The humble save point is an endangered species in this day and age. Modern games, not wanting to interrupt or burden players with a need to remember to slide a digital bookmark into their progress, either save your game automatically or let you save whenever you please. The little glowing ports in a storm, where no enemy will attack you, where you can catch a breath before a boss, or you can make some badly needed progress are eternally memorable if done right. These ten are the best and strangest in PlayStation history.

Dead Rising 2

Even in zombie infest Las Vegas, the bathroom is a safe space to collect your thoughts, to mark a moment in time to return to again and again, to consider: how many times have I duct-taped a baseball bat and a weed-whacker together now? Dead Rising 2’s lavatory save points are not only more convenient than the lonely security office couch Frank West had to use in original, they’re also apparently magical, hiding secret shortcuts within. 

Alien: Isolation

Beeping sounds are not comforting in the world of Alien. If you hear an insistent electronic tone, it’s usually coming from a motion tracker indicating precisely close you are to having your face eaten by a hulking two-mouthed bug monster. In Alien: Isolation, though, beeping can also indicate the presence of a blessed save point, a taupe colored electrical panel that represents a few more minutes of survival. Only problem: it seems to take a billion years for for Isolation’s save stations to register Ripley’s key card. Not that there’s any hurry because of face eating bug monsters.

Metal Gear Solid

Snake’s Codec is not a comforting piece of technology. Is it convenient to have a communication device that interacts directly with your ear’s delicate bones? Sure but what if it malfunctions! That’s stressful. It’s also not particularly convenient to have to use it to call a separate person just to save your game. Sure, Mei Ling is a personable and intelligent individual always willing to cough up some philosophical bonmot to ease the pain of extreme espionage, but isn’t there a better way to mark your time at Shadow Moses? Apparently not, because that’s how you have to save there.

Resident Evil

The Umbrella corporation’s boundless capacity for horrifying technological advancement is matched only by its adoration of technological anachronism. If you can build massive, secret underground base’s for developing futuristic, biological military ordinance, why do you need typewriters to save everyone’s progress? They’re not even electric typewriters! You need old fashioned, messy ass ink ribbons to use them. There will be hell to pay if that ink gets all over the jewels and bizarre keys in this inventory full of stuff needed to get through Umbrellas various mansions. At least the music playing in every save room near the typewriters is beautiful.

God of War 3

Kratos is not the kind of guy you’d expect to regularly genuflect. Indeed Kratos’ whole thing is hating gods, killing gods, and yelling about how he’s going to kill all those gods he hates so much. And yet every time he wants to save his progress during some gluttonous revenge rampage, he steps into an altar, gifts from Zeus’ daughter Athena  in God Of War III. Zeus himself is the one who granted the Spartan his progress-stashing ability in the first game. I’m not calling you a sellout or anything Kratos, but if you were for real you wouldn’t need to save your game at all! Just kidding. Your new Viking beard frightens me.

GTA: Vice City

Over the past decade, saving your game in Grand Theft Auto has always been a homey experience. Returning to your base of operations is part of it, but it’s all about where you rest your head permanently. Niko Bellic’s apartments, Michael de Santa’s house of Hollywood strife, etc. Back in Grand Theft Auto Vice City, though,  Tommy Vercetti saved his progress in a seedier, more transient locale. The Ocean View Hotel, with its gaudily decorated bed and a floating cassette icon, is where he needed to save his game. It is simultaneously the least comfortable and the most in GTA history. No one likes to live in a hotel, but at least you can trash the place and someone else will clean it up.

No More Heroes: Heroes’ Paradise

Old Chuck Greene saves his game in the bathroom, but we don’t know that he’s actively relieving himself in there. Guy could just be washing his hands. Tucking his shirt back in. Wiping off a bloodstain or something. Travis Touchdown in No More Heroes? There are no illusions about what this assassin nerd is doing when he saves his game. He walks right into his WC, drops trou, and goes to town to mark down precisely where he is on his journey to becoming the number one hired killer with a lightsaber. It’s ridiculous but I have to admit that I admire his comfort level. You do you, Travis.

Dead Space

When you’ve been trundling through the darkened halls of a crumbling space station infested by monsters made up of the ripped up limbs of the terrible warped crew that used to live there, a little light goes a long way. The welcoming glow of a USG Ishimura save terminal goes the longest in Dead Space. Warm, reassuring and a temporary salvation from all that getting your brains sucked out through your eye socket by some gasping monstrosity. That said it doesn’t quite make sense that there are terminals everywhere for the crew to just randomly record their thoughts on. Is the Ishimura like a giant sci-fi episode of the Real World with confessionals everywhere? Weird, Dead Space. Weird.

