Bionic Commando: Rearmed 2 (+Spencer for MvC3 - Jump in!)

[aris13]

Gameplay vids

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/bionic-commando-rearmed-2/13061

[Carnivol]

For the story nuts, seems like the game takes place 5 years after Bionic Commando: Rearmed and 5 years before Bionic Commando (BC3D), which puts it right before the Chain of Command comic that was made to set up of some of the story elements for BC3D.

And, well, nothing new on the story front is know beyond what was revealed in the game's press release at Captivate;

Nathan Spencer returns as the daring elite soldier equipped with special bionic abilities. Spencer will have to face his greatest challenge yet as General Sabio, a new technologically sophisticated foe, is on the brink of launching a deadly missile attack.

Some of the previews from E3 mention some of the new gameplay mechanics, but I'm trying to go in fresh with only whatever's shown in trailers (that wont last long... I bet. I hear some say you get to use power ups to give you various extra powers... le interesting, if pulled off right)

[Stu]

I went to buy the original last Wednesday, whilst it was still 400pts...only i guess i got there just a few minutes late since it was 400 on the Marketplace, but 800 on the actual listing.

So i got it last night anyway...it's still a whole ton of fun.

[Carnivol]

I'm a horrible man... I had the XBLA version since day 1 (+got the steam version on release too), but I still signed up a German account during the E3 sales, grabbed an 800 MS point code, and then activated the trial I'd previously downloaded from the Japanese marketplace for the censored version (only available in Germany/Japan/Korea).

Got myself a some doubled BC:R achievements... I feel so dirty... and I'll probably feel even more dirty if I clean out the missing 25g on each version. (Super Hard + 56 challenge rooms). But, yeah, still great fun! Heck! Hard even feels like a walk in the park to me now...

[Carnivol]

Bionic Commando Pack is part of the deals of the day on Steam. Only €10.74/$11.24. Contains BC: Rearmed and Bionic Commando. (That's basically BC:R + $2~3 for BC)

[doomed]

I see the price as 28,80€ here...


Individual price: 31,47€
Package price: 42,99€
Capcom - Summer Sale - 33% off: -14,19€
Cost to you: 28,80€
You save: 2,67€

[Carnivol]

That's 'cause yesterday's daily sale was over like 6-7 hours ago (now there's a new pile of discounted titles up)

(I was gifting a few of these to various people who just happened to be online on my list.)

[Carnivol]

Not directly Rearmed 2 related, but;

Ryan8bit's Bionic Commando cover album is out soon

Samples:
YouTube video:

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[aris13]

Comic Con 2010 - Floor Walkthrough

[aris13]

New Trailer

Screens and gameplay

[Dracarys]

I read is an trophy/achievement for beating the game without jumping, makes me question the difficulty of this compared to the original. Day 1 buy for me either way.

On a side note, I liked BC3D.

[Carnivol]

Not sure about the exact details, but from what little I've heard on that front, it almost sounds like there's a jump-less game mode / difficulty setting.

[Stu]

Isn't this out next year? Why would the achievements be out now?

[Carnivol]

Yeah. It's set for release next year. Would be weird if an actual achievement list was out, but then again, some games have had some of their achievements/trophies revealed in advance.

[Dracarys]

It was a comment from a dev I think when he was questioned about the jumping, not a list.