Saturday 2 July 2011

Alice: Madness Returns

Product Features
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Use multiple upgradeable melee weapons, including the explosive Teapot Cannon, the punishing Hobby Horse, and the classic Vorpal Blade
Encounter familiar, but now strange characters including the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Catapillar and the Red Queen
Obtain peculiar abilities in Wonderland such as floating with Alice's dress, shrinking and growing to towering sizes in order to crush enemies
Intuative and rewarding puzzles such as transforming obstacles, musical memories chess and picture blocks
Delight in the whims of the ever-changing visual aspects of the gameworld which visually affect everything in the game, including Alice and her attire



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Alice: Madness Returns is an Action-Adventure game that delves deep into the dark and violent side of the imagination, creating a nightmarish Wonderland where Alice must face the demons that haunt her visions. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and then travel to the beautiful yet ghastly Wonderland to uncover the root of Alice's madness and discover the truth behind a deadly secret, kept hidden for years. Features include: upgradable melee weapons and magic abilities, a shattered gameword filled with altered versions of Lewis Carroll's famous characters and intuitive and rewarding puzzle play.
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Return to a Very Different Wonderland

Eleven years ago a horrific fire took Alice's family from her and left her mind horrifically scarred. Afterwards she was confined to Rutledge Asylum where she struggled to confront her demons by slipping slipping further into her fantasy world of Wonderland. Now, after ten years, she has finally secured her release - yet she still bears the heavy psychological burden of that tragic event.
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Join Alice once again in her search for truth hidden within madness.
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With her mind in tatters, she is unable to resolve the fear prompted by her strange memories, dreams, and visions. Perhaps she'll do better in Wonderland. She always has. She travels there, seeking what the "real" world can't provide: security, knowledge, and the truth about the past. But in her absence, Wonderland too has suffered. Something has gone horribly wrong, and now a great evil is descending upon what once was her beautiful refuge. Can Alice save Wonderland -- and herself -- from the madness that consumes them both?
Gameplay

Alice: Madness Returns, like the original 2000 game release for PC that it is a sequel to, is a third-person, single player, action game that incorporates platforming and combat gameplay. Playing as Alice players retreat into Wonderland for comfort from the real world, only to find it in even more shambles than before. Yet this world that exists in Alice's head holds the secrets to her repressed memories and the truth behind the murder of her family. Players must fight their way across this world using a mixture of melee weapons, magic and puzzle-solving and platforming skills to defeat a variety of enemy types, each with particular strengths and weakness. By besting each, players collect in-game currency that can be used to upgrade weapons and skills. In addition to combat players also must explore every corner of this strange world to find clues, messages and potions that help to literally unlock memories that will finally expose the truth behind the madness.
Key Game Features

Intense 3rd-person Action - Use multiple upgradeable melee weapons, including the explosive Teapot Cannon, the punishing Hobby Horse, and the classic Vorpal Blade.
Explore a Dark and Shattered Wonderland - Encounter familiar, but now strange characters including the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the Caterpillar and the Red Queen.
Magical Abilities - Obtain peculiar abilities in Wonderland such as floating with Alice's dress, shrinking and growing to towering sizes in order to crush enemies.
Interactive Puzzles - Intuitive and rewarding puzzles such as transforming obstacles, musical memories chess and picture blocks.
A Visually Unique Gameworld - Delight in the whims of the ever-changing visual aspects of the gameworld which visually affect everything in the game, including Alice and her attire.

Sunday 26 June 2011

Heavy Rain

Product Features

A PlayStation 3 exclusive featuring accessible gameplay via intuitive, contextual controls and interface.
An evolving action adventure thriller featuring mature content, reflecting a realistic world setting and powerful themes
Four playable characters that allows you to continue playing as one of the other characters if your initial character is killed.
Savable chapters that allow you to replay the actions of the past, while maintaining the continuity of the events of earlier chapters.
Stunning graphics, animation and technology support an emotionally driven experience.

Amazon.com Product Description
Heavy Rain is an interactive, single player, action adventure game in which every decision players make influences the evolution of a desperate quest to catch a deadly killer poised to strike again. Featuring a complex and dark storyline meant for mature audiences, the game is a PlayStation 3 exclusive featuring a variety of possible endings, advanced crime scene analysis, replayable chapters, four playable characters and the ability to continue play as remaining characters in the event of your current character's death.