Ico

So this creepy, vaguely medieval society is terrified of boys born with horns, right? So they lock them up in a rotting castle ruled over by some inky witch with blue electric magic powers and a legion of living shadows at her command. If everyone doesn’t want the boy to escape with the ghostly magical young girl he just met in the castle, why are there inexplicably comfortable couches all over the place for the two of them to take naps on, thus saving their game? One second, you’re in a crumbling hallway of death. The next, you’re on a windswept terrace with a couch ready for popcorn and binge watching John Hughes movies. This castle and its save points make no sense, Ico.

Tomb Raider (1996)

We’re not saying Lara Croft doesn’t run a high probability of finding precious jewels during her grave robbing adventures in the original Tomb Raider. In fact, it’s all but guaranteed that at some point after she’s shot a T-rex in the face and solved the instant death puzzles of an evil statue with the midas touch, Lara’s going to find some shiny, valuable rocks. But why do all the jewels in Tomb Raider let her save her game? And why are there only a few of them inexplicably scattered around the tombs all over the world? MAGIC JEWELS DON’T SAVE GAMES IN REAL LIFE, TOMB RAIDER!

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The games will retail for around €19.99, while titles in the list marked with an* will be available to download from PlayStation Store from around €14.99.

The full list is as follows:

1st Party Titles:

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune*

Resistance Fall of Man

inFAMOUS*

Motorstorm

Heavenly Sword

MAG*

God of War III

LittleBig Planet*

Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction

ModNation Racers*

Sports Champions*

EyePet & Friends

Start The Party!

DanceStar Party!

Medieval Moves*

Move Fitness*

The Fight*

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3rd Party Titles:

Assassin’s Creed II*

Assassin’s Creed*

Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood*

Far Cry 2*

Prince of Persia*

Driver San Francisco*

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Vegas 2*

James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game*

Prince of Persia – The Forgotten Sands*

Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood*

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2*

Brothers In Arms: Hell’s Highway

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X

Deus Ex: Human Revolution*

Tomb Raider: Underworld*

Just Cause 2*

Sniper: Ghost Warrior

Tekken 6

SEGA Mega Drive: Ultimate Collection

Sonic Unleashed

Virtua Fighter 5

Darksiders: Wrath Of War*

Homefront: Ultimate Edition*

Anything in that little lot take your fancy?

Source: PlayStation blog

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The Hitman: Absolution Sniper Challenge DLC is a Chicago rooftop sniping mission that allows you to unlock items for use in the full game when it releases this November. To get the special upgrades you’ll need to beat the scores set for each item. To get the scores needed you‘ll need to complete the challenges that are hidden within the game to increase your point modifiers.

Since we’re the helpful type here at Gamesradar, we’ve put this guide together to show you how to complete each and every one of the hidden challenges and get the most out of your killing. With these challenges under your belt, you’ll be able to work on unlocking each upgrade all that much quicker and be stacked, ready for the real game.

Here is a full list of the unlockable upgrades:

Agency Kazo TRG – unlocks at start of challenge
Silencer – unlocks at start of challenge

Controlled Breathing I – Unlocks at 10,000 points
Extended Clip I – Unlocks at 300,000 points
Rapid Fire Bolt I -Unlocks at 1,000,000 points
Magazine Well I – Unlocks at 2,500,000 points

Controlled Breathing II – Unlocks at 7,000,000 points
Extended Clip II – Unlocks at 9,000,000 points
Rapid Fire Bolt II -Unlocks at 12,000,000 points
Magazine Well II – Unlocks at 15,000,000 points

Controlled Breathing III – Unlocks at 20,000,000 points
Extended Clip III – Unlocks at 30,000,000 points
Rapid Fire Bolt III -Unlocks at 40,000,000 points
Magazine Well III – Unlocks at 50,000,000 points

Challenges:

• Leap of the Ninja
• No Pigeons Were Harmed
• Bored Chipmunk
• Long Live the Patriot
• Gnome Invasion
• Elevated
• Ohh Mine Got!
• It’s a Trap
• Rapid Execution
• Crack all Eggs
• WOW!
• Mr. X
• Fly By Prevented
• Rub the Duck

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Secure-Coms are small ipad looking devices spread around the environment. They are the more classic collectible and are often hidden in locations that are not directly in your path. These are the easiest to miss so don’t feel bad if you do.

Shopping Terminals are less collectible but more an object that you must interact with. Most of them are directly in your path and are obvious to spot. Something to note about the shopping terminals is that you must interact with them for it to count.

The final items to find are the Nanomachines. There are only 6 of them to find and they are found within the first 2 levels. The others must be bought from the Shopping Terminals. For this reason it is very important that you find all terminals on the same playthrough that you collect nanomachines. You must pick up the 6 found in the environment plus buy all nanomachines found in each terminal. On a side note, the nanomachine locations have been attached to the end of the shopping terminal videos.

