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Heavenly Sword 2, XMB and more rumours from the Official PlayStation Magazine

By now PSlegion know that the PlayStation Official Magazine is out, and the big news is its review for Grand Theft Auto 4 (perfect score PSlegion might add). However their rumour machine, featuring 'Insider whispers', also provides interesting reading:

- Want more on the PlayStation Store? Well bite size episodic gaming will hit "before the end of the year"

- Heavenly Sword 2 will feature a male lead and will take place ten years after the original (as long as Kai is still involved and we are still able to play 'twing-twang').

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Published: 630 days 19 hours ago | Rumors | PlayStation 3

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Fishy Fingers - 630 days 20 hours ago

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“The bizarre Linger In Shadows, complete with flying dogs and deadly black smoke, will be a PSN download”

I assume he just means the actual video? If is indeed a game, theres no way it will be a PSN title. Will it?

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paul_war - 630 days 20 hours ago

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I asume the game, don't know why they would include a roumour for a video.

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Shadow Flare - 630 days 19 hours ago

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Its gotta be just a video. The big games like that are usually always just on bluray. But i don't think LingerInShadows is a game, its just a techdemo. People thought it was a game because they thought this was what that BBC reporter saw. I mean, what kind of game has giant flying dogs chasing giant cats and a wierd black cloud snake thing? Tech demo

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meepmoopmeep - 630 days 19 hours ago

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no way it's a game, it'll be the trailer but i'd like to watch it on my hdtv anyway.
hs2 was a given since ninja theory said they're making a trilogy.

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Ghoul - 630 days 19 hours ago

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it's a techdemo not a video, so expect it to run in realtime and useable camera controlls.

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sonarus - 630 days 18 hours ago

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wtf heavenly sword without a girl as lead is lame. in game xmb better make it out in the nxt update. I hope ps3 gets accomplishments in time for MGS4 too. MGS4 is a game i plan to finish to the fullest

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Qbanboi - 630 days 18 hours ago

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So...who else is thinking that:

Heavenly Sword + Male Lead = God of War.

Lol, come on, the big diference between god of war and heavenly sword, was that one was a big, bad ass killer of gods and the other a sexy, bad ass killer of kings.

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Amanosenpai - 630 days 17 hours ago

1.7 - Heavenly Sword + Male Lead = God of War.

Agree ^^,

Yey Kratos with boobs... wait a sec... UGGG

Heavenly sword is special cause its main char... the sexy red hair.

I mean, a man???.... what about prince of persia or GOW

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CaptainHowdy - 630 days 16 hours ago

1.8 - Forget Twing Twang, they just played Ching Ching

Going for God of War's fanbase with an even MORE obvious charcter rip is not the way to go. I'd rather they pull a Gandalf, a Neo, a Prequel, or SOMETHING! Anything other than getting rid of Nariko.

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mindedone - 630 days 14 hours ago

1.9 - + bubbles for sonarus

You took the words right out of my mouth. Why would they change the main character to an unknown when they already have a (small) following with Kai?

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Corrupt - 630 days 19 hours ago

2 - Ready at Dawn, the now expert PSP developer, is now working on a PS3 game

Nice.

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Anego Montoya FTMFW - 630 days 19 hours ago

2.1 - yep.

I`m w/ you.

Ready @ Dawn Working On The PS3, Equals A Massive Win.

Male Lead In Heavenly Sword, I dont know about that.

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ruibing - 630 days 17 hours ago

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Hmm since Ninja Theory is currently working on a cross platformer and Sony owns the rights to Heavenly Sword, I wonder if it's possible that Ready at Dawn, having made a pretty damn good GoW for the PSP, is now making Heavenly Sword 2 for the PS3.

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SIX - 630 days 19 hours ago

3 - Heavenly Sword 2

Has a male lead!? That would kinda suck.

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tweaker - 630 days 19 hours ago

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The story has to continue and unfortunately Nariko died at the end of the first game. Kai would've been a good lead but she is not worthy of the Heavenly Sword.

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Diugu - 630 days 19 hours ago

3.2 - Tweaker

Huge, massive, impressive, outstanding spoiler.

If I had not finished the game already, I would chase you and commit murder.

Have a nice day.

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Sev1512 - 630 days 19 hours ago

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I was hoping the Heavenly Sword would "revive" Nariko.
One of the things that made that game unique was Nariko being female and the flowing flame red hair.

I am very disappointed.

I really liked HS too.

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SUP3R - 630 days 19 hours ago

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Well thanks for ruining the story.
Thanks a lot.

