Hello folks! I’m really happy to be back on Playstation.Blog to announce Crimsonland will hit PS4 on July 15th.
It’s a big deal for us at 10tons, for a whole bunch of reasons. First of all, Crimsonland is an incredibly fun, dual-stick, top-down shooter. It’s exactly the kind of game we love playing and developing. It’s delightfully old school, too, with plenty of splatter, gibs, and challenge.
Crimsonland is also the game 10tons was founded on all the way back in 2003. It started as a student project, but soon reached a level of success that a company was needed to support it. The PS4 version at hand is still largely the same game. Sure, the graphics have been replaced with new HD assets, content has been added and design tweaks made, but the immensely satisfying gameplay remains intact.
It’s not a complicated game. You play this Trooper guy. Aliens, giant spiders, zombies, and other monsters start coming at you from every direction. You shoot them, but more keep coming. Soon enough you’ll be running. Just when you think you’re dead, you get some awesome powerups and wipe the screen clear in few seconds, and it feels great. But an even bigger horde is already coming right at you.
The game is kept fresh by an arsenal of 30 weapons and 55 perks. Perks are special abilities which allow you to reload faster, shoot poison bullets, and whatnot. But you only get to pick a few of them per game from a shortlist of a few perks. You need to take your playstyle and the weapon you have into account too, as everything interacts with everything.
There’s a sixty mission campaign with three difficulty settings, and five survival gameplay modes with dedicated leaderboards for single player and 2-4 player local co-op. The co-op works by adding a monster multiplier based on player count, so with four players you get literally hundreds of enemies on screen at the same time.
Check the game out, and see you on the leaderboards!
60 campaign missions?! Dang, that’s insane.
@Jaakkko
I love the doom inspired background. I do have a few questions about Crimsonland if you have time to answer them.
1. Is this a PlayStation console exclusive?
2. Does the game feature “Whats New” feed such as High Scores etc?
3. Does the game feature multiple profile logins for trophies?
Thanks
Thanks! Doom artwork was definitely among the reference material for the Crimsonland promoart. What we wanted to say first and foremost was “old school shooter” (and from then on in some order of importance, “sci-fi”, “massive amounts of monsters”, and “badass”)
1. Nope, the game is originally a PC game, and this remastered version has already been launched on PC and will be made available on several platforms (PS Vita among them, in August-September timeframe).
2. I can’t remember out of the top of my head which platform specific features we enabled, but there are plenty of leaderboards with Friends filter.
3. Unfortunately I can’t answer this definitely either. We’re on our summer vacations, so I’m not able to check all details at this time. I do remember we put a lot of work into the PSN/leaderboards features, and tested plenty of co-op stuff regarding that, but for the life of me can’t remember which specific bits made it into the release version.