PS3 Store refresher has demos

By Robert Purchese Published 21 August, 2009

WET! DiRT 2! Mini Ninjas! Sturmovik!

Demos and videos provide most interest on the PS Store refresher today.

Samplers for action game WET (our latest impressions), cartoon adventure Mini Ninjas (made by Hitman dev IO Interactive), flight sim IL-2 Sturmovik (our latest impressions) and racing game DiRT 2 (our latest impressions) offer a broad genre-spread.

There's a PSP demo for fighting game Dissidia: Final Fantasy (our review), too.

Rock Band extras outweigh Guitar Hero additions, and there are a handful of PSP games to buy - none of which command special attention.

Trailers, for once, do, as gamescom footage - including press-conference coverage - lines the Store shelves.

PS3 Demos

  • Colin McRae DiRT 2 (demo)
  • WET (demo)
  • Mini Ninjas (demo)
  • IL2 Sturmovik: Birds Of Prey (demo)

PSP Games

  • Wild Arms XF(£13.99/€17.99)
  • Riviera(£13.99/€17.99)
  • Warriors Orochi(£13.99/€17.99)
  • Colin McRae Rally 2005(£7.99/€9.99)

PSP Demos

  • Dissidia Final Fantasy PSP (Demo)

PS3 Game Content

  • Pain - Andy Dick Pack (£0.79/€0.99)
  • Zen Pinball - Street Fighter II Tribute Table (£1.59/€1.99)
  • Guitar Hero: World Tour - Duelling Banjos Track (£1.59/€1.99)
  • Rock Band: Foo Fighters Pack 02 ("All My Life", "I'll Stick Around", "Lonely As You") - £2.49/€2.99 (£0.99/€1.49)
  • Rock Band: "I Predict A Riot" by Kaiser Chiefs - £0.99/€1.49
  • Rock Band: "I'm Shipping Up To Boston" by Dropkick Murphys - £0.99/€1.49
  • Rock Band: "Inside Out" by Eve 6 - £0.99/€1.49
  • Rock Band: "No Rain" by Blind Melon - £0.99/€1.49
  • Rock Band: "There's No Other Way" by Blur - £0.99/€1.49

Videos

  • Modnation Racers
  • Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time gamescom
  • Heavy Rain gamescom
  • LittleBigPlanet Water
  • Tekken 6 gamescom
  • Trine
  • Ratchet & Clank: A Crack In Time Comicon
  • Front Mission Evolved
  • Savage Moon Waldgeist
  • gamescom Sony Press Conference Part 1
  • gamescom Sony Press Conference Part 2
  • gamescom Sony Press Conference Part 3
  • gamescom Sony Press Conference Part 4
  • PR Sizzler
  • Avatar Game Day
  • MotorStorm Arctic Edge (PSP)

Wallpapers & Themes

  • Katamari Forever and Noby Noby Boy Theme
  • PlayStation Store via PSP and Media Go
  • Dissidia Final Fantasy Themes 8, 9 and 10 (PSP)
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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (15) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • zuljin #1 3 years ago

    I'm sure I saw the Wet demo and Mini ninjas demo on there yesterday though...

  • JDub #2 3 years ago

    So did I.

    Tried Wet, found it slow and boring and deleted it! :)

  • Miths #3 3 years ago

    Just a note - based on the feedback on various forums, the Dirt 2 demo was missing (and might still be, haven't checked today) on a lot of the local European PSN stores (including here in Denmark). I had to create a UK account to get it.

  • Stepharneo #4 3 years ago

    yeah, unfortunately I found both wet and mini ninjas a little disappointing (though I'd see how people could enjoy mini ninja's, juts not for me).
    more importantly, where is the 4 part press conference footage? you'd think it would be in the gamescom psn folder but no just game trailers....I suppose that's all I want anyway, but it's nice to see the developers try and explain what is happening.
    Edited by 1 at 21/08/09 @ 18:36

  • charliemouse #5 3 years ago

    Wet's just Stranglehold with a lady from what I played. Soon quite though.

  • septimus #6 3 years ago

    Must admit some good demos. WET played pretty well, Dirt 2 is much better in both handling and gfx, and Sturmovik is really quite nice also. Now to download them on Live also.

  • Arwin #7 3 years ago

    Best update for me is the new Zen Pinball Street Fighter table. Zen Pinball is ace.

  • BBIAJ #8 3 years ago

    Interesting that the PS3 gets a Wet demo and the 360 doesn't, any reason for this?

    Not that we've been short of demos this week mind!

  • SteveB #9 3 years ago

    Just played WET. To think people have spent years of their life producing this unimaginative rubbish. What a waste.

  • Wildsleven #10 3 years ago

    @SteveB

    ppl like u make me sick, why dont u show a bit of respect.. i love to see u make a game from scratch,i bet u wont even come close!!

  • PlugMonkey #11 3 years ago

    Just played the WET demo and fucking loved it. I can definitely see the Strnaglehold comparison, but it just seemed to flow better. I'm not sure why. It might be the slow motion being activated by you shooting, so I wasn't flying around with it on all the time but me not actually attacking. It might have been having a sword to finish people off when I cocked up a shooting move. Maybe the auto aim with your left gun. Maybe all of those things together. Anyway, after a few minutes playing I was linking together some pretty satisfying mayhem. The music was cool too.

    The graphics are a bit ropey I suppose, but in a bit of an endearing Sega arcade game sort of way, and nowhere near as bad as EDF2017 and I loved that as well.

  • SteveB #12 3 years ago

    @Wildsleven, please don't puke !

    Games like Wet seem pointless to me. They have simply taken a set of existing gaming mechanisms and not attempted to improve or add anything, other than a grindhouse graphical atheistic. I can appreciate a bad game that has tried something new and failed because at least they tried, but games like Wet are just lazy in their mediocre aspirations and should be treated with the contempt that they deserve.

    Some people seem to like it though.
    Edited by 1 at 22/08/09 @ 23:39

  • Rodchenko #13 3 years ago

    Tried Wet, found it slow and boring and deleted it! :)

    Same here. Stranglehold did it better years ago.

  • spidermanalf #14 3 years ago

    I enjoyed Wet, I liked the driving section and the crazy Kill Bill bit too ! It is a lot like Stranglehold, but I thought it inproved on it. But each to their own I guess.

  • PlugMonkey #15 3 years ago

    I thought WET was quite a bit more fluid and intuitive than Stranglehold, and should not be treated with the contempt that SteveB deserves.