Playstation Network Demo impressions (Stephen Gillespie)

This is the first blog of a new feature, hands on impressions of all the latest demos on the playstation network. I will start with a blast form the very recent past

The Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 demo is awesome. Definately check it out if you like Ninjas and dismemberment. The dismemberment may not be as bloody as its 360 counterpart Ninja Gaiden 2 but Sigma 2 has an improved graphics engine, three more playable characters (all top heavy lady folk) and multiplayer. The game play is really great and really fun but not as insanely hard as the original. The difficulty may have been slightly toned down and more difficulty choices are available but the main difference is the game has been made less cheap, you will no longer die thinking the game cheated. Instead you will die because your just not darn ninja enough and you should stop all that going outdoors you do and just sit and play more darned video game- do you get me!!

Worth a download? If you're ninja enough!

Ryu and his new possy (minus the new leather clad one)
Warning, the sixaxis is used to make the... ahem... bosoms jiggle
Plus or minus? You decide.

Brutal Legend is the latest game from gaming legend Tim Schafer (and if you don't know who he is, why are you on a gaming blog? Well I suppose you could read Faith's articles because they are very good but seriously you don't know of Tim Schafer, you cannot read on until you hath visited the mighty wikipedia!). The concept of Brutal Legend is of course insane, it's a Tim Schafer game after all. You are a roadie who when he bleeds on his belt he accidently makes a crazy motorhead style giant demon bull thing come to life on stage and decapitate the tweeny pop metal band playing. This of course makes Eddie (the roadie) get sent to a nightmarish hellscape that could have been ripped from the front cover of any classic heavy metal album. The game is really funny and the gameplay is super fun. You soon get an axe for decapitations, which are gratifyingly bloody, and a guitar that sends down lightning on your foes. Soon you are slicing up foes left right and centre mixed up with crazy lightning and lots of blood, sure it gives you the option to turn off gore and profanities but who would want to? This was the most fun demo I've played for a long time, it included slicing up metal priests, fighting monstrous nuns and driving a hot rod through both. To top off the demo you get to fight a boss, which is a giant worm with a massive mouth that tries to tongue you, the game even makes the french kissing joke for me. This looks like it is going to be a definite purchase on ROCKTOBER 16th!

Worth a downlaod? Hell yes!


So that's two down, come back next time for the low down 'Star Wars the Clone Wars- Republic Heroes' and 'Disney Pixar's Up'.

Thanks for readin,
Stephen Gillespie