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Story
How far will you go to save someone you love? In Heavy Rain each player discovers their own answer to this question as they experience a gripping psychological thriller filled with innumerable twists and turns, where choices and actions can and do result in dramatic consequences. Spanning four days of mystery and suspense, the hunt is on for a murderer known only as the Origami Killer - named after his macabre calling card of leaving behind folded paper shapes at crime scenes. Even more chilling is the fiend's well established pattern of killing his victims four days after abducting them. The public is gripped with fear as the police seem powerless to stop the carnage, and another potential victim — Shaun Mars — has gone missing. Now four characters, each following their own leads and with their own motives, must take part in a desperate attempt to prevent the killer from taking yet another life.

Shaun and Ethan Mars from Heavy Rain
Discover how far you will go to protect a loved one as you join the search for the Origami Killer.
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Gameplay
Heavy Rain is a single player, action/adventure game with a particularly strong emphasis on a player-influenced storyline as a means of facilitating the evolution of action towards one of many possible conclusions. The game features four playable characters: a father, a photographer, a FBI agent with a special skill set and a retired cop turned private detective. Each have different paths, means and motives to ending the reign of terror that the Origami Killer has imposed on their city. As players follow the path laid before their character of choice, they are able to explore, interact with and view their surroundings in a variety of ways using their controller's left and right sticks. At crucial times players are given a series of choices relating to how to proceed in various situations, with the outcome of these choices revealing both benefits and consequences. Benefits can be important to progressing through the game, while possible consequences can in turn pose a very real danger to characters, including death. But unlike other games, and because Heavy Rain features four playable characters that exist independently of each other, yet simultaneously within the same the story arc, this does not end the game. Players are instead able to play as one of the other available characters, with appropriate changes to possible outcomes due to the absence of the deceased character(s).

Key Game Features

An evolving action-adventure thriller in which you shape the story with every decision you make.
Action built around four playable characters that allows you to continue playing as one of the other characters if your initial character is killed.
Savable chapters that allow you to replay the actions of the past, while maintaining the continuity of the events begun in earlier chapters.
Mature content reflecting a realistic world setting that explores powerful themes.
Stunning graphics, animation and technology that support an emotionally driven experience.
Accessible gameplay via intuitive, contextual controls and interface.

Friday 24 June 2011

Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3


Product Features
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Mecha overload: Over 50 playable and upgradable characters and over 70 playable and upgradeable Mobile Suits combed from the Gundam universe, including new Mobile Suits from Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Mobile Suit Gundam UC and many more
Anime in motion: Experience the Gundam anime and manga series come to life with an entirely new cel-shaded graphical treatment
Deeper gameplay systems: Enhanced and aggressive enemy AI adds to the challenge while new gameplay systems, including Partner Strike, Emergency Dash and Recovery Gauge expand the level of strategy and depth to the gameplay
Story mode returns: the popular mode originally introduced in the first DYNASTY WARRIORS: GUNDAM is back with an entirely new campaign
The biggest game yet: Tremendously deep with over hundreds of hours of gameplay! PLUS the limitless replay value of online multiplayer with up to 4 players

Product Description
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
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Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 is a Hack and Slash Action game with elements of Strategy gameplay. Based on the Gundam anime series, and the sequel Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 features 50 playable and upgradeable characters and over 70 playable and upgradeable Mobile Suits. Additional features include: deeper gameplay systems than in previous games in the series, the return of story mode, hundreds of hours of gameplay and multiplayer game support up to four players.
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50+ playable characters and 70 mobile suits.
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New gameplay systems and aggressive enemy AI, Partner Strike, Emergency Dash and more.
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The Next Generation of Futuristic Mecha Action

Set in the future, chaotic warfare has engulfed the universe. The world is ripe with strife as gigantic mecha called Mobile Suits march to war on land and in space. Featuring characters and mecha from over 30 years of Gundam anime and manga series, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 thrusts players into the galactic melee with over 50 playable and upgradeable characters and over 70 playable and upgradeable Mobile Suits combed from the Gundam universe. New additions include Mobile Suits from Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Mobile Suit Gundam UC and many more.
New Gameplay Features

Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 also features a number of gameplay additions to the series, including 3 brand new featured systems, including the Partner Strike, Emergency Dash and Recovery Gauge Systems, which will bring a new level of full-out tactical action to the series. The Partner Strike System will enable the player to summon partner characters to the battlefield to assist at crucial moments, affecting your character's current melee engagement or possibly the overall battlefield conditions for your army. The Emergency Dash System will allow players to execute new cancel and evasion moves negating enemy attacks. This system will bring a new level to gameplay since powerful combos can be more easily parried. The new Recovery Gauge System enables players to recover armor during battle allowing players more flexibility in their tactics on the battlefield.

