Heavenly Sword Comments by Rob Fahey

Hmm.

Heavenly Sword looks to be six different flavours of awesome.

please be light on the UK nationalism if you really want to be Eurogamer :P

There is Eurogamer.de for the continental fanboys.

"There is Eurogamer.de for the continental fanboys."

More people on the continent speak English than German.

It's hardly UK nationalism to point out how well British developers are doing at the moment. Especially when the author of the article is Irish :)

True, Brit devs are starting to shine in the industry, Criterion are Brits, Lionhead, Ninja Theory, and others. :)

I read that Ninja Theory wanted to have a new demo but had to settle for the old one as the new one had some major glitch issues. Meaning this is indeed a very early build, and some issues may have already been adressed. Dissappointed that we couldn't see a different level though.

"There is Eurogamer.de for the continental fanboys."

:D, this is news for me!
I didnīt notice Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and other countries in the "continent" had anything to do with german language...
Personally, I don't get a word in german.

Stop being "insular", and don't deny your european roots.
Your language is simple and universal, that's something that should make you proud, not cocky...

If you really wanted to be a journalist, you could try fishing out some more information on the new demo that was prepared for TGS, but pulled at the last minute because 30% of the time it crashed during a restart. ;) (hint: start searching at http://www.beyond3d.com ... ;) )

Edit: ah, JediMaster already mentioned this

fab :o)

It was a joke dammit!

I'm not English native speaker myself, but all the games sites in my language that I know of are less than spectacular.


But actually talking about Germany, it would be great if there were some more focus on some of German studios. I learn from strange pathways that there is a Simon the Sorcere 4 in development by some Germans, how about covering that? (More importantly ask them how true to the original series they intend to be, what the humor will be like (can Germans do humour?))

No. Germans 'can't do humor'. You obviously can.

Well, I'm German and I seriously like the English flavour here. Eurogamer.de is alright but they definitely don't have the same kind of humour and are such pussies when it comes to violent games...they even took down the Dead Rising review after the game got blacklisted by our "beloved" BPJM.
Btw, the PS3 lineup looks better and better...If I could only afford this damn thing.

Yup, definitely looking better and better. Heavenly Sword is currently at the top of my list of PS3 games to get. I think I'll get the cheaper japanese PS3 at some point if Sony don't region lock the console (have they confirmed/denied this yet btw?).

Nice. At least over here it'll be a launch title I suppose :)

"as well as a niggling doubt about the level of variety which a game like this can offer"

Yeah, DMC1 and 3, Ninja Gaiden, God of War, etc. are so lacking in variety... Of course it might turn out to that the game stinks and is a total bore, but when you don't have any proof of that yet (having seen just one level), the remark seems a bit out of place.

>it would be great if there were some more focus on some of German studios


Erm.. you HAVE gone to http://www.eurogamer.de havent you?

>At least over here it'll be a launch title I suppose :)

Wouldnt bank on it. PS2 launched months after japanese launch in england too.

.. and all it had on uk launch was fantavision (or wotever it was called)

Still after paying for the console, it's not like you'll have any money left for games anyhows :-)

Very nice screens. However flat fighting areas are so last-gen. Pity really as the E3 demo showed so much promise with environment interaction. I guess we'll have to wait for Lionhead to push their fighting on slopes idea :)

Smelly, it's made by a UK dev team, expect them to aim for the Europe launch.

Looks no better than a 360 game, and i really think this is going to be average at best. hope im proved wrong.

>Smelly, it's made by a UK dev team

Makes bugger all difference, who's the publisher?


>Looks no better than a 360 game,

And you were expecting what?

>Looks no better than a 360 game,

And you were expecting what

The power of playstation! no seriously, the way some people have been banging on about this game is OTT. it looks great, but no greater than DOA 4.

Sounds like they've lifted the fighting mechanic from straight from God of War. Particularly with the smaller swords on chains and the button-matching finishing moves.

So 3 PS3 games on the front page and they're all worth buying and you're all really, really looking forward to each one? This console is gonna be teh awesomez!

"it looks great, but no greater than DOA 4."

If you'd said "no greater than Dead Rising" I might have agreed with you, but DOA 4?!

"So 3 PS3 games on the front page and they're all worth buying and you're all really, really looking forward to each one? This console is gonna be teh awesomez!"

