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PlayStation Store Update: Haze Demo, PixelJunk Expansion, Rock Band/GH3 DLC
by Aaron Linde, May 08, 2008 2:05pm PDTNew to the PlayStation Store this week is a playable demo of Free Radical's shooter Haze (PS3), plus an expansion to Q-Games PixelJunk Monsters as well as Rock Band and Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock downloadable content.
Available free of charge, the Haze demo is said to provide a sample of both the game's single-player campaign as well as its four-person, drop-in drop-out online co-op. Haze is scheduled to hit store shelves on May 20.
Click through for more in this week's PlayStation Store update, including PixelJunk Monsters Encore and new tracks for Harmonix's Rock Band.
From the PlayStation Blog:
Add-on Game Content
>PixelJunk Monsters Encore ($5.99)
PixelJunk Monsters Encore is an expansion pack to the popular and addictive tower defense game, PixelJunk Monsters. Encore includes 15 levels on a new map, "Toki Island", as well as the ability for players to track their score across both maps. Just as in the original game, Encore continues the simple real-time strategy concept of building, researching and base defending that made PixelJunk Monsters an instant classic.
File size: 67 MB
Rock Band
Build your Rock Band library by purchasing these song game tracks. For song credits, visit www.rockband.com.
- “Date with the Night” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs ($1.99)
- “It Hurts” - Angels & Airwaves ($1.99)
- “This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race” - Fall Out Boy ($1.99)
- Scene Pack 01 ($5.49) - Scene Pack 01 includes "It Hurts" by Angels and Airwaves, "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race" by Fall Out Boy, and "Date With the Night" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
File sizes: 22.7 MB - 31.9 MB (singles), 83.3 MB (track pack).
Rock Band price promotion: "CrushCrushCrush" - Paramore and "Rock N Roll Band" - Boston are reduced to $0.99 until May 15th.
Guitar Hero III: Muse Track Pack ($6.25)
Includes "Exo-Politics", "Stockholm Syndrome" and "Supermassive Black Hole" as performed by Muse. For all song credits please visit www.redoctane.com.
File size: 45 MB
Game Demos (free)
HAZE Demo
Play the beginning of the Haze campaign in single-player or in cooperative mode (up to 4 players).
ESRB Rated M
File size: 1.43 GB
The Bourne Conspiracy Demo
An intense, fast-paced, authentic Bourne experience. Become the perfect weapon.
ESRB Rating Pending
File size: 1.61 GB
GRID Demo
Experience a new world of racing as Codemasters releases the multiplayer demo for GRID.
ESRB Rated E
File size: 961 MB
Comments
The Good-
The movement feels great. Fans of Timesplitters will feel at home with the same smooth controls and natural feel. Only two weapons in the demo but both felt and sounded very good. As someone mentioned though, you get the same exact zoom reticule on both weapons. Evidently this is the helmet function and not the weapons but it still makes it feel too samey.
The Not-so-good-
Dialogue is typical action flick, machismo shithead stuff. Yes, I get it, they're jacked up on dope. It'still no excuse for unoriginal, unfunny, generic writing. I.E., what was supposed to be a riveting emotional death scene had me hitting the "start" button in hopes that I could skip it. Graphics seem quite far from what we've been shown in the PR media. Its not bad but it isn't anywhere near Halo 3 or CoD4. No vehicle in demo. The length was quite short.
I'm a huge shooter fan but this simply didn't do anything for me. Unless the reviews reveal something to the contrary, I'll probably just rent this seemingly average game.
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