I was able to get very familiar with the Vita over the weekend, the official Vita rooms were in Manchester until Wednesday for anyone to go and try out the system. There was a good variety of games that were available but a lot of the technical aspects of the systems were locked out on the ones I played. I’ve managed to play nearly all of the games that were there as well check out some of the other functionalities of the system.
This week on Digital High we talk about boobs, Ivy’s from Soul Calibur 5 to be more precise and how they can still cause controversy even now after so many years of Voldo being way more creepy and unsafe for children. As always we go over what we have been playing, which covers Resistance 3, Saints Row 3 and the first notable release of 2012 and that is Qube. Just in case you don’t quite get my sentiments from the podcast, you really need to play Qube, like now.
You had better prepare yourself for ample amounts of crazy before you play NeverDead, the latest IP developed by Rebellion studios and published by Konami appears to be equal parts Devil May Cry and Shadows of the Damned. Now if that doesn’t get you interested to play the game I honestly have no idea what will. Players take on the roll of Bryce, an immortal demon hunter that is on a quest for vengeance and is hell bent on killing the lord of the underworld (sounds familiar eh?). Five hundred years ago, Bryce challenged the aforementioned king of demons and got his wife murdered in the process. As punishment, he was cursed with immortality. The story seems like your usual “guy gets pissed off, guy gets revenge” plot, but for the type of game this appears to be, it’s pretty much what you would expect.
Despite what many may call a lackluster ending to the third iteration, the Killzone series has always been one of the bigger exclusive trilogies for Sony. With no real solid news on any release of Killzone 4, Guerilla Games (one of the main developers behind the franchise), has decided to put the original Killzone on the PlayStation Network, with the very reasonable price point of $9.99. Seeing as this is a full length, roughly 8-10 hour game, a price point of $9.99 is quite reasonable. There has been no further news as to whether or not it will be released in an HD format, but the release date has been set as January 24th.
I’m not 100% sure if this release of Killzone is part of the Only On PSN promotion where Sony has been releasing exclusive PSN games and classic PS2 games, but the price is such as to where I would not be surprised if it sold quite a bit of copies, not only to those who are just looking to complete their collection and do not have a backwards compatible PS3, but also to those who are just looking to play a competent PS2 shooter that has extremely beautiful sequels, both graphically and gameplay wise.
I’m sure most, if not all of you that are reading this have seen one of the many, many stories that have been popping up over the last few months that say something to the effect of “2012 is the year that new consoles will be released”, now if they’re talking about the Wii U and Vita then they would be correct. But of course they’re not, they are in fact referring to the successors to the Xbox360 and Playstation 3. Now, I’m not saying that I have a crystal ball that has shown me the future, I’m just going to put forward the reasons why you probably won’t be purchasing a new console from Microsoft or Sony in the next 12 months, unless it’s a Vita.
From Software’s latest entry in the very long running Armored Core mech series has been dated for US and
European release.
In case you haven’ heard already both Mass Effect 3 and
Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning are getting demos in the coming weeks and playing both will unlock
bonus items for the other.
