On Thursday the Heavenly Sword demo was made available along with two free Heavenly Sword wallpapers that PS3 owners can plaster over their Playstation 3 dashboards.

I haven’t followed the Heavenly Sword game, but I know at least one reader is into this game. The Heavenly Sword demo gameplay reminds me of the game Final Fight. You go around and pull off different button mashing sequences to kill the bad guys.

Even with my subpar screencaps of 1080p gameplay, the game looks worlds better than Final Fight ever looked. And it’s 3D versus heavily pixelated 2D.

The Heavenly Sword gameplay features page lists additional details including:

Andy Serkis, the world’s leading CG actor, famous for his roles as Gollum in “The Lord of the Rings” and Kong in “King Kong,” was heavily involved in the creative process. As well as starring in Heavenly Sword as the
villain, King Bohan, Andy was a major contributor to the character development, writing, casting, directing and performance capture for the PS3 title.

Interesting how more games continue to be produced these days like major motion pictures.

No wonder it takes millions to produce a game like Heavenly Sword. I’ve gotten a lot of entertainment value out of games that were created with a dramatically smaller budget than titles like Heavenly Sword. A feature that would make me more interested in this game would be the ability to play live co-op with others over the Playstation network. Not sure if that will be a feature or not, but it should be. That and being at 1080p, of course.

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