The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

It is a new twist on the crowded zombie survival genre, as its a story based open-world that can be played solo, or anytime-join co-op (up to four players). The game is melee based, with role-playing elements; leveling and skill tree. So in the remote tourist island setting you will have to make use of the resources around you as there is few weapons and reportedly less ammo. The game is scheduled for release this year on PC, X-Box 360, and PlayStation 3.

The mulitplayer demo for the PC will be out on March 1, as the console demo was released earlier this year. The game is scheduled for release on March 22 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PCs.

The trailer looks amazing with great cinematic visuals and the topper is the motion scan technique they developed for this game, which uses 32 cameras for facial recognition. It all should work to make an immersive world where the characters will give small tells when being questioned, which gives the protagonist new tools for solving crimes. And if they game-play is what we normally get from Rockstar, there will be lots of hours lost in old LA.

The game has a scheduled release in May 2011, on both X-Box 360 and Play Station 3.

The game will have a full single player and co-op campaign and of course the previously mention 32 on 32 multiplayer (PC) all running on the new Frostbite 2 game engine, with a few tweaks added from other EA game engines.

They have also announced that preorders will start this month, with a release date this fall…

More details will be coming during the GDC and hopefully a “real” trailer with game footage will be released instead of this stylized teaser.

For those looking for a flashback, here is the preview for Desert Combat 0.3 beta http://odaecom.com/Video/0.3Gbetapreview/0.3Gbetapreview.html (The YouTube video I posted was blocked by the gestapo at WMG)

These listed are the only Legendary Weapons you need to get the “We Need Guns, Lots Of Guns” achievement, which is 50 in total, there are a few others that are DLC and do not count toward the ‘cheevo.

24 Rare Legendary Weapons:

Swords:
The Swinging Sword
Avo’s Lamentation
Thunderblade
Really Sharp Pair of Scissors
Souldrinker
Beadle’s Cutlass

Hammers:
Jack’s Hammer
Scythe’s Warhammer
The TYPO
Tannar’s Glory
Sorrow’s Fist
Hammer of Wilmageddon

Pistols:
Dragonstomper .48
Chickenbane
Bloodcraver
The Ice Maiden
Tee Killer Shooter
Briar’s Blaster

Rifles:
The Sandgoose
Skorm’s Justice
The Shrieking Pilgrim
The Equaliser
Simmons Shotgun
Arkwright’s Flintlock

26 Common Legendary Weapons:

Swords:
Mr Stabby
The Casanova
Slimquick
The Splade
The Merchant’s Bodyguard
The Love Sword

Hammers:
The Tenderiser (quest)
Mallett’s Mallet
Lunarium Pounder
Dragonbone Hammer
Trollblight
Faerie Hammer of the Moon King
Aurora’s Shield

Pistols:
The Barnumificator
Reaver Industries Perforator
Desert Fury
Holy Vengeance
Mirians’s Mutilator
Gnomewrecker (Quest)
The Bonesmasher (Quest)

Rifles:
Swift Irregular
Facemelter
The Hero’s Companion
Ol’ Malice
Defender of the Faith
Scattershot

The Legendary Weapons that are considered “Rare” can be found in the 10 silver key chest in MourningWood, a Gold Door with a Rare is in The Ossuary, (also in MourningWood) and a 20 silver key chest in Millfields. There is a Gold Door in Sunset House area and a chest inside Sunset House that each have one Rare. The Demon Door in Mistpeak Valley also contains a Rare (which requires Co-op to open). After buying the fort in MouringWood and then scoring 2000 points in the mortar game awards you another Rare (thanks ElevatedPit6503). The next ones are accessible after opening Aurora, as there is a 20 key silver chest and a Demon Door in the city. The key to the chest in your Sanctuary treasury can be reached once you’ve amassed 5 million gold.  Another one is available only if you choose to mine the City of Aurora, (which is a crappy that you have to mess the city to get the Weapon). And finally the 50 key chest in Bowerstone Castle. Which means you can get 12 Rares on each play-through.

The Common weapons can be bought in shops and with a limited number of common weapons in one heroes world, (3 shops with 4 weapons each) you will need to trade or shop in others worlds.

Since there is only 12 rares available in one heroes world, the best way to get more rares is to play-through with new heroes. Expecting to trade a Rare for a Common is unlikely to happen. And as money has no real value to anyone who has played enough to be near collecting all the weapons, gold is not a trade-able asset. Also creating an other profile with a second controller, gives you the ability to not only have more heroes to collect rares but also you can use that profile to trade weapons between your main profile’s heroes.

After that aggravation, I then check key bindings and none of the settings I have for the main game show in the Vietnam mod… The only thing the same is that all the aircraft bindings are cleared from my workaround to fix the broken BFBC2 control settings.

So not even the Steam Cloud nor the friking game can share the control settings…

When the alert went on, the cable box displayed EAS while the warning was on the TV. When the alert finished the TV flashed to where I was on the time-line and then it went live, so I just as quickly hit rewind, but there was no saved to rewind through. So I lost all the saved time I had… Not sure why the DVR software can’t accommodate the emergency alert and automatically pause the broadcast?

It amazes me the things that get through so many phases of testing before being released and this wasn’t something that wasn’t spotted as an issue at before the software was installed on the Motorola DCX3400 Cable box that I currently have.

Just borrow the code from DirecTv‘s “DoublePlay” feature.