Eidos dropped us a line with the new Just Cause 2 trailer “No Ordinary Mission”. Nothings more fun than maxing out explosions, parachutes, grappling hooks, and Latino accents. It’s like being the Ricky Iglesias of insurgents. Enjoy.
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This weekend I took off my pants, propped my feet up, and spent most of my Saturday in front of my PS3. Really there should be chicks involved, as well as sex, but you don’t have time for those sort of things when you are playing a video game for 7 hours straight! I just couldn’t get enough of the Batman: Arkham Asylum story missions and finding Joker challenges strewn around the island. I started at 21% completed and when I turned off the PS3 for supper, I was at around 53%. The story campaign of Batman: Arkham Asylum is pretty deep and varied so it should extend well over the 20 to 25 hour range (I’ve already put in about 12 hours or so). I purposefully am taking my time, soaking in all of the nuances of Batman and the Gotham universe.
Adding even more gameplay to the mix, are the challenge maps (or ass kicking rooms as I call them). These are where you take on a few of Joker’s henchmen with the difficulty getting progressively harder to get the FreeFlow combat system multiplier and score up. Eidos Interactive and Warner Bros. Interactive have just announced that two brand new challenge maps are coming soon in the form of the Insane Night Map Pack.
Anyone familiar with PC gaming knows that the ease of piracy on the platform has skyrocketed the past decade or so, which is a damn shame for both consumers and hard working developers alike. Although it does warm my cold, black heart to see developers sticking it to piracy enthusiasts in creative ways. It so happens that Batman: Arkham Asylum uses one of these creative ways.
On a thread in the Eidos forums, a poster named Cheshirec_the_cat made a seemingly normal, shitty grammar laden internet post about some difficulties he was having with his copy of Batman:
Hi!
I’ve got a problem when it’s time to use Batman’s glide in the game. When I hold <Space> , like it’s said to jump from one platform to another, Batman tries to open his wings again and again instead of gliding. So he fels down in a poisoning gas. If somebody could tel me, what should I do there.
To which an Eidos admin responded:
The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free.
It’s not a bug in the game’s code, it’s a bug in your moral code.
Never mind that the game isn’t out on PC for another four days! I feel I must applaud Rocksteady and Eidos on this creative use of copy protection, and while this type of thing is certainly circumvented as we speak, I’m sure it will provide a few laughs at the expense of this douche who had the balls to pirate a game and ask for support for it as well. Better luck next time!
Mini Ninjas, that’s pretty self explanatory right there. Right off the bat, this game reminds me a lot of Kung Fu Panda. That’s not a bad thing to me, because I really liked Kung Fu Panda.
Basically, you are a mini ninja, you run around killing mini-samurai that “poof” into a cloud of smoke, and turn into little forest creatures. It’s really PG guys. If you are looking for bloodshed, this is not the game for you. Anyways, there are little cages of forest creatures that you break and set free, just like Kung Fu Panda. There are crates of stuff you can break to get coins, you pick flowers and roots and stuff that you can get “recipes” to mix into magical potions, just like Kung Fu Panda. These potions give you powers in a range anywhere from lighting bolt power to healing power. You will of course, use these powers to attack more mini-samurai. Then there are the weapons. Lots and lots of ninja weapons. Caltrops, Shuriken, Pepper bombs, smoke bombs, and cherry bombs, just to name a few. Couple those with your ninja kuji magic, and you are a killing machine.
This is Loot Ninja. We like ninjas. Even the mini sort. Hence Mini Ninjas looking pretty awesome. Cute Ninjas with awesome killer powers brought to us by the same crew as Hitman but playable on the Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, DS, and PC. Basically Mini Ninja Hitman. I dig it, do you?
With the London Games Festival kicked off in the capital, of course politicians needed to say a few words about the game industry and get their face plastered in the papers.
Brace yourselves.
As per the Guardian, Dan Foster, a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament in the UK has said,
“I hardly play any games – I’m not from that generation – but because of my job, I had to research the industry. The vast majority of my parliamentary colleagues are always wanting to ban the latest game, but they don’t know the details of the industry. Few people in this country realise how important it is to the UK economy.”
It’s nice to finally see a political statement that is not trying to sink a game or industry but let me tell you some of the background to his comment.
Earlier this week Jeff Gerstmann, GameSpot’s Editorial Director, was released from his job after posting a poor review of Eidos’ Kane and Lynch on the GameSpot website.
Apparently none of Gamespot’s staff could be reached for comment (big surprise) but the parent company, CNET, issued a statement in response: “For over a decade, Gamespot and the many members of its editorial team have produced thousands of unbiased reviews that have been a valuable resource for the gaming community. At CNET Networks, we stand behind the editorial content that our teams produce on a daily basis.” Considering they just fired one of their team members for doing their job and producing an unbiased review I don’t see how they can release this comment without placing ‘just kidding’ at the end.
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