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    Afrika

    Game » consists of 4 releases. Released Oct 13, 2009

    Players go on Safari with their Sixaxis-controlled camera in Natsume's photo-focused PlayStation 3 game.

    Natsume Steps Up And Says "Enough! We Are Bringing Afrika To North America!"

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    Edited By jeff
    Makes for some great stills... good thing it's a photography game, then!
    Makes for some great stills... good thing it's a photography game, then!
    At first it was a game that no one ever expected would make its way out of Japan. Then some word started fluttering around, claiming that National Geographic was going to get involved. But nothing came of it, and Sony's Afrika seemed doomed to never make it to North America.

    Today, Natsume stepped up and announced that it would be bringing the safari game over here in the early Fall. It will be the company's first PlayStation 3 release.

    In a past life, I probably would have exploded over this news. Afrika was one of the PlayStation 3's great mysteries. Unfortunately, with all the time that has passed since Afrika's Japanese release, I went ahead and imported a copy. It seems kind of bad. Ryan played a bit more of it than I did and had this to say about it, in case you want to know more.
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    #1  Edited By jeff
    Makes for some great stills... good thing it's a photography game, then!
    Makes for some great stills... good thing it's a photography game, then!
    At first it was a game that no one ever expected would make its way out of Japan. Then some word started fluttering around, claiming that National Geographic was going to get involved. But nothing came of it, and Sony's Afrika seemed doomed to never make it to North America.

    Today, Natsume stepped up and announced that it would be bringing the safari game over here in the early Fall. It will be the company's first PlayStation 3 release.

    In a past life, I probably would have exploded over this news. Afrika was one of the PlayStation 3's great mysteries. Unfortunately, with all the time that has passed since Afrika's Japanese release, I went ahead and imported a copy. It seems kind of bad. Ryan played a bit more of it than I did and had this to say about it, in case you want to know more.
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    #2  Edited By Oy

    ...huh....um...first?

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    #3  Edited By Stephen_Von_Cloud

    The game sounds bad from everything I've seen about it.  Hopefully Sony doesn't go too much out of their way because I don't see the game selling.

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    #4  Edited By babblinmule

    I say we flip a coin on whether itll be any good or not.

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    #5  Edited By HydraHam

    about damn time.. i played the import at a friends and ive been wanting it since but didn't want to import it.

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    #6  Edited By JJOR64

    Kick ass!  I've always wanted to try this game.

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    #7  Edited By Origina1Penguin

    Bazoring

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    #8  Edited By TheKidNixon

    Dammit. Now that damn Toto song will be in stuck in my head all day. Thanks, Bomb!

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    #9  Edited By Contra

    Hmmm....
    Its gonna take a lot to drag me away from you

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    #10  Edited By CL60

    Can you get attacked by rebels? If not, no buy.

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    #11  Edited By End_Boss

    I almost feel like this Afrika game is more of a tech demo...

    "Look at what the PS3 can do! All of these animals, so beautifully rendered! And the light, the way it falls there..."
    Cough.
    "So you can take pictures of 'em."

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    #12  Edited By strangeling

    Hey, I remember hearing about this game way back before the PS3 was in stores.  I didn't even realize it was out in Japan, I thought it just died.

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    #13  Edited By DragoonKain1687

    Great, Ive been wanting this game for some time. Lucky me I did not import it before :D

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    #14  Edited By Death_Burnout

    *ahem* European release pleeease?

    I straight up want Afrika regardless of how good it is...like in the same way i want Duke Nukem Forever, only in a much much smaller way.

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    #15  Edited By RHCPfan24

    We just need Afrika: Origins Undisputed to come next!

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    #16  Edited By Cube

    Good to see Natsume is publishing - Less pressure on Sony.

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    #17  Edited By toowalrus

    Great- but I'd much rather see a new Pokemon Snap!

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    #18  Edited By JJOR64
    TooWalrus said:
    Great- but I'd much rather see a new Pokemon Snap!
    Me to actually.  :-)
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    #19  Edited By LordAndrew

    When is Nintendo finally going to give us our true Pokemon Snap successor, with more safari and less track?

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    #20  Edited By dagas

    any hype surrounding this game has been dead a long time...

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    Sweet. Now we just need Aquanauts to come to America.

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    #22  Edited By Bwast
    RHCPfan24 said:
    We just need Afrika: Origins Undisputed to come next!
    Afrika: Origins Undisputedly Uncaged Edition (Remix)
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    #23  Edited By LordAndrew
    Bwast said:
    RHCPfan24 said: We just need Afrika: Origins Undisputed to come next! Afrika: Origins Undisputedly Uncaged Edition (Remix) [more]
    Totally Party
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    #24  Edited By PLWolf

    As long as it's only $40 that'll be cool. You can already get the, full english, korean version from import sites like play-asia.com for $40

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    #25  Edited By TheHBK

    Oh yeah...Afrika....That came out in Japan?  When the fuck did that happen?  Why was Sony hyping and showing trailers for this game so much when it didn't look like anything other than a showpiece.  And 3 years after we first saw it, it comes out to no fanfare?  Sony is still fucking up.  This should have been a fucking hunting game.  Where you get to fight a lion with your bare hands and have to conquer afrika after it had been abandoned by all the people and tribes that keep killing themselves over there.

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    #26  Edited By goatmilk

    The asian version of this has full english. I've had it for a while and it's about as amazing as you would expect. I jump whenever I see a Rhino on national geographic now, since they loooove to charge you and that makes all of the photos on your camera disappear.

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    #27  Edited By Thunder

    sounds boring as hell

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    #28  Edited By Arjuna
    @Thunder: Hell isn't boring.  Hell is very exciting.
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    #29  Edited By Blazer74

    Playstation 3 fans you now hae your killer app. Finally!

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    #30  Edited By JackiJinx

    Unless this game gets invaded with Pokémon, I'm not interested.

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    heh heh Afrika

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    #32  Edited By superjoe

    Will the DLC include a hunting mod?

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    #33  Edited By Godlovesugly

    The Afrika thread at GAF seems to have nothing but praise for this game, I guess playing it in japanese like Ryan did causes too many problems to fully enjoy it?

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    #34  Edited By RVonE

    So, the tech is in place. Nothing should prevent them from making a new Pokemon Snap.

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    #35  Edited By delta_ass

    So... is Afrika supposed to be Africa under a communist regime?

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    #36  Edited By get2sammyb

    YES! I actually really want to play this.

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    #37  Edited By lord_canti

    wouldent it need to have trophies? what the hell would they be? gold trophie take a picture of a penguin

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    #38  Edited By MeatSim

    Once the mystery of what this game was about was gone everyone lost interested fast. 

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