Destructoid previews I Am Alive

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Destructoid got lucky with an advanced look at Ubisoft's I Am Alive this past weekend. If you like Ubisoft's signature running and jumping games like Assassin's Creed, along with a dose of survival horror gameplay, you're gonna love this.

Having followed a long and circuitous development route, this game is now scheduled to be a downloadable title available on XBLA and PSN later this year. Click on over to read Destructoid's impressions, and then cruise the Wiki article for some history of how hey ended up as a downloadable title. It should be interesting to watch the sales numbers on this one, as it may impact what type of risks companies like Ubisoft will take with downloadable versus retail titles in the future.

Dino bites

Funny how this generation of downloadable games can bring attention to some of the forgotten gems of the past. Capcom's Dino Crisis was a venture into survival horror beyond their usual zombie fare, and an experiment for Capcom using 3D rendered environments as opposed to the pre-rendered visuals of the Resident Evil series. Debuting 12 years ago, Dino Crisis was revived this Spring as a downloadable title on PSN, giving us a chance to relive some of the scares this game has to offer. GGSGamer.com gave a nice overview of the title in its original incarnation in January, complete with PS1 era graphics which received a sight update for their most recent release.

If you never played the game, click on over to read what GGSGamer has to say about it. I was always  fond of Dino Crisis, but I never finished it, abandoning it in frustration with its typical Capcom-obtuse-inventory-management-system.