OPC Mag - Issue01

EN OFFICIAL PLAYSTATION COMMUNITY PRESENTS...

OPC

WELCOME TO EDITION #01 - APRIL 2012

magazine THE VITA IS IN FULL SWING! WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE FEATURES AND GAMES

& KARA TECH DEMO

LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW We preview what could be one of the craziest, wackiest and most insane Zombie death-fests in gaming history.

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HAS THE LANDSCAPE CHANGED FOR STORYTELLING?

& GAME REVIEWS UNIT 13, JOURNEY, SHADOWS OF THE DAMNED

& MUCH MORE INSIDE...

OPC EVENTS Find out what community events are on the go via the OPC forum and get involved!

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WELCOME/ CONTENTS APRIL 2012 top stories 06 Inside the PS VITA 10 Gaming on the PS Vita 16 Kara Tech demo

08 Unit 13

reviews

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Unit 13 Review

18 Shadows of the Damned 26 Journey

also in this issue 24 Top 10 - Guilty Pleasures 30 PSN games (six of the best)

06 & 10

The PS VITA

32 Lollipop Chainsaw preview 34 Community Events 34

Community Events

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMUNITY TEAM EN COMMUNITY TEAM LEADER: Envisager

TWITTER: envisager_

WEB: community.eu.playstation.com

In this section, we’ll bring you a message from the Community Team. This issue, Envisager, the EN Community Team Leader...

Hello Community.

Welcome to this new and exciting addition to the Official PlayStation Forums, a community magazine completely generated by you guys!

This very first edition is a bit of a tester for us and we’d love to hear what you’d like to see in the magazine and your general feedback, be it good or bad, we want to hear it! We also want you to get involved! If you have anything that you think you could offer in the way of content, let us know! We would love to get your articles and reviews. This is YOUR magazine and we want it to be something that you are proud of!

We are especially looking for cover stories, so if you have been to any epic gaming events or expos (if you have pictures, even better!) let us know as we would love to feature your experiences. So that’s enough of me babbling on, this is the community’s project!

Get involved and you could see your name in virtual print very soon. Exciting times!

Best wishes Vissy

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We’d love to hear what you’d like to see in the magazine and your general feedback, be it good or bad, we want to hear it!

This is YOUR magazine and we want it to be something that you are proud of!

QuietlyWrong Gaming on the PS Vita NateC87 Kara Tech demo CaptainCortez Shadows of the Damned Review NateC87 Journey Review MissSouthampton Top 10 CaptainCortez Lollipop Chainsaw preview NateC87 PSN games

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INSIDE THE

PS VITA

THE MOST FUN TO BE HAD WITH TWO HANDS? We take a look at the games & features of the recently released PS Vita.

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WHAT PS VITA HAS TO OFFER Wait, what?, you haven’t got a PS VITA yet? Here’s some features & games you’re missing out on...

Dual Analog Sticks Discover a fully immersive first person shooter experience with dual analog sticks.

Cross-Platform Play With cross platform play you can start playing a game on your PS3 console, pause the game and pick up on PS Vita right where you left off. You can also join in multiplayer games on your PS Vita and play against players on their PS3 consoles.

Touchscreen

The multi touch display offers

new ways to complete

challenges and actions alike, all

on a stunning 5” OLED screen.

Rear Touch Pad

The rear multi touch pad gives

you greater hand control while

freeing up the brilliance of the

front OLED screen.

Front and Rear Camera

Use the front and rear cameras

on your PS Vita create amazing

augmented reality experiences

in your games by transporting

your world or yourself into the game.

Six Axis Motion Sensor

With PS Vita’s motion sensor

technology actively engage

with the game like never before

as you touch, tilt, and steer your

PS Vita. Discover the endless

ways to manipulate your

environment, engage with your

characters, and utilize in game tools.

3G/Wi-Fi

The new 3G/Wi-Fi will change

the way you game with real-time

scores and game ranking news

feeds, competitive multiplayer

game sessions, and cross-game

text messaging with Party.

Game at the speed of your

mobile life style.

GPS Locate, connect and play with friends via GPS* and social networking apps like near.

DID YOU KNOW Text text text text text text text text.

“WAIT, WHAT?, YOU HAVEN’T GOT A PS VITA YET?”

www.masseffect.com

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INSIDE THE

PS VITA

THE MOST FUN TO BE HAD WITH TWO HANDS? We take a look at the features of the recently released PS Vita.

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WHAT PS VITA HAS TO OFFER Wait, what? You haven’t got a PS VITA yet? Here are some features you’re missing out on...

Dual Analog Sticks Discover a fully immersive first person shooter experience with dual analog sticks.

Cross-Platform Play With cross platform play you can start playing a game on your PS3 console, pause the game and pick up on PS Vita right where you left off. You can also join in multiplayer games on your PS Vita and play against players on their PS3 consoles.

Touchscreen

The multi-touch display offers

new ways to complete

challenges and actions alike, all

on a stunning 5” OLED screen.

Rear Touch Pad

The rear multi touch pad gives

you greater control while

freeing up the brilliance of the

front OLED screen.

Front and Rear Camera

Use the front and rear cameras

on your PS Vita to create amaz

ing augmented reality

experiences in your games by

transporting yourself or your

world into the game.

Sixaxis Motion Sensor

With PS Vita’s motion sensor

technology you can actively

engage with the game like never

before. Twist, tilt, turn and twitch

your PS Vita to add that extra

dimension to your gameplay.

Discover the endless ways to

manipulate your environment,

engage with your characters,

and utilize in-game tools.

3G/Wi-Fi

The new 3G/Wi-Fi will change

the way you game with real-time

scores and game ranking news

feeds, competitive multiplayer

game sessions, and cross-game

text messaging with Party.

Game at the speed of your

mobile life style.

GPS Locate, connect and play with friends via GPS and social networking apps like near.

DID YOU KNOW PS Vita comes with the ability to snap screenshots of your in-game exploits.

Just press the PS button and Start at the same time.

“WAIT, WHAT? YOU HAVEN’T GOT A PS VITA YET?”

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UNIT 13

REVIEW REVIEWER: richard4481

PLATFORM: ps vita

RELEASE DATE: 6 March 2012

MVP RICHARD4481 takes a look at Zipper Interactive’s latest title...

Unit 13 is Zipper Interactive’s latest title on a PlayStation console. They have a long-standing association with the PlayStation platforms, bringing us the likes of the SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs brand on the PS2, SOCOM Fireteam Bravo titles on PSP and more recently the likes of MAG and SOCOM 4 on the PS3.