Additionally, Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 brings a new strategy facet to gameplay. Battlefields now incorporate multiple facilities with various functions. Capturing these locations will change the battlefield conditions and turn the tide of the battle in your favor. Players will be also able to use a new Chain Explosion System to engulf their enemies in a maelstrom of fury. By initiating an explosion via certain attacks, players will be able to cause further carnage with their own chain of explosions. Skillful players can use this system to finish off entire squads of Mobile Suits in one blow, thus turning the tide of battle in their favor. Furthermore, players can take their favorite Mobile Suits and band together with others in intense online multiplayer co-op action with up to four players
Key Game Features

Mecha Overload - Over 50 playable and upgradeable characters and over 70 playable and upgradeable Mobile Suits combed from the Gundam universe, including new Mobile Suits from Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Mobile Suit Gundam UC and many more
Anime in Motion - Experience the Gundam anime and manga series come to life with an entirely new cel-shaded graphical treatment
Deeper Gameplay Systems - Enhanced and aggressive enemy AI adds to the challenge while new gameplay systems, including Partner Strike (summon partner characters to the battlefield at crucial moments), Emergency Dash (negate enemy attacks with new cancel and evasion moves) and Recovery Gauge (recover health during battle) expand the level of strategy and depth to the gameplay
Story Mode Returns - The popular mode originally introduced in the first Dynasty Warriors: Gundam is back with an entirely new campaign
The Biggest Game Yet - Tremendously deep with over hundreds of hours of gameplay, plus the limitless replay value of online multiplayer with up to four players

inFAMOUS 2


Product Features
Edition: Standard

True superhero experience as you discover what it means to be a true superhero with epic boss battles and powerful cinematic sequences
Advanced super powers experience being a full-blown superhero with enhanced electrical attacks, a visceral melee fighting system and new superpowers
All-new open dynamic world explore a vibrant world in the city of New Marais with increased interactivity and destruction using dynamic parkour moves
New morality system all-new morality system gives players freedom of choice and leads to 2 different endings
Create and share original missions with a built-in tool set that function as side quests

Product Description
Edition: Standard
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infamous 2 is a single player, Open World game, exclusive to PlayStation 3. The second chapter in the best selling infamous franchise, this immersive adventure offers a powerful, emotional, and visceral take on being a superhero, and the choices that involves. Features include: a unique blend of electrical and melee combat abilities, epic boss battles, a new morality system allowing for two possible game endings, user generated missions and more.
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Will You Save Humanity or Destroy It All?

Cole MacGrath is back, more confident and with more focused energy burst abilities. Blamed for the destruction of Empire City, Cole must make a dramatic journey to discover his full super-powered potential - and face the final confrontation with a dark and terrifying enemy. This being, a creature of pure power and destruction is annihilating the East Coast. To stop this menace, Cole must find the key to unlocking his undiscovered powers hidden deep within New Marais. Standing in the way is a power-hungry dictator that will stop at nothing to rid him from the city. Gain enough power to defeat The Beast or witness the destruction of the world. The power is in your hands.
Cole using his climbing abilities to easily cling to the side of a clock face in inFAMOUS 2
Cole returns in infamous 2 as a more focused, more dangerous superhero in the making.
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Gameplay

Like its predecessor, infamous 2 is a single player Action-Adventure game set in an Open World game environment. Players take on the role of Cole, the returning anti-hero from the first game. Possessing electric burst abilities through his hands Cole has matured a bit as a superhero type, being more confident and focused in his abilities. He uses these abilities, as well as improved melee possibilities to battle enemies both large and small in mission-based gameplay. Along with combat, choice remains a big part of the game, with an improved morality system that allows for two separate endings to the game, depending on the choices that Cole makes.
User Generated Content

