Calling All Cars due for release tonight!
by Jem Alexander 
{ May 10th 2007 at 2:30PM }
Finally, after a month or so of doing the will-it-won't-it dance, David Jaffe's Calling All Cars has a set release date: Today! It will appear alongside Rampart (as promised) as part of the US PlayStation Store line-up tonight. There's no word on when it will be coming to Europe, but we're hoping it'll be within the next few weeks.
The full line-up for tonight is as follows:
- Calling All Cars ($9.99)
- Rampart ($4.99)
- Warhawk video (free)
- Burnout Paradise trailer (free)
- Rampage video (free)
[Via SCEA press release]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
TheSh0wstopper @ May 10th 2007 2:44PM
Why hasnt there been a article posted about Sony's announcement to put Final Fantasy 7 and Tobal No.1 on the PSN. I would have thought that deserved some attention.
TheSh0wstopper
tony @ May 10th 2007 2:50PM
where are the DEMOS? come on sony get with it! i dont want videos that have been on the net for awhile. i want to be able to play some of the stuff you put in the store. thats one reason marketplace is successful, they have DEMOS. i have both systems and love them both, but i want to know whether or games are going to be worth buying before the come out, dont give me a demo the day the game comes out or two weeks after its out.
sean @ May 10th 2007 3:05PM
i have a feeling you guys will say bad stuff about the game cuase he talked shit about joystiq. hopefully you actually review it with out hate to him in it.
stockstar1138 @ May 10th 2007 3:25PM
there should have been a MLB THe Show Demo, its coming out in less than a week, its first party, there is no excuse for it not being up.
sean @ May 10th 2007 3:28PM
hopefully you guys do a honest review. i bet it wont be though cause jaffe said shit about joystiq.
pete @ May 10th 2007 3:35PM
@1 cool. i didnt know that. spikey hair, huge swords, nigths or the round summond. oh yeah
thatpspkid @ May 10th 2007 4:38PM
This is bull crap. yes calling all cars is cool but give us DEMOS!!! no one cares about trailers that can be seen all over the internet. Sony should be knocking down doors to make sure that there are demos for most games out there.
Also they need to get those stupid PScards or what ever they call it out in the states and Europe. they should realize by now that not everyone feels like giving them their credit card info.
Man I know that everyone is always saying give me this and give me that but until I hear an explanation as to why little things like letting us access the XMB from anywhere and other things that should of been there from DAY ONE, everyone will continue to bitch about it and make up stupid petitions.
a.j. @ May 10th 2007 5:22PM
while i agree that some more demos would be cool, i think many of you are missing the fact that this is a FREE service, they don't have to put squat up there. for every demo you play, there is a team behind the scenes that have to put the demo together and post it, this costs money. i'm stoked for Calling All Cars and look forward to more things later as the PSN develops. stop crying.
a.j. @ May 10th 2007 5:26PM
the game is UP by the way!!! it's fun!!!
a.j. @ May 10th 2007 5:43PM
and then it disappeared...lol..ok, maybe this does suck.
alecks @ May 10th 2007 5:48PM
thatpspkid - i agree with your first and third paragraph, BUT your complain about lack of demos and stuff then say we need to get the cards out there? Why if theres nothing to buy with the cards.NOTE that you can use prepaid credit cards on PSN!
I dont want an explanation about the os, i just want them to fix it and move on to next problem/issue!
ill trooper @ May 10th 2007 7:06PM
" i think many of you are missing the fact that this is a FREE service, they don't have to put squat up there."
YES they do... Because their primary competitor is doing all that and more on the XBox LIVE marketplace, and to get more people on board they need to at least match what the competition is doing. It's simply expected at this point.
MIke Z @ May 10th 2007 7:41PM
End The WAR between blue ray and HDDVD so we all can stop being scared about buying either format.. Sign the petition to get Universal to support blue ray and watch HDDVD fall..
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?BD4UNI&1
a.j. @ May 10th 2007 7:59PM
@13 i agree, they need to compete but my point still stands, you get what you pay for, and you aren't paying for squat. the reason XBL has more content is because people are shelling money into it left and right. i own both consoles and love them but i'm not gonna throw a fit because there aren't many demos on the PSN store.
Louis @ May 10th 2007 8:12PM
#15 I agree. MS pours so much resources into Live because IT IS a cash cow. Sony is also starting to see this with their PSN store. Also, Sony's Home seems to fill the void that Live leaves unless you're downloading something.
Everyone has such high expectations for Sony. Xbox has lots of movies and TV shows, lots of XBLA games too. Sure, it took MS almost a year.