So let’s take a look at their latest venture, Unit 13, which is released on the recently-launched PS Vita.

Unit 13, like most of Zipper’s recent output, is a tactical third-person shooter. The mission modes vary from covert missions to direct action, deadline to elite. Each mission mission also has a ‘Dynamic mode’, which has random difficulty, random insertions and objectives, though these dynamic missions do not earn you stars or have a leaderboard rating.

From the off you’ll notice the whole experience is very dependent on the touch screen, which works flawlessly, from navigating the menu

screens to using touch in-game. I had no issue with button lag or any other flaws of this nature. Each time you start a mission you can select a different operative from the likes of Commando, Technician, Pointman, Gunner, Infiltrator and Marksman.

Each operative can be ranked up to level ten, increasing their abilities. This also includes unlocking weapons, some of which can be used across the whole team of operatives. Every mission also has leaderboards on which you can compare yourself against your friends’ scores, Near, Region and Global rankings. This adds to the game’s longevity with a lot of entertainment to be had going back over missions, trying to improve scores to beat my friends and also get more performance stars, which are required to unlock ‘High Value Targets’.

In-game controls such as snap to cover work wonderfully well with no real issues of getting stuck to objects; lean and peek also works a treat as you would expect from a great developer such as Zipper.

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CHOOSE OPERATIVE ...from the likes of Commando, Technician, Pointman, Gunner, Infiltrator and Marksman.

Let’s get onto the Gold stars: these are awarded to you when you achieve certain goal requirements of the level.

These gold stars allow you to play locked ‘High Value Target’ missions, so collecting the maximum possible amount for your mission is a must and this adds substantially to the replayability.

Ranking up your operatives is important to achieve the extra bonuses that you’ll need to improve on your final score.

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Fortunately it’s a great title, setting a very high standard for other games to follow!

This is a day one purchase for any fan of Zipper, shooters and overall awesome challenging games!

Sadly my review copy did not come with a online pass so I was unable to review the co-op part of Unit 13 but judging by the single player I can only guess it will make the game more fun.

Last but not least is the ‘Daily Challenge’. Each day, a new challenge is presented, which lets you battle it out with everyone across the globe to become the daily champion! It’s a great addition to the game as every day you get a fresh new challenge.

OK, the Vita is hardly inundated with shooters at the moment, so Unit 13 is your only choice.

‘UNIT 13, LIKE MOST OF ZIPPER’S RECENT OUTPUT, IS A TACTICAL THIRD-PERSON SHOOTER.’ RICHARD4481

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GAMING ON

PS VITA

MVP QuietlyWrong gives us a quick run-down of all thirty (yes, thirty!) of the PS Vita’s launch titles.

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PS VITA LAUNCH TITLES...

PS VITA

A-men

Army Corps of Hell

Asphalt Injection

Blazblue

RRP: £11.99 Bloober Team

RRP: £34.99 Square Enix

RRP: £19.99 Ubisoft

RRP: £34.99 PQube

A charming platform puzzler, much in the vein of The Lost Vikings, that puts you in charge of a rag-tag mob of five would-be combat specialists, each with his own skills, as they puzzle through four worlds, rounding up some haywire mechanical soldiers.

Taking its lead from Pikmin, but descending into the fiery wastes of hell, this troop-based action game will see you flinging your hordes of goblins at a variety of nasties and bosses as you seek to reclaim Hell’s infernal throne

Gameloft’s classic hand-held racing game comes to Vita ready to take advantage of the Vita’s variety of control methods in over 100 racing events spread between ten different gameplay types, plus burn rubber against up to seven other opponents online.

This new release in the Blazblue series of 2D fighting games sees the usual gorgeously animated cast of characters and a whole bunch of new stories and material over and above the original perfect arcade conversion.

Dungeon Hunter: Alliance

Dynasty Warriors Next

Fifa Football

Escape Plan

RRP: £29.99 Ubisoft

RRP: £29.99 Tecmo Koei

RRP: £44.99 Electronic Arts

RRP: £9.99 SCEE

Gameloft have brought their Diablo-esque dungeon-crawling hack ‘n’ slash to the Vita complete with over thirty levels across a variety of landscapes from villages to lava-caves, and boasts online 4-player co-op to boot.

Take control of a one-man slaughterhouse in the latest iteration of the Dynasty Warriors franchise, building up huge combos as you take down whole armies single-handedly, or try out a huge variety of mini-games and Vita-specific features.

The beautiful game on that beautiful screen – all the dazzling footwork of FIFA made even more compelling by some highly nuanced touch controls that give you unprecedented control over every pass and every shot on goal.

Featuring a distinctive black-andwhite style that really shows off the charismatic cartoon violence inflicted on Lil and Laarg, this puzzle game’s hapless protagonists – until you figure out how to guide them to safety through over seventy fiendish stages.

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PS VITA LAUNCH TITLES...

PS VITA

Everybody’s Golf

F1 2011

Hustle Kings

Little Deviants

RRP: £29.99 SCEE

RRP: £31.99 Codemasters

RRP: £6.49 SCEE

RRP: £19.99 SCEE

The cutesy golf simulator is back, as vibrant and addictive as ever and looking especially good on the Vita. Take on numerous challenges across six distinctive golf course, unlocking new characters, new equipment and all manner of extras as you go.

Codemasters have brought the F1 franchise to the handheld console and done a smashing job, with this slightly-arcadey take on Formula One racing coming through its miniaturisation remarkably well. Just in time for the 2012 season…

Take the billiard hall with you wherever you go, with this cracking – and visually stunning – pool game, which features a full offline career mode and online gaming too. And if you buy it once, you get both Vita and PS3 versions thrown in!

This wacky minigame collection will see you pushing, squeezing, tilting, tickling, poking and singing at your Vita as you undertake over thirty widely varied activities as you help the Deviants to evade the evil Botz and their undead minions.

Lumines: Electronic Michael Jackson: Symphony The Experience HD

ModNation Racers: Road Trip

MotorStorm RC

RRP: £29.99 Ubisoft

RRP: £19.99 Ubisoft

RRP: £29.99 SCEE

Pure puzzle-game bliss that sees you stacking up blocks of two colours, trying to create larger rectangles, all in time to a sublime combination of music and dynamic visual effects that’s sure to give almost anyone a feeling of synaesthesia.

