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.
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.
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. :)
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...
I'd like to slam that ass! But this game looks nothing like MadWorld! Guess the controversy is over as I'm not really interested in games that play up tits & ass for game play. I want to play games, not masturbate!
All action games of one type or another that target mature audiences with a healthy dose of ridiculous, versus:
Viewtiful Joe/Viewtiful Joe 2
Okami
God Hand
Games of different styles for different audiences. As much as I like Platinum's insane action titles, it'd be nice to see more of the old Clover show up. "
Surely you do not mean to imply that God Hand was not an action game that targets mature audiences with a healthy dose of ridiculous.
I second that. I can't really place my finger on it, but I like the Japanese title better. I think it's because it sounds like a cliche action hero name.
I'm excited about this new Platinum joint, hopefully the melee combat will be pretty ridiculous, a la God Hand. It'll be cool to see this developer take a crack at crafting an online experience, especially something a little different from the norm.
Apparently when she joined the Terran's ghost program.
Edit: @Hailinel said:
" @Laketown said:
" @Hailinel: didn't they work on infinite space with another dev though? "
They did, though I have no idea how that workload was split. "
The less said about Infinite Space, the better in my opinion. But it does seem like the workload wasn't with Platinum as that game is nothing like any of their priors (in terms of both type of game and quality of product).
All action games of one type or another that target mature audiences with a healthy dose of ridiculous, versus:
Viewtiful Joe/Viewtiful Joe 2
Okami
God Hand
Games of different styles for different audiences. As much as I like Platinum's insane action titles, it'd be nice to see more of the old Clover show up. "
But pre-Clover, they made:
Resident Evil 1/2/4
Devil May Cry
P.N.03
All fairly ridiculous games for mature audiences.
I think they just do whatever the hell they want, and I honestly like it that way. It's not like they've ever disappointed (not, at least, when Mikami or Kamiya have directed).
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