Hi everyone, my name is Johnny Coghlan and I’m Head of Publishing for Chillingo. I’m posting here on the PlayStation.Blog to exclusively reveal that Chillingo’s blockbuster top-down horror shooter, Dracula – Undead Awakening, will soon be available for PSP minis!
Dracula – Undead Awakening is a top-down shooter. You play a vampire hunter must combat hordes of undead enemies like zombies, ghouls, werewolves, vampire brides and more. Each level and every new attack wave contains more enemies, and they get stronger over time!
You have some cool possibilities though. Every time you kill an enemy, there’s a chance they will drop a useful item like a weapon or potion. As you progress, your character can access increasingly powerful weaponry including Machine Guns, Flamethrowers, Buzz-Saws and Grenade Launchers. Surviving each intense undead assault also rewards you with invaluable experience, which you can spend to choose new skills and ability perks like Bloodlust, Ninja, Telekinesis and even Death Dice.
Eerie locations include a desolate graveyard and a Gothic era fortress. Diabolical demons and unearthly beasts await your arrival, along with specters and vampires aplenty! There are a variety of modes in the game ensuring loads of replayability. Do you like an endless supply of ammo with a similarly non-stop stream of attackers coming at you? How about a scarier mode where you have one weapon and no pick-ups where it’s you versus increasing numbers of undead enemies with no respite? Or maybe you prefer to role-play and control the development of your vampire hunter’s powerful new skills and abilities. Dracula – Undead Awakening offers all this and much more!
This PSP minis version of Dracula – Undead Awakening has been designed and optimised for the PSP platform. Control is seamless, as your character moves using the analog stick. On the PSPGo, you can even use the analog stick to aim if you choose, giving 360 degrees of options when aiming. The shop interface also offers an explanation of each ability and weapon improvement. You can access your gameplay achievements via the statistics screen, along with profile high scores for each game mode. The frame rate has been optimized, and you can save the game at any time you choose.
Dracula – Undead Awakening will creep onto PSP minis on November 26, 2009.
(Average: 4.11 out of 5)
17 CommentsAdd Yours
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 12:01 pm by Gulzt
Cool, I play that on my iphone nearly every day
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 12:03 pm by Gameboys
looks pretty funny
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 12:05 pm by rLivett
This looks great! Good stuff!
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 12:19 pm by Ravenblade86
Ah nice! Can’t go far wrong with a good top-down shooter, and it will add some more variety to current list of PSP Minis, as it rather puzzel heavy at the minute.
Glad you didn’t just make a zombie game though, far, far to many of those!
Looking forward to trying it out on the 26th
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 12:29 pm by Funkby
Just watched the iphone version on youtube and it looks like a lot of fun. An instant buy for me.
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 12:53 pm by ljforlozz
Not bad when is it out?? and it’s all over the web that metal gear solid ps1 classics is on store tomz for us EU just want resident evil 2 then all good
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 1:18 pm by rLivett
Yea, well I hope the PSP update tomorrow on PSN isn’t JUST Metal Gear Solid. I want something else to sink my wallet in to.
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 1:23 pm by ljforlozz
I think assains creed for psp is and little big planet but metal gear 100% on that
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 2:19 pm by TheNarrator
wow, that looks like so much fun, nice work
. i always knew vampire hunters had buzz-saws lol.
hopefully in time the Minis will somehow cross over on to PS3. theres loads of fun, good looking ones out there, but obviously all just on PSP
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 3:11 pm by Bonyman
i just watched a video of the ipod version….. how will the multi-directional shooting be implemented without a 2nd stick….?
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 6:58 pm by Silent_Gig
How do you go about submitting a game to the PSP minis service?
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 7:03 pm by Chillingo_PS
Chillingo here! In response to Bonyman regarding multi-directional shooting: In “Standard Mode” you use the four symbol buttons to issue direction shooting commands in eight directions by optionally combining two buttons for diagonal directions. However, in the special “Swapped Controls Mode” you can use the analog control stick to aim in 360 degrees while you use the buttons to walk! With the specific layouts on the PSP and the PSP Go, this mode is ergonomic only on the PSP Go. We’ve tested that mode on the standard PSP though, and achieved highscores.
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 7:22 pm by Bonyman
@Chillingo_PS :
Thanks for the reply. I was afraid it would be something like that although the option to swap to the nub for shooting is interesting. Looks like ye have tried to cover all tastes with the controls so fair play for that. Not sure yet but I’ll keep an eye on this one
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 7:47 pm by theshepanator
This looks much more interesting than zombie apocalypse, where you encounter the same 3 zombies hundreds of times in 7 stages… *YAWN*
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 8:35 pm by Hasquarl
Looks pretty decent. I’ll look into it once it is released.
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Posted on 18 November, 2009 at 10:00 pm by Ragnarok-NZ
Is it possible for you, Mr.Coghlan, to list the price of this title?
I’m interested in this game, believe me its a day one purchase for sure [I love the Minis!] but I’d like to know in advance how much I’ll have to pay [just to make sure my PSN account has enough funds for it]
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Posted on 19 November, 2009 at 11:47 am by Kradziej
Finally a game like this is coming to the PSP. Hell yes :>
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