The only rhythm-action title in the Vita’s line up, this one sees you taking on challenges for the King of Pop himself, with you tapping and swiping the screen in time to some of Michael Jackson’s memorable pop classics.

ModNation Racers in the palms of your hands, complete with all the Mod- and track-editing tools you need to create anything you can imagine – and as well as its own campaign, it’s backwardcompatible with the PS3’s halfmillion courses!

RRP: £4.79 SCEE Pocket-sized racing, featuring realistic remote-controlled cars, set in the worlds of the four previous MotorStorm games. The online leaderboards are where this really shines, as you strive to cut fractions of a second off your friends’ best times.

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PS VITA LAUNCH TITLES...

PS VITA

Ninja Gaiden Sigma Plus

Plants vs Zombies

Rayman Origins

Reality Fighters

RRP: £8.99 SOE

RRP: £29.99 Ubisoft

RRP: £19.99 SCEE

You control Ryu Hayabusa in this hardcore ninja stealth-em-up, seeking to avenge the slaughter of his clan’s shrine maiden. Classic Ninja Gaiden action ensues, and features silent kills and ninja skills, and there’s even an easy mode for more casual gamers.

In the eternal battle between suburban householder and undead menace, only the garden centre’s finest crop can stand in the way of your zombification. This brilliant twist on the Tower Defence genre is addictive and hilarious and the gameplay is honed to perfection.

Possibly the most beautiful platformer ever created, and a cracking game too, featuring Rayman (or one of his weird chums) as he races to catch Lums, free electoons, save sprites, collect all the collectibles, bash all the bosses and gain new powers as he goes.

Put yourself into this outrageous and often bizarre 2D fighting game that makes heavy use of the Vita’s cameras for customising characters and backdrops, and some of the weirdest fighting moves yet seen in video games.

Plus Karate Kid’s Mr Miyagi!

Ridge Racer

Shinobido 2

RRP: £16.99 Namco Bandai

RRP: £34.99 Namco Bandai

Super Stardust Delta

Tales from Space: Mutant Blobs Attack

No PlayStation would be complete without a Ridge Racer, so here is the Vita’s own version of the drift-heavy arcade racer with stunning visuals and a wealth of downloadable tracks, cars and extras.

This third-person stealth assassin game puts you in the sneaking shoes of Zen, a ninja, seeking revenge for his clan’s destruction in a world divided by three warring factions and featuring a variety of missions which will pit you against one or all of these opposing forces.

RRP: £29.99 Tecmo Koei

RRP: £6.49 SCEE Super Stardust comes to the Vita and it’s as glorious as it ever was, and shows the world why a handheld console needs two analogue sticks. Featuring all the usual intense rock smashing, enemy shooting and boss bashing, plus various unique Vita features.

RRP: £5.49 Drinkbox Studios The blobs are back, and this time they’re angry! Take control of an amorphous blob in this endearing platform puzzling adventure as it escapes from its lab torturers and, over numerous stages, grows to take over the world!

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PS VITA LAUNCH TITLES...

PS VITA

Top Darts RRP: £6.49 SCEE

Touch My Katamari Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 RRP: £24.99 Namco Bandai

Step up to the oche and hit the bull’s-eye with this touch-based darts simulator. There are huge numbers of different dart-oriented games from the traditional to the new and high-tech. There are offline and online modes and when you buy this, you get both PS3 (Move) and Vita versions.

The King of All Cosmos is in trouble again & needs you to roll your highly adhesive ‘katamari’ ball around the world, picking up objects & debris to make your ball bigger. Daft, stylish and bizarre, the new version of the puzzle includes stretching & squeezing, made possible with the touch controls.

Virtua Tennis 4

Wipeout 2048

RRP: £34.99 SEGA

RRP: £29.99 SCEE

It’s tennis, and lots of it, looking stunning and with a wide variety of engaging tennis-based minigames to keep you entertained through the offline career mode.

Plus actual tennis, too, and you’ll want to hone your skills and personalised player, ready for online competition.

WipEout has never looked so majestic as on the OLED screen, as you pilot your razor-sharp antigrav ship round courses set in a futuristic New York; as usual, a brilliant offline career will keep you entertained and on the edge of your seat for hours and the online multiplayer will keep you there for hours more.

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

RRP: £39.99 Capcom

RRP: £39.99 SCEE

Capcom’s 2D crossover fighter looks amazing on the Vita’s screen, features all the bells and whistles from the PS3 game, plus the Heroes and Heralds mode and DLC will work on Vita as well. Add optional touch controls & an option to use the Vita as a controller on the PS3 game!

Drake is back and younger than ever in this graphical showcase for the handheld console, a prequel to the three PS3 games.

It plays so much like its big brothers and packs a lot of wow into over 30 bite-sized chapters, brim-full with dazzling set-pieces.

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Shinobido 2

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DEVELOPER: Drinkbox Studios www.naughtydog.com/golden_abyss

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Has Heavy Rain changed the landscape for storytelling?

KARA TECH

DEMO REPORTER: NateC87

Before 2010’s Heavy Rain there was ‘The Casting’ and before Quantic Dream’s next offering the world has seen KARA. Demoed at the Games Developer Conference in March it showcases the natural progress of the technology showcased in 2006.

If you haven’t seen the seven minute video, KARA is a female andriod, just another off the production line and is being routinely tested before she is shipped off for purchase. Whilst the faceless programmer goes through his checklist, other robotic arms are busy at work putting her figure together, attaching a torso and limbs. It’s all something that wouldn’t look out of place in I, Robot.

It would be no bad thing if KARA was to relate to Quantic Dream’s future project, despite Cage’s claims of the opposite, playing the life of a cyborg on the run or questioning your own existence and worth to society. Or perhaps as someone on the other side of things, working for the mass production company responsible for KARA and tracking down the rogue robot. Yes, those scenarios may well be pulled straight from Isaac Asimov’s classic short story but you can’t deny that it’d make for a great premise, particularly with David Cage at the helm.

The test goes through basic movements and also impressively tests KARA’s very impressive language test where she recites phrases in German, French as well as singing in Japanese, just three of her three hundred known languages.

It wasn’t just the variety of dialects she knew, it was the way Quantic Dream had captured every syllable of every word, every emotion of every sentence. This was an evolution of a marvellous piece of technology and its use in the developer’s next venture is a very exciting prospect indeed.

With the next version of the Unreal Engine in the offing (or perhaps waiting for the PlayStation 4) KARA’s visual technology is certainly on par with Epic’s ‘Samaritan’ demo we saw this time last year.