I am impressed with what Sony has done in a small amount of time. This is why MS wanted at least one year lead before the release of the PS3.
GRT @ May 10th 2007 8:20PM
Did you guys read this:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13872
Seems like a great fit for the PS3, but Sony Online says it won't be on the PS3, just the PC.
Anyway, downloading Calling All Cars now. It'll probably take like 4 hours, given how incredibly, stupidly slow the PSN tends to be.
mark @ May 10th 2007 8:22PM
Its free fair point but i would rather pay like i do with microsoft and get a better service. Domt get me wrong i love my ps3 but not when it comes to online service why not make every game to download have a demo so u can try before u buy. And just because we are in the uk why do we have to wait, Microsoft dont.
Come on sony makes us happy
Whubbsie @ May 10th 2007 8:38PM
Maybe US gets content on XBL but Australia sure doesn't we pay the same amount for the previlage of getting no content and then we miss out on arcade games for no reason, we have the worse download speed from their server about 4-30kb/s if we are lucky, so even if we get something on there to downoad it takes all freaking day!!! PSN is free, downloads fast and we eventually get the content that everyone else does... so please explain to me how paying for a service makes it any better... It's stupid i pay to play games online hosted on my own connect...how does that make sense.
Larry @ May 10th 2007 9:29PM
To #18, you have misleading the answer from Sony. At the question "Are there any future plans to integrate the Station Launcher on to the Playstation 3?" Sony told: "It’s not going to stop at the PC." ... So, this will be PS3 compatible in the future... Anyway, this is in their plan...
I don't know where you live, but in Canada, the Ps Store have increased speed some months ago... This is incredibly fast now! I can download 950mo in about 25 minutes! Not bad!
John @ May 10th 2007 10:08PM
My downloads do not take very long at all. I'll usually set it to download in the background, start playing a game and then I take a break and remember I have downloads and they're all done.
I LIKE not paying. I am so tempted to get Xbox360 for Forza2 and the new Gotham Racing. But the red ring of death, and then having to pay? I would have to use a credit card, which I can't have, because I was very naughty, in my youth.
Which is why I want badly for Sony to bring the card to the states! You could walk into Gamestop/etc., drop $60, and get a crapload of games for the price of one game. And since I rent all my games, it's freaking perfect!
Oh wait. It WOULD be freaking perfect. I was talking in the future and stuff.
GRT @ May 10th 2007 10:51PM
Jebus I need to take a reading comprehension class. I read that as "It's going to stop at the PC." DOH!
Thanks for pointing that out.
I'm in the US. Massachusetts to be exact. It took a couple hours to d/l CAC. Maybe there's some setting in my router that needs tweaking or something.
mccomber @ May 11th 2007 12:06AM
My download for CAC took about 10 minutes. Pretty cool game, getting to the paddy wagon and helicopter are a pain though, and the computer does still have some extra skill that ends up feeling cheap... but playing online is great fun, and I can't wait to get a few people over for some good old split-screen.
I'm sure in time we'll see more demos and such, and once home hits we'll all forget about this current PSN.
"back in my day, we had to use a web-based storefront to buy CAC, not some fancy-pants 3d marketplace! And if we wanted to watch a movie trailer, we clicked it's icon and waited for it to download, we didn't walk into a virtual theatre damnit! Punk kids with their avatars..."
GL @ May 18th 2007 2:59AM
The PSN is not slow for me. But those that it was slow for said that the upgrade last night sped things up a lot.
livit @ May 11th 2007 9:40AM
Have any europeans tried to download calling all cars, to see if we can play the us version?
What the difference anyway!
Niels R. @ May 14th 2007 2:55AM
I really hate the fact that the European (Belgian) PSN-store has almost no content at all... :s
Kiteless @ May 11th 2007 12:11PM
Picked up "Calling all Cars" last night. It is a LOT of fun. Delighted to see that it plays online nicely. Levels are fairly small and the game play is addictively simple. Handed my controller to a friend and he was laughing like an 8 year old in a candy store. THe game streams of quality, and for the low low price of 9.99. Great job!
- K
mccomber @ May 11th 2007 1:00PM
At one point during an online game it came down to a tie, with the other two players within 2 points of the two of us that were leading; I was on the edge of my seat, heart pounding, gripping by controller like the handlebars on a jet-powered, monkey-navigated bigwheel trying to get the win in overtime.
I'm pretty sure that's what Jaffe was going for.
seedaripper1973 @ May 13th 2007 9:47AM
in the uk the PSN is FAST!
also...why not just use a 'debit' card to buy stuff???
no 'credit' card needed???
would like more demos tho... ;)