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tweaker - 630 days 19 hours ago

3.5 - @3.2

I thought by now everybody played HS1. Sorry, my bad man.

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Diugu - 630 days 19 hours ago

3.6 - Heavenly Sword is awesome...

I am quite sad I never bought the game... I would love to re-play it. Unfortunately I don't know how I can purchase it here where I live and I am not about to spend a huge sum of money to import it.

Anyways... I hope this isnt true, and there is another female character. If not, I am sure it will also be great, male or female main character.

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ikiru3385 - 630 days 19 hours ago

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i remember in the beginning nariko saying that the Heavenly Sword would kill its user and she said she was dying so......her dying isn't really a spoiler.

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Corrupt - 630 days 19 hours ago

3.8 - @3.7

God of War also showed Kratos falling off a cliff to what was seemingly his death at the beginning, but what do you know, he's in GOW2. So, yes, it is a spoiler.

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NOLA - 630 days 19 hours ago

3.9 - HS1 was awesome

only trouble is, i managed to finish it in 6 hours. so long as the 2nd one plays as well as the 1st but just LONGER i wont mind
I want Kai to be the new lead too :)

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TheExecutive - 630 days 19 hours ago

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tweaker... i am seriously taking a bubble for that. I am at the final boss battle. thanks dude.

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Foliage - 630 days 18 hours ago

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I was hoping to continue with Kai. Her gameplay moments were sometimes the best part of the game. I thought she was a lot more original than Nariko. If this is true it is a shame.

I do hope HS2 is in production. The story was great in the first one.

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EZCheez - 630 days 17 hours ago

3.12 - Tweaker

You've got to at least warn people before you do that. The games not that old.

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ravinash - 630 days 16 hours ago

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No, I hadn't finished HS yet....I was stuck on the last level and was taking a break until rumble came out in the UK.
Oh well, Ho Hum....

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PS3GamerFix - 630 days 14 hours ago

3.14 - I second that motion

Heavenly Sword never got the credit it deserved due to its short length and word got out quick about it. I found the game had an amazing story and had great potential overall as a series. But wtf?!? Killing Nariko was the downfall of this series as she is what made the game what it was. I don't get the whole idea of killing a character that had so much potential to become a franchise figure. I loved the game BUT this whole male lead character idea will flop unless they really make a good job at making him extremely unique and not seem like a Dante/Kratos/Prince of Persia kind of hack and slash macho stereotype that you see in so many games.... hopefully Wet (by Sierra) may surprise us with a better female lead character.

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ban fans - 630 days 14 hours ago

3.15 - I though she was what made Heavenly Sword a little different

I haven't played the game, but a male lead just seems stupid. Why not make a prequel or something. I know the last thing we need is another action game with a sexy female lead jumping around, but the ABSOLUTE last thing we need is an action game with a muscular guy jumping around. Besides, the hair was cool!

Oh well, she'll probably be unlockable or downloadable or some such thing anyway. I doubt they will cut her out completely.

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ICUP - 630 days 10 hours ago

3.16 - @tweaker

You F@CKIN ASSH@LE, i was going to buy the game, thank a lot F@CKER.

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themyk - 630 days 2 hours ago

3.17 - THIS IS FUNNY

i just got heavenly sword today from game fly. and just got done playing about an hour of it. and came here and read this.

not that i care about the spoiler. i just got it to play. i never really cared for hack n slash games. but what the hell.

long live solid snake.

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tweaker - 630 days 1 hour ago

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I seem to piss a lot of people with this. lol. Console fanboys, take notes! You could use this to your advantage. ;)

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Fanboi - 630 days ago

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Nariko was pretty much doomed as soon as you get to the level select screen so the game already clued you in to her fate. Its not like the game just came out, at some point you gotta stop minding the spoilers.

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Kain81 - 630 days 19 hours ago

4 - i love Heavenly Sword

i think the last Boss fight agianst the Raven Lord was Epic.
I hope there is a sequell

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scottie2521 - 630 days 14 hours ago

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yeah that was a great boss battle

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TheJBag - 630 days 19 hours ago

5 - as long as i dont fight the RAVEN KING

That boss fight was so STUPID.

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paul_war - 630 days 19 hours ago

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The boss fights were not the best, very old school. Learn their attack pattern and you're sorted.

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NOLA - 630 days 19 hours ago

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the cut scene where andy serkis becomes the raven king is completely awesome though

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Kleptic - 630 days 18 hours ago

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yeah that part was insanely awesome...as was the scene with Serkis and Nariko takes up the HS...those were all in game right?...I know a lot of them were, but for some reason that last scene with the Raven King coming to be looked a little too good...can't remember...

the game was awesome at times...undeniably great motion capture...but yeah, the actual boss battles kind of sucked...my least favorite being that serpent girl in the water...you just keep rolling away from stupid wave after stupid wave...

