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Yes, The Last Guy, you remember that? The PSN game that used real world overhead maps of Tokyo as players tried to save citizens from alien monsters. More »
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Now that I'm back form Germany — and freed from having to resort to the Crosswords app on my iPhone — I'm gonna go hogwild this Labor Day weekend. With a slew of digitally distributed games at my disposal, The Last Guy, Castle Crashers and Team Fortress 2 (with Heavy Update!), I'm thumbing my nose at the traditional retail channel. Suck it, channel! More »
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While the Japanese version of The Last Guy was an all-Japan affair, the Western release will be a little more varied with its city selection. We already know that San Francisco will be there for the saving, as well as London, but new screenshots released by Sony today show that Berlin and Washington DC will also be playable, as well as...Newcastle, England. And if you don't believe us, there's a St. James Park screenshot to prove it. More »
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As we already expected, the various international releases of The Last Guy will feature "appropriate" cities for each region. London for the UK, LA for the US, etc etc. We can add one more city to that list, as following a playthrough of the game, MTV found that the American release of the title will start in San Francisco. Specifically, in Fisherman's Wharf, which will be the game's first level. Never been there myself, but it really brings home how great an idea this is: saving people from some other city might be fun, but saving your own kin (should the game feature your hometown) is funner. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5034546&view=rss&microfeed=true An English translated version of the interview with The Last Guy's "developers" speaking Bengali — tongue planted firmly in cheek. The actual developers are Sony's Japan Studio and responsible for the PSP's Work Time Fun. Pretty sure they don't have a goat in their office, either. Well, maybe they do. Who knows. More »
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Cheap/quick/rad PSN game The Last Guy is already out in Japan, leaving everyone outside of Japan wondering when they'll get their turn. Looks like your patience skills won't be needed for this one, as Sony's Hong Kong site has the game pegged for a global release in "August". It also says the game will ship with "many other famous cities", which we'll just take to mean that the different regional variants will ship with different, more appropriate cities. After all, not like it's hard to come up with a new level. More »
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You are the chosen one, a zombie straight from the Himalayas, here to save everyone's butts. The Last Guy: Japan Premium is a 314MB PSN title from Sony's Japan Studio. The story is simple: A purple ray hit the Earth, turning everyone who was outside into monsters or zombies. Everyone indoors was spared, and it's your job to move them from the buildings through the narrow streets of Tokyo's Asakusa (thank you Google Earth!), avoiding the monsters and the zombies and moving your group to the Escape Zone where an United Rescue Force airship will pick them up. More »
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Yeah, The Last Guy is already out on the PSN in Japan, but for us English-speakers, ehhh, not yet. To help give us a taste of the game, however, Sony have released a flash demo. Of sorts. If you visit the game's official site, you can enter any URL on the net and - after a short wait - have it rendered and playable as a level from the The Last Guy. Our first choice was obvious, and also misguided, as our site design creates a level that is...challenging. You might want to start on Google (or even a 404 error) first, build up your people-saving chops. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031812&view=rss&microfeed=true Over on the Official PlayStation Blog they've posted a new trailer for the upcoming PSN game The Last Guy, and while it's essentially the Japanese trailer Luke posted with English-language titles, they did drop a sizable chunk of game information along with the vid to make up for it. You play The Last Guy, a zombie from the Himalayas who journeys to the major city centers of the earth to save humanity from a plague of 'bad' zombies created when a purple beam from space struck the planet. As The Last Guy you will have special powers to help you save the day, such as heat vision to see where the normal folk are hiding. Thankfully the other zombies don't share the same powers, or the game would be extremely short. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031443&view=rss&microfeed=true Here's a gameplay trailer for The Last Guy, due on the PSN at the end of the month (least, in Japan). They sure weren't fooling around when they said it was using Google Maps, whose services you use to lead the survivors of a zombie apocalypse to designated "safe zones". The whole thing looks nice and simple (which it will be, since it's going for under $5), but whatever, if that music makes it into the final game, this moves up a spot on our shiny white purchase board from "will buy" to "must buy". More »
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If it was up to me (and it's not), and I could combine Google Earth with one thing, I would combine it with zombies. Well, that's EXACTLY what upcoming Sony Computer Entertainment title The Last Guy does — it's like they read my brain! Details are scant, but the top-down PS3 game has players use Google Earth to rescue large numbers of people by having them follow you to safe escape zones and avoiding gray matter eating zombies. Sounds like it'll be a PSN game and sounds like it will be totally awesome. More »
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