All it took for people to pay attention to Dynasty Warriors was to replace everything about it with a 1983 Manga featuring exploding human flesh. Why didn’t Koei Tecmo think of it sooner, eh?
Yes, people are genuinely excited for Fist of the North Star Musou, including yours truly. The post-apocalyptic brawler should be one of Omega Force’s finest games, and as someone who already counts himself a fan of the studio, I’m very much looking forward to seeing what this game has to offer.
Today we get a brief taste in the form of two gameplay videos. This early footage shows off some of the blood-soaked fun that can await players. It’s very much a Manga-fueled Streets of Rage if you ask me. That’s not a bad thing, from where I’m sitting.
Anyway, videos for the watching. Help yourselves.
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As 2010 fast approaches, Koei Tecmo is rolling out the promotion for what could be its biggest game of the upcoming year. Fist of the North Star Musou blends Dynasty Warriors beat-em-all gameplay with the classic Manga and it has potential to be a huge earner.
This new trailer is little more than one minute of hype and bluster, but it’s still pretty bloody amazing. I’m really looking forward to this game and can’t wait to get my hands on it. Maybe Koei will be nice enough to give us a preview if we’re really, really, really good little boys and girls.
Also, ATATATATATATATATATATATATATATA!
[Thanks, Andreas!]
Things have been quiet concerning Koei Tecmo’s Fist of the North Star Musou lately, but fortunately this gross oversight has been rectified thanks to the latest Famitsu. The Japanese magazine has pictures and profiles of the first playable characters that you can tackle in this Manga-meets-Dynasty Warriors mash up.
Kenshiro, Raoh, Toki, Mamiya and Rei have all been revealed, and you can check them out in the attached scan. This should be a really hot game, and hopefully we’ll see more, including a Western release date, very soon. Can’t wait!
[Thanks, Andreas!]
Okay, so there’s not really a lot to it yet, but if you’re eager to suck down more from Koei Tecmo’s Fist of the North Star Musou, there’s a teaser page up with swooping logos and the promise of a 2010 release date. Your excitement, it knows no bounds!
So far, this game is looking like it could be really good. The brawling gameplay and one-superhuman-versus-a-hundred-dumb-enemies approach to combat certainly won’t appeal to some, but those of us who know what to expect should be suitably amused. With Koei clearly putting a lot of effort into getting this right, it could be a winner. It already looks graphically superior to previous Dynasty Warriors games, and it’s not even finished yet. That’s a very good sign.
Here’s hoping that the post-apocalyptic Manga classic gets a good showing in this new game. It has the potential to make Tecmo Koei a major player if it goes well.
Blarg. I already look at the cost of Xbox Live as a bill, just like my utilities or phone bill. And now I’m hearing one analyst say that he expects it to increase? What next? Interest rate hike?
Maybe I’m throwing it out of proportion. But a price hike is in the cards, he says. In the most recent episode of Game Trailers’ Bonus Round, Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter said that "we all know" that the price of Live is going to increase to help MS drive profits.
"You really want to hook every gamer who has a 360, you want them to buy all their games on 360, play everything multiplayer, pay you 50 bucks a year so that, in a couple years, it’s a 100 bucks a year," Pachter said on the show.
"And that’s going up, we all know that … it’s a profit deal."
Well, sh*t. I didn’t know that. Did you guys know that?
[via CVG]
Sony really knows how to time a release. There is no doubt that, had Uncharted 2: Among Thieves released at any other time, it would have soared to the top of the UK Chart. Unfortunately, however, Sony’s latest PS3 exclusive decided to come out after FIFA 10, and as such, has been held in second place thanks to Britain’s creepy obsession with soccer … and yes I meant to call it soccer.
Aside from that, it’s more or less business as usual. As always, you can hit the jump and see what the Brits have been buying this week, which is more or less the same thing they buy every week. It amazes me that in such a small island, everybody doesn’t own two copies of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games by now.
