Lots of add-on content drops today, and I'll be honest I'm not going to touch any of it. I have access to the LBP beta now and it ends on Sunday I believe. So I'm going to play that until my fingers bleed. Either way there's tons of stuff to download today which seems a little because Sony's TGS presentation seemed a little paltry by most people's standards. Either way let's get started!
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Qore Episode 5 lands this week, a week late in most of our minds, but it's here at least and comes with it's usual host of goodies. Lots of survival horror goodness and to light things up - quite literally - let's throw in Shaun White's new snowboarding game in for good measure. I don't care what anybody says, I've gotten good use out of my Qore subscription.
Hot Shots Golf Fall Fashion Line brings in 5 new costumes that after all the variations provides 30 new outfits. So each time you hit the links you can look your best or just look different. For $3.99 it's not priced too bad, but honestly the outfits in the game are pretty good as they are and you can unlock all kinds of stuff. I'll wait for all new characters (I want Sackboy for Hot Shots Golf!) and new golf courses personally.
For the first that I'm aware of, DLC is being made available BEFORE the game is released. Dead Space doesn't release until next week and we already have suits to download for free or for monies! Dead Space Obsidian Suit is free - but for a limited time only so don't sleep on this - and Dead Space Scorpion Suit will run you $2.49. No clue if this is an accident, but it's there. I would suggest downloading the free pack ahead of time as its supposed to be a limited time deal.
FIFA 09 adds a lot of stuff this week and seems almost excessive. There's a total of 6 league packs at $6.99, or you can get quite a deal by buying them all in one bundle for $19.99. If you bought them all seperately you're looking at $42! The question has to be asked though, why wasn't this included by default. Looking at the 100Kb file size it appears that it was and they want to charge extra to unlock things. I can understand that to a point, but I think this gets carried away.
- All Leagues Pack
- Barclays Premier League English Pack
- Bundesliga German Pack
- Liga BBVA Spanish Pack
- Ligue 1 French Pack
- Primera Division De Mexico Pack
- Serie A Italian Pack
As well as Protoman Mode, we pick up Endless Attack mode for another $2.99. So take one long level, get as far as you can, and rack up as many points as you can.
As is customary on Thursday, Rock Band has new songs to rock out to. Today we pick up some Offspring tracks and then some other single tracks from various artists. The Offspring pack will run you $5.49, and the various guys will run you a $1.99 each. Enjoy!
Japan or Europe received Civilization Revolution DLC back in August I believe, and now North America finally gets some love. Brave New Worlds pack is free and includes 4 new maps. The Victory Pack will run you $1.25 and comes with new victory conditions. $1.25 for what sounds like quite a bit of new fun is pretty damn good!
For those who aren't addicted to Super Stardust HD like I am, now is the time to pick up everything. For $14.99 you now can have the whole SSHD bundle, including the original game and two expansions. For those of you who haven't picked up the expansions for $7.99 you can now get your hands on both the Solo and Team expansions. The Solo pack is a must have, but the Team one I could have done with out. I recommend getting at least the the Solo pack!
Demos
I'm not a big fan of the game changes that happened after the introduction of the jetpack, but outside of that Warhawk should be on just about every PS3 owner's games list. Now those of you who haven't jumped on the now $29.99 title, here's a demo that should whet your appetite. This is a newbie friendly demo that has it's own demos that should be 90% full of people who don't own the game. There's nothing to prevent me from downloading, installing, and playing the demo but as a vet player why would I? So jump in, and find out what this game is about. You like aerial dog fights? Check! You want to run around stabbing people with a dagger? Check! Wanna run around throwing grenades at anything that moves? Check! Wanna take a plane down with a rocket launcher? Check! This game has just about everything you need, and running extremely smooth at 720p and supporting TRUE XMB music this game should wow any shooter fan. Get it, then buy it!
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars absolutely wins the award for the longest game title ever, but it also supports online play and Trophies so that alone will attract some people. From what I can tell from videos it's Sci-fi + Soccer + cars. I'll check it out next week once my LBP beta is no longer available and I've finished pouting and crying... Just in time for SOCOM to release next week.
