Am I hearing correctly? Did Sony just put up a LAIR demo on the Hong Kong PlayStation Store? I bet I know why they chose to do it now, those sly dogs. Now that the game doesn't suck, everyone wants to give it a try. Hopefully, it will come to the US PlayStation Store as well later on today. If you want it know, head over to the Hong Kong store. The demo on the Hong Kong stores is 1919MB and fully English.
The analog patch for LAIR is now live. The new patch, titled v2.10, comes with two dragons, some other features, and of course, analog stick control to fly your dragons. The patch weighs in at about 150mb, so go ahead and download it.
The guys at TSA say that the patch makes the game much better, give it a shot.
[Lair Patch is Out]
Yes people, it seems Factor 5's (terribly controlled) LAIR will finally be getting that rare analog control patch this April 17, 2008 (for Japan at least). We are hoping to expect the same for the North American and European versions of the game as well.
The new update adds analog stick control, better aim function, and two new dragons (Poison and Wind Dragons).
[PlayStation JP]
Amazon has once again done it's thing to prove it is the best retailer on the net. They have dropped the price of Factor 5's LAIR from $59.99 to $36.99, saving you $23.00. If you want to check this game out, and don't mind the bad press it received, visit the link below.
[Amazon: LAIR]
DugBuzz, a blogger on IGN, reported today that a patch for LAIR will be released in the first quarter 2008. He said that it now plays so well that IGN should change their review score:
I doubt it could be so amazing after a patch, but we will see when or if it comes.MEGATON!!! Lair patch coming in Q1 which adds choice of analog control.
I played it and Holy shit; Greg needs to give them a new score. It was kind of clear that Factor 5 put in the extra effort a little begrudgingly, but the results were amazing. This might push me over the edge into the “must buy PS3” territory.
I also mentioned Greg Miller’s name, and the Factor 5 guys burned a hole through my skull with their looks of hatred. I think they’ll be alright once the patch is out for a while though.
We'll admit it, mostly nobody liked Lair. It received poor reviews across the charts. Recently though, Factor 5 preident Julian Eggebrecht spoke about the mixed reception Lair received. He threw in a little hint about future enhancements to the game.
"Well, obviously we've got this huge gap there where basically if you read more casual comments -- on Amazon, for example -- to the overwhelming degree they are pretty positive. I think that everybody who got the controls actually enjoyed the game. I think the IGN review was probably the most scathing. I didn't think you left one good hair with that nice 4.9, which opened up so many great jokes. But on a more serious level, I think that people who actually got it had something really going going there," said Eggebrecht about Lair's critical reception. "What's disappointing to me is that almost every single person in and outside of the industry who is little bit more of a hardcore gamer had a huge problem with it, and we, quite frankly, didn't anticipate that. I hope that a lot of people realize that underlying the problem they had with the base control, there actually was a really good game there. That's at least what I think. Well, what else would I say?"
Read on, for the hint.
"If we find a chance in the future that would bring Lair to the audience which didn't get any access, that would be fantastic," stated Eggebrecht. "I can't say anything quite yet, but there might be something in the works there. We might have a chance yet to bring those back to the table and hopefully, if that should happen, they would give the game a second chance Nevertheless, we definitely took a long look at the results and learned a couple of lessons. If you're on a platform where this whole motion control is something new and not being pitched as the main feature of the platform, you should probably give the choice between having different control schemes, there is absolutely no doubt about it."
You never know what you might see as a PLAYSTATION Network update one day.
[Lair 2.0 on the Way?]
Surfer Girl updated her blog today with ten new pieces of information. This includes what Factor Five has been working on, the old 2D Grand Theft Auto games coming to us in downloadable form. Take a look at her list below. As usual, the PLAYSTATION related stuff is bolded.
1) Factor 5's next title, a downloadable affair out next year, will feature multiplayer.I don't know about you but I got a bit jealous at number five. The Xbox Originals service just launched and yet they are soon getting all those titles, while the PSone Classics service has been around for a year and we have nearly 20 titles. Hopefully, Sony will start picking up the pace.
2) Discs of Tron and Tron will see finally release next year on XBLA.
3) The Grasshopper DS remakes (The Silver Case, The Silver Case Ward 25, and Flower, Sun, and Rain) will see stateside release next year.
4) EA Tiburon's Wii-exclusive title is a new intellectual property that is one of the two or three new intellectual properties from Tiburon that will see release next year.
5) Some of the 2008 additions to the Xbox Originals lineup: Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding, Amped 2, Armed and Dangerous, Blinx: The Time Sweeper, Blinx 2: Masters of Time & Space, Blood Wake, Brute Force, Conker: Live & Reloaded, Dead or Alive 3, Deathrow, Dino Crisis 3, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Fable bonus content, Grabbed by the Ghoulies, Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, GunValkyrie, Halo 2, Jade Empire, Jet Set Radio Future, Mechassault, MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf, Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, Midtown Madness 3, Ninja Gaiden, Quantum Redshift, Panzer Dragoon Orta, Phantom Dust Rent-A-Hero No. 1, Sneakers, Shenmue II, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse", Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus, ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth, Tork: Prehistoric Punk, Voodoo Vince, Whacked!. Service expected to have over one hundred titles end of next year.
6) The two-dimensional Grand Theft Auto titles (with Mission Packs included) will grace console(s) next year in a downloadable form.
7) Watch out Mario Kart because Electronic Arts racing to the finish line next year with MySims: Racers for the Wii and DS.
8) Cryptic's Marvel project is dead, but they have two or three other MMOs that they are working on. One will peep its little head out next year.
9) Next fall's Wolfenstein takes place in some large, open hub city where you select missions and go about them. And there are side quests too! So it's like Saboteur, except with more shooting, less French people, and is not published by Electronic Arts.
10) Next year, Eidos hopes you want to survive a virtual recreation of an existent earthquake.
Some people liked LAIR, some people didn't. The game received a mix wave of reviews. But if your one who has possibly played it and think you like it, or want to give it a chance, we got the deal for you.
Amazon is selling LAIR for only $35.00, meaning your saving $25.00. Head over to the link below for your purchase.
[Buy: LAIR]
The official soundtrack for the game LAIR, known as LAIR Score is now available for download on iTunes. The album is $9.99 and includes 26 tracks.
Want to buy this album? Open up iTunes and just search for “John Debney Lair” in the iTunes Store and it should come right up.
[Via PS.Blog]
