Sacred 2 for PS3 and 360 in June

By Robert Purchese Published 17 April, 2009

Without demo, says Deep Silver.

Deep Silver plans to release Sacred 2 for PS3 and Xbox 360 on 5th June.

The console versions have been a long time coming; Sacred 2 launched on PC late last year. And since then there have been plenty of updates - some fixing bugs while others added new content and features.

Deep Silver told Eurogamer this afternoon that these "should" all be included on the PS3 and Xbox 360 retail discs. Future patches will apparently be added through routine title updates.

Sacred 2 is a bread-and-butter fantasy action-RPG that has lots of loot, lots of abilities and lots of baddies. A Diablo clone, in other words. And probably the best example of one since Titan Quest.

The PS3 and 360 conversions will be given no demo, sadly, as Deep Silver told us this "wouldn't benefit" and may even harm people's perception of the game.

Look out for our console review closer to June, or absorb our Sacred 2 PC review now for an idea of what to expect.

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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 (24) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Dizzy #1 3 years ago

    No demo? Hmm... that put me off. I wanne see how the controls work.

  • Lutz #2 3 years ago

    Looking forward to this bad boy.

    Is there any word on co-op, local or otherwise?

  • Venkman90 #3 3 years ago

    4 player drop in and out on live iirc

    Pissed off its slipped again, it was late May last time, but that's only a week I guess

  • Cheeky #4 3 years ago

    Eh, I kinda thought the release of a demo was inevitable. Guess not.

  • jeebthegreat #5 3 years ago

    Apparently there's gonna be local 2 player co-op, 4 online. As long as it controls okay this could be a definite buy :)

  • metallicorphan #6 3 years ago

    yup,i'm out now....sick of this with UK getting games ages after US,i wanted to play this with a U.S friend,but nearly a month after is shit,especially how the release for this game has been nothing but a joke from the start

    it was meant to be May 12th for U.S and May 15th for UK

    seeing people on my friends list playing games that i want but cant becuase we are so behind isnt what i want a friends list for..still waiting on ToV and even bleeding Riddick

  • Triggerhappytel #7 3 years ago

    Quite interested in this; I like me a good fantasy adventure.

  • Bleh #8 3 years ago

    Really looking forward to this game. I just hope this works good on a console.

  • Mooks #9 3 years ago

    The PS3 and 360 conversions will be given no demo, sadly, as Deep Silver told us this "wouldn't benefit" and may even harm people's perception of the game.

    Or in other words " you might realise its shit and feel dissapointed that you wasted £39.99 on such a crap game "

  • andywilkie35 #10 3 years ago

    Going up against Star Ocean 4 and Tales of Vesperia...I'll wait a while I think

  • mkreku #11 3 years ago

    It's not really crap. It kept me going to the end at least, on the PC. Good graphics and a reasonably interesting story, combined with the phat l00t and a pretty balanced character development system.

  • superjag86 #12 3 years ago

    So no one else concerned the impression that "future patches will apparently be added through routine title updates" gives?

  • RedSparrows #13 3 years ago

    What, that games require patching? Not really.

    Would be interested to see how the console versions review, if they've been patched up etc.
    Edited by 1 at 18/04/09 @ 11:30

  • ParanoidZombie #14 3 years ago

    All those delays for a PC to console port remind me of the "great" Two Worlds experiment... I foresee huge frame rate issues, an undecipherable interface, glitches the size of a building, and some obscure german black metal band for the background soundtrack. It's a buy!

  • Quint2020 #15 3 years ago

    Ugh, I thought it was going to be May 15th?? Weak.

  • coomber #16 3 years ago

    If America get this game a month ahead of the UK, we'll know how bad the bugs are - plus have a host of user reviews to go through - before we purchase it. I don't mind that - let the colonies test it out for us, I say!

    Regarding the demo, I understand what they mean about it being a bad thing to release one. Just got to remember what happened after people played the Resident Evil 5 demo. It made a great game look crap.

    And no doubt all the leftie pricks like Dan Whitehead will say killing Dark Elves is too reminiscent of Rodney King.

  • Lord_Gremlin #17 3 years ago

    No demo... Will this game make PS3 freeze? Any bugs? PC version was infested with em.

  • RedSparrows #18 3 years ago

    coomber, I fear you're building a straw man somewhere, eep

  • des #19 3 years ago

    Played the PC demo...deleted after 30 min

  • Venkman90 #20 3 years ago

    Loot crawlers are an acquired taste, however its funny how people are comparing it unfavorably to Diablo 3 which won't even be out for another year. It's only other competition is Titan Quest (PC only) and maybe Too Human, but this game is utterly massive.

    Edge gave the PC version 7, which imho makes this a good buy IF you like loot crawls.

  • ccfb #21 3 years ago

    "Future patches will apparently be added through routine title updates"

    For a console gamer with a memory, thats a sad sentence.

  • Machetazo #22 3 years ago

    There may not be a demo, but it looks as if there's a Collector's Edition, with a Seraphim character statue and a big map - check Amazon! :o
    Edited by 2 at 19/04/09 @ 18:04

  • hiddenranbir #23 3 years ago

    No demo?! That means I must pirate it to "check it out"????

  • Gearskin #24 3 years ago

    There's a demo available on STEAM. All the video I've seen of the PS3 version looks fine, performance wise.