Valkyria demo heads bumper PSN update News
PlayStation 3 News by Tom Bramwell
It's a bumper day on the PlayStation Store for once, with plenty of downloadable content, a couple of demos and even a full game.
Valkyria Chronicles (581MB) and Hail to the Chimp (374MB) are the two demos. The former, previewed last weekend, is a turn-based strategy title from SEGA, while the latter is a reportedly rather drab satirical party game based around jungle elections. Find out.
The full game is called Linger in Shadows and costs GBP 1.99. From what we understand though, it's actually a product of the demoscene, albeit with a bit of interaction. Should be interesting.
In terms of downloadable content, whips have been flying at Capcom, with Mega Man 9's Endless Attack mode (GBP 1.99) and Proto Man pack (GBP 1.49) arriving on cue, while the rather rubbish Rocketmen gets the It Came From Uranus expansion (GBP 1.99) Xbox Live has had for months.
Elsewhere, Everybody's Golf: World Tour gets Costume Pack A (GBP 3.19), which allows you to re-outfit five of your golfers, and there's also a pair of Super Stardust HD downloads - Complete (GBP 6.49) and Double Pack (GBP 4.49), which sound like the full game with all add-ons and then all the add-ons, but the descriptions are ambiguous. Sorry.
Finally, there's a Comedy Movies quiz pack (GBP 3.49), presumably for Buzz! Quiz TV, and a pair of NBA Live 09 downloads - the Oklahoma City Pack, which is free, and the NBA Live 365 game pack for GBP 6.99, which will allow you to download daily updates for the Dynamic DNA season mode.
Not content with that, there are trailers for WipEout HD (making of), Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Mirror's Edge (2D story trailer), Need for Speed Undercover, Metal Gear Solid 4 (story trailer) and one called Puzzle and Power Packs, which showcases the upcoming PlayStation Network Collection bundles for PSP.
There's also a host of Rock Band content, but we're not going to bore you by writing it all out long hand, so here's a roundup of all the key stuff mentioned above, followed by the Rock Band downloads:
- Valkyria Chronicles demo (581MB)
- Hail to the Chimp demo (374MB)
- Linger in Shadows (full game - GBP 1.99)
- Comedy Movies Quiz Pack (game pack - GBP 3.49)
- NBA Live 365 (game pack - GBP 6.99)
- NBA Live 09 Oklahoma City Pack (game pack - free)
- Rocketmen: It Came From Uranus Expansion Pack (game pack - GBP 1.99)
- Super Stardust HD Complete (game pack - GBP 6.49)
- Super Stardust HD Double Pack (game pack - GBP 4.49)
- Everybody's Golf: World Tour - Costume Pack A (GBP 3.19)
- Mega Man 9 Endless Attack (game pack - GBP 1.99)
- Mega Man 9 Proto Man Mode (game pack - GBP 1.49)
Rock Band:
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Power of Equality" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "If You Have to Ask" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Breaking the Girl" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Funky Monks" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Suck My Kiss" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "I Could Have Lied" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Mellowship Slinky in B Major" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Righteous and The Wicked" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Blood Sugar Sex Magik" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Naked in the Rain" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Apache Rose Peacock" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Greeting Song" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "My Lovely Man" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Sir Psycho Sexy" (GBP 0.99)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - "They're Red Hot" (GBP 0.99)
- The Offspring Pack 01 - "Self Esteem", "Gone Away" and "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" (GBP 2.49)
- The Offspring - "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" (GBP 0.99)
- The Offspring - "Self Esteem" (GBP 0.99)
- The Offspring - "Gone Away" (GBP 0.99)
- Stephen and the Colberts - "Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)" (GBP 0.99)
- Against Me! - "Stop" (GBP 0.99)
- Free - "All Right Now" (GBP 0.99)
- George Thorogood - "Bad to the Bone" (GBP 0.99)
- Harvey Danger - "Cream and Bastards Rise" (GBP 0.99)
- Screaming Trees - "Nearly Lose You" (GBP 0.99)
- Static-X - "Push It" (GBP 0.99)
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charliemouse
09/10/08 @ 14:16
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Great update! Been waiting for Linger in Shadows for ages and been looking forward to getting my mitts on Valkyria Chronicles since the first Jap video.
I just picked up Hot Shots too, so might be tempted by a nice little skirt for Kratos. |
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dazrichards
09/10/08 @ 14:47
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All of a sudden Mega Man is nearly the same price as Wipeout HD!!! £3 for 5 new golfing costumes?!?!?!
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superjag86
09/10/08 @ 15:00
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does anyone know how long 'linger in shadows' actually is? i don't know if i can be bothered adding anymore money to my psn...
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GamesConnoisseur
09/10/08 @ 15:20
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Valkyria Chronciles!! Yippee great PSN update and it is better than some weekly updates we had previously! Of course not comparable to the day Siren and Wipeout HD get on PSN (I m not counting non PSN exclusives ie Burnout which is on disk).
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seamonsterneil
09/10/08 @ 18:22
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really liked what i played of valkyria demo... took me a little while to adjust to only being able to fire once during a characters go.
my sister might be the only person in the world to take one look at it and say "that looks shit!" |
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FenderMaster
10/10/08 @ 02:00
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Played both demo missions of VC twice, loved it, this is the first time a demo has actually convinced me to buy a game, saving it for Christmas though, I can see myself sinking some relaxing hours into it during the holidays
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@Les - Whatever... it still failed to grabbed me and I found the whole thing rather drab and un-entertaining. I was hoping it would be something really special and I went into the demo with an open-mind. I guess this game just isn't for me, although I'll certainly give it at least one more go before I delete the demo. Just to be absolutely sure.
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Come on, you must have had an inkling that it was a strategy RPG!
One thing I do like about sRPG's is that unsurprisingly your tactics really do come into play and can swing a battle. You can pretty much survive all of the likes of FF7 by hammering through with physical attacks and Cure materia, but tactics games have given me some of the best battles I've had in an RPG. Monster hour long efforts where everyone's perks come into play. Plus you get none of the story elements in the demo. |
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"@Les - Whatever... it still failed to grabbed me and I found the whole thing rather drab and un-entertaining. I was hoping it would be something really special and I went into the demo with an open-mind."
It is a rather special face lift to the SRPG genre IMO. But if turn-based-battles are not your thing, I can uderstand you don't like it. Don't really see the RTS comparison though. There's nothing real-time, there's no resource managing. It's more like an advanced version of Advance Wars. |
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Come on, you must have had an inkling that it was a strategy RPG!
One thing I do like about sRPG's is that unsurprisingly your tactics really do come into play and can swing a battle. You can pretty much survive all of the likes of FF7 by hammering through with physical attacks and Cure materia, but tactics games have given me some of the best battles I've had in an RPG. Monster hour long efforts where everyone's perks come into play. Plus you get none of the story elements in the demo. |
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I'd love to see the Valkyria thing done as a CG-animated anime. The visual design was very pretty and animations very good as well. Don't care for the strategy element, so no buy for me.
Linger in Shadows was a cool little thing, tho. Not an impressive update, tho but frankly I'm still playing WipEout HD so I really couldn't care less. :P |
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