Ignition Entertainment has shipped Deadly Premonition to stores. Why wait for some redo of Resident Evil 5 when you can jump on a new story? The $19.99 price tag doesn’t hurt much either! C’mon, you get side quests, mini fishing games, crazy characters, and 20 hours or so of game play. You can’t even go see a good horror movie for that price.
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CC: THQ Executive Producer Luis Gigliotti believes that their upcoming survival horror first-person shooter Metro 2033 sets a ‘new quality bar for visual fidelity’.
Pocket Gamer writes: "When Dead Space 2 comes out in early 2011 on consoles, PSP and potentially iPhone and iPod touch will be getting their own versions as well.
EA revealed today that development of handheld versions of the survival-horror epic is underway with an eye for simultaneous release with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game."
The company says its survival horror sequel is less survival and more action; compares the game’s intensity to Modern Warfare and Uncharted.
Critical Gamer Writes: The 80’s were a contentious time in America; Cold War looming, double-digit inflation and a frightening new disease. But if you were a typical western, suburban boy you were in a metauniverse, one founded in horror, science-fiction and sexploitation. The birth of many aspects of modern horror; the survival horror videogame genre, horror sexploitation, sexualized science-fiction and dirty slasher comedy were born or revived in the 80’s. Atari 2600’s Haunted House invented the videogame genre of horror survival in 1981. A year before Sybil Danning made the high talent Battle Beyond the Stars, playing the sexy, lascivious queen of an alien race. In 1983 Sega would turn footage of the film into part of a sci-fi shooter, laserdisc arcade game Astron Belt. Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street would define the slasher film cycle, as Sybil Danning starred in the similarly themed 1984 film They’re Playing with Fire. All the while you could always rely on Count Chocula cereal and a healthy diet of similarly themed Saturday morning cartoons…and I loved every moment of it!
Split-Screen: "Insomniac Games first made a reputation for itself with the Spyro series, before moving onto Ratchet & Clank in the Playstation 2 era. It was only natural that people would associate them with cartoonish games but they stunned everyone with Resistance, a gritty sci-fi FPS with surprising elements of horror incorporated into the creature design. It shouldn’t be so surprising that Insomniac’s next title would be in the same mature vein but interestingly, they’re next effort will be going multi-platform."
Welcome to this week’s, "Sequel, Spin Off, Start Over or Stay Dead?" Each week they’re going to look at a dormant franchise that was once pretty popular, but for some reason has disappeared into the sands of time. Diehard GameFAN staffers will have four options for what they want to have happen to the series and you can see them in the title of this piece.
This week they’re looking at a series that Capcom has let sit undisturbed for five years after one of the most spectacular failures in survival-horror history. You know something had to be bad when Capcom of all publishers stopped milking, rehashing, or spinning-off a series. Still the stigma of "Dinosaurs in Spaaaaaace" is still well known throughout the gaming community and so the Diehard GameFAN staff discusses whether or not the Dino Crisis series still has some life in it or if it should be as extinct as its antagonists.
10. Resident Evil 5 – Capcom
Outstanding graphics and the addition of Co-op play to Capcom’s long running Survival Horror series place Resident Evil 5 in our number 10 spot. Plagued with controversy over charging extra for multiplayer, an antiquated control system, and what some might call a racial slant to the game,
TPG writes: "Overall, this game isn’t an unqualified hit, but it does manage to take what could have been a mediocre genre and basic play mechanics and elevate them to a higher level. Yes, there are issues with story, dialog, camera control and pacing, but don’t most teen horror flicks have similar issues. If players go in with an open mind, ready to be underwhelmed, I think they’ll be pleasantly surprised. I’d recommend a download if you’re a fan of funny and creeply survival horror, and a purchase of the UMD (for resale) if you’re not the replaying type. This is a game that will stay on my PSP Go for a time to come, as it’s a pleasantly creepy way to spend a few dozen minutes of my time."
It seems GSC Game World’s latest installment in the survival-horror shooter series was released in Russia, but not without a number of game crashing bugs.
Patch v1.6.01 (which is currently in development) aims to fix a number of crashes occurring in the single player and multiplayer game modes, improves DirectX 11 support and performance improvements.