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PStriple703 - 630 days 19 hours ago

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HS2 FTW

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name - 630 days 19 hours ago

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Damn that was one hell of a spoiler. I'm definetly not going on n4g when MGS4 arrives.

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Fishy Fingers - 630 days 19 hours ago

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Spoiler? Do you mean them revealing a male lead for HS2?

Its not like you could of escaped that information until launch, I'm sure you'd be to tempted to look at the first screens or videos. I know I will.

*side note* Did everyone see the concept art for Ninja's next game? It was quite futuristic looking and as HS2 is set only 10 years after the first I doubt that art was for HS2 like many claimed.

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Corrupt - 630 days 18 hours ago

7.2 - @7.1

I'm quite interested in that concept art too. Heavenly Sword destroys the world confirmed!!

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Kleptic - 630 days 18 hours ago

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fishy fingers...he meant the spolier a few lines up where someone gave away the ending of HS1...luckily i had played it, but apperantly a lot of people are still in the middle of it...

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NOLA - 630 days 19 hours ago

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even though it didn't get good reviews or all too many sales it was actually a kick ass game!

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Fishy Fingers - 630 days 19 hours ago

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Reported as SPAM... see you in 7 - 10 days.

Dont waste your time with people like this, simply report them and move on.

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Drekken - 630 days 19 hours ago

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it was an awsome game. Great story... just short! I bet the second wont be.

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Anego Montoya FTMFW - 630 days 18 hours ago

8.4 - Report this guy

Don`t waste you time.

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name - 630 days 19 hours ago

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@ fishy fingers

No I mean the fate of nariko spoiler.

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heyheyhey - 630 days 19 hours ago

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male lead????

thats kinda retarded, seeing as Kai would be the perfect option- as she would've matured by then and become worthy of wielding the sword

but hey, as long as i can get some more excellent HS slashery- im fine, considering they make it at least 10 hours this time

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ruibing - 630 days 17 hours ago

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Yeah it would have been nice to see how she has matured physically and mentally in a decade's time.

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heyheyhey - 630 days 18 hours ago

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no offence, but....

its the official magazines word over yours, after all- they are the ones talking to devs every day, not you

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ravinash - 630 days 16 hours ago

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Ninja Sigma and HS came out in quick succession when PS3 first started and they were working on NG2, so I'm sure they can handle more than one game at a time.

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heyheyhey - 630 days 12 hours ago

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erm......

reading is fun isnt it??

i said its coming from the ->OFFICIAL<- magazine, i didnt say the info was official

also yes there were interviews, but they are relatively old- OPM are always in contact with devs and get new info almost every day

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Mwaan - 630 days 18 hours ago

3 - Nariko was the whole reason why I loved the game

They might as well call it something else now. It's rare to have an awesome lead character in a videogame. Nariko was one of the best. Way to go morons.

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heyheyhey - 630 days 18 hours ago

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yeah, but by sacrificing her they made the story much more dramatical

you win some and you lose some i guess

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Mwaan - 630 days 18 hours ago

3.2 - Well

I suspected that her soul was trapped inside the sword and that it was going to resurrect her. There's your sequel right there.

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heyheyhey - 630 days 17 hours ago

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well thats not half bad

the male lead idea is bollocks

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ravinash - 630 days 16 hours ago

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Yeah, I'm sure they can bring Nariko back....after all the first story started with her dying.

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avacadosnorkel - 630 days 18 hours ago

4 - release HOME already

everything else...who cares?

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Darrius Cole - 630 days 17 hours ago

5 - I don't like changing the lead character either

I don't like them changes the lead character, well, not unless they are going to set the next game so far in the future that all of the characters in the first game had to have died, like 100 or 200 years in the future. Then Ninja Theory could reasonably reset the story.

Heavenly Sword was clearly rushed. It was graphically the 2nd best game released last year (after Drake's Fortune) but the combat system needed more development. As it is now I think Ninja Theory has yet to fully develop Nariko; I mean both Nariko as a story character, and Nariko as a playable character (movelists, blocking system, etc.)

I had hoped that Ninja Theory would continue to develop and properly finish the game with downloadable content.

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PSWe60 - 630 days 17 hours ago

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I'd stick with Nariko, she was a kick a$$ character

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juuken - 630 days 16 hours ago

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I haven't played the first one but I heard it was pretty short. If they do go ahead with this, I hope it's longer.

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