Sony Online Entertainment Banks on Cash Money
Cash Money Chaos, y'see. It's a new PSP game.
Published: August 9, 2006
Though the PSP is many things; a games machine, an audio and video player, a wireless web device, it's been combining the first and last of those descriptors together that's been the issue for some. Whether it's a case of things just not being set up and the PSP will slip easily onto the PlayStation Network Platform that's being devised for the PlayStation 3 or if it's just a case of developers not really being able to lock down respectable latency (or lack thereof), the PSP is hurting for good Infrastructure gaming.
With a name like Sony Online Entertainment, it's sort of assumed that Sony Pictures' video game wing would be keen on developing titles for the PSP that were, y'know, online, which is probably why they're all about building a game from the ground up with online play. Enter Cash Money Chaos, a sort of bent take on 70s game shows. With aliens. And lots of blood. And it's online-enabled.
“Cash Money Chaos is an action-packed, arcade-style shooter that explodes a new genre onto the PSP,” spits Chris Sturr, Senior Global Brand Manager at SOE. “CMC will have players scratching their heads, asking themselves if they really just saw – and shot – what they think they did. Of course, taking your hands off the controls to scratch your head may be detrimental to surviving the next wave of killer gorillas or demented clowns.”
The premise is this: you, Joe Schmo, are abducted by aliens and forced to play in a sadistic game show for the amusement of your captors. 50 levels in all across ten "seasons" of the show set to rock tunes (yes, we're getting Smash TV flashbacks too). Like Smash TV, mad dashes for guns, ammo, cash and fame are the focus, here, but the action is divvied up into a couple different modes, namely 4-player Ad Hoc co-op, 8-player Infrastructure deathmatches (Ad Hoc is supported here too) and three difficulty modes are all on the table.
Apparently, the aim is for a sort of over-the-top level of violence and gore with a tongue-in-cheek approach to an alien abduction. SOE is promising transforming bosses, pirates, clowns, hillbillies, ninjas and, yes, aliens will all serve as cannon fodder as you do the 360 degree rain of death. Yes, we're a little excited. We've got a half-dozen screens to your left there, so why not give 'em a peek and see how things are coming along? As soon as we know more, we'll make sure we let you know.
With a name like Sony Online Entertainment, it's sort of assumed that Sony Pictures' video game wing would be keen on developing titles for the PSP that were, y'know, online, which is probably why they're all about building a game from the ground up with online play. Enter Cash Money Chaos, a sort of bent take on 70s game shows. With aliens. And lots of blood. And it's online-enabled.
“Cash Money Chaos is an action-packed, arcade-style shooter that explodes a new genre onto the PSP,” spits Chris Sturr, Senior Global Brand Manager at SOE. “CMC will have players scratching their heads, asking themselves if they really just saw – and shot – what they think they did. Of course, taking your hands off the controls to scratch your head may be detrimental to surviving the next wave of killer gorillas or demented clowns.”
The premise is this: you, Joe Schmo, are abducted by aliens and forced to play in a sadistic game show for the amusement of your captors. 50 levels in all across ten "seasons" of the show set to rock tunes (yes, we're getting Smash TV flashbacks too). Like Smash TV, mad dashes for guns, ammo, cash and fame are the focus, here, but the action is divvied up into a couple different modes, namely 4-player Ad Hoc co-op, 8-player Infrastructure deathmatches (Ad Hoc is supported here too) and three difficulty modes are all on the table.
Apparently, the aim is for a sort of over-the-top level of violence and gore with a tongue-in-cheek approach to an alien abduction. SOE is promising transforming bosses, pirates, clowns, hillbillies, ninjas and, yes, aliens will all serve as cannon fodder as you do the 360 degree rain of death. Yes, we're a little excited. We've got a half-dozen screens to your left there, so why not give 'em a peek and see how things are coming along? As soon as we know more, we'll make sure we let you know.