The fact that Unreal Engine 4 has also been shown off behind closed doors clearly suggests that the next generation of gaming is going to look better than ever.

Expressions, emotions and actual words spoken were all captured to what we thought was perfection. This is full facial motion capture that rivals Team Bondi’s efforts on L. A. Noire; this alone is certainly no bad thing but throw in Cage’s creative storytelling and the studio’s next production is looking to be something special.

The emotion portrayed by the cyborg toward the end of the video is easily capable of tugging at heartstrings and it’s hard not to feel some sort of attachment to her, however briefly. The whole idea feels right at home with Cage’s ‘interactive drama’ mantra that was so well established with Heavy Rain.

Although Cage has denied that KARA has anything to do with Quantic Dream’s next project, it is not impossible, taking into account the look and feel of the ‘The Casting’ and its similarity with Heavy Rain.

It wasn’t just the variety of dialects she knew... ...it was the way Quantic Dream had captured every syllable of every word, every emotion of every sentence.

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‘THROW IN CAGE’S CREATIVE STORYTELLING AND THE STUDIO’S NEXT PRODUCTION IS LOOKING TO BE SOMETHING SPECIAL.’ NATEC87

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SOTD The music and haunting sound effects are great, adding atmosphere to a game that was already full of it and the visuals remain to be crisp, clean and creepy from start to finish.

‘IT’S CRAZY, OVER THE TOP AND DEFINITELY A SUDA 51 GAME. HIS STYLE IS SCRIBBLED ALL OVER IT’ CAPTAINCORTEZ

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SHADOWS OF THE DAMNED

REVIEW REVIEWER: CaptainCortez

PLATFORM: ps3

RELEASE DATE: 24 June 2011

CAPTAINCORTEZ GOES TO HELL AND BACK Shadows of the Damned is a game made by Grasshopper Manufacture, published by EA, with Suda 51 behind character design, gameplay designed and overseen by Shinji Mikami and music created by Silent Hill 2’s Akira Yamaoka.

As you begin your travels, it’s at this point that you’re prompted to select your difficulty level to begin play. The modes to choose from are: Lemon Hunter – this is your standard easy mode, giving casual gamers less of a hard time, and more of an easy ride through the game.

As you begin the game, you’ll be greeted with a cutscene of Garcia (your main hero and protagonist of the game) messing up a demonic goat in a very dark and lifeless alley. Before the demon dies, it tells Garcia that he should worry more about his girlfriend ‘hanging in there’ at home, before suddenly laughing, at which point Garcia turns its head into blood paté. This is where you first get a taste of the gameplay.

Demon Hunter – This is medium difficulty and the mode I began play on. It offers a good challenge for your first play through and can become fairly hard later on. If you’re a hardcore gamer like me, this would be the best mode to start out on, as it’ll keep you on your toes and give you a rough idea of how challenging the next mode up should be.

You gain control of Garcia in his apartment where the game familiarises you with the controls, offering tutorials to hopefully ensure your survival across the whole game. Without too many spoilers, as you enter your apartment room, several things happen. Demons burst through the windows and start moving towards you (they’re asking for it really) and it’s up to you to show them what a real Demon Hunter is made of.

Legion Hunter – This is the hardest difficulty setting of the game. I’ve only played through the game once so far, but this mode ramps up the difficulty of all bosses and standard enemies, limiting access to ammo, gems (to buy and upgrade your weapons and life from Christopher’s shop and the pause menu upgrade screen) and upgrades, mainly due to the fact they’re so incredibly expensive.

After you rid your home of these hell monkeys, your girlfriend Paula is kidnapped by the Demon Lord himself (Fleming), at which point Garcia is quick to follow by jumping out of his apartment window and landing inside the portal to hell, a second before it closes. Good timing!

Now, while I’m on the subject, there are three downers that I should point out in regard to the difficulty modes.

This is the true beginning of the game. Oh and cue the amusing trophy that states the obvious (‘You go to Hell’).

Upon entering hell, Johnson (your weapon and sidekick throughout the game) has a little chat with you, before transforming into a motorbike to transport you to the actual gates of hell. Hell by the way, is located just beyond the sound barrier in this game, so it’s a little hard to reach for any mortal not destined to kick Fleming’s butt. Of course, Garcia is special so no normal rules apply to him. Such is the life of a Demon Hunter.

1. You don’t get a New Game+, so when you beat the game you have to either start a new game on the same (or harder – up to you) difficulty setting, or load your last checkpoint on the file you began and completed play on, so unless you just wanted to beat the end of the game again, it’s pointless.

2. The three modes of difficulty you can select from remain the same throughout the game. You cannot unlock harder difficulty settings.

3. Even if you beat each difficulty setting, you unlock absolutely nothing other than a trophy to tell everyone of your great achievement.

Plus, you can’t just jump on to the Legion Hunter difficulty expecting to unlock all trophies at once. You actually have to go through each mode once, completing the game three times in total (once on Lemon, once on Demon and once on Legion) to unlock each difficulty trophy.

As you may have guessed, there isn’t much replay value to be had, but that still doesn’t stop Shadows of the Damned from being a great game. It’s an incredibly creative and fun title, but could have done with a little extra love. Maybe a survival mode could have been added, or a time trial mode to get through all of the bosses as fast as possible and of course, New Game+ would have been nice. Even so, think of this game as a more polished version of Resident Evil 4 with a much faster pace, incredibly fun gameplay mechanics and unlike Resident Evil, it allows you to run and gun, as well as dodge oncoming hordes and attacks with the X button.

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REVIEW Now, going back to the game itself, as you might have expected, Hell isn’t a very nice place. Dead bodies are everywhere and range from sitting at tables slumped over each other as if they’ve been having some kind of dead tea party, to being launched sideways into a wall where they explode on impact into a bloody red mist of muck. Corpses hung up on butcher hooks (yes, you can punch them and watch them swing back and forth) and stacked up on top of one another like slaughtered pigs is fairly horrific, but adds to the dark humour of the game.

As you might have gathered, Shadows of the Damned is a very gory game, having organic-looking areas that may fit in with the themes of Hellraiser, at the same time as offering fun and amusing references to films like The Evil Dead and Ghostbusters. You’ll laugh when you see the references for yourself and that’s part of what this game is all about.

It may be gory and incredibly dark, but Shadows of the Damned is actually all about the fun, darker side of humour. It takes itself seriously when it needs to, but has a lot of comical value throughout the course of the game.