Unlike the original game in the series, infamous 2 contains significant user generated content tools that dramatically expand gameplay possibilities. Centered around a creation tool system, this allows players to create original missions and share them with other players via PlayStation Network. These function more or less as side quests once they are accepted, adding to the player's point total, but not altering the primary mission flow and morality-based aspects of the game.
Key Game Features

A True Superhero Experience - Discover what it means to be a true superhero with epic boss battles and powerful cinematic sequences
Advanced Super Powers - Experience being a full-blown superhero with enhanced electrical attacks, a visceral melee fighting system and new superpowers
An All-new Open Dynamic Gameworld - Explore a vibrant world in the city of New Marais with increased interactivity and destruction using dynamic parkour moves
New Morality System - All new morality system gives players freedom of choice and leads to 2 different endings
User Generated Content - Create and share original missions with a built-in tool set that function as side quests

DualShock 3 Wireless Controller


Product Features
Color: Black | Edition: Standard

Pressure sensors that rumble with each action making every impact feel like you're right in the game
Sixaxis highly sensitive motion technology senses your every move
Features Bluetooth technology for wireless game play
The PlayStation 3 system can support up to seven wireless controllers at one time
To Connect or Charge the Controller use the USB Cable (Type A – Mini-B) supplied with the PS3 system

Product Description
Color: Black | Edition: Standard
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The Dualshock 3 wireless controller for the PlayStation 3 system provides the most intuitive game play experience with pressure sensors in each action button and the inclusion of the highly sensitive SIXAXIS™ motion sensing technology. Each hit, crash and explosion is more realistic when the user feels the rumble right in the palm of their hand. It can even detect natural movements for real-time and high precision interactive play, acting as a natural extension of the user’s body. Dualshock 3 wireless controller utilizes Bluetooth technology for wireless game play and the controller’s USB cable to seamlessly and automatically charge the controller through the PlayStation 3 system at anytime.

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Key Features:

Pressure sensors that rumble with each action making every impact feel like you’re right in the game.
SIXAXIS™ highly sensitive motion control system senses your every move
Features Bluetooth technology for wireless game play; the PlayStation 3 system can support up to seven wireless controllers at one time.
Can be charged at any time through the PlayStation 3 system using the controller’s USB cable


Initial PlayStation 3 Dualshock 3 Compatibility Chart

Formula One Championship Edition - PS3
MotorStorm - PS3
PAIN - PSN
High Velocity Bowling - PSN
MLB 08: The Show - PS3
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune - PS3
Resistance: Fall of Man - PS3
Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction - PS3
Go! Sports Ski - PSN
Folklore - PS3
Heavenly Sword - PS3
Warhawk - PSN/PS3
Super Stardust HD - PSN
Snakeball - PSN
Toy Home - PS
PSOne Emulation - PSN
Piyotama - PSN
PixelJunk Monsters - PSN
Blast Factor - PSN
Condemned 2: Bloodshot - PS3
LOST: Via Domus - PS3
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 - PS3
Burnout Paradise - PS3
Dynasty Warriors 6 - PS3
Devil May Cry 4 - PS3
DragonBall Z Burst Limit - PS3
Turok - PS3

Mortal Kombat

Product Features
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 | Edition: Standard

Fatalities return to their original violent form as Mortal Kombat gives its fans what they've been demanding
With classic 2D fighting plane, mature presentation and up to 4 player tag-team kombat
The deepest story mode of any fighting game as players are taken back to the original Mortal Kombat tournament
In addition to an enhanced online feature set, Mortal Kombat introduces Co-op arcade mode and many additional modes to be announced


roduct Description
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3 | Edition: Standard
Amazon.com Product Description

Prepare yourself to reenter the tournament in the triumphant return of Mortal Kombat. A complete reboot of the franchise, this latest iteration combines all-new mature oriented fighter gameplay with a deep story mode, improved graphics and game technology and new game modes to create a Mortal Kombat play experience like none before it. Feature details include: a storyline that takes players back to the original tournament, 4 player tag-team kombat, 3D TV compatibility, fatalities presented in graphic detail never imagined in earlier releases, enhanced online functionality and more.
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The Mortal Kombat Players Asked For