- FIFA 10
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
- Wii Sports Resort
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
- Need for Speed: Shift
- Brutal Legend
- Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box
- Halo 3: ODST
- Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
- Wii Fit
- Super Smash Bros: Brawl
- Star Wars: Clone Wars: Republic Heroes
- Guitar Hero 5
- Mario Kart Wii
- Gran Turismo
- Grand Theft Auto IV
- Brain Training
- Dirt 2
- Up
In advance of Assassin’s Creed II’s release, Ubisoft plans to roll out a three-part short film series, called collectively Assassin’s Creed: Lineage, that explores a bit of the game’s background. The first of those films is now available above this text stuff. It’s a live action thing, created by Hybride Technologies, the studio behind the visual effects of the movie 300. Full of quick cuts, concise dialogue, more quick cuts, and even a dash of gore, it’s quite the one-minute spectacle. Not exactly on par with the ODST stuff we saw, but it’s close.
And here’s some confirmation: Ezio is a chip off the old block. This film, and the two subsequent ones, will revolve around Ezio’s daddy, Giovanni Auditore da Firenze. He’s an assassin like his son whom the second game actually stars. As such, daddy Ezio has a knack for killing people in explosive ways — violent and terrible, throat-slashing kind of ways made even cooler by the 300-style visual effects, we should note.
Slant Six and SCE have announced a new and snow-themed expansion called Cold Front for the FPS SOCOM: Confrontation. Set to hit at an unknown date and priced at $14.99, the cold DLC is packing a flurry of content including five new maps, three of which are re-tuned SOCOM golden oldies. Thermal goggles and white camo will be included in the DLC, as well as a different character progression system, a new mode dubbed “Arms Run,” and a new Special Forces regiment, the Russian Spetsnaz.
The new progression system is traditional — players pick a weapon, use it a lot, and then unlock new attachments for it that they can deploy in battle. What makes this a bit more interesting are the weapons themselves. Three news weapons are included in the expansion, along with 6 “enhanced” oldies that will fit into the aforementioned progression system.
There’s obviously a lot of new here, or at least an Eastern European landslide of tiny details (such as Arms Race being a missile launcher sabotage-style mode), so do hit up the official SOCOM Web site if this expansion pack tickles your fancy. And speaking of fancy tickling, while a date hasn’t been announced, the DLC will roll out at the price of $9.99 on the first day its purchasable — a special price for the fans of game whose said fancies are tickled.
Last week, we told you about the German group attempting a modern-day book burning by having people bring in their violent videogames and toss them into the garbage. The Action Alliance believes that videogames are the route of all violent acts and it will all magically go away by having these evil games thrown away.
The game dumping event took place this past Saturday and a total of three games and one CD were tossed into the garbage. One was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for the PS2, one was (what looks like) Battlefield and the third game was Small Soldiers for the Game Boy.
The video above is a news report about the event and dramatically shows a couple of kids tossing said games into the dumpster. Here’s another news report that features more exaggerations. Someone also recorded the whole dumping of the games and you can see the cameraman making the kids throw the games in a few times. Here’s another video of all the games for laughs.
As you can see, this event was a huge failure. As some of you noted in the original story, this group was organized by parents of the kids that were killed in a shooting in the same city. The shooter was a fan of Counter-Strike and this, to the parents, automatically meant that there’s a link between violent games and violent behavior.
These parents are grieving, but this is not the way to go about it. Getting people to toss their games that they bought with their hard earned money (games in Germany are ridiculously priced) and creating a big show about it won’t work. Educating your kids, being involved in their lives and teaching them the difference between right and wrong, that’s how you make sure your kids don’t end up as giant f**k ups.
[via IroN1c's C Blog]
Don’t you just love live TV? The Home Shopping Network was selling a Wii with a 15 Wiimote accessory pack when the best thing that could have ever happen, happened. The host goes to swing the Wiimote with a tennis racket attachment and the thing flies off into the TV, damaging the screen.
Props to the host for still going on with his pitch, despite his co-host laughing her ass off at him. And I just love how he tries to hide the damaged screen by standing in front of the TV. Even better, this YouTube video is hosted on Home Shopping Network’s official YouTube page. Hilarity!
[via Joystiq]