It’s crazy, over the top and definitely a Suda 51 game. His style is scribbled all over it, like a passionate kid’s crayon drawing up the side of his parents living room wall.

Now for the good part – the Weapons. You get three weapons over the course of the game (excluding the melee torch), but most weapons can be upgraded into a new form twice (using blue gems you find upon killing a boss). This means each weapon has three forms and thankfully each form upgrades in such a way that it feels fairly different from the last, giving variety to different combat situations and still managing to keep things fresh.

but becomes fairly powerful later on. Its colour scheme is red, offering red laser sight for pinpoint accuracy.

This upgrades into the Hot Boner which looks slightly different from the standard Boner and allows for you to fire out sticky grenades (which explode after you fire the gun normally). Inside the ammo compartment of the gun is an unknown, white substance. Need I say more?

Finally we have the Big Boner. However, you don’t get this via a blue gem upgrade. Instead, you acquire this gun in a more interesting way, though sadly you’re limited to using it in only one section of the game.

It’s a bit of a shame, though, as its power is deadly!

The Teether > The Teethgrinder > The Dentist The Teether is your standard machine gun typed weapon, with the colour scheme being blue.

It fires out teeth at a decent rate, later on upgrading to the Teethgrinder which lets you lock on to an enemy and fire, whereas the Dentist lets you lock on to multiple enemies at once, at which point you can fire into the air randomly and watch as the teeth home in on their targets.

The Skullcussioner > The Skullfest 9000 > The Skullblaster This is your typical shotgun typed weapon, with the colour scheme being green this time around.

It starts off as a shotgun that fires out skulls for ammo and later upgrades into the Skullfest 9000, which allows for you to hold the trigger, charging up a maximum of 4 skulls to be fired off at once, and later turning into the Skullblaster, which if you charge for long enough actually surpasses the four skulls animation of the 9000 and allows you to fire off one giant skull like a huge bowling ball that rolls towards your enemies and explodes!

Something I liked about upgrading a weapon was that whenever you received a new version of each weapon, your upgrades still remained the same, so if you maxed out the damage of a weapon, your new version would also have maxed out damage.

The combat normally always stays fast-paced and if you fire light shots off at anything other than a boss, if close enough, you’re usually prompted to hit the square button where you can perform finishers that allow you to jump and stomp on downed (but crawling) demons, kick them in the crotch and pretty much punch their heads off.

If you’re fast, you can hit enemies behind you with yet another button prompt that pops up on the screen right before impact.

On top of this, each weapon has an alternate fire option which allows you to fire off a ‘light’ shot (with any gun), stunning any opponent it hits. Bosses however, are usually immune to this.

The weapons and upgrades are as follows: The Boner > The Hot Boner > The Big Boner The Boner is your starting off weapon. It begins as a pretty weak pistol

Now, I should also have mentioned that Johnson (your talkative floating skull head of a sidekick) can also turn into a torch. If you press the circle button once, it’ll hit things rapidly away from you and if you charge up the torch by holding the button, you’ll unleash an incredibly strong 720 degrees double spin attack that knocks your opponents over and sometimes kills them. This is your crowd-control weapon for when you run out of ammo, or just want to preserve some shots for bigger and more threatening creatures.

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REVIEW Also, make sure you’re stocked up on alcohol throughout your adventure, as liver-destroying liquids actually serve as your go-to life source!

You get three types of alcoholic beverages that heal a certain percentage of life and although these have to be bought primarily with your white gems, you can actually find some drinks around the levels in containers and barrels.

The three types of alcohol you can purchase are: Saki – This heals about 30% of your health Tequila – This heals about 50% of your health Absinthe – This heals about 75% of your health You could say it’s strange that the more potent the drink, the more health you get back, but in Hell, very little is meant to make sense and instead of harming you, the alcohol serves as your only ward against death. So, best get drinking!

Bosses are next up on the menu, offering very interesting and unique fights that make good use of the light and dark aspects of the game.

The Darkness drains your life essence and can kill you if you remain in it for too long, which is why goat heads are so handy. Every time you shoot one with a light shot, it rids the area of darkness, protecting you and making your time in hell that little bit safer once again. Think of them as demonic condoms…that can move and make lots of noise.

However, you’re not safe for long as you need to embrace the darkness at certain points if you’re to progress through the game. This is because the darkness reveals the weak points of bosses and can show you where demonic switches and locks are, that need to be shot in order for you to unlock a door that will lead into the next area. Just be careful, as the darkness also protects all demons, powering them up and making them much harder to kill.

I won’t go into too much detail where the bosses are concerned, but I will say that Elliot was my favourite, entirely for the fact he was completely off his head, balls-to-the-wall insane. Boss fights are great for changing the pace of the game, when you’re not having to constantly run away from your psychotic and semi-evil girlfriend, Paula.

Shadows of the Damned has a good pace to it, offering a great mix of fast and addictive gameplay, along with puzzles that make good use

of the light and dark gameplay mechanics. Due to this, I feel if you’re a fan of puzzle solving, you’ll definitely have things to figure out, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say the puzzles are incredibly difficult to solve.

They just offer enough variety to keep the game fresh from start to finish.

Overall, Shadows of the Damned is a unique experience with a lot of great talent behind it. The gameplay is solid, the light and dark mechanics are a nice addition to an already decent genre and the character design is definitely up there with the best of Suda 51 and Grasshopper Manufacture’s imaginative designs.

The music and haunting sound effects are great, adding atmosphere to a game that was already full of it and the visuals remain crisp, clean and creepy from start to finish. It would have been nice if the soundtrack came free with every pre-order, but sadly that wasn’t the case.

The storyline is a little shallow and doesn’t really do a huge amount to make the trip to Hell worthwhile, but the main focus I think here is on the gameplay and no matter what anyone says about Shadows of the Damned, the gameplay is spot on.

Shadows of the Damned, although flawed, is definitely a great game where lots of fun can be had. The only real thing that lets the game down for me personally is the lack of replay value and a lack of unlockable content, along with the weak storyline.

It could have been better, but it’s a very creative game that should be played through at least once, sheerly for the experience.

I give it an 8/10.

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WHAT PS VITA HAS TO OFFER Wait, what?, you haven’t got a PS VITA yet? Here’s some features & games you’re missing out on...

Dual Analog Sticks Discover a fully immersive first person shooter experience with dual analog sticks.

Cross-Platform Play With cross platform play you can start playing a game on your PS3 console, pause the game and pick up on PS Vita right where you left off. You can also join in multiplayer games on your PS Vita and play against players on their PS3 consoles.

