Some time next week, fans of Bioware’s critically-acclaimed space opera RPG will be able to download some new content for the game. This new pack will add five new planets to the system, each of which has its own missions to be discovered and can be explored with a new vehicle. This vehicle is apparently an attempt to improve upon the driving aspects of the first game, which were so bland they were like the videogame equivalent of dinning on styrofoam at a gourmet restaurant.
The biggest hit of 2009, next to Borderlands, Arkham Asylum and Insert Game Name Here, was Trials HD. Sublime, difficult and totally fun, Trials HD tickled your hardcore bone right there, hoo that’s nice, oh yeah don’t stop baby. Well, the DLC is on the way, and it adds new levels and new props. More importantly, a patch comes at the same time which fixes very important issues (like the damn impossible Marathon achievement), and gets rid of cheaters. Here’s the official word:
Trials HD – BIG Pack, will be released exclusively on Xbox LIVE Arcade on December 23rd 2009. Trials HD – Big Pack nearly doubles the amount of RedLynx-made tracks and adds a big selection of new physics made objects to the game, enabling new types of tracks and monster appliances. Trials HD – Big Pack will be available for 400 Microsoft Points. In addition, a title update will be released which develops some parts of the game even further, addresses community player feedback, and makes some specific fixes and improvements
New Special Trailer
http://download.eu.redlynxtrials.com/video/trialshd/TrialsHD-DLC-Special-Tracks.wmv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwFFi2HfQp8New Achievements in DLC are:
-Piggyback (15G): Catch a ride and surf on top of a car in Dangerous Ride. Can you go the distance?
-Ride on top of a car in Dangerous Ride DLC track.
-No Deal (15G): Which box to choose and when to bailout?
-Bail out and land the rider inside a lucky box.
-Look ma I can fly! (20G): Bounce 5 trampolines in succession in Skyway to reach new heights.In more detail, Trials HD – BIG Pack includes:
-35 brand new Trials HD tracks, with a special focus on medium and hard tracks, the difficulty levels most requested by players – the sweet-spot of track difficulty:
-23 racing tracks: 12 medium, 9 hard and 2 extreme – most with new physics objects providing Trials rides never experienced before
-12 skill game tracks
-Five new tournaments including all the new tracks -More than 50 new crazy physics objects: Car, rocket turbine, gravity field, wind, motor and many others! These objects will also be available on the level editor for users to utilize in creating their own tracks.
-Three new fun Achievements worth 50 GamerscoreIn more detail, free Title Update includes:
- Ultimate Endurance tournament simplified. This change makes the close to impossible Marathon achievement possible for much wider audience. The tournament now includes beginner/easy/medium tracks.
- Improved Down the Stairs skill game. The physics glitch all top players used is fixed and now the user has better control over the tumbling down rider.
- Fixed the corrupted leaderboard scores found in some tracks (zero times, impossible scores). All leaderboards have been cleaned off corrupted scores and we have a system in place to keep them clean in the future as well.
- Fixed a number of minor bugs reported by players and found by testers. Now the game is even more polished and stable than before.
Due to huge demand, the amount of tracks users can save in their hard disks and memory cards is doubled.The following Trials HD Xbox Live items will also be launched soon:
-Trials HD Xbox premium theme
-Trials HD Xbox avatar item pack
More Borderlands downloadable content? Yes please! The previous DLC was a blast with plenty of zombie-killing content, though this new one focuses more on adding some new Arenas, a storage area for saving your awesome guns, and two new skillpoints to gain. Here’s the official blurb:
New York, NY – December 10, 2009 – 2K Games announced today that the second piece of downloadable content for Borderlands™, Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot, will be available on December 29, 2009 from the Xbox LIVE® Marketplace for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for 800 Microsoft Points and on January 7, 2010 from the PlayStation®Network for $9.99. The downloadable content will also be available on Windows PC. This explosive piece of action-driven content is in development at Gearbox Software and provides players with more methods of destruction as they tear through the denizens of Pandora.
Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot is an intense single-player or cooperative experience that expands the mayhem by adding three new Riot Mode arenas where players will endure an onslaught of Pandora’s baddest enemies. Working together, players will fend off the masses as they fight for fame, honor, and more importantly, loot. Mad Moxxi’s Underdome Riot also adds a new bank feature, which allows players extra storage capacity for when they encounter one of the more than 16 million weapons that Borderlands has to offer; and the ability to acquire two additional skill points as quest rewards, making their characters even more powerful than before.
Featuring extensive co-op integration that seamlessly blends the single-player and multiplayer experiences, Borderlands allows players to freely join or leave each other’s games at any time for collaborative mayhem or the freedom to choose to play in full single-player mode to experience the world on their own. Borderlands also includes a groundbreaking weapon generation system that offers a near infinite variety of weapons to the player. Borderlands combines these fan favorite features with addictive non-stop action to form a breakthrough experience that challenges the conventions of modern shooters and RPGs.
Borderlands™, rated M for Mature by the ESRB, is developed by Gearbox Software and is currently available for the PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system, the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft and Windows PC. The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned, the first piece of downloadable content for Borderlands, is currently available for all platforms.
If you’re a fan of Borderlands and you’ve already played every single mission available, then you’ll be happy to hear that some brand new Downloadable Content for it should be available by the time you read this, on Xbox Live at least – PS3 owners who connect to the Euro PlayStation Network might have to wait until our Thursday update tomorrow or the next week.
The update pack is entitled The Zombie Island of Dr Ned, and it includes everything you need to spice a game up: more quests, more items and, of course, hordes of zombies to blast. How could it fail to be a winner?
Everything is better with zombies. If you agree, the welcome to the Fold, Brother.