I'd say thats a fairly accurate assesment of the PS3's impending awesomeness:-) Would you have prefered they lied and said they looked and played like crap? I already spent money on a 360 and I think they look pretty awesome.

Of course there is the slight possibility you weren't being sarcastic...

Nah not morriss. He hates Sony.

Well everyone needs a hobby of some kind;-)

Looks really good. Love the low down view point and the epic looking levels. I bet you feel right in the middle of chaos practically all the way through the game.

"Nah not morriss. He hates Sony."

lol. Yeah, I 'hate' them!

I also thought it sounded very like a prettier version of God of War. I was expecting the fight mechanics and specials system to set it apart.

When people see games like this and Resistance at a mate's house, they'll forget they spent the last year hating Sony and get sucked in.

"Brit devs are starting to shine in the industry"

Erm, starting to shine? It's like the 80s never happened!

Whoa, I hope those screens are very old and/or it looks better running. So far I've been bloody disappointed with all the latest tech/games :'(

this game is the reason that i will buy a PS3...

"Sounds like they've lifted the fighting mechanic from straight from God of War. Particularly with the smaller swords on chains and the button-matching finishing moves."

Wrong. The combat system was in place before GoW came out according to my sources.

The game sounds very nice indeed but... oh-oh... another Sony console with games plagued by jaggies... surely not? :?

Utter bollocks, the Xbox 360's plagued with games with jaggies, why single out the PS3 just because the PS2 had no hardware AA and no overscan that generally blurs the Xbox 1 picture. Looking at the fullsize screenshots is it even any surprise they're not using AA in this game? Kameo's badlands were an impressive technical achievement but this is a significant improvement over that.

Fun little piece of speculation:

http://www.electricsistahood.com/reviews...

"can you imagine if, in a year from now, there were only TWO console game makers? Not only COULD it happen, but we're going to tell you why it WILL happen...

...Sony is forecasting an $862 million operating loss for the current fiscal year. But that's going to seem like chicken feed, compared to the loss it's liable to see in 2007. Sony plans on making 6 million PS3 units before April. Let's say that they sell every one of them at full retail price. With what we know about the materials price -- particularly the price of Blu-Ray players -- let's say that they will lose only $300 for every PS3 they sell.

6,000,000 x $300= $1.8 billion

...Devoting nearly half of its cash reserves to losses in the video game and computing sectors, with no guarantee of future profits for another two years, could send the company's stock into a tailspin

...When things are all said and done, the most valuable piece of the pie at Sony is its video game division. They could very well put it up for sale. And who could be the potential buyer?

Microsoft."

Apparently the site is run by girls.

I rest my case.

(Joking ;))

That quote is fine and all, except that sony aren't losing anywhere near as much as $300 per console sold!

"I know, let's say sony lose... oo... let's make up a number... $1000 per console sold! OMG! They're doomed!"

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/6128295.html

"The combat system was in place before GoW came out according to my sources. "

Which are?

"And who could be the potential buyer?

Microsoft"

No, they'd never do that. MS is a software company. The only reason right now they are entering hardware (360 and the ridiculously named and very uncool, at least in my opinion, Zune) is to try to enforce their OS, codecs, etc. If they succeed in making those the industry standard, they'll quit hardware as fast as they can.

Does it aim to be a pure fighting game or is there exploration, block pushing etc? Not bothered which but it puts some context on it.

This was the PS3 game that appealed to me most from E3 so I want it to be ace with a really meaty combat system. From this report it doesn't sound meaty enough.

Pretty sure it's pure fighting.

@ Les

MS does make hardware. People forget that they've made mice and keyboards and gamepads and more for years now.

http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/

"MS does make hardware. People forget that they've made mice and keyboards and gamepads and more for years now."

Yeah they do but that still doesn't make them a hardware company. Those peripherals account to a small fraction of their total revenue. And I wouldn't be surprised if they only did some R&D and marketing for it and have outsourced production completely.

And I wouldn't be surprised if they only did some R&D and marketing for it and have outsourced production completely.

What, like most hardware companies? Hate to shock you but most hardware companies outsource actual things like production and only keep things like R&D inside. It is the only way they can keep costs down.

New 3D game in "bad camera" shocker.

This turn-based beauty seems more like a PS3 seller, as Penny Arcade pointed out today: