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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land After months of breathless anticipation (on our part) and silence (on Q Entertainment’s part), the Xbox Live Arcade port of Mizuguchi’s classic shooter Rez finally has a pair of release dates. Americans will be seeing the game on January 8, while Europe’s long and proud tradition of pointless delays continues, with their release date being February 20. BONUS NEWS: an accompanying post on Sonic Team’s blog says that classy Japanese T-shirt makers Beams will be releasing a ltd edition Rez tee. My thumbs are both up. [Official Site, thanks Jonathan!]
As some of you may well remember, the Kotaku Team got a chance to pay a visit to the Q Entertainment Studios whilst we were in Tokyo for TGS. After meeting the amazing Miziguchi we were treated to a glimpse of some of their upcoming games including Every Extend Extra Extreme and Rez HD. I had the good fortune to be the first person to check out Rez HD and it was awesome. If you never picked up this title on Dreamcast or PS2 and are curious what it’s all about, GameTrailers has been kind enough to upload four gameplay videos for your perusal. Ok course, you can’t see the full HD effect in these videos (unless you go to GameTrailers where they have HD versions), but it should be enough to whet your appetite until the game shows up on Xbox LIVE sometime in the coming weeks.
Make the jump for the other three videos.
Sure Flynn got his grubby paws on the game while we were in Tokyo, so I’ve seen chunks of this, but this video still leaves me in a bit of a sweat. As much as I wish Mircosoft would put a little more effort into finding original idie games to get on the 360 Arcade, they sure know how to pick the classics.