Touchscreen

The multi touch display offers

new ways to complete

challenges and actions alike, all

on a stunning 5” OLED screen.

Rear Touch Pad

The rear multi touch pad gives

you greater hand control while

freeing up the brilliance of the

front OLED screen.

Front and Rear Camera

Use the front and rear cameras

on your PS Vita create amazing

augmented reality experiences

in your games by transporting

your world or yourself into the game.

Six Axis Motion Sensor

With PS Vita’s motion sensor

technology actively engage

with the game like never before

as you touch, tilt, and steer your

PS Vita. Discover the endless

ways to manipulate your

environment, engage with your

characters, and utilize in game tools.

3G/Wi-Fi

The new 3G/Wi-Fi will change

the way you game with real-time

scores and game ranking news

feeds, competitive multiplayer

game sessions, and cross-game

text messaging with Party.

Game at the speed of your

mobile life style.

GPS Locate, connect and play with friends via GPS* and social networking apps like near.

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GUILTY PLEASURES

GUILTY PLEASURE ‘something you enjoy and considers great’ despite feeling guilt for enjoying it. The ‘guilt’ involved is sometimes simply fear of others discovering one’s embarrassing tastes.

MissSouthampton posed the question to the OPC Community, ‘What are your gaming guilty pleasures’.

Here’s what you, the community, had to say...

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By Missy (MissSouthampton) #10 DRIV3R - PS2, 2004 A triple whammy of racing. shooting and adventure so bad it’s so right It’s so bad but the bugs combined with a movie making mode breathe new life into what should be by all rights a terrible game.

- EdwCarnby

#09 Dynasty Warriors - PS3, 2011 Repetitive gaming doesn’t get better than this Hours and hours of doing exactly the same thing but when I am rampaging through the fodder which comprises 98% of the games enemies. I feel like a boss. - Mike939

#08 Flower - PS3 / PSN , 2009 Pretty games for pretty boys?

Embarrassing for obvious reasons, especially if your’e a guy but it’s a beautiful innovative game delivering a moving message. It has more colours than a pack of skittles. - xLegioNx

#07 Call Of Duty / MW2, 2009 CoD is only good for looking for the best suicide points. I can jump off and die, I found some good spots. - Fenian I guess I’d have to say MW2, I have racked up a fair few hours on it but it’s hardly gaming innovation but then again as far as generic shooters go it was the best of the bunch. - Chrisa3211

#06 Pokémon - Nintendo, 1996 - 2011 One does not get too old for Pokemon.

Pokémon is the second most successful and lucrative video game franchise in the world! I still enjoy playing the Pokémon games on the DS considering I am a bit too old for them. - Moghal2007

#05 Playstation Home, 2008 - Present PS3 - Virtually awesome.

A free virtual 3D social gaming experience. Play games, customise your avatar, own an apartment and explore a range of ever changing games spaces but most of all; I like looking at scantily clad female avatars on Home. - Spotter5 Hmm...

#04 Cabela’s Survival: Shadows Of Katmai - PS3, 2011 It was hilariously bad and I couldn’t help but see the game through to the end. I think Activision had the work experience lad knock it out in his two weeks at the company. The highlight for me was sky diving with my dog and all the animals which attacked me after seemingly being born from within trees or mountain walls. - Wretched_Hawk

#03 Conan - PS3, 2007 Crush me with your love.

Conan is a third person action game based on the barbarian king featured in comics and portrayed in films. Any game that has the lines ‘crush me with your love’ spoken by topless wenches is just full of win. - Furys-embrace

#02 Noby Noby Boy - PS3 / PSN, 2009 Noby Noby Boy involves giving length to girl. The player controls a worm-like character called BOY. The objective is to stretch BOY out as far as possible to give points to SUN so that GIRL can reach other planets.

Noby Noby Boy involves giving length to girl. That alone is incriminating enough. - CJ101

#01 Super Rub ‘A’ Dub - PS3, 2007 One of the very first PS3 games which came out was Super Rub ‘A’ Dub, an enjoyable experience moving the ducks around controlled by the Sixaxis. Somehow for the first time with the wireless controller I felt bad when the shark caught my rubber duck, the shark looked so vicious compare to the cute duck. Poor ducks. - Truestarrr

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JOURNEY

REVIEW REVIEWER: NateC87

PLATFORM: ps3

RELEASE DATE: 14 March 2012

NATEC87 goes on a journey with ‘thatgamecompany’...

So few games come along these days where you instantly feel a connection with what the developer is trying to do. That’s exactly what thatgamecompany has achieved here, and with aplomb.

Your journey starts as a lone wanderer, surrounded by sand and only a bright light emanating from the peak of a mountain in the distance.

There is no tutorial, no real guidance but you are naturally compelled to head in the direction of this mysterious glow.

The moment you set off you’re faced with an area full of graves. Or are they graves? Are they not monuments? Or statues?

The beauty of the game’s lack of context is that it gives you the opportunity to put your own spin on things. Why exactly are you heading toward that beacon of light?

These are all questions you will hopefully answer for yourself once your journey is over.

Gameplay is simple and primarily consists of jumping and singing.

Your crimson robes are accompanied by a scarf, the length of which dictates how long you can jump for. This can be extended by collecting small white cubes dotted around each landscape. Jumping is not infinite so needs to be recharged by scarf cloth and these pieces of cloth are automatically drawn towards you when close enough.

You can also sing to gain access to other areas, surrounding yourself with scarf cloth to launch yourself to higher heights. The journey to this unknown mountain peak can be taken alone but it is the game’s multiplayer element that really succeeds. But how?!

Despite your fellow journeyman not actually affecting your adventure, you can’t physically help each other out, hell, you can’t even talk to each other properly, a bond is formed the second you discover each other. You instantly feel compelled to wait for your companion, alert them to areas of interest or just highlight your genuine excitement that they are here experiencing this with you.

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As well as playing alongside an actual character, you play alongside a quite outstanding soundtrack courtesy of Austin Wintory.

JOURNEY

Whether it’s your first journey or your twentieth, you could inadvertently find yourself in the role of leader or following around your partner as they show you the ropes and where to find that elusive scarf extender.

Only at the end of your playthrough do you find out who you were traversing these beautiful landscapes with. Even then it’s pretty difficult to remember and identify who they are when they were at your side.

As well as playing alongside an actual character, you play alongside a quite outstanding soundtrack courtesy of Austin Wintory. Paced and executed to perfection it really rounds off a flawless experience.

