North America and Europe will have boxes with different names on them from the ones in Japan.
Forget about Max Anarchy. Platinum Games and publisher Sega have announced that the melee-focused and online-centric brawler we talked about yesterday will go by a different name in North America: Anarchy Reigns. Sounds a little… less ridiculous, eh?
In addition to dropping this title news this morning, Sega made a passing mention of two of the game's online modes and, in the process, might have revealed the direction Platinum Games is shooting for. Tag Team and Battle Royal modes were confirmed, leading me to believe, at least, that Platinum wants to give the game a wrestling-ish flavor.
Oh, and three screens are available for your viewing now, too. This is undeniably a Platinum Games joint.
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Expect Anarchy Reigns to hit store shelves in Fall 2011 for the Xbox 360 and PS3.
To me, this sounds like MadWorld's atmosphere mixed with a Power Stone style title. Maybe even an arena shooter (if Platinum used to be Clover, then maybe they have some ex-Capcom guys there who did Spawn:In the Demon's Hand or something).
Anyway, I actually played MadWorld, so I'm not thrilled at ANY game with a relation to it. It had a rad presentation, but a lot of that seemed more like it sounded cooler on paper than it worked in-game. The black & white visuals meant that everything in the background got lost in...the background, so you'd frequently murder everyone in the current section without seeing - and using - many of the environmental traps. This could've been remedied if the game didn't have a stupid timer, but it did, so you had to rush through everywhere. A timer? What is this, 1994?
Besides Vanquish, I haven't played a Platinum Games title that was truly amazing. And Vanquish was the work of Shinji Mikami; who doesn't even work there! Bayonetta was crazy in all the wrong ways, which distracted from the otherwise amazing combat. And I already mentioned the failings with MadWorld. I hope this new game is a step up for them. And that they can produce a title of Vanquish's quality sans Mikami and whatever talent he took with him to Tango and Bethesda...
It could be a fun game but there's not enough to go on. While I loved Bayonetta, I wasn't too enthralled with Vanquished so this game will have to prove itself to me. Regardless, I'm glad Platinum is out there making crazy games that no one else is. :)
So no Vanquish sequel for a while then I guess? I hope they get back around to that eventually. I think it was one of the more under-rated and over-looked titles of last year.
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