DLC Ups and Downs

Downloadable Content is one of the best features of the Next Gen consoles¹. This is especially true on my platform of choice the Xbox 360, with new content released daily, although PS3 is slowly catching up.



EA have announced two FREE DLCs for their recent and knockout game FIGHT NIGHT Round 4. The first will be a standard content style update featuring: a new gym, sliders, equipment and a Pizza Hut version of Sugar Ray Leonard. No, I'm not sure what that means either.

The second in more intriguing. They are releasing a game patch that will allow players to use the face buttons to punch, as in previous versions of the game. The analogue stick punch control seemed to be a main selling point for the new version so this add on seems both a boon for those players who prefer the old controls and back-pedaling for the games evolution.



Of course, the news can't always be good. It seems that there will be no DLC updates for MK vs DC. Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat co-creator, has announced on his Twitter page that the additional characters will now not be released. Mr Mxyzptlx, Harley Quinn and Quan Qui (above). MK vs DC is one of those average games that is slightly raised above the thrall by the history of the subject material, and in the Geek world few rank higher than MK and DC, so it's a shame that the book has been closed on that little crossing of the Realms.

¹ I am a little tired of the GH3 and Rock Band songs taking up all my screen space though.

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Batman and Robin # 1

Review
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Frank Quitely
DC Comics
4 Gs

"Batman Reborn" begins here in earnest with a new Batman, a new Robin, a new Batmobile, a new Batcave and a new set of villains. The story literally begins with a bang as the new Dynamic Duo chase down the odious Mr Toad and his henchmen in a flying Batmobile. A sky-high interrogation of Mr Toad leads this New Batman back to his circus roots, while things turn ugly as the Mr Pyg turns up to punish the unsuccessful henchmen.

If you are not up to speed on the current events in the Bat-universe after Batman RIP and Battle for the Cowl, Bruce Wayne is dead [No, I don't think it will last either] and 1st Robin/Nightwing Dick Grayson has taken up the mantle. Partnered with Damian, son of Bruce and Talia al Ghul, and relocated to a city center base the Batman return to Gotham to rescue it from the criminal chaos that has boomed in his absence.

Morrison and Quitely manage to both brighten and futurise the heroes, with a bright and modern penthouse/Batcave lair and a hovering Batmobile, and also recover a macabre horror in it's new villains that the classic villains have lost over the many animated and PG recons. The chatty, up-beat Dick/Batman vs egotistical/confrontational Damian relationship has a lot of potential.

Want to make your own mind up? Download a preview from the DC Comics website HERE and let me know what you thing in the comments below.

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