rick Ladouche and I’m not coming to you live from inside Uncharted 2, but I do bring important breaking news to my fellow gamers. Recently announced over on the Playstation Blog, PS3 owners can now get their hands on the Uncharted 2 multi-player demo. If you were like me and wasn’t able to snag a multi-player beta key from the interweb, you can now get your hands on with the game. The multi-player demo is open for all PS3 gamers now, so get on over to the Playstation Store and start downloading!
The demo clocks in at around 1.2GB, but for that size it’s packed full with multi-player content, as well as a few hidden surprises. The package ends up containing 4 maps, four competitive modes, and two co-op modes. Not bad at all! Uncharted 2: Among Thieves looks absolutely gorgeous, so one would assume that all of those maps, the high pixel counted textures and gameplay features would take up most of that space, but that isn’t the end of this post. Oh no! There is more, so read on…
Naughty Dog is also including two new innovative modes to Uncharted 2 called Cinema Mode, as well as the innovative Machinima Mode in the demo. They apparently couldn’t wait to get it into the hands of gamers, so they decided to give everyone a little taste. Cinema Mode records literally everything that goes on in a multi-player round and exports it to a multimedia video file on your PS3. Everything is tracked and recorded to this file so it can be watched over and studied over from every different angle or viewpoint. Want to check out how WombRaider69 got you from behind with that knife behind the dilapidated car? Find out how he did it in Cinema Mode by following every one of his movements in slow-motion, and watch the knife go into your body from any possible camera angle.
Uncharted 2’s Machinima Mode looks to be the first set of tools put into a box released console game dedicated to the support of user created content and videos. This means you can record any and all of Drake’s movements in the game only to use that content for a custom video or webisode. Attach your blu-tooth headset or PS3 Eye camera mic, and watch Drake’s mouth move to what you are actually saying. Pretty crazy stuff! I’m excited! Are you? I can’t wait to hear Drake tell all of my crappy dick jokes.
[Via Playstation.Blog]
Let me just say this right now, Forza 3 has got 60 frames per second 1080p high-definition racing. I should probably stop my thoughts on the demo right there, because that’s all you really need to know about Forza 3. 1080p auto-racing porn goodness. Wait a minute though, there are over 450 cars, 100 real-world tracks to race on, the graphic and lush environments of those tracks, and the stats to possibly take down Gran Turismo. Does looking under the hood of Forza 3 show the same amount of detail? Find out how it stands up to other racing titles hitting store shelves after the jump.
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Brutal Legend is the long anticipated heavy metal saga from DoubleFine, and Electronic Arts.
The basic storyline is very good, you are the greatest roadie that ever lived. You die on stage trying to save one of the snarky hip-hop/rock band members that you work for (I think this is a not so subtle dig at Limp Bizkit, and Linkin Park type bands). You are somehow magically transported to a world were Rock and Metal are not just music and legends, but ethereal powers and tangible weapons, such as The Seperator (a battle axe) and Clementine (your trusty Flying V Gibson guitar).
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Too much wetness (or lubrication) is sometimes a bad thing right? We don’t need no slip ‘n’ slide…
I was scouring through the game demo section of Xbox Live last night downloading a few of them to pass the time, and I ran across the WET demo. I went ahead and included it in my long list of Indie games to try out (thanks for the good memories Power Hour and The Drinking Game) for the night and was pleasantly surprised, and then underwhelmed.
Eliza Douche-koo (actually it’s spelled Dushku) adds the voice of our estrogen filled hero Rubi, a dual-wielding slo-mo assassin type aficionado, set in this Kill Bill-esque world. The demo really doesn’t give away any of the story included in the game, so I was left to my own devices to come up with the story line. Here is what I think happened…..
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The demo for Batman: Arkham Asylum hits this Friday, August 7th and is set to bring the Batman franchise out of the murky depths from where it once was. If you are like me, you had to suffer through the Joel Schumacher Batman movies. Don’t worry! We all did, you aren’t alone! Batman Forever and Batman & Robin go down in history as absolutely horrid, abysmal Batman films (minus the Alicia Sylverstone donning Batgirl armor scene). No one has really thought to make a true Batman game since those movies came out (that I can recall). With the rebirth of the caped crusader being the gritty, dark knight brawler in movies like Batman Begins and The Dark Knight again, Eidos has set out to make a Batman game completely separate from any Batman movie. A game that is made by fans, for the fans.
I really want them to include Cesar Romero (pictured above) in some way, as I think he does an awesome job as the Joker. Sadly, the evil Joker is getting the Luke Skywalker treatment (voiced by Mark Hamill). Mr. Hamill actually does a stellar job bringing the evil Joker character to life (I had to listen closely to make sure it was him). Be sure to check out Batman: Arkham Asylum on your console of choice this Friday, August 7th. The full game hits North America on August 25th. With the release of Batman: Arkham Asylum, it will hopefully wash the bad taste out of all of our mouths (I’m looking at you old Batman George Clooney!)! The real Batman is BACK!
Do you like blowing stuff up? Do you? Do you? I sure do. I like blowing stuff up action movie style. You know, beating some guy to death with a hammer, setting a few remote mines near well placed explosive barrels, then shooting some baddies as I steal a truck, causing the enemy come running after me just as I detonate the mines blowing up all the buildings and most of the baddies. For the guys who survived, I’ll drive the truck through the flaming wreckage and run them down.
That was the first 5 minutes of gameplay for me in Red Faction: Guerrilla. The opening sequence plays like a movie, including Action Movie Voice Over Guy. The story? Do you really care? Fine, it’s about one man, blowing stuff up to right the wrongs of the oppressor corporation/government on Mars or something, didn’t you listen to the Voice Over Guy?
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Wahoo! I get something first!
This weekend THQ released codes to members of their website to download the Red Faction: Guerrilla demo via either PSN or Xbox Live. Codes are available on a first-come-first-serve basis and are in limited supply and the demo is single player only. I don’t know how many codes they will allow but I can tell you that they are still available. My download is 48% complete. I suggest you make your way over by clicking the link below and registering on the THQ website. Don’t waste your time if you are outside Europe, the codes are region locked.
Red Faction: Guerrilla Demo via THQ UK
I’ll write-up my impressions for all you poor bastards living in the land of free and Canada when I get the chance, but I will probably be busy destroying EVERYTHING!
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