I was starting to wonder if Capcom would make their December timeline, but have no fear, your followup to Dead Rising 2 will bring Chuck and Frank together on the 360 December 27th, and run you a bit more than Case Zero at 800 Microsoft Points.
Carry on.
The only thing sweeter than Cave putting two shooters on one 360 disc was the recent revelation that the February release would also be region free. Since then I’ve received a few emails from readers wanting to confirm that this applied to both the regular and limited edition of the release.
As the title of this post subtlety suggests, Cave confirmed that regardless of which edition grabs your fancy, both are region free for your importing needs –
Yes, both versions will be region free. The reason they are asking is because Espgaluda II’s LE was region-locked while the SE was region-free. This was due to the decision to go region-free being made last minute, whereas this time we had a lot of feedback to make the Muchi Muchi Pork/Pink Sweets pack region free.
EA sent word that we’ll be able to get a taste of Isaac Clarke’s trip through The Sprawl before the release on January 25, 2011, with a demo of Dead Space 2 hitting Xbox Live worldwide and the PlayStation Network in North America on December 21, 2010 – European PS3 owners have to wait one more day for a December 22nd release.
Additional word is that said demo offers a walk through the Church of Unitology, so maybe remember to say your prayers before playing, anything with religion involved is apt to be frightening.
Sega’s robot science-fiction action title from the maker of Yakuza is an odd kettle of fish, at least based on the first trailer floating around the net today, which oddly plays heavy on the North American squad-based shooter only to slide into a bit of the potentially bizarre twist that insinuates a deeper objective at the very end. Most of the video is plenty parts “send in the killbots,” caught somewhere between The Terminator and I, Robot, begging to be viewed as a predictable attempt to please the North American marketplace at the moment.
Toshihiro Nagoshi’s included pitch in the PR offers a few potential reads,
“What I wanted to create this time was a dramatic and energetic sci-fi shooter. When you hear sci-fi you may think of cold, clinical environments but with Binary Domain I wanted to combine this with a deep human drama,” commented Toshihiro Nagoshi. “The keyword we have in mind for this project is ’Life’. I wanted to make something that will be accepted by both the Japanese and Western markets, and this fundamental theme is something everyone knows but which the full extent of can be difficult to grasp.”
Sega mentions this idea of life having an important role with the battlefield AI, but does this also mean we should anticipate environments pulsing with life, or expect a plot ever heavy with philosophical drippings layering over a generic “me too” shooter? Your guess is as good as mine, all I know at the moment is that I wouldn’t have minded them “Ghost in the Shelling” it up a bit.
There really isn’t a lot to go on here without actual gameplay, so we’ll have to wait and see. In the meantime you can catch the current trailer after the break.
Capcom announced that the Xbox 360 exclusive Case West addition to Dead Rising 2 will be releasing in December – word on what day is still lacking.
Teaming Chuck with Dead Rising’s Frank West offers access to Frank’s camera for all your photo taking needs, along with new combo weapons and items. Perhaps more importantly, Capcom mentions that players going through the game solo will take control of Chuck, while Frank will be AI controlled, a mode in which Frank cannot be killed. As for deciding who gets to be Frank in co-op mode, I recommend rock, paper, scissors.
Cave’s released a trailer for one sweet 360 disc that brings together shooters Pink Sweets and Muchi Muchi Pork, set to release on February 24 in Japan with a standard and limited edition – either one sure to satisfy the quota on bullets, eye candy, and pigs.
Fellow Cave enthusiasts can hit the official site here, or catch the trailer after the break.
On my list of most significant games of 2010, it shouldn’t surprise regular readers and sugarfiends if I give a nod to Alan Wake – though even after reviewing the game and two installments of DLC, I still feel as if I haven’t captured the essence of the “why” behind that. Remedy’s work with Wake has left a lingering impression on me, a game I’m certain to remember for many years to come, which increasingly seems like one of the most significant accomplishments a videogame can achieve.
Despite my trouble of always putting exact words to that experience, I did cobble together some questions about the game and specifically about the DLC chapters that followed, which Remedy writer Mikko Rautalahti was good enough to take the time to answer.
Catch it after the break.
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