Having literally defined the mature game category, Mortal Kombat makes a triumphant return to its violent roots in the fastest and most brutal installment to date. Fighting game players will receive the Mortal Kombat they've been asking for, with Fatalities presented in more detail than ever before.
Return to the original Mortal Kombat tournament in Mortal Kombat
Return to the original tournament to save the future in Mortal Kombat.
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After centuries of Mortal Kombat, Emperor Shao Kahn has finally defeated Raiden and his allies. Faced with extinction, Raiden has one last chance to save Earthrealm. To undo the Emperor's victory, he must strike Shao Kahn where he is vulnerable… the Past.
Key Game Features

Mature Presentation - Fatalities make a triumphant return to their original violent form as Mortal Kombat gives its fans what they've been demanding. Graphic details, never before possible are presented with the most sophisticated graphics engine in MK history.
All-New Gameplay - By returning to its classic 2D fighting plane, mature presentation, and up to 4 player tag-team kombat; Mortal Kombat introduces an all new fighting mechanic that's both accessible and provides the depth that fighting game players look for.
Deep Story Mode - Mortal Kombat offers the deepest story mode of any fighting game. Players are taken back to the original Mortal Kombat tournament where they try to alter the events of the past in an attempt to save the future.
Graphics & Technology - Characters, environments and fatalities have never been presented with as much gory detail as in this next generation Mortal Kombat. From internal organs to the most "realistic" blood effects, Kombat has never looked this good.
New Game Modes - In addition to an enhanced online feature set, Mortal Kombat introduces Co-op arcade mode and many additional modes to be announced in the upcoming months.

LA Noire


Product Features
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Solve a variety of cases across the desks of Patrol, Traffic, Homicide and Arson.
Search crime scenes for clues, question witnesses and interrogate suspects as you search for the truth in each case.
Use your wits to analyze suspect's behavior and separate the truth from the lies.
Experience a stunningly accurate block-by-block recreation of 8 sq. miles of 1947 L.A.
Solve brutal crimes, plots and conspiracies inspired by real crimes from 1947 Los Angeles, one of the most corrupt and violent times in L.A. history.

Product Description
Platform: PLAYSTATION 3
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L.A. Noire is a gritty, single player detective game set on the infamous streets and in the smoke-filled back rooms of post-war Los Angeles. Designed and developed with a nod to the classic film noire movie genre, L.A. Noire blends crystal clear graphics that bring the iconic look and feel of the era to life, with a combination of innovative technology and unique gameplay that allow you to solve crimes through interrogations and investigation. Additional features include: five LAPD based crime desks to work, the ability to analyze the case as well as suspects for clues, an accurate block-by-block recreation of eight sq miles of 1947 Los Angeles, multiple difficulty settings and more.
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Synopsis

Amid the postwar boom of Hollywood's Golden Age, newly minted detective Cole Phelps is thrown headfirst into a city drowning in violence and corruption. Utilizing groundbreaking new technology that captures an actor's facial performance in astonishing detail, L.A. Noire is a violent crime thriller that blends breathtaking action with true detective work to deliver an unprecedented interactive experience. Interrogate witnesses, search for clues and chase down suspects as you struggle to find the truth in a city where everyone has something to hide.
A beat cop stopping you from entering a crime scene being investigated in L.A. Noire
Cross the police line to solve the worst crimes of Los Angeles' infamous postwar era.
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Against an overarching plot of violence and betrayal, L.A. Noire challenges players to solve a series of self-contained cases as they work their way through the ranks of the LAPD. Each case features a distinct storyline with a beginning, middle and end, and each successfully solved case brings new challenges and leads Cole closer to the true story at the dark heart of the Los Angeles criminal underworld.
Key Game Features

Solve a variety of cases across the crime desks of: Patrol, Traffic, Homicide, Vice and Arson
Search crime scenes for clues, question witnesses and interrogate suspects as you search for the truth in each case
Use your wits to analyze suspect's behavior and separate the truth from the lies
Experience a stunningly accurate block-by-block recreation of 8 sq miles of 1947 Los Angeles
Rise up through the ranks of the LAPD from a beat cop to other positions as LAPD detective Cole Phelps
Solve brutal crimes, plots and conspiracies inspired by famous crimes from 1947 Los Angeles, one of the most corrupt and violent times in the City of Angels' history
Multiple difficulty settings give players of all abilities the chance to step into the shoes of a detective in postwar L.A.