Criminal Crackdown PS3 – New Downloadable David Jaffe Game
Plus, further details on PS3 online and full list of ‘launch window’ titles
Sony finally unveiled some more concrete details on the PlayStation 3's online network at its Gamer's Day event yesterday. The company was also in a position to confirm the final 21 PS3 titles that will be available in the loosely-defined ‘launch window’.
Sony also unveiled a raft of downloadable games, including a newly-announced David Jaffe title, Criminal Crackdown (pictured here, more below) and a title called Blast Factor (see pics at SPOnG's Blast Factor page) a Geometry Wars look-a-like which was demo’ed by Phil Harrison.
All PS3’s online content will be priced in local currency, unlike the often clumsy system on Xbox Live, where you have constantly to try and figure out how many Microsoft points equate to how many dollars or pounds. Sony has released few concrete details on its plans for episodic content at this point.
Further details were also released on the previously announced downloadable titles: Fl0w, Got Sudoku, Grip Shift DLX, all of which will set American gamers back a maximum of $14.99.
Revealing details on Criminal Crackdown on his own blog, Jaffe, in a refreshingly casual and informal manner, states:
SPOnG implores you to keep on following your gut instinct David, because we just know that if you are having fun making a game, we’re going to have probably ten times the amount of fun playing it.
So what else is new from Gamer’s Day?
The first 500,000 PS3 systems will ship with a Blu-Ray copy of the movie Talladega Nights, although it was confirmed that there will be no HD cables shipped with the console (the Multi-AV cables are composite).
First party PS3 games will be $59.99, Sixaxis controllers will be $49.99 (which seems rather pricey), and there will be a a memory card reader available at $14.99. The Blu-Ray remote which is to follow shortly after launch weighs in at $24.99.
The full list of ‘launch window’ PS3 titles is as follows:
• Resistance: Fall of Man (SCEA)
• Genji: Days of the Blade (SCEA)
• Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft)
• Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
• Fight Night Round 3 (Electronic Arts)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
• F.E.A.R. (Vivendi Universal Games)
• Full Auto 2: Battlelines (Sega)
• Madden NFL 07 (Electronic Arts)
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Activision)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: CROSSFIRE (Namco Bandai Games)
• NBA 2K7 (2K Sports)
• Need For Speed Carbon (Electronic Arts)
• NHL 2K7 (2K Sports)
• Ridge Racer 7 (Namco Bandai Games)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Electronic Arts)
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Activision)
• Untold Legends Dark Kingdom (SOE)
Sony also unveiled a raft of downloadable games, including a newly-announced David Jaffe title, Criminal Crackdown (pictured here, more below) and a title called Blast Factor (see pics at SPOnG's Blast Factor page) a Geometry Wars look-a-like which was demo’ed by Phil Harrison.
All PS3’s online content will be priced in local currency, unlike the often clumsy system on Xbox Live, where you have constantly to try and figure out how many Microsoft points equate to how many dollars or pounds. Sony has released few concrete details on its plans for episodic content at this point.
Further details were also released on the previously announced downloadable titles: Fl0w, Got Sudoku, Grip Shift DLX, all of which will set American gamers back a maximum of $14.99.
Revealing details on Criminal Crackdown on his own blog, Jaffe, in a refreshingly casual and informal manner, states:
”We announced our new game today: Criminal Crackdown for Sony Downloadable Games Service. I am SO SO SO excited about this game; I am having such fun working on it and it's just great to be able to finally show it off a bit.
“Well, it's late and I'm beat....woke up at 4am last night and could not get back to bed...guess I was excited about the big Sony Gamer's Day event...but now I'm just ready to crash...
“....it's really interesting watching the forums light up with the comments on the downloadable games. Things seem very positive on all the games and pretty much all the stuff I've seen on our game is very good...and I hear over and over from people: the game looks like pure, straight up fun....which is nice, cause that was/is our main goal!
“It's a little scary tho (sic) in that while I am still creative director for Sony Santa Monica (which means I'm dealing with titles big and small), my own personal titles are these smaller, downloadable games now...they are just what I love, where my passion lies. And it's just really scary and exciting because we just have no clue what kind of a turnout there will be for these kinds of games....but I've always followed my gut and been happy about the results...so I imagine, since my gut tells me these kinds of games are what I should be making, that all is well…”
“Well, it's late and I'm beat....woke up at 4am last night and could not get back to bed...guess I was excited about the big Sony Gamer's Day event...but now I'm just ready to crash...
“....it's really interesting watching the forums light up with the comments on the downloadable games. Things seem very positive on all the games and pretty much all the stuff I've seen on our game is very good...and I hear over and over from people: the game looks like pure, straight up fun....which is nice, cause that was/is our main goal!
“It's a little scary tho (sic) in that while I am still creative director for Sony Santa Monica (which means I'm dealing with titles big and small), my own personal titles are these smaller, downloadable games now...they are just what I love, where my passion lies. And it's just really scary and exciting because we just have no clue what kind of a turnout there will be for these kinds of games....but I've always followed my gut and been happy about the results...so I imagine, since my gut tells me these kinds of games are what I should be making, that all is well…”
SPOnG implores you to keep on following your gut instinct David, because we just know that if you are having fun making a game, we’re going to have probably ten times the amount of fun playing it.
So what else is new from Gamer’s Day?
The first 500,000 PS3 systems will ship with a Blu-Ray copy of the movie Talladega Nights, although it was confirmed that there will be no HD cables shipped with the console (the Multi-AV cables are composite).
First party PS3 games will be $59.99, Sixaxis controllers will be $49.99 (which seems rather pricey), and there will be a a memory card reader available at $14.99. The Blu-Ray remote which is to follow shortly after launch weighs in at $24.99.
The full list of ‘launch window’ PS3 titles is as follows:
• Resistance: Fall of Man (SCEA)
• Genji: Days of the Blade (SCEA)
• Blazing Angels Squadrons of WWII (Ubisoft)
• Call of Duty 3 (Activision)
• Fight Night Round 3 (Electronic Arts)
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Softworks)
• F.E.A.R. (Vivendi Universal Games)
• Full Auto 2: Battlelines (Sega)
• Madden NFL 07 (Electronic Arts)
• Marvel: Ultimate Alliance (Activision)
• Mobile Suit Gundam: CROSSFIRE (Namco Bandai Games)
• NBA 2K7 (2K Sports)
• Need For Speed Carbon (Electronic Arts)
• NHL 2K7 (2K Sports)
• Ridge Racer 7 (Namco Bandai Games)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Sega)
• Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07 (Electronic Arts)
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas (Ubisoft)
• Tony Hawk's Project 8 (Activision)
• Untold Legends Dark Kingdom (SOE)
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