Games
Linger in Shadows isn't an actual game, but it does have Trophy support, doesn't take up much space and is cheap. Weighing in at 100Mb and $2.99 Linger In Shadows is in fact a demoscene instead of a game. Basically it's art you can interact with. It's weird, looks amazing, and completely comes out of nowhere. I keep thinking of all the other things I've wasted $3 on this week, and then I try and figure out why I shouldn't get this. I know I've given out at least $3 in change this week to co-workers and I keep thinking "will I replay this thing?" I'm going to pass for now, but I think I will return to this after October and November calms down. I'm still more than slightly intrigued by this one.
Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars, as I mentioned earlier is a mix of soccer and cars that uses the Unreal Engine. It's supposed to be non-stop online, Trophy fueled PSN goodness, but it weighs in at $14.99. At first that seems a little much, but I haven't played the demo yet. Maybe once I get through the demo maybe I'll decide if I'm going to pick this one up.
Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords has been characterized as digital crack by a number of my friends. Now it's available for download on the PS3. I think I'll pick this up eventually as I love puzzlers and anything in 47" HD is awesome and make me smile. For $14.99 it includes the original game as well as Wrath of the Plague Lord expansion pack.
Videos
GamesThemes
LittleBigPlanet Life in LBP Ep. 2 (Play)
LittleBigPlanet Playtime
MotorStorm Pacific Rift Crashes & Carnage Trailer
NBA 09 Trailers (x4)
SOCOM: Confrontation - Desert Glory Flythrough
Bioshock Official Trailer
Legendary: The Box Behind the Scenes 3 & 4 (x2)
Mercenaries 2 World In Flames Payback Trailer
Soul Calibur IV Character Gameplay Combos Trailer
Tom Clancy’s End War Command Points Video Briefing
Tom Clancy’s End War Mass Destruction Trailer
For some reason they've now decided to start charging for some themes. They're calling them Premium Themes and will run anywhere from $.99 to $1.99. For me I'll have to pass on these unless there's something that just really screams out to me. Otherwise a majority of the previous free themes have been pretty "meh" at best, and there are resources like PS3-Themes.com that have just as much crap but also have the same amount of good themes for absolutely free. Either way here's the list, and I'll be passing for now.
Bioshock Exclusive Theme - $0.99
Auburn University - $1.99
Florida State University - $1.99
University of Georgia - $1.99
University of Miami - $1.99
University of Michigan - $1.99
University of North Carolina - $1.99
University of Tennessee - $1.99
University of Texas - $1.99
Beach Sampler - $1.99
Summer Down Under - $1.99
Digital Techno - $1.49
High Voltage - $1.49
Horror Eyes - $1.49
Refracted Revolt - $1.49
Bad Girls - $1.49
Halloween Vixens - $1.49
Golden Retriever - $1.49
Man’s Best Friend - $1.49
Nordic Majesty - $1.49
Seaside Sunsets - $1.49
Elven-X - $0.99
Iron Guard - $0.99
After you check those out, see if your favorite college team is in the mix this week, and if not here's what we get for free.
WipEout HD All Teams #2 Theme is dope. Flat out, this is sweet. Two backgrounds, both of them are a good mix of light and dark so it's not too bright or too dark. Has a very distinct racing feel to both backgrounds as it looks like they have sponser logos in different places. All the icons have a different ship next to them but they all fit. Only thing this may be missing is sound. I wish a lot more themes would use some decent sounds with their themes.
Fallout 3 Brotherhood of Steel Theme uses the normal icons we've noticed from all the Fallout 3 videos with a background that looks a lot like something we'd see in Killzone 2. No sounds, nothing special, and the icons appear to be taken directly from the game itself.
Fallout PIP-BOY 3000 Theme reminds me of the old retro theme that was available back in the spring I want to say. Honestly this theme could have been combined with the other Fallout 3 theme this week. The only thing different is the background and honest we could have done with out that one. I'm going back to the WipEout HD #2 Theme.
Toss in a few wallpapers to mix~n~match with other themes and we conclude this week's fun.
2 Linger In Shadows Wallpapers
4 ATV Pure Wallpapers
2 Valkyria Chronicles Wallpapers
TGS is this week, so there's tons of news going down. Not much in the way of big NEW news for PlayStation but enough to keep you reading. PSP to PS3 connections, Resistance news, cross-over characters to be included in LBP, more news on White Knight and Quantum Theory. Go further and dig up PlayStation goodness, I'm off to play LittleBigPlanet!
