Unit 13 PS Vita

Released on 09-Mar-2012

• PS Vita - Best Launch Games for the PlayStation Vita

  
  

  With the release of Sony's PlayStation Vita less than a month away, we're taking a sneak peek at some of the biggest and best games that are lined up for launch. We've never seen a better choice of games for a handheld launch, so choose carefully - or just treat yourself to all of them - when you come in to collect your shiny new Vita!

  

  Uncharted: Golden Abyss

  You can't get a much bigger headline act for your new console than the next outing for everybody's favourite adventurer Nathan Drake. Golden Abyss is an epic journey for our wry hero and it even manages to give the PlayStation 3 a run for its money in the looks department. There's of course a lost city to be investigated and - with the long-overdue inclusion of two analog sticks on the Vita - gaming on the move has never felt so much like playing at home.

  

  ModNation Racers: Road Trip

  Frantic lap-time competition hits the Vita with ModNation Racers, a game that features some of the most fun and furious racing around. What really makes this game special though is the community's devilish creations, all of which are available to download and share with your friends. If you like to let your creativity shine, this is a game that offers much much more than just a quick race around the block.

  

  Everybody's Golf

  As one of the most popular gaming series on the PSP, another outing for Everybody's Golf was a no-brainer on Sony's part. It's already leading the sales charts in Japan and is a must-buy for those who like their sports games to lean more on the side of good arcadey fun than serious simulation. Don't expect a walk in the park though - the game may not aim for realism, but it still offers up acres of challenging gameplay that will keep you competing for months.

  

  WipEout 2048

  The game that sold a million PlayStations and brought gaming into the mainstream is back and looking incredible on the Vita's gorgeous 5 inch screen. As a prequel to the original game, WipEout 2048 looks at the origins of the high-speed anti-gravity racing league and includes ten blisteringly fast original tracks. As well as a beefy game in its own right, the title will also support cross-platform play, allowing Vita and PS3 racers to compete for glory together. This is definitely one to use to show off the horse-power of the Vita to your envious friends.

  

  Unit 13

  It's impossible to even think about releasing a console these days without a hopeful shooter franchise leading the charge. Amazingly, we only got our first look at this beautiful third-person military game when it was announced in November last year. The good news is that it's shaping up very nicely indeed. As with Modern Warfare, the game offers a number of scenarios for players to take on, from dispatching terrorists, to intercepting drug traffickers and gunrunners. You'll be spoilt for choice in the role you take too, with options to be the sniper, technician or soldier on the battlefield, to name just a few.

  
  

  

  Little Deviants

  Little Deviants is very much Sony's answer to the kind of bite-sized portable gaming that's become so popular in recent years. It's also a fantastic showcase for the Vita's extensive features. Plentiful use is made of both the front and rear touchscreens, the Vita's gyroscopic functionality and, yes, even the microphone when you're tasked to make a total fool of yourself in public and sing your way to victory! A real treat for mini-game fans, this will offer up no shortage of chuckles for you and your friends.

  

  Reality Fighters

  Now this is where things get really interesting for Sony's latest box of tricks. Using the Vita's fancy technical magic, Reality Fighters lets player really put themselves in the game while fighting opponents on the backdrop of whatever happens to be in front of the Vita's screen. Once you've captured an image of yourself, you can customise your fighter even further by choosing from 16 different fighting styles that range from break-dancing to ballet. Ridiculous, fun, and ever-so-charming, this is one game that never plays the same twice. The action can be scaled up or down too, so players can fight like ants on the pavement, or as 30-foot monsters on the horizon.

• Three More Top Titles for the PlayStation Vita - Preview

  We've already previewed some of the top titles coming to the PlayStation Vita. Here's a round up of three more exciting games that we're looking forward to.

  WipEout 2048

  Featuring stunning graphics and a pumping dance soundtrack, WipEout 2048 is the prologue to Sony's futuristic racing series and sees players speeding across ten brand new tracks. Using a mixture of traditional, touch and motion controls, players navigate their ships in adrenaline-fuelled events through the streets of Nova State City in solo or multiplayer modes supporting up to eight players.

  The gravity-defying racing plays out at a breakneck speed across tiered courses that show off futuristic architectural details at lower levels and modern, futuristic elements of the city at higher ones - zip between high-rises at impossible angles and scale skyscrapers before taking violent vertical plunges back towards street level. Tracks are wider than in previous series entries, making things a bit more accessible and allowing for more varied use of offensive and defensive weapons and items.

