Since its official release earlier this month, Lexis Numerique’s Amy has received a great deal of criticism from both critics and consumers. It’s a videogame that has promised so much through it’s development, and so now here with the final release is it just a case of letting expectations rise too high, or is Amy simply a broken design? Upon first-hand inspection, Electronic Theatre can clearly see that the experience Amy provides is a bit of both.
The recently release Choplifter HD is something of a bizarre product. Sitting alongside Team17’s Alien Breed, inXile Entertainment’s latest is a videogame based on a long forgotten franchise, now brought up to date with a modern lick of point and a revamped perspective. It’s a videogame from a bygone era, but one that feels perfectly at home on a modern distribution system.
After a successful launch on mobile formats, Trendy Entertainment’s Dungeon Defenders made its home system debut back in October of last year. The PlayStation 3 version, now available via PlayStation Network, suffered a delay in its release, and so there’s been plenty of talk about the videogame already. Having reportedly sold in excess of 600,000 units on home systems already, PlayStation 3 gamers will certainly be a welcome addition to that audience, and to make up for the delay the first downloadable content (DLC) package will be given away freely on PlayStation Network: a generous offering where none was really needed.
Having arrived on PlayStation Network a little later than its Xbox LIVE Arcade counterpart, some gamers might have expected the PlayStation 3 version of All Zombies Must Die! to have included some extra features, levels or maybe even gameplay modes. Sadly, this isn’t the case, but thankfully – as anyone who has encountered the Xbox 360 release will testify – All Zombies Must Die! is still a hugely enjoyable slice of old school arcade action given a modern twist.
A long time coming, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD will finally arrive on PlayStation 3 tomorrow. Downloadable via PlayStation Network, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD is acting as a PlayStation 3 exclusive in a curious turnaround after the original release was offered as an Xbox exclusive back in 2005. But with Microsoft Studios putting up unnecessary roadblocks, that’s the way it’s staying for the foreseeable future.
The Who Wants to be a Millionaire? franchise has proved itself to have considerable staying power, despite originating as a simple television game show. First airing in the UK in 1998, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? has since been broadcasted in more than one hundred countries worldwide and benefited from numerous best selling board game and videogame adaptations. The latest product to bear the name, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Special Editions, is available now as a downloadable title on Xbox LIVE Arcade and PlayStation Network.
Ignition Entertainment is once again attempting to expand the audience for their once humble Mercury franchise with a brand new digital release. Mercury Hg is available now on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PlayStation Network for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 respectively, and is the very first version of the videogame designed specifically for the high-definition (HD) formats.
British studio Team 17 committed themselves to developing titles intended for digital delivery only early on in the lifespan of the current-generation of consoles, the consumer expectation that they would continue to innovate within a modern channel. That hasn’t really been the case thus far, with the only original invention from the studio being the Alien Breed episodic series, which itself was based on a long-dead Team 17 franchise. Aside from that science-fiction sidestep, what have we seen from Team 17? Worms. What else?
The latest title from Grip Games, developers of the critically acclaimed Blimp: the Flying Adventures and MiniSquadron, is very much an action-orientated affair. The fourth Minis title from the developer, Grip Games have obviously learned their way around both a PlayStation 3 controller and a PlayStation Portable (PSP) console, as One Epic Game is an impressive clash of 16-bit inspired art, arcade style gameplay and a modern approach to content distribution. Read More…
The latest title to arrive from Nordcurrent, Monochrome Racing, is available now as a downloadable WiiWare title on Wii, and as a Minis title for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable (PSP). A pocket money price tag and platform ambiguity means that many gamers have been looking at Monochrome Racing with a great deal of interest, suggesting that the pick-up-and-play nature of the game may be perfect for less experienced players, but in reality it’s a game designed for those who have been playing for many years, with fond memories of the classics of the 16-bit era. Read More…
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