Posted by: Aaron Lockard on August 23, 2006 11:09:53 AM
Konami Digital Entertainment Europe's PLAYSTATION 3 and PSP blaster head to Leipzig for European premiere
Konami Digital Entertainment enters this year's games Convention
in Leipzig fully armed as it shows its two new additions to the popular
Coded Arms series. Coded Arms Assault will see the gun-toting range
blasting on to PLAYSTATION 3, while the franchise will also return to
its PSP roots in the form of Coded Arms Contagion with a wealth of
innovative additions.
Coded Arms Assault for the PLAYSTATION 3
casts players as a hacker entering a virtual world in an attempt to
overthrow an evil corporation bent on world chaos. Set in cyberspace,
and boasting an intelligent and evolving storyline, players take on
fearsome enemies, unleash deadly viruses, jump into rugged vehicles and
download new weapons as they fight to bring down this new threat.
Powered by the Unreal Engine 3, Coded Arms Assault lets players unleash
unprecedented destruction on the game's breathtaking environments,
using explosions to send deadly debris flying towards their opponents
and strategically using high-powered weaponry to shoot out enemy cover.
The entire campaign mode of the game can be played online
co-operatively with up to four players.
Boasting support for
large-scale online combat, Coded Arms Assault lets up to 16 players go
head-to-head within the game's specially created multi-player
environments. In several team or individual play modes, gamers will
also be able to unlock additional multi-player content by achieving
different conditions of play.
Coded Arms Contagion continues the
series' tradition of outstanding handheld first person shooting action
for the PSP. The game thrusts players into a new cybernetic crisis
where they must use their hacking abilities and an arsenal of
high-powered weaponry to survive. As a lone security agent, players
will return to A.I.D.A. (a virtual reality military training program),
to prevent cyber-terrorists from taking control of the program and
gaining access to classified military information. Across a variety of
enclosed and open-air levels, players will take on original enemies
with an all-new selection of firearms and explosives that lets them
counter the terrorist menace with more firepower than ever before.
Expanding
upon the acclaimed multiplayer modes of the series' debut on the PSP
system, Coded Arms Contagion supports online and wireless local play
for up to eight players. Across a selection of new environments,
players will also be invited to go head-to-head or form teams in
several different gameplay modes that highlight the game's fast paced
action and customisable controls to create the ultimate portable online
shooting experience.