SEGA’s latest RPG, Alpha Protocol, has received a price drop already. The game came out costing $59.99 and now most retailers should be dropping it to $39.99.
You can read our review here and buy it here if you use Amazon.
[Source: JustPushStart]
Today, I got the chance to try out Platinum Games newest venture “Vanquish”. The game is basically a cross between Bayonetta’s speed and style and Gears of War’s cover centric shooting game play.
Here is an interview with Shinji Mikami from the E3 show floor. Mikami is the man behind such great games as Resident Evil 4, God Hand and Dino Crisis. Vanquish looks set to be every bit as good.
So with the new announcement of Children of Eden, gamers that have not experienced Rez are obviously intrested in giving the game a go. Especially with all the awards that Children of Eden is snatching up at E3. Playing Rez HD is easy for 360 owners, having the game on their marketplace. PS3 only owners, not so much. When asked on twitter if a user should get Rez on PS2 or just wait for Rez HD on PS3, Q Entertainment responded:
“I’d buy it on PS2 if I were you. If it comes to PSN, it probably won’t be any time soon. Maybe Sega will port it to XBLA/PSN? Duno” – Q Entertainment Twitter
This is true, Rez licenses is still owned by SEGA. Rez HD had to be done under the permission of SEGA. I think, if SEGA wanted to do a PSN/XBLA (with extra stuff) now is the time, especially when everyone is going crazy over Children of Eden.
This time, SEGA has picked up two world records, one for first 3D title. Which of course is Virtua Fighter (take that Nintendo) and the second is for best PS3 RPG, this one being Valkyria Chronicles (Take that Square-Enix). Even though I can see why they gave the first one out, the second is not really a world record, but a matter of opinion, no?
I’m just glad that great SEGA games are getting reconized, even on published books like Guinness of World Records. Wish Yu Suzuki was at E3 to receive that award though. This would have been a good time to announce the Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown console port!
[Source: SEGAblog]
It seems that way, since we have been informed that they have trademarked the name. SEGA Sammy Visual Entertainment is the studio that is responsible for doing “Night of the Werehog” short video to promote Sonic Unleashed.
Being the untrusting person that I am, I will file this under rumor till SEGA confirms Marza .
[Thanks: Liam via e-mail]
Believe it or not, this is not a real console.
You have probably already read all those rumors by Zach Morris, you know, those rumors that SEGA is going to re-enter the hardware business? Well, Mike Hayes says it is not true.
“Absolutely not. We’re a software company. We certainly won’t be getting back into hardware, that’s for sure.”
Though, even if it was true, you think he would let something this big slip? But obviously it isn’t true, Zach Morris has been making rumors up like this since SEGA went third party. Nothing to see here.
[Source: VG247]
SEGA has stated they are planning on bringing 18 to 24 DC titles to PSN and XBLA by next summer. Shenmue re-release seems pretty likely now.This is according to Mike Hayes, who of course is the president of SEGA West.
“We hope to have somewhere between 18 to 24. Around that.” – Mike Hayes
So what about SEGA Saturn? Mike Hayes says that right now, they have no plans on bringing SEGA Saturn games to HD consoles. Come on, give us some Panzer Dragoon and Shining Force III!
[Source: CVG]
So you guys have already seen Kinect shown off at the Microsoft press event and if you are like me, you where probably disapointed you did not see a SEGA game using it. Well fear no more, here is someone playing Sonic’s Kinect Riding game for over 5 minutes.
I’m not a fan of Sonic Rider games and this new one is not going to change my mind, especially playing it with Kinect. People are saying that SEGA has confirmed that the game will only play with Kinect, no controller option.
Aside from Shenmue and, perhaps, Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi is the most iconic franchise the Dreamcast every produced. So it comes as no surprise that the original game has joined Sonic Adventure as one of the first games in the Dreamcast revival SEGA is now pushing. Everyone here knows how the game plays: you play a taxi driver who drives people to far away locations in ridiculously short amounts of times, throwing every traffic law to the wind in the hopes of getting the largest fair possible from the customer.
I got to get some solid hands on time with Tournament of Legends today, and to my surprise, I like what I saw. Tournament of Legends hasn’t exactly had the best advertising campaign behind it. The trailers we’ve seen have, at least in my opinion, made the game look like some mediocre budget title. But in ToL’s case, initial impressions can be deceiving.
More gameplay of Sonic Colours! This time someone playing that kind of understands how to play a Sonic game and it is direct feed too. Nice!
Not much else to say, looks good, sounds good and I’m enjoying those power ups! The drilling one is very cool and I can imagine some very cool ideas coming out of it. How about an under ground maze to dig though?
Another video, this time of the Cake zone after the jump:
And it looks really, really good!
Graphically, What I can tell from the off-screen video anyway, it looks fantastic for a Wii game. In fact it looks great period. It’s full of colour and detail… The unrealistic art direction looks like a world a blue hedgehog belongs in! (For once.)
But graphics and art direction aside the game looks fun! At the start I was a little worried, the 3D section could use work, it’s looking a bit sparse and linear but as soon as it went to 2.5D I was in my element. Colour me excited. (lol pun)
I also heard a rumour that Sonic doesn’t talk… Which would be a god send.