SouthPeak Games and game developer Renegade Kid have just released Dementium II for the Nintendo DS. Dementium II is a rare treat for older gamers on the Nintendo DS platform (rated Mature). The first-person horror game places you into the shoes of a patient recovering from brain surgery, in the Bright Dawn Treatment Center. You’ll soon see things aren’t all what they seem. The visuals are nightmarish and the audio is equally haunting and unsettling. Check out the darker side of the DS, if you can handle it, with Dementium II.
How often to you get a personal walkthrough of a game and unboxing by the developer himself? Yeah, not often. Renegade Kid’s Jools Watsham does it here in his video on YouTube (kids, remember this is a Mature game). Dementium II‘s full color manual is presented as a "New Patient Information Guide" and does an excellent job at setting the mood for the game. Publishers, take note that this is how a game manual should be done. Game manuals should be created as a complement to a game, rather than a flimsy cheap black and white manual that doesn’t add anything to the package. Jools Watsham shows you a bit of the manual in the video.
For more details on Dementium II, visit www.dementium.com. I’ll be playing through Dementium II full blast on the DSi XL, so keep a lookout for an upcoming review of it soon, here on GamingBits!
Source: SouthPeak Games
Press release:
SOUTHPEAK UNLEASHES DEMENTIUM II™
Sequel to Award-Winning Game Hits Retail
MIDLOTHIAN, VA – May 6, 2010 – SouthPeak Games today announced the critically-acclaimed Dementium II™ has shipped to retail stores in the United States, Canada and South America.
The second installment in Renegade Kid’s Dementium series, Dementium II brings the horror experience on Nintendo DS™ to a disturbing new level, with gory and horrific environments, unnerving full-motion cinematics and horrifying enemies. Moreover, Renegade Kid’s mastery of the Nintendo DS’s capabilities makes Dementium II a technical tour-de-force for the platform.
“Not many publishers are willing to release an M rated product for Nintendo DS,” said Richard Iggo, VP of Marketing at SouthPeak, while fiddling with a lighter and stray aerosol can he found on his desk. “Some might say that releasing a game like this is a risk. I like to think of it as a brave move by some vigorously scented, shockingly handsome and extremely talented people. In truth though, we know there’s a huge, dedicated fan base out there because of the success of the first game. They can’t wait to be kept awake at night through sheer terror. We look forward to wide-spread reports of insomnia, followed by bouts of insanity. However, if there are any repercussions, it was rock music that did it. Not us.”
Dementium II, developed by award-winning developer Renegade Kid, is available now on Nintendo DS with a suggested retail price of $29.99 and is rated M for Mature by the ESRB. This game should not be supplied to or played by people under the age of 17 or those with a nervous disposition. Check in to the Bright Dawn Treatment Center at http://www.dementium.com.
