Valve has revealed a few details and the release date for the demo of its upcoming zombie thriller sequel, Left 4 Dead 2. Most notable is what will be in the demo: it will feature gameplay taken from “The Parish” campaign, set in the New Orleans French Quarter. This will be playable by 1 to 4 players over local or Internet connections on both the Xbox 360 and PC (with two-player split screen available on the Xbox 360), the demo features all the new boss infected zombies and all the new melee weapons included in the full game as well.
Those who pre-order the game (at participating retailers or via Steam) will obtain early access to the demo on October 27. The demo will then be made available to Xbox LIVE Gold members and PC gamers on November 3. Then all Xbox LIVE members will obtain access to the demo on November 10.
The full game on Xbox 360 and PC will be released on November 17. For further details on the full game, check out www.l4d.com.
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Sessler’s flip-flop on the importance of story
Not long ago Adam Sessler said that good stories were mostly reserved for movies and books, while games needed to focus on gameplay. Now, Adam has decided to moved away from the position and explains what’s made him change his tune. You can watch him do that in the latest edition of Sessler’s Soapbox on G4TV right now, or check it out below:
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DJ Hero sponsors Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates announced today that it has partnered with Activision Publishing and sponsor Target to feature DJ Hero on Martin Truex Jr.’s No. 1 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Charlotte, North Carolina’s Lowe’s Motor Speedway on Saturday, October 17.
At the race, Target is doing a little marketing, letting fans take DJ Hero for a spin 10 days before its launch at the Target DJ Hero station located on “The Fan Midway” across the street from Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Truex Jr. will test his DJ Hero mixing and scratching skills at the Target DJ Hero station on Saturday, October 17 from 3:30 – 4:00pm ET.
NASCAR fans should also tune into ABC on Saturday, October 17 at 2:30 pm ET to watch Martin Truex Jr. and the DJ Hero Team as they compete against 43 of the world’s best racers at NASCAR’s home track in Charlotte, North Carolina. Fans should look for a DJ Hero paint scheme.
Available in North America on October 27, 2009, DJ Hero is being developed by FreeStyleGames for Xbox 360, the PS3 and PlayStation 2 and the Wii. The game is rated “T” (Teen – Mild Suggestive Themes, Lyrics) by the ESRB.
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Final Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars characters revealed
Today Capcom revealed the final two playable characters in Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars: Joe the Condor and Zero. Tatsunoko’s Joe the Condor comes via the Gatchaman series (better known as G-Force in North America), joining teammates Ken the Eagle and Jun the Swan. He’s got some stylish attacks as well as a powerful gun-grappling hook sidearm. Next up is Capcom’s very own Zero from the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series of games. Zero comes equipped with his Mega Buster, Plasma Sword and some very speedy moves. He also has a very dangerous Ultra combo - a Plasma Sword.
Tatsunoko VS Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars ships to retailers in the U.S. for the Wii on Jan. 26, 2010.
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Capcom joins R4 lawsuit
According to a report on Game Politics, Capcom is the latest company to join in on a lawsuit against R4 flash cartridge makers using Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act as the hammer.
Capcom joined Nintendo and 53 other game publishers in this lawsuit that hopes to curtail the use of this game copying device for the Nintendo DS. While Nintendo managed to get an injunction against the makers of these devices last year in a Tokyo court, that doesn’t seem to have had much impact of the situation.
“We are expecting the entire society including users to recognize that our company and other software manufactures have extremely sustained damages from proliferation of illegal instruments, such as the Game Copying Devices,” said Capcom is a statement today. “..and the computer industries have sustained serious damages because of those vendors, and we expect to influence the society to eliminate such illegal instruments from the market.”
It will be interesting to see if Nintendo and friends can do anything to curtail the use of the R4 in Japan. While it’s not impossible, it won’t be easy either. It will be a lot harder to deal with the use of the R4 in places like China where piracy and black markets are an integral part of the consumer shopping experience.
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Painkiller: Resurrection gold, in stores Oct. 27
JoWooD Productions and DreamCatcher Games announced that the horror themed action shooter sequel, Painkiller: Resurrection, has gone gold. The Austrian development studio Homegrown Games has just completed production on the latest title in the Painkiller series and the game is set to hit stores across North America on October 27.
In Painkiller Resurrection players take on the role of ‘Wild Bill’ Sherman as he once again tackles the denizens of purgatory who are a notoriously unfriendly lot for obvious reasons. The game promises new levels, new monsters, new bosses, a new story, improved shadows, a higher resolutions, moveable light sources, post processing, motion blur, ambient occlusion, a new cooperative multiplayer campaign mode and more.
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Hero’s Saga Laevatein Tactics in stores
Aksys Games has released Hero’s Saga Laevatein Tactics at retailers nationwide today. Hero’s Saga Laevatein is billed as a hardcore strategy role-playing game featuring story-driven gameplay, over 120 playable characters, and twenty-three different character classes to choose from. As tends to be the case with tactical strategy role-playing games, a war rages between two nations and one hero will be the difference between utter defeat and glorious victory.
Players command forces using one of several formations, each with its own strengths and weaknesses on the battlefield. Players will also have to collect The Einherjar, legendary Vaettir Arms (180+ Arms to find) scattered throughout the game, that supposedly strike fear into the hearts of enemies. The game also promises ad-hoc wireless connectivity to trade items, rent out your heroes to aid friends, or multiplayer combat to take friends out; and a class system that is based on what equipment you use.
Hero’s Saga Laevatein Tactics has been rated “T” for Teen by the ESRB. For more information about Aksys Games and Hero’s Saga Laevatein Tactics, visit href=”http://www.aksysgames.com”>www.aksysgames.com.
The games we're pulling together in this feature won't appear on any of those best-of lists and get confused looks when you mention them in conversation. Just because time has forgotten these titles, though, doesn't mean you should forget them, too.
