Arttemis

This is completely factual.

Capcom is using a newly instated piece of DRM available to any developer that restricts customers from playing their game unless connected to their PSN account. Sony implemented this to prevent "game sharing", but now it's just preventing game playing for anyone who doesn't have a completely stable or constant internet connection.

http://boards.ign.com/ps3_general_board/b8267/191330467/p1/?0

Help me! - This *is* DRM, admitted by Capcom in a reply to a disgruntled patron (you can google this, found on IGN's forums and Dtoid). It's a newly added PSN restriction that developers have the option of enabling on their games. It requires the user to have an active internet connection just to LAUNCH the game.

This also prevents users from playing the game on any other local-accounts on that PS3 or another PS3 they might own.

Sure, they're "polishing" it... aaaand like every other publisher, the want to stagger the release of console-to-PC ports so that the majority of the sales can be done without fear of piracy cutting into potential sales. It's fast becoming a normal procedure.

Wow... Absolutely amazing video, ryan. That's the kind of innovative spin on cover systems that all games should be aiming for.

Thanks for the link. This definitely needs to be implemented in future games.

The animations used to roll into and out of cover look really slick! I'm actually optimistically looking forward to this game!

With all of the comparisons to GoW due to the similar cover system, I have to say it's disappointing that there will be no online co-op mode (only local)... Hopefully it still turns out as well as I'm hoping!

@DBuck_Eye - There's no need ignore progress made in the 3rd-person-shooter genre and take steps backwards.

An improvement would be to perhaps create the transition between standing/covered more seemless, and adding functionality while you're using cover.

It seems that they're rising above the usual drivel, but Batman: Arkham Asylum isn't connected to any movies.

With that said, I thought Sega's Iron Man game was decent despite the obviously lazy job done with it - only if you can get it for super cheap.

Awesome; great contest!

Fooled by You?

"Who the hell gives a shit if it's pre-rendered.

The sheer visual imagination of the artists at square is off the charts and it's always a pleasure to see what they do next."

Exactly! Not to mention that graphics are hardly the drawing point to JRPGs. The cutscenes are showing glimpses into the story that almost exclusively draws people in to the genre's titles to begin with.