Microsoft Game Studios and Canadian developer Silicon Knights, creators of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem , Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes and more, announced today that their upcoming blockbuster action-RPG, Too Human has gone gold and will be shipping to stores across North America on August 19 ^th .

A futuristic take on classical Norse mythology, Too Human follows the story of a cybernetic god, Baldur, and his quest to save humanity. Too Human combines a number of elements from both action and role playing games, mixing in weapon and armour customization with third person action and combat techniques. The game also includes two-player online cooperative gameplay via Xbox Live.

Microsoft has already released the game's demo for download via the Xbox Live Marketplace. In its first week of availability, the Too Human demo has been downloaded more than any other action demo on the Xbox Live Marketplace, surpassing 900,000 downloads, and is currently one of the top played titles on Xbox Live overall. Too Human will be available in stores on August 19 ^th for $59.99 USD/CAD, exclusively for Xbox 360 and is rated T for Teen.

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