More and more Heavenly Sword reviews are emerging on online gaming sites – most recent are IGN UK / US, Gamepro and EGM. Here’s a round up of most of the review scores so far. They’re quite a mixed bunch, such is the subjective nature of reviewing.
Edge Magazine: 60%
IGN UK: 7/10 (70%)
IGN US: 7/10 (70%)
PSW: 80%
EGM: 8, 8, 9 (85%)
Gamepro: 4.5/5 (90%)
Play Magazine: 100%
You can find what Three Speech thought of the game here. Also in Heavenly Sword news, we’ve got a bunch of new screenshots to share fresh from the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany
After some more Uncharted info? Joystiq have just the thing, a lengthy Q&A with Line Producer Sam Thompson, addressing a lot of questions from the community. Topics covered include changes and tweaks they are making to the game, lots of details about how they are developing the game, as well as some information about their support of Home. Be sure to check it out if you’re interested in Uncharted. You can also see what Three Speech thought of the E3 build here.
[Joystiq interviews Sony’s Sam Thompson about Uncharted]
PlayStation have just issued the following announcement
“We have just received information that the next PS Store update, which will contain Warhawk, will be Thursday 30th August and not Tuesday 28th August as previously announced. As you know Thursday is the usual day for our PS Store refresh. We are sorry for any inconvenience that the extra 48 hours wait may cause.”
This is complete speculation and we’ve not - repeat NOT! - heard anything through official channels, but various websites claim to have spoken to ’sources’ who suggest that BioShock will in fact be coming to the PS3.
Read more about it - [here]
Something a little different - a few of the concept sketches for Heavenly Sword.
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Steve Boxer reports direct from Leipzig for Three Speech.
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe President David Reeves took the helm for a meaty, barnstorming press conference at the Games Convention in Leipzig which, among the traditional sales analysis of Sony’s PlayStation family in Europe (and an impressive, if mercifully brief, excursion into the German language), yielded some interesting information about precisely which first-party PlayStation 3 games will hit the shops in time for this Christmas.
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Some new screenshots for you. Looking very, very good….
Here’s what’s due on the PSN today.
Demo:
Folklore
Videos:
Heavenly Sword Anime #3
Heavenly Sword Making Of Clip 3
Warhawk Ground Combat
Warhawk Air Combat
Warhawk Mulitplayer
Leipzig PSN Software Showcase
Leipzig Heavenly Sword
Leipzig Snake Ball
Leipzig Playstation Eye
Leipzig MGS 4 Video
And a couple of third party trailers:
Stranglehold GD Trailer
Unreal Tournament 3 Trailer
Loaded magazine’s games expert Chris Burke gives his take on Sony’s Leipzig announcements.
Good news at last for any PS3 owners who may be beginning to wonder whether their shiny black console was going to live up to the bright future promised for it. As you will know by now, Sony have unveiled their latest plans for the PS3 and PSP at the Leipzig Games Convention in Germany today, and the upshot is some pretty damn cool stuff.
Sony’s pledge (and indeed justification for the higher price tag) back in March that the PS3 would be a total home entertainment hub – for games, films, music and TV – is now that bit nearer to being a reality. It’s a hugely exciting prospect: anyone who’s got Sky+ already will tell you that it’s changed their lives, so being able to use your PS3 for recording and pausing live HD telly is a huge bonus for the PS3 owner, taking the console into the category of a totally must-have piece of kit at last.
The PSP announcements are also getting us as excited as kids on Christmas Day too. Not only will you now be able to watch your recorded programmes on the go remotely, but you can use it as a sat-nav and video and voice messenger too, turning the handheld PlayStation into everything you need on-the-go. Then, on top of all that, there’s its properly revolutionary video on demand service with BSkyB, so you can download top content to your PSP too. At the time of writing, no announcements have been made concerning the PSP’s tea-making ability.
The new announcements are certain to have a massive impact on not only the games industry, but also the video industry and the mobile phone industry too – let’s face it, mobile games are never going to be as good as PSP games, so now the PSP can offer Wi-Fi communications and GPS on a smart (and slim-line) bit of kit, why use anything else?
And it’s totally going to change the way we think about and use our games consoles too – not to mention finally making the missus understand why we love our PlayStations so much. After six months of playing catch-up, Sony have done the smart thing and given the PlayStation 3 a vital and sustainable purpose beyond pure gaming. Now when anyone asks the question, ‘What’s the point of getting a PS3 when other consoles are cheaper?’, just tell them to feel the quality and the width.
