ZeroTolerance writes: When I reviewed the original DiRT nearly two years ago it was considered one of the best looking games ever created. Here we sit more than 24 months later and the game still looks phenomenal, which makes the fact that DiRT 2 looks even better, all the more astonishing. Codemasters takes great pride in their racing games, and it shows. DiRT 2 presents itself with some of the slickest navigation as well as the lushest visual appearance I have seen in quite some time. Combine this with the fact that it plays like you would imagine a Codemasters iteration of a rally racing game to play, and you have the ultimate off-road package. The only downside is that the team seems to have slowly stripped away a lot of the sim aspects of the series, which will be good for some, and not so much for others.
Spider-Man’s got nothing on Just Cause 2’s returning protagonist, Rico Rodriguez. Sure, Spidey’s got a whole host of arachnid super-enhancements — but Rico’s various modes of aerial travel make web-swinging seem so … pedestrian. The dev diary posted above gives a great look at our hero’s proclivity for base jumping, hookshotting, parachuting and helicopter-jacking. We’re sure Isaac Newton would have a few hang-ups about the poetic liberties Just Cause 2 is taking with physics — but you’ll hear no objections from us.
The switch on Sony’s “electrifying announcement” may have just been flipped, as a Best Buy pre-order box for inFamous reveals the existence of a multiplayer beta test for Uncharted 2.
Yesterday Sony began teasing “an electrifying announcement” to take place on April 27th regarding both Sucker Punch’s inFamous and Naughty Dog’s Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. Today a reader sent us this photo of a batch of newly opened Best Buy pre-order placeholder boxes for inFamous, which indicate that not only do pre-orders score players early access to the inFamous demo, they also receive a voucher for entry into the multiplayer beta test for Uncharted 2.
They key word here is multiplayer. Announcing that the sequel to one of the best single-player games on the PlayStation 3 is adding a multiplayer component certainly qualifies as electrifying. I’m certain we’ll hear much more on this come April 27th.