After my short-lived journey, a full playthrough clocks in at around 90 minutes, I realised I had never felt like this about a game. There are no giant shocks. No gaming clichés.

Journey is something else entirely and I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I were to say this is the greatest game I’ve ever had the joy of playing.

‘I WOULDN’T BE EXAGGERATING IF I WERE TO SAY THIS IS THE GREATEST GAME I’VE EVER HAD THE JOY OF PLAYING.’ NATEC87

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WHAT PS VITA HAS TO OFFER Wait, what?, you haven’t got a PS VITA yet? Here’s some features & games you’re missing out on...

Dual Analog Sticks Discover a fully immersive first person shooter experience with dual analog sticks.

Cross-Platform Play With cross platform play you can start playing a game on your PS3 console, pause the game and pick up on PS Vita right where you left off. You can also join in multiplayer games on your PS Vita and play against players on their PS3 consoles.

Touchscreen

The multi touch display offers

new ways to complete

challenges and actions alike, all

on a stunning 5” OLED screen.

Rear Touch Pad

The rear multi touch pad gives

you greater hand control while

freeing up the brilliance of the

front OLED screen.

Front and Rear Camera

Use the front and rear cameras

on your PS Vita create amazing

augmented reality experiences

in your games by transporting

your world or yourself into the game.

Six Axis Motion Sensor

With PS Vita’s motion sensor

technology actively engage

with the game like never before

as you touch, tilt, and steer your

PS Vita. Discover the endless

ways to manipulate your

environment, engage with your

characters, and utilize in game tools.

3G/Wi-Fi

The new 3G/Wi-Fi will change

the way you game with real-time

scores and game ranking news

feeds, competitive multiplayer

game sessions, and cross-game

text messaging with Party.

Game at the speed of your

mobile life style.

GPS Locate, connect and play with friends via GPS* and social networking apps like near.

DID YOU KNOW Text text text text text text text text.

“WAIT, WHAT?, YOU HAVEN’T GOT A PS VITA YET?”

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NateC87 takes a look at 6 of the best PSN games available to purchase on the store.

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PSN: SIX OF THE BEST SHATTER Block basher Shatter made its debut on the PSN in 2009. It’s pretty asyou-were regarding gameplay: destroy all blocks, defeat boss, progress to next level. There’s ten in all and there’s a lot of fun to be had in all.

NateC87 takes a look at six of the best PSN games currently available to purchase on the store.

One thing that certainly stands out is the soundtrack. The game’s deceivingly dulcet tones blend well with the on screen action. Even as the action antes up with the boss battles the music keeps you in control.

The variety in level design and throughout each stage is enough to ensure progression never becomes a chore.

SUPER STARDUST HD A remake of the Amiga’s Super Stardust, it is one of the older titles on the PSN. Despite its age it certainly hasn’t lost any of its charm and is still an essential purchase from the Store. Defending planets from falling asteroids is the order of the day and there are plenty of power-ups to boot.

Local multiplayer and online leaderboards give the game a competitive edge and you’ll find yourself striving to beat a stranger’s top score in no time.

DEAD NATION Zombies, zombies, zombies! A trophy in the game requiring you to kill 53, 596 of the blighters gives you an idea of the wave after wave gameplay in Dead Nation. It’s standard zombie-story fare here, not far away from a certain Capcom series.

The blade cutter, rocket launcher & shotgun all feature in your arsenal but you’ll need more than big guns to stay alive.

Distracting your undead foes with a car alarm or drawing their attention with a flare are just some ways you can get by in the game’s ten generously lengthy levels. Both local and online multiplayer (with voice chat support) make this a must have for any PS3 owner.

FLOWER Unsurprisingly thatgamecompany makes another appearance on our list with the second of their three titles on the Store. Moving on from their first PSN title, fl0w, it wasn’t entirely unexpected that the next game would border that of an actual game and interactive artwork.

Taking the role of a gust of wind you amass petals and travel through levels providing colour to landscapes that were once without. Another game that established the developer as a leader in innovative gameplay and game design.

JOE DANGER Yes, it may be available on that other one as well but Joe Danger thoroughly deserves a mention regardless.

Joe’s goal is to get back to the top of his game as a famed stuntman.

You’ll do this by taking on certain tasks in levels filled with all sorts of hazards and obstacles. Don’t be fooled though. The game plays unlike a racer but is more tuned to a platformer. The tight controls really do the gameplay justice.

WIPEOUT HD The futuristic racer has grown up massively since its Playstation days and despite the series’ latest release on the PS Vita WipEout HD remains an essential purchase for any PS3 user. It gives a fresh alternative to those racers that are ground in realism, the commonplace for this generation.

It may be standard WipEout racing but the speed and excitement is unmatched. Thanks to the Playstation 3 the series has never looked so good.

Fun to play, difficult to master.

The game’s sandbox mode adds huge value to the downloadable title and being able to share levels over the PSN is another major plus.

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LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW

PREVIEW REPORTER: CaptainCortez

PLATFORM: ps3

RELEASE DATE: 15 June 2012

Lollipop Chainsaw, like most of Suda 51’s games, looks set to be one of the craziest, wackiest and most insane Zombie death-fests in gaming history.

How did he lose his head, you wonder? Well, a zombie bit his arm, so Juliet felt the only way to save him was to decapitate him with her overly large, elongated chainsaw.

With the voice talents ranging from Michael Rosenbaum (of Smallville fame) and Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead), Grasshopper Manufacture are going all out this time, no doubt in an attempt to create one of the most engaging titles they’ve ever developed!

For a blonde moment of this level, I’m amazed poor Nick managed to hold onto his own consciousness. Still, with a game based so much around the supernatural, it’d feel odd if you didn’t have a talking head by your side!

Lollipop Chainsaw is about a teenaged girl named Juliet, who, during her time at High School, has somehow survived through an outbreak of the Undead. It’s now up to her to use her cheerleading skills to put an end to the Zombie Apocalypse and stop the crazed, issue ridden student who created this whole mess in the first place.

If you were to compare Lollipop Chainsaw to games of the current gen, you’d have a hard time doing so, because it takes so many great elements from a series of already existing titles, throws them into a blender and creates something incredibly gory, yet oh so wonderful.

Obvious game inspirations however, come from titles such as Dead Rising, Devil May Cry, No More Heroes and bizarrely, the Scott Pilgrim film.

You’re not in this alone, however!