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Journey is long because it’s long-lasting. It’s a game that we will remember for years to come – one whose themes and imagery have already embedded themselves deep in our psyche. We remember, more than anything, how we felt after completing each chapter, and we recall (with fondness, melancholy and joy) our sense of accomplishment at finishing this singular quest.

In short, Journey succeeds because it takes so many of the conventions of contemporary games and turns them on their heads.

Journey’s story is deceptively simple: It’s told with no dialogue (though we began to analyze its many symbols after we completed it). We begin as a robed humanoid creature in the middle of a rolling desert. Almost immediately we saw our objective: a shining beacon of light atop a mountain.

Thatgamecompany, Journey’s developer, is now well-known for producing titles that encourage a sense of awe and bliss through self-guided discovery. And just like Flow and Flower before it, Journey put us in the midst of wilderness and gave us just enough tools to poke and prod around it until we slowly formed an idea of how to navigate. We have a button that functions as a beacon. It takes little time to understand how useful the beacon is to unlocking the other crucial ability, that of jumping. These simple features beget even larger ones as we continued playing, since players can jump and glide only for a limited time.

By the time we navigated through Journey’s initial sections, we felt just familiar enough with its controls to play alongside another wanderer. And that’s when it happened to us: another wanderer (just one) appeared in the distance. The game’s approach to co-op gameplay is utterly unique. When another player appears – seemingly at random, and at different points in any playthrough – all we have to work with is the limited vocabulary of the game. We had no idea who that person is until we completed our Journey – there is no PSN ID indicator, nor any voice chat. Our only communication is via the beacon, or by jumping around, or however else we choose to try to reach out to our fellow wanderer. And if we choose, we can simply ignore each other and wander off in different directions. The best part: it’s almost impossible to grief your partner, because the game is designed so that the limited resources can’t be hogged or stolen from each other.

By the end of the game, we felt an amazing sense of accomplishment and – dare we say it – affectionate camaraderie for our fellow traveler. We helped each other through some tough challenges. We communicated via a language we created ourselves: a series of chirps and jumps and circling around each other. Thatgamecompany should be applauded for the incredible technical achievement of subversively giving us a warm, human connection by providing the most anonymous gameplay experience in some time.

Journey works so wonderfully because it has the courage to restrict elements that we’ve come to take for granted in other games. One can make a granular argument that it’s a game that consists of jumping and Morse Code. And while that person would be right, that person is also missing the point and playing the wrong game. The execution on these simple gameplay ideas is so exact and precise that it’s ultimately more than sufficient to keep us in its thrall up until the heart-wrenching finale. Indeed, we didn’t need anything other than that which was provided for our Journey. It also helps that the soundtrack truly augments both the emotion and, at points, the tension of the experience. It’s an outstanding score.

Caveats here are minor. Journey is a calming, relaxing game, so you might not want to start it late at night, lest you find yourself a tad too hypnotized and dozing off with controller in-hand. However, by the time you stumble upon a co-op partner, you’ll have the pressure of co-dependency to keep you engaged and alert. Also, like other Thatgamecompany titles, it’s an experience that’s at its best in the first playthrough, because the magic comes through discovery. We plan to play it again, but armed with the knowledge of what’s to come, it won’t be quite the same. Don’t let that stop you from playing it, though. There’s new magic to be discovered as we find new partners to join us on this trip.

Journey is an unforgettable experience. Even when the details fade, the emotions that it evoked will stay with us for years. The pacing, the sense of scale, and the feeling of awe are all razor sharp. It all merged together as we discovered another player in our traversal. We won’t play another game like it, and frankly, we won’t need to, either. If you’re a gamer, it’s an outstanding reminder of why love this medium. Do not hesitate to embark.

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Sony hasn’t yet released exact sales figures for the spooky standalone adventure, which squeezes around five hours’ playtime into a $10 package. However, you don’t get to be a platform’s fastest-selling title since 2006 by doing okay at your job. Of course, we’d expect nothing less from a game that combines the pop-culture infatuations of superheroes and the undead – particularly when it does it all well enough to pull in review scores higher than those for the original InFamous (opens in new tab). Here’s hoping future titles follow Sucker Punch’s lead, if only to see what an InFamous Holiday Special would look like.

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Above: The Red Bull X 2011 is among the new vehicles you can certainly wait one more week for

“GT5 DLC will hit the North American Store on 10/25 but will include a special bonus,” Sony tweeted to its PlayStation account today, though no word on what that might comprise. But with four new packs to make your way through, or one $12 update including new tracks, cars, items and paints, what’s one week in the grand scheme of things?

Oct 18, 2011

Source: MCV

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