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Dementium 2 trailer delivers higher-resolution terror
This Dementium 2 trailer is guaranteed to be the best video for a PC and Mac port of a DS horror first-person shooter you've seen so far today. Please let us know if we're wrong about this.
Dementium 2 makes scary, unlikely jump from DS to PC
Dementium II, the 2010 DS game, is coming to PCs. SouthPeak subsidiary 7Sixty revealed the news through the above teaser trailer and a brand new website. According to the notes at the bottom of the site, the game is being developed by Memetic Games and published by Digital Tribe.The jump to PC seems unlikely given the DS' resolution and the touchscreen controls of the sequel to Dementium: The Ward. Then again The Ward, a DS first-person shooter horror, seemed pretty unlikely back in 2007. There's no word yet on when PC players can book another stay at the Bright Dawn Treatment Center.Until then, check out our brochure after the break.
New Dementium 2 trailer packs small screen with big creeps
It's become rather common for DS game commercials to show the game via an onscreen DS console. Understandable, considering most titles wouldn't look too hot all stretched out for today's modern high resmolution screens. But then, the usual presentation -- tiny DS screens embedded within a larger screen -- is a bit bland. SouthPeak has come up with an interesting solution for the marketing behind Renegade Kid's upcoming horror FPS Dementium 2. The solution is simple: Rather than overlaying the screens on a DS mockup image, simply embed the screens in human flesh. Granted, it probably wouldn't work for, say, the Imagine series, but it's damned effective here. Give it a watch.
Dementium II stays locked up until April 20
Renegade Kid's Jools Watsham reveals in his latest vlog post that Dementium II has been delayed until April 20, 2010. The developer gives the distinct feeling he's not too keen about the hold up, which is allegedly due to a "manufacturing delay." Dementium II was originally intended to freak out DS owners on February 16. Watsham asks people to please pre-order, because "pre-orders make a big difference in the success of the game." Also, it's not like you've got anything else to spend that money on during the time ... oh wait. %Gallery-78630% [Via Go Nintendo]
Dementium 2 jumps out at you in February
Jools Watsham's prediction of a "February-ish" release for Dementium II seems to have been right on target -- though Nintendo's release schedule wasn't. Rather than the February 2 date listed on that schedule, The company announced that the DS horror FPS will ship in North America on February 16 of next year. Europe will be subject to the horror two weeks later on March 5. SouthPeak reports that some Dementium II posters are still available to those who pre-order and send pictures of their receipts. Presumably more people will take advantage of the offer now that they now when the game they're pre-ordering will be released. %Gallery-80518%
Hands-on: Dementium 2 (DS)
Having not played Renegade Kid's first survival/horror-FPS on the Nintendo DS back in 2007, Dementium: The Ward, I had few expectations going into my recent hands-on with the game's sequel, the aptly titled Dementium 2. I knew that the first game enjoyed critical acclaim for more than adequately bringing survival/horror tropes to Nintendo's handheld, and ultimately scored pretty well with reviewers, but ever since Metroid Prime Hunters I've been wary of first-person mechanics on the DS. Thankfully, when first faced with manipulating Dementium 2's main character, it became quickly obvious that the game's slow pace helps to account for any discomfort issues that might arise from the control scheme. Over the course of 45 minutes, I put together puzzles, traveled between two dimensions multiple times, and even fought a boss who tried to throw up on me from the ceiling (what a jerk!). Though its content and storytelling seems to be a carefully crafted amalgam of games from the three or so genres it mashes up (fps, adventure, survival/horror) – a handheld Half-Life meets Silent Hill on Monkey Island, almost – the time I spent with a preview build of Dementium 2 earlier today felt like the beginning of what could be a very interesting game. %Gallery-78630%
Demented new Dementium 2 screens
Renegade Kid has released screens of Dementium II. We've already had a gander at the game's super freaky box art, but this is the first glimpse we've had of the actual game. The screens look very promising for a DS game, especially the lighting. Granted, it's hard to be as freaked out by such tiny screen shots, but we're missing the sound effects and music that properly set off the atmosphere. Based solely on the images, we're eager to see some more. Preferably in motion. Check out the first screens in the gallery below. %Gallery-70510%