  The game also offers cross-platform play with PlayStation 3 WipEout players, allowing handheld and home console owners to compete with each other. Among the current Vita software line-up, WipEout 2048 is arguably the most visually dazzling game, and the closest approximation of an existing PS3 title yet.

  Everybody's Golf

  The Everybody's Golf series has been one of the unsung classics of Sony's gaming library down the years, and the new PS Vita version looks set to be one of the most accessible, enjoyable editions yet.

  There are a variety of visually stunning courses to play on that make excellent use of the PS Vita's touchscreen controls, motion sensor and an innovative new shot system that allows players to drive, chip and putt their way to the pin. You can tap and drag the front touchscreen to interact with each course, and use the rear touch pad for shot-aiming, making plotting your route and taking aim less fiddly and more interactive than ever before.

  The game also offers all of the quirky characters, costumes and collectible items players have come to expect from the franchise, as well as a range of game modes to suit all tastes, from practicing or playing a round of golf solo to enjoying a leisurely, turn-based round with friends, or chatting with other players and getting stuck into thrilling live tournaments online via the PlayStation Network.

  Unit 13

  Hot on the heels of the PS Vita launch is Unit 13, arriving on 9th March and looking to be one of the standout action titles. The latest game from MAG and SOCOM developer Zipper Interactive, Unit 13, was designed from the ground up exclusively for Sony's new portable, a fast-paced, hard-hitting third person shooter which offers a unique twist on the highly competitive genre. Without a traditional single-player story or a conventional multiplayer battleground, the game focuses squarely on bite-sized, highly re-playable scenarios designed to be experienced on the go, either alone or with a friend cooperatively using Vita's voice chat functionality.

  Players can choose from six operative classes with upgradeable abilities to tackle 36 standalone missions set across nine different locales, each of which is playable in any order. Objectives such as rescuing hostages, destroying weapons caches or taking down high-value targets vary in size and difficulty, ensuring there's something here for less experienced players as well as seasoned shooter fans.

  The PS Vita's precision dual analogue sticks a re used to great effect, making for a comfortable, natural-feeling shooter experience, while touch controls are used to interact quickly with in-game elements, like picking up and reloading weapons, vaulting over barriers, and accessing a tactical map.

  Unit 13's scoring component has been a major focus for developer Zipper, which hopes to keep players coming back on a regular basis to challenge their friends for a position at the top of the game's online leader boards. The game tracks and reports the player's virtual exploits and broadcasts them to the community, and Daily Challenges, which will bring a unique mission objective to the game every day, are also planned to keep things fresh.

  Published: 31/01/2012

• Editor's Choice - Unit 13

  
  

  

  
  
  

  

  Finger-Slinging Good

  First- and third-person shooters are usually the bane of handhelds due to their finger-ruining controls. But with its spangly twin sticks (a first for a handheld), the PS Vita can laugh in the face of any console-loving shooter snobs. Need proof? Enter the third-person, gun-toting Unit 13...

  Featuring the titular group (made up of beefcake soldiers), you're charged with ploughing through bad guys across 36 standalone scenarios. Choose from six characters including a stealth specialist, a marksman specialist and a "I'm gonna kick in the door and kill everything" specialist; all we know is that the latter looks like a cross between Solid Snake and a hobo with a shotgun.

  The game comes packing a host of PS Vita-exploiting technologies including the use of those gorgeous twin sticks, touch screen options that let you bring up rifle scopes, defuse mines and select items in your inventory (yes, at last, you can get your hands, well, fingers on an M16 assault rifle for 'real'!).

  

  Strength In Numbers

  Most importantly though, Sony is boasting about it being a "socially connected shooter" (altohugh we think shooting folk in the face is a tad anti-social...). What such impressive hyberbole actually means though is that you can play online multiplayer, compare your score on a particular mission with other wannabe-commandos, and even play co-op, allowing you to chest-bump your way through all the missions with a fellow PS Vita-wielding chum.

  As is becoming a common trait with the new PS Vita, the graphics are typically impressive, offering slick frame rates and sharp visuals to enjoy on your crusade to liberate the free world from tyranny. So for those cynics of hardcore gaming on handhelds, boot up Unit 13 and show them just why the PlayStation Vita can hold its own against the big boys of the gaming world.

