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How Do You Promote The Last Guy Retail Launch?
9:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Yes, The Last Guy, you remember that? The PSN game that used real world overhead maps of Tokyo as players tried to save citizens from alien monsters. More »
The Last Guy Visits London, Berlin And…Newcastle
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US Version Of The Last Guy Will Kick Off In Frisco
1:20PM Luke Plunkett | As we already expected, the various international releases of The Last Guy will feature “appropriate” cities for each region. London for the UK, LA for the US, etc etc. We can add one more city to that list, as following a playthrough of the game, MTV found that the American release of the title will start in San Francisco. Specifically, in Fisherman’s Wharf, which will be the game’s first level. Never been there myself, but it really brings home how great an idea this is: saving people from some other city might be fun, but saving your own kin (should the game feature your hometown) is funner. In America, ‘The Last Guy’ Starts In San Francisco [MTV] [Pic] More »The Last Guy Promotional Clip Now With English Subtitles!
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | An English translated version of the interview with The Last Guy’s “developers” speaking Bengali — tongue planted firmly in cheek. The actual developers are Sony’s Japan Studio and responsible for the PSP’s Work Time Fun. Pretty sure they don’t have a goat in their office, either. Well, maybe they do. Who knows. The Last Guy ‘developer interview’ translated, story revealed [PS3 Fanboy] More »
Last Guy Released Globally Later This Month (With Extra Cities)
11:20PM Luke Plunkett | Cheap/quick/rad PSN game The Last Guy is already out in Japan, leaving everyone outside of Japan wondering when they’ll get their turn. Looks like your patience skills won’t be needed for this one, as Sony’s Hong Kong site has the game pegged for a global release in “August”. It also says the game will ship with “many other famous cities”, which we’ll just take to mean that the different regional variants will ship with different, more appropriate cities. After all, not like it’s hard to come up with a new level. Tramp through major cities, dodge some zombies and save the world! [SCE Hong Kong] More »
The Last Guy Review: Run From The Zombie Monsters!!
10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | You are the chosen one, a zombie straight from the Himalayas, here to save everyone’s butts. The Last Guy: Japan Premium is a 314MB PSN title from Sony’s Japan Studio. The story is simple: A purple ray hit the Earth, turning everyone who was outside into monsters or zombies. Everyone indoors was spared, and it’s your job to move them from the buildings through the narrow streets of Tokyo’s Asakusa (thank you Google Earth!), avoiding the monsters and the zombies and moving your group to the Escape Zone where an United Rescue Force airship will pick them up. So here you go, our Last Guy review: More »
This Custom Last Guy Level Looks Familiar (And Unplayable)
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Yeah, The Last Guy is already out on the PSN in Japan, but for us English-speakers, ehhh, not yet. To help give us a taste of the game, however, Sony have released a flash demo. Of sorts. If you visit the game’s official site, you can enter any URL on the net and – after a short wait – have it rendered and playable as a level from the The Last Guy. Our first choice was obvious, and also misguided, as our site design creates a level that is…challenging. You might want to start on Google (or even a 404 error) first, build up your people-saving chops. The Last Guy More »The Last Guy – Zombie Versus Zombies
2:40AM Mike Fahey | Over on the Official PlayStation Blog they’ve posted a new trailer for the upcoming PSN game The Last Guy, and while it’s essentially the Japanese trailer Luke posted with English-language titles, they did drop a sizable chunk of game information along with the vid to make up for it. You play The Last Guy, a zombie from the Himalayas who journeys to the major city centres of the earth to save humanity from a plague of ‘bad’ zombies created when a purple beam from space struck the planet. As The Last Guy you will have special powers to help you save the day, such as heat vision to see where the normal folk are hiding. Thankfully the other zombies don’t share the same powers, or the game would be extremely short. The gameplay consists of the citizens lining up behind you on the way to safe zones, where they can be rescued. If the bad zombies get too close, the citizens scatter and you have to start over again. It’s kind of an interesting twist on those worm games from back in the day, where you’d eat fruit or something to grow longer, making you more of a target the bigger you get. Hit the link for more details on a game that Luke and I agree will be a must-buy title for PSN. The Last Guy Is Here To Rescue You [Official PlayStation Blog] More »Last Guy Looks Simple, Sounds Fantastic
10:20PM Luke Plunkett | Here’s a gameplay trailer for The Last Guy, due on the PSN at the end of the month (least, in Japan). They sure weren’t fooling around when they said it was using Google Maps, whose services you use to lead the survivors of a zombie apocalypse to designated “safe zones”. The whole thing looks nice and simple (which it will be, since it’s going for under $US 5), but whatever, if that music makes it into the final game, this moves up a spot on our shiny white purchase board from “will buy” to “must buy”. More »
