Game Wars

Avalanches of new images for Sonic Unleashed, a large return that the porcupine most famous videogame world will soon be on our screens household goods, while the DS will come out very interesting RPG Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. I would remind you that the game will come next November 18 on PS2, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii: in the meantime good scorpacciata with new shots offered by Sega.

The conference Sony in Leipzig saw the announcement of the date of exit official LittleBigPlanet, one of the killer application more expectations for PS3 that Sony has not hidden to have ambitious plans to the level of a new Sonic or Mario.The game released in Europe next October 29: just 2 days earlier than the PS3 160GB. What there is a new bundle arriving? We do not know yet, but it will be a hot autumn for the portfolios of all videogiocatori.

At the end of Quest for Booty, the package expansions for Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction that will soon reach the PlayStation Store, there is a nice surprise for all fans of the saga: a new chapter is scheduled for 2009.

Just licences from the end, in fact, you can see the picture accompanying this post, unmistakable sign of what is coming.

Although nothing has yet clearly defined, everything suggests a new full game for PlayStation 3, and then nothing spin-offs, expansions or exits minors.

The disturbing snowman you see in the picture is not that other Sackboy, central character LittleBigPlanet that Sony is using in every way possible for the promotion of the game.

After having appeared on the cover official Sackboy was transformed into a giant puppet to be distributed in shopping malls. According to me is a little ‘accident. According to Sony is not: ‘We want LittleBigPlanet lead the march towards a new model of games, and we want to become the next Sackboy emblematic figure for PS3.

This strange character who seems a caricature of a killer of Manhunt will thus have the difficult task of achieving the fame of mascots such as Mario or Sonic. Good luck Sackboy, you need it. LittleBigPlanet has an official release date, but everything leads us to believe that arrive on the shelves of stores by next October.

Braid, the game most acclaimed of recent times, has a serious chance to get on PlayStation 3. To say so is the same creator Johnatan Blow through a podcast on the site Game Focus.

Osannato by critics, the ingenious platform / puzzle Braid is already in the pipeline for the PC platform, with output set by the end of the year. The hypothetical PlayStation 3 version to follow the wheel, while a Wii version is excluded.

Blow then ranged across many other revealing information. The game had to give up some features because of limitations imposed by Xbox Live, labelled as “useless”.

Braid, the platform / puzzle that is doing so much talking about himself in these days, he became in a short time playing Xbox Live Arcade that has received the highest ratings from the press.

The creature of Johnatan Blow staziona currently with an average of 92/100 on Metacritic and 92.4% on Gamerankins, the two “aggregators” of the most authoritative reviews of the network.

Showing that, at least on paper, justifying the cost of the game, relatively very high: Well 1200 Microsoft points (14 €).

LittleBigPlanet will be a killer application that will sell lots of PlayStation 3. A ostentare so security is Eric Fong, associate producer of the platform exclusively for the console Sony.

“LittleBigPlanet will sell coverage. It will not only offer the experience of many other platform, but will this really creative component exclusive. The game is sufficiently complex to ensure the most hardcore several hours of play, and at the same time even the casual user can play and end the adventure. Everything you see in the levels of the developers may be created by users’

We do not know if these predictions are avvereranno or not, but it is certain that we look forward to get their hands on this title, so original and imaginative.

Johnatan Blow, designer of platform / puzzle Braid, last reached in the collection Xbox Live Arcade, justifies the price particularly high (1200 points Microsoft), revealing that would have preferred to bring the game to 800 points.

A push for the 1200 points it was Microsoft, but in the end Blow states in part as happy to have things go, as the development of Braid has required resources and a relatively large price too low could prevent cover the costs.

Blow also talk of hypothetical solutions “walkthrough”, sconsigliandone use: “Some riddles will be very hard, but when they risolverete you feel really good. The game rewards the great efforts not to give up this sense of contentment using solutions. “

Braid is now available on Xbox Live. It is a particular platform a little ‘far from the usual canons of Microsoft service, both for the resources used in the project for the same price at which it is proposed: Well 1200 Microsoft points (14 €).

Winner of the prize “Innovation in Game Design” all’Independent Games Festival in 2006, Braid mixes the canonical mechanical platform of a series of puzzles to be solved, with the possibility by the player to rewind time and repeat some actions (a little ‘ as already seen in Blinx the Timesweeper).

Equipped with a graphical style watercolor highly artistic and undoubtedly pleasant and functional, Braid seem to play a single system with a puzzle highly imaginative and original. The only true defect seems to be, poor us, longevity.

Alex Evans, developer Media Molecule, expressed their determination to want to heavily support LittleBigPlanet through the use of downloadable content, for which have “lots of plans” in the pipeline. “Everything,” says Evans, “depends on the requests that people will make us”. These statements show, therefore, a profound openness towards the community which will formandosi after the release of the game.

In other words, Media Molecule does not close any door in advance, in the broadest sense: indeed, closure of intervention, several possibilities emerge about their title, concerning the release of new content, the fact that they can be paid (even if not all) and even a possible result.

A dare to want more time, I would say that certain allegations arise in perfect harmony with the very nature of the game, very open and essentially infinite possibilities in terms of development. The waiting rooms and the hope is that these premises are widely confirmed.