Stor3d: Super Stardust HD, GTA IV Trailer 2, and Dynasty Warriors GUNDAM.
Super Stardust HD hit the PlayStation Store today, and its UK and AU reviews precede it on IGN with 8.5-or-so review scores in both regions. The only downside I can see to the action-packed two-stick-shooter is that there’s no demo for it. You either pay your $7.99 or you walk on by.
A different demo was released on the Store as well, today, though, and that demo is Dynasty Warriors: GUNDAM. I don’t quite know why they’d want to put the name GUNDAM on anything after the abysmal GUNDAM game that launched on the system, but I guess taking the GUNDAM intellectual property and marrying it to the Dynasty Warriors gameplay might work out nicely.
As for video content, we have a zero-day HD version of the newest GTA IV trailer which I can safely say has reminded me very clearly of just how good the stories in the GTA games can be. We get a real look at the protagonist and lots of strong hints at his motivations and an overall plot through what appear to be lots of in-engine cut scenes. Joystiq had a bevy of facts from Rockstar in case we wanted to know if it’s pre-rendered or not:
“* All footage is captured in real-time on a next generation gaming console
* It’s running on Rockstar’s RAGE engine, also used in Table Tennis
* The game uses euphoria, a fully procedural animation package created by NaturalMotion
* The music — titled “Arm In Arm (Shy Child Remix)” — is by New York City-based band The Boggs”
Top that off with a bevy of movie trailers for I Know Who Killed Me, Superbad, License to Wed, and The Invasion, and there’s plenty to see.
Oh, and in what I think is a first I actually received the “What’s New” email from Sony talking about these items the same day they appeared on the Store.
From EvilAvatar and Joystiq.
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