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Last week, Xbox LIVE Gold members were able to take advantage of an insane special price offer over Xbox LIVE Arcade with the opportunity to buy Pac-Man Championship Edition DX for an absolute steal.
This week? You’re able to partake in even more criminal activities as the price of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light has been slashed in half, with other related downloadable content also being offered at half-price.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a mighty game, and with the addition of online co-op late last year, the game became even better. Read El33tonline’s review of the title to see why we think it’s so awesome!
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Xbox 360 gamers got ‘the patch.’ PlayStation 3 gamers even got ‘the patch.’ Now, PC gamers are able to get ‘the patch.’
What ‘patch’?
Why, only an update to Crystal Dynamics’ excellent Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, which adds the option to fight, puzzle and navigate your way through the adventure with a friend… online!
A few other updates to the game were also made with patch 1.01, with a list provided:
Now, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is an excellent game filled with its fair share of adventure, set-piece action sequences, and plenty of gunplay, but when the game was first released on Xbox 360, and subsequently PlayStation 3 and PC, a key element was missing: Online cooperative gameplay!
Sure, you could play co-op with a buddy sitting right beside you in the physical realm, but the virtual realm? No dice.
Thankfully, at the end of last month, an online cooperative patch was released for the Xbox 360 version of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Now, it’s the PlayStation 3’s turn.
Have you been patiently waiting for Crystal Dynamics to release the promised online cooperative patch for the developer’s awesome Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light?
Well wait no longer, because Xbox 360 gamers are now able to head onto the ‘ole Xbox LIVE Marketplace to grab the patch and get playing with friends online now!
Those of you who own Crystal Dynamics’ excellent Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light action game on Xbox 360 will want head on over to Xbox LIVE Marketplace tomorrow, because not only will the long-awaited online cooperative patch for the game become available, but that promised free downloadable content will be up for download, too.
In a post on the official Tomb Raider forums, a solid release date has been announced for the long-awaited Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light online cooperative update, and the good news is that you won’t have to wait too much longer.
The bad news is that the date is for the Xbox 360 version of Crystal Dynamic’s excellent action adventure game, only…
From the post:
Crystal Dynamics has released a launch trailer for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light in celebration of its release on the PlayStation Network and Steam today.
El33tonline really enjoyed this downloadable action title which is played from a top-down perspective. You can read our review to find out more about the game or flip through our previous coverage for a slew of trailers and screenshots if you like.
While we recently learnt when Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light would become available on the PlayStation Network, the date that Ms. Croft’s latest adventure would arrive on the PC still remained unclear.
Well not anymore because Crystal Dynamics have solved the mystery by revealing that the game will be available on the PC via the Steam Network on the 28th of September for $14.99…the same day as it lands on the PlayStation Network following its period of exclusivity on the Xbox 360.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is a good game.
… Nah, you don’t understand.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, a downloadable action title played from a top-down perspective, is a really good game. If you read El33tonline’s review, you’ll start to understand how good of a game Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light really is.
So it’s a great relief to finally know when the game will finally become available on the PlayStation Network following its little period of exclusivity on the Xbox 360!
Lara Croft has had somewhat of a rocky videogame career, it started out well enough when the British archeologist debuted back in 1996 in Tomb Raider on the Sega Saturn. The savvy lass went on to star in a number of games after that, but it soon became apparent that things had started to go a little downhill for Lara when The Angel of Darkness was released to lukewarm reception.
However, when Crystal Dynamics took over development duties of Ms. Croft in 2006 they seemed to breathe new life into the series and enjoyed success with Legend, Anniversary (a remake of the original Tomb Raider) and finally Underworld. But take nothing away from Core Design, who handled development duties for the first batch of Tomb Raider titles, after all they did help to create one of the best-selling videogame series of all times and one of the most successful human videogame heroines too.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light is the last of the 2010 Summer of Arcade titles on the XBLA, and it’s out now for 1200 Microsoft Points, which is about 101 Yuan.
Major Nelson has this to say: “Experience the first ever co-op action-adventure game featuring Lara Croft. Team up with a friend or go at it alone as you traverse and solve deadly traps, fight hordes of undead enemies, and collect over 60 artifacts and relics. Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light offers fast-paced action and breathtaking visuals shown through an isometric view.” Both the isometric view and the co-op gameplay are firsts for the franchise.
Please note that the co-op play is currently local-only, but Square Enix assure us that online cooperative play will be “arriving shortly” as part of a free update.
We’ve been following this game with a lot of interest, so there’s lots of previous coverage for you to check out. If you like to watch or experience rather than read (and which gamers don’t?), there is a free demo available for download, or you can check out some trailers below:
Square Enix recently confirmed the list of games that it will be showing off at the gamescom videogame event next week in Cologne, Germany, and there will be plenty of titles to get excited about.
Both the press and the public will be able to get hands-on time with (and watch presentations for) the following games:
It’s a foregone conclusion that fans of Lara Croft and her underground hijinks will be looking forward to the release of Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light on August 18th, exclusive to the Xbox 360’s Xbox LIVE Arcade for four weeks, but new information has emerged to get those fans even more pumped.
Not only has there been recent mention of release dates for the PS3 and PC versions of the intense isometric action game, but news of forthcoming downloadable content has also come to light.
A fantastic new trailer for Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light has been released, revealing some excellent set-piece action, examples of exploration and puzzle solving, and more looks at further features of the game.
It’s looking quite exciting!
In addition, it’s been revealed that Guardian of Light is a four-week timed-exclusive for the Xbox LIVE Arcade platform, meaning that the planned PS3 and PC versions of the downloadable title will only become available at a later date.
As Crystal Dynamics explains, this release schedule has been put in place in order to participate in Microsoft’s “hugely successful” Summer of Arcade promotion on Xbox LIVE:
The third annual Xbox LIVE Summer of Arcade will kick off this month, on July 21st, with the release of Playdead’s eerie and intriguing adventure platform game, Limbo, while four subsequent Xbox LIVE Arcade releases following in consecutive weeks will round out this event celebrating the joys Summer… indoors, playing on your Xbox 360.
Other titles included in this year’s Summer of Arcade are Hydro Thunder Hurricane, Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and Monday Night Combat.
Check out the full release schedule below:
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