Thursday 16 June 2011

Burnout, OutLand



Two games are subject of the day, first up:

I took Burnout Paradise to Platinum trophy on disc long ago, my disc is lent out so grabbed the free PSN download (master stroke of Sony's giving this away with the free month of Plus, loads will go for the £15 DLC package if they've got any sense).

Annoyed to learn the disc game save is not compatible with the PSN version, but then started to have mucho good time going through it all again. This game really is amazing, those out there who have not tried it, you HAVE to grab this now while it's free, it is one of the best games of recent years.

http://www.criteriongames.com/burnout/paradise/myparadise/ is very useful for completing the game, a cool tool analyses your game save and shows you whats left to go on a tidy map.

Next up, OutLand, £7.99 on PSN. As a major fan of Housemarque, I knew they had this coming, yet completely missed it on PSN until today, it's been up for a week I think. The logo put me off I think. Anyway, grab the demo version and try it, I likey. Visually it's the lovechild of Ico and Patapon, but much better than both in many ways. Excellent, fast paced and original platformer, yummy.

8 comments:

  1. i d.loaded LBP and Dead Nation last night (now installing them) as my freebies, heard many good things about DN so i figured it'd be worth a crack. Then i got Fancy Pants Adventure and Swarm.

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  2. update: Outland is really cool, great bosses, the red/blue switching mechanic is great, good game this.

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  3. about gamesaves, the d.loadable LBP game is compatible with the disc save. phew!

    Fancypants isn't a bad little game either but the jump/kill mechanic feels a bit shady, i think the devs are try to force you to use a slide/kill instead.

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  4. ps: WTF has happened to the layout!? the sidebars are now under the blog posts.... i am on Chrome.

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  5. fixed *looks over top of glasses at MrJimmy* video and picture widths should not exceed 540px

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  6. aha i go for 550 i thought that was it :(

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  7. dudes! Just got back from a week away in Majorca. Nowhere near 'Shagaluf' before you ask - it was a family trip! :)
    Anyway, I get back and Infamous has finally finished downloading (it took ages! - not quite a whole week but still ages!). Also, my car is broken when I get back to the car park at Gatwick (thanks for fixing it AA man!) To top that, I just heard that I've been made redundant after 10 years with same company (ST-Ericsson)! They'd better give me a good pay off! So a plus side is that perhaps I'll have more time for games in between job hunting! :-)

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  8. wow sorry 2 hear that Reakt - enjoy the work go slow while you can. Get yourself on LinkedIn with a good profile if your not already.

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