Sony is not in a great place right now — the company is losing money, the Vita has been a flop and the once unassailable Playstation brand may be in trouble, but these issues don’t seem to have negatively impacted the company’s creativity. Sony unveiled a number of new games today at Gamescom (essentially the European E3) and most of them are actually really interesting looking. The kind of creative stuff gamers used to rely on Nintendo for before they became all about the yearly New Super Mario Bros. instalments. I don’t know if these games are going to reverse Sony’s fortunes, but if they’re going out, it looks they’re going out on a creative high.
Hit the jump for trailers for Tearaway, Rain, Until Dawn, and Puppeteer…
D’awwww! So f–cking adorable! Screw you Paper Mario: Sticker Star, this is the new best-looking upcoming paper-themed game. Just one question — will there be a boss that you beat by sticking your finger up his butt? I’m uh, just asking.
Well. Pretentious video games journalists now have a new game to list in “Are Games Art?” editorials. Which isn’t to say this game doesn’t look rad — it totally does.
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Rain and Until Dawn both look like they have alot of potential behind them. Rain’s unique premise could definitely carry it onward to financial success and creative praise. Until Dawn’s atmosphere draws alot from Alan Wake (dark woods, light base mechanic, cabin in the woods etc…) but also feels like a modern horror/thriller movie. When it comes to Move/Kinnect games however I’m always ambivalent about their success and creation in general. Hopefully though, Playstation will be able to pick itself up from the dirt with these titles though.
Rain looks like it could be interesting, but my guess is that title will change as to not allow some people to get confused that it is Heavy Rain.
As for Until Dawn, I was thinking the same thing about it looking similar to Alan Wake. It could be a game I could get behind if it wasn’t for being a Move game. I don’t have a Move and I don’t want a Move, just like I don’t have a Kinect and don’t want a Kinect. I suffer through the Wii’s motion controls because I need my Nintendo games, so one motion control system is enough for me.