Mythos - The Unofficial Diablo 3?
ADMIN NOTE: The development of Mythos was suspended by flagship studios due to financial issues.
With World of Warcraft top priority on Blizzard’s list the likelihood of Diablo 3 seems to be near nonexistent. Nether the less, fans of the series may be in for a treat as a game currently in beta looks to be the next best thing.
I’ve yet to play Mythos but judging by the screenshots it appears to have many similarities to Diablo such as; the perspective, interface, items and the fantasy style world that it’s set in. The game is under development by Flagship Studios (a company founded by the original developers of Diablo) and should be released sometime this year. The game will have both single and multiplayer capabilities and is expected to be free to download and play.
The game is sure to be a hit, not with just Diablo fans but anyone into the whole action RPG genre, if that’s you keep an eye on Mythos.
For more information see http://www.mythos.com
Warhawk European DeathMatch Tournament
There is going to be an Official PlayStation European Warhawk Tournament -yipeeee!! - I have translated Trinitri’s(Spanish Community Team Admin) post from the Official PlayStation community forum to the best of my ability as there is no English announcement up just yet!
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Warhawk European Just-For-Fun DeathMatch Tournament
Up to 900 lucky players of Europe will have the opportunity to participate during November there will be several tournament games of Warhawk. The championship will be decided with a competition between the best players of each country to be recognized as “the best player of Europe”.
How will it work?
During November we will make a classification round all against all for each one of the European languages. A maximum of 152 users for each Country will play six combats all against all with 24 participants. The four best players of each one of these games will take part in the final Country team.
Six different Countries will be taking part: UK, Spain, France, Germany, Holland and Italy, the finals will involve combat all against all with 24 players, the best the four of each language.
How do I sign up?
*see Warhawk Deathmatch Competition forum*
You will need to join the new public group ‘Warhawk’ as this forum is protected, this will all be explained in more detail soon in our next announcement on these new forums.
During next week we will publish the dates of the tournament and all the other information.
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Top Gear Track & Episode Downloads coming to GT5
That’s right folks, you will be able to Download the Top Gear track and play it on Gran Tursimo 5 on your PS3.
Aaaand you will be able to download 40 classic episodes at launch on the Gran Turismo TV service, a dedicated online channel packed with the latest news and content from the motoring world, this will be launching in 2008.
Not only will you get to play the famous Dunsfold track, but you will get to also play each track and the latest cars featured on the top gear show each week!! fantastic!!!
“We at Polyphony are great fans of the world’s best motoring programme, Top Gear, so we’re delighted to be collaborating with BBC Worldwide to deliver Top Gear content via Gran Turismo,” said Kazunori Yamauchi, President, Polyphony Digital, “We’re sure that players will be as thrilled as we are when they get the chance to put their own driving skills to the test on the Top Gear Test Track in GT5, as well as enjoying classic episodes of Top Gear via GT TV.”
PS3 price cuts & 40gb value pack is released
Sony has cut the 60gb PS3 model down to £349 and released their 40gb PS3 value pack, be warned though, other then the 20gb capacity difference there are more significant differences, the 40gb PS3 version has had PS2 backwards compatability removed, also the memory card reader has been removed and super audio cd’s will not play either.
PS3 comparison table
These are very significant differences for £50, also it just makes plain sense to get the 60gb model over the less featured 40gb model, as it comes with 2 games included, and no these aren’t bad games, I just checked the game titles available as part of the offer on amazon, you won’t be dissapointed with great titles such as Heavenly Sword, Resistance: fall of man and motorstorm.
It honestly doesn’t make any sense to get the 40gb over the 60gb, your gonna want to get at least 2 games for the PS3 right? even the 20gb model over in the states has more features then the 40gb model (other then the capacity) and that did not catch on at all over there, I predict that this 40gb model will not sell so well, unless of course there is a more significant price cut.
Heavenly Sword Review
Here’s something I have not done for a long time (a review, or post for that matter)
Anyway moving on…I just completed Ninja Theorys PS3 title Heavenly Sword and I must say it is one of the best PS3 titles I have played!
The game has terrific graphics, stunning artwork and superb character animation thanks to the use of advanced motion capturing comprised of 60 cameras, the very same technology responsible for gollum of lord of the rings, in fact Andy Serkis, gollum himself is dramatic Director and plays King Bohan in Heavenly Sword!
My favourite bit of the gameplay will have to be the use of the sixaxis motion sensing to guide arrows shot by kai (the crazy sidekick of Nariko) or objects thrown by Nariko, I think more games should make use of the sixaxis like this.
What isnt so good?
Well playing against the groups of bad guys in between the bosses does get a bit repetitive, though there are slight changes depending on the characters, button mashing for ages isn’t that fun.
I completed the game in about 3 days, I reckon it could be completed in one sitting, but don’t take that the wrong way, this is definatley a PS3 game worth getting.
We think this game deserves a rating of 9.5/10
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