  Published: 08/03/2012

• Unit 13 mobilises for PlayStation Vita this week

  Zipper Interactive's latest tactical shooter Unit 13 is making its debut on the new PlayStation Vita handheld console this week.

  From the acclaimed team behind the SOCOM games, Unit 13 is a third-person military combat experience that sees players touring the world as part of an elite counter-terrorism squad.

  Thanks to the unique features of the PS Vita hardware, the game is able to deliver home console-quality action, with responsive dual analogue movement and aiming, as well as motion and touch-based control options.

  Unit 13 offers up a huge variety of missions that will challenge players to execute different objectives and work together as a team, either on their own or in online multiplayer.

  New missions and challenges will be delivered regularly for the game via Wi-Fi or 3G connections, while global leaderboards allow players to show off their skills.

  PlayStation Vita has proven a big hit among UK gamers since its February debut, with Uncharted: Golden Abyss and FIFA Football proving to be its most popular titles so far.

  Published: 09/03/2012

• PS Vita - Best Launch Games for the PlayStation Vita

  
  

  With the release of Sony's PlayStation Vita less than a month away, we're taking a sneak peek at some of the biggest and best games that are lined up for launch. We've never seen a better choice of games for a handheld launch, so choose carefully - or just treat yourself to all of them - when you come in to collect your shiny new Vita!

  

  Uncharted: Golden Abyss

  You can't get a much bigger headline act for your new console than the next outing for everybody's favourite adventurer Nathan Drake. Golden Abyss is an epic journey for our wry hero and it even manages to give the PlayStation 3 a run for its money in the looks department. There's of course a lost city to be investigated and - with the long-overdue inclusion of two analog sticks on the Vita - gaming on the move has never felt so much like playing at home.

  

  ModNation Racers: Road Trip

  Frantic lap-time competition hits the Vita with ModNation Racers, a game that features some of the most fun and furious racing around. What really makes this game special though is the community's devilish creations, all of which are available to download and share with your friends. If you like to let your creativity shine, this is a game that offers much much more than just a quick race around the block.

  

  Everybody's Golf

  As one of the most popular gaming series on the PSP, another outing for Everybody's Golf was a no-brainer on Sony's part. It's already leading the sales charts in Japan and is a must-buy for those who like their sports games to lean more on the side of good arcadey fun than serious simulation. Don't expect a walk in the park though - the game may not aim for realism, but it still offers up acres of challenging gameplay that will keep you competing for months.

  

  WipEout 2048

  The game that sold a million PlayStations and brought gaming into the mainstream is back and looking incredible on the Vita's gorgeous 5 inch screen. As a prequel to the original game, WipEout 2048 looks at the origins of the high-speed anti-gravity racing league and includes ten blisteringly fast original tracks. As well as a beefy game in its own right, the title will also support cross-platform play, allowing Vita and PS3 racers to compete for glory together. This is definitely one to use to show off the horse-power of the Vita to your envious friends.

  

  Unit 13

  It's impossible to even think about releasing a console these days without a hopeful shooter franchise leading the charge. Amazingly, we only got our first look at this beautiful third-person military game when it was announced in November last year. The good news is that it's shaping up very nicely indeed. As with Modern Warfare, the game offers a number of scenarios for players to take on, from dispatching terrorists, to intercepting drug traffickers and gunrunners. You'll be spoilt for choice in the role you take too, with options to be the sniper, technician or soldier on the battlefield, to name just a few.

  
  

  

  Little Deviants

  Little Deviants is very much Sony's answer to the kind of bite-sized portable gaming that's become so popular in recent years. It's also a fantastic showcase for the Vita's extensive features. Plentiful use is made of both the front and rear touchscreens, the Vita's gyroscopic functionality and, yes, even the microphone when you're tasked to make a total fool of yourself in public and sing your way to victory! A real treat for mini-game fans, this will offer up no shortage of chuckles for you and your friends.

  

  Reality Fighters

  Now this is where things get really interesting for Sony's latest box of tricks. Using the Vita's fancy technical magic, Reality Fighters lets player really put themselves in the game while fighting opponents on the backdrop of whatever happens to be in front of the Vita's screen. Once you've captured an image of yourself, you can customise your fighter even further by choosing from 16 different fighting styles that range from break-dancing to ballet. Ridiculous, fun, and ever-so-charming, this is one game that never plays the same twice. The action can be scaled up or down too, so players can fight like ants on the pavement, or as 30-foot monsters on the horizon.

  Published: 19/01/2012

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