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DLC Digest: 3DS demos, Scarygirl, Prince of Persia, Arc the Lad, Gears of War 3 and GT5 DLC, Kingdoms Of Amalur and Darkness II demos
| Date Posted | Author |
|---|---|
| 21st January 2012 | Matt Bailey |
After some quiet weeks on the download front, things are a bit more interesting in the latest edition of the DLC Digest. In particular because Nintendo are finally started to embrace the benefits of the modern digital era with downloadable 3DS demos. If you head over to the e-Shop you can pick up a sample of Capcom's Resident Evil Revelations a week before the full game arrives in shops, or try out 505 Games' Cooking Mama 4. Both are free, of course, and are the start of demos becoming a more regular feature on the service. Demos planned for the future include Konami's Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, and SEGA's Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games and Rhythm Thief & the Emperor's Treasure.
Also on the e-Shop this week is a new Game Boy Color game on the Virtual Console, and it's actually one you might have heard of; Prince of Persia. It's back from the 2D side-scrolling era of the series, as is the version of the game which has also appeared on the Wii's Virtual Console this week. The Wii Prince of Persia re-release is from the classic NES edition and can be picked up for 800 Wii Points/£5.60, whereas the 3DS GBC version is £4.50. The 3DS also gets a couple of DSiWare games; 40-in-1 Explosive Megamix from Nordcurrent for 800 DSi Points/£7.20 or CIRCLE Entertainment's Come On! Heroes for just 200 DSi Points/£1.80 - both of which are also on the DSi Shop.
Arriving on the Xbox Live Arcade this week is an an action-platformer based on the graphical novel "Scarygirl". This game, also called Scarygirl, is from Tik Games and being published by Square Enix and can be picked up for 1200 Microsoft Points, which is £10.20. It looks to capture the original art style well, but you can give the trial a go for free if you want to see how it plays before picked it up. It should be arriving on the PlayStation Store next week, so right now it's a 360 exclusive. Another exclusive is spooky Kinect-enabled horror game Haunt, which can be bought for 800 MSP/£6.80. Curiously, the original DOOM is also returning this week, after a hiatus of over a year. Originally the XBLA version of the classic FPS was published by Activision, but that ended after Bethesda owners ZeniMax bought developer id Software. Now Bethesda are in charge of id's publishing, and have re-released the original DOOM on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 400 MSP/£3.40. There's no word about whether it will finally appear on the PSN too.
Although over on the PlayStation Store they have their own exclusive classics. The much-requested PS1 Japanese tactical RPG Arc the Lad has arrived as part of the PSone Classics range (and hence is playable on both the PS3 and PSP). This is the first time the Sony-developed game has been sold in Europe, and can be picked up for £3.99. Joining it is another of Crystal Dynamics' classic PS1 games, the platformer Pandemonium 2. It also costs £3.99. The Store also has two new minis, Stickman Rescue (£2.49) and P.O.W. - Prisoners of War (£1.99) which are both PS3 and PSP compatible, as usual.
The latest piece of DLC for Gears of War 3 arrived earlier this week on the Xbox Live Marketplace. The "Fenix Rising" map pack adds five new multiplayer maps, including a remake of Escalation from the original Gears of War, as well as four new multiplayer characters. It costs 800 MSP, unless you have already purchased the Season Pass, in which case it should just be available to you already. Over on the PlayStation Store, Gran Turismo 5 gets more new DLC including Car Pack 3 - which adds the likes of the Aston Martin V12 Vantage and 5 other cars for a somewhat steep £4.79, or you can get the Speed Test pack for £3.19 which adds a new track and mode to allow you to test the full potential of your cars, such as top speed.
Lastly we finish up with some freebies. Our own Richard Pilot was excited by THQ's The Darkness II at Gamescom last year, and now you can give the game a try for yourself with the free demo from the Xbox Live Marketplace. Hopefully it will be on the PS Store soon too. Going cross-platform, however, is the EA-published Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. The demo of the upcoming RPG is available right now on both the PS3 and Xbox 360 for free, and playing and completing it will unlock extras for EA's other upcoming RPG Mass Effect 3. When the ME3 demo rolls round on Valentine's Day it will also allow you to unlock content in the full version of Kingdoms of Amalur.
