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Why Robin Makes Batman Better While PC gamers will still be getting their next fix of Diablo-style action RPG goodness next month, console owners will have to wait a bit longer for Ascaron’s Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. Both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of the game have slipped to early 2009 in order to get online multiplayer up to speed.
There’s lots of gameplay to see in this new Sacred 2: Fallen Angel trailer and you know, everything was going fine until he starting singing. I quickly realised – even the nerd inside of me couldn’t filter this out. So if in result of this trailer you must immediately cleanse your ears with something, anything on iTunes, I sincerely apologise. Anyway, if we learn anything from this trailer it’s that the game definitely looks pretty, but seems generic at times. Expect Sacred 2 sometime this November for PC. Then it will hit consoles in early 2009.
The main problem with seeing a game on the show floor at a consumer-friendly gaming convention in Germany, is that everyone speaks German. It makes sense, considering 99% of the people coming through to play their games are German, but boy does being in that 1% other bracket suck. Case in point, Ascaron’s Sacred 2: Fallen Angel. I’ve been dying to get my hands on the isometric action RPG for more than a year now, and when I finally have it cornered it turns out to be the German language version. Rather than let the fact that I couldn’t read any of the text get me down, I decided to pretend that I could instead. With a cheery grunt-nagen I got my 10 minutes of Sacred 2 on.
When the demo kicks off, you get to choose between five different characters, the Seraphim, Shadow Warrior, High Elf, Dryad, and Temple Guardian. While three of them are relatively attractive women, I instead went with the Temple Guardian, since he looked a bit like an undead robot Anubis, Egyptian god of the living impaired.
Publisher Deep Silver is teaming up partners GSC Game World, Ascaron Entertainment, and Game Life to form a rather impressive presence at the Games Convention 2008 next week. On the more hardcore side of things we’ll see a definite slant towards PC gaming, with the adventure game Secret Files 2 – Puritas Cordis, Piranha Bytes new RPG Risen, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, and X3: Terran Conflict, along with the Sacred 2: Fallen Angel for the PC, PS3, and 360 and their Wii survival horror game Curs3ed Mountain.
They’ll also be showing off a range of family-friendly DS titles, including their Let’s Play line (Let’s Play Teacher, Let’s Play Vet…Let’s Play Doctor, perhaps?), along with two pet sims from Game Life – Horse Life and Baby Life. Okay, so a baby isn’t technically a pet. They’d just be much more enjoyable if you treated them as such. “Honey, did you let the baby out?” See? Much more entertaining. Hit the jump for more details on Deep Silver’s line up!
Ascaron’s Diabloesque Sacred 2: Fallen Angel, once slated for a Q1 2008 release, has now been officially pushed back to September 2008. In a post on the game’s official website, the company explains that the game is being delayed in order to make it the best damn Sacred 2: Fallen Angel it can possibly be. An extension of the development process was necessary in order to ensure that we realize all the development plans and ship both PC and Xbox 360 versions with the best possible quality and stability.
In other words, it wasn’t done yet. The post appeared on the site on Christmas day, which makes it a dubious sort of Christmas present for fans of the game or German symphonic fantasy metal.
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Sacred 2: Fallen Angel developer Ascaron is one of Germany’s leading game developers, so you know they’re going to be rolling up on Leipzig in style. Not only are they staging a worldwide exclusive test of the multiplayer aspects of their latest action RPG, they’ve constructed a 150m² arena separate from their main booth for visitors and press to battle it out on. Preregistered contestants will be ushered from a briefing room to the arena floor accompanied by fanfares as they take their seats and compete for exclusive prizes. If you are among those lucky enough to be attending the 2007 Games Convention, hit up www.sacred2.com to sign up for a slot. Everyone who enters receives a GC T-shirt, a copy of the original Sacred, a 5 Euro Wirecard voucher and a Sacred novel. Exactly the sort of thing that made the old E3 so much fun!