Of course, where would a cheerleader be without her boyfriend? He may be a complete and utter headcase (no really, he’s just a head), but Nick will aid you throughout the course of the game and is key to some of your signature moves (such as ‘Nick Shoot!’, where you pull your boyfriends talking head off of your belt, throw it up into the air and blast it at the enemy like a football!).

Zombies die in comical ways, bosses use microphone stands in a similar manner to DMC3 Dante’s sword dash. On top of this, crazy dialogue much akin to that featured in No More Heroes is ever-present in the game, with truly weird but satisfyingly strange story elements being slung all around the place.

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Then of course, let’s not forget that the styling is very reminiscent of the Scott Pilgrim movie.

In short, the game is nuts!

There have been four announced bosses in the game (known as “The Bosses of Zombie Rock!” with multiple secret bosses promised) so far and they are: Zed – Microphone User / Lead Singer – The Punk Rocking Misfit Mariska – Harp User – The Queen of Psychedelia Vikke – Drummer – The King of Viking Metal Josey – Keyboard player with 8-bit bombs – The Master of Funk

Mariska uses a harp and seems to have psychedelic abilities and giant hands to attack our main protagonist, Juliet. She also looks like a more twisted version of Sally from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Vikke is your average Viking, sporting a horned helmet, a massive axe (not the guitar kind) and of course, shockingly powerful electric attacks.

Josey however, wears a nappy with Voodoo face paint, hi-top trainers and a pimp cape!

His special skills consist of, but are not limited to, moon walking, surfing on giant platforms and throwing out 8-bit bombs.

Not so normal now, eh?

Lollipop Chainsaw is strictly for adults, of course: Blood and Gore; Drug Reference; Intense Violence; Partial Nudity; Sexual Themes; Strong Language.

If the descriptions sound pretty normal to you, consider this, Zed screams words (that can follow and damage you) through his microphone, using both his voice and the microphone stand as his weapon.

and always have a habit of pulling things off perfectly. This is usually down to a good balance of mindless humour, unadulterated fun and addictive gameplay... all of which would be for nothing, if it wasn’t for how consistently original the character designs were.

A title featuring all of the above is something most developers steer well clear of, but this is the norm for Suda and his team. His creations have almost always included some form of controversy, rebelling against society and the act of being different, just for the sake of being different.

As experimental (and sometimes gimmicky) as they are, Grasshopper Manufacture and Goichi ‘Suda 51’ Suda are renowned for creating games with rocky/punky vibes to them

Lollipop Chainsaw may not be for everyone, but with a unique and zany storyline, excessively stylish gameplay and enough one liners to create a single yellow line around the whole of London, Lollipop Chainsaw looks like it has a lot to offer fans of this unique genre, as well as being a good choice for those of you who want to try out something that’s a little different, but also fresh and new.

Who needs Grindhouse when you have Suda?

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MONDAYS - 20:00

THURSDAYS - 21:00

Right, Mondays are pump! Fact!

So It’s time to do something about it! How’s about a weekly get together where we can shoot the enemy in the face! Ahh, bliss!

All you need to do is make sure you’re in SVER.

The treasure hunter inside us frequently wishes to seek fame & fortune, but only the most adept, daring and visceral of men succeed in their journey.

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Mirage of Deceit is the OPC event for all your competitive Uncharted needs! From Deathmatch to Plunder.

TUESDAYS - 19:00

ÜBER TUESDAYS - THE SSX LEAGUE The community event will be split into 2 separate parts. The first part will be a 7 day challenge which will start every Tuesday at approx 7pm. The second part of the event will be a meet up on Tuesday evening where we’ll compete against each other on 2 different events over a 2 hour period.

THE WED EVENT WEDNESDAYS - 20:00

HOSTS: englishgolfer and SSX_Event (Tilly-uk)

COD: MW3 FRIDAYS - 20:00 The game modes will be cycled weekly with some custom made by the host and with the addition of 6 new private specific game modes made by Infinity Ward, we’re sure this will be one of the most fun Call of Duty events to date!

Join in the War & Shoot Em Up (WASEU) event every Wednesday evening.

Games rotate on a weekly basis.

These include MW3, BF3 & Resistance 3 amongst others.

Keep an eye out on the forum for what game is played each week.

KILLZONE 3: AM SATURDAYS - 11:00 Killzone AM! is a Saturday morning event for all of us on the forums to get together and hopefully have some fun breaking into bases, stealing propaganda and generally making a mess of either the Helghast or ISA, whichever takes our fancy.

EVERYBODY’S GOLF SUNDAYS - 20:00 Game 1 is a warm up, then the fun starts on the 2nd game! The course & tee will be random, but judging on your level of ability, a different handicap will apply.

VISIT: http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/Community-Events/bd-p/bEN_CommunityEvents

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UNIT 13

GUESS WHO

WEEKLY CHALLENGE It’s a leaderboard challenge on Unit 13. Each week a challenge will be set on a particular mission, all you need to do is to complete the tutorial section and then you will be able to play the mission.

TUESDAYS

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Every Tuesday a new image is posted with a person or persons covered up, to get involved all you need to do is go to this thread and post who you think it is. SImple, and perhaps you might find something nice falling through your letter box should you guess correctly!

SUNDAYS - 20:00

BATTLEFIELD 3 All you guys need to do is F5 the thread at 8pm for the server ID, alternatively you can join a friend already in via their profile on the XMB or through the join friend tab in the server list screen.

Essentially, just get in there as soon as you can! Be sure to get yourselves on Battlelog: http://battlelog.battlefield.com/

PS HOME FASHION CHALLENGE Every 2 weeks a new fashion theme will be posted on the event thread and the idea is to get

HOST: fski

GT5 WEEKLY CHALLENGE We all know that GT5 is a rather serious racing simulator. But for a change we have Arcade style challenge series. We want to put you through time trials and drift trials to see who can be the fastest and highest scoring Arcade racer in the English community. those creative minds working to create a costume based on that theme. It can be as simple or as crazy as you like as long as it fits in with the theme. Use props, use costumes, use whatever you can get your hands on but no photoshopping! Content has to be from Home.

MODNATION RACERS MONDAYS - 20:30 Hello fans and welcome to ModNation Monday! Each week we’ll race on a number of different tracks, including those made by community members .

MOTORSTORM APOCALYPSE TUESDAYS - 20:00 The Festival of Carnage is a multiplayer Community Event for Motorstorm Apocalypse, featuring various events and vehicle classes.

VISIT: http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/Community-Events/bd-p/bEN_CommunityEvents

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