BlazBlue coming to Europe next year

By Robert Purchese Published 17 August, 2009

PAL arrival brings extra goodies.

Newcomer PQube has picked up the European rights to superb PS3 and Xbox 360 fighting game BlazBlue, and plans a launch here during Q1 2010.

Plus, to compensate for the six-month-plus wait, the PAL version will feature additional content. This includes a character strategy guide and soundtrack as well as new characters and moves.

English, German, French, Italian and Spanish languages will be catered for.

BlazBlue, made by Arc Systems, is a new face on the 2D fighting scene. "I can think of only a few instances where a new fighting game has broken onto the genre as such a strong contender," said Eurogamer reviewer Matt Edwards before smacking a 9/10 on the bottom. Ingest the rest of his words for a full and filling analysis.

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (17) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • menage #1 3 years ago

    I hope they release the new chara's in a way we importpeople will still be able to download them.

    Great game though.
    Edited by 1 at 17/08/09 @ 09:31

  • Gnort #2 3 years ago

    I'm glad they are going to be bringing it to Europe, but that's a disappointingly long wait, as this game sounds excellent.

    I wonder about the extra characters, though. Blazblue doesn't have that many characters to begin with, but it has obviously taken Arc a fair while to design and balance them all, I hope if one or more new characters are added they aren't just rushed into the game without the same level of care and tuning.

  • VicViper #3 3 years ago

    When I heard this I was very very angry, why the long wait but given that there going to be more content and that does take a while I guess I can understand. No point importing now I guess. Glad I held off

  • kissthestick #4 3 years ago

    import this my peeps

  • CitizenGeek #5 3 years ago

    From what I've heard, this game is far to difficult too be even remotely enjoyable for anyone who doesn't want to commit to hundreds of hours mastering it. I'll pass.
    Edited by 1 at 17/08/09 @ 11:18

  • muscleblade #6 3 years ago

    @CitizenGeek

    All the people on my friends lists that own the game have a 1000/1000 gamerscore on it so i doubdt that its that hard. None of them have a higher score than me in SFIV and MvsC2 so i guess its easier to max out than those.

  • muscleblade #7 3 years ago

    "import this my peeps "

    Cant play it on my PAL system so that would be a stupid thing to do actually.

  • JohnnyWashnGo #8 3 years ago

    What is the reason for this delay?

    /Gets back to kicking ass with Taokaka on the PS3 ;)

  • Ranger101 #9 3 years ago

    New characters eh... it could make up for the wait...

  • patchbox360 #10 3 years ago

    F that wait i'm importing this masterpiece of loveliness

  • fjharps #11 3 years ago

    Unlucky for the 360 owners but PS3 is region free been available at my local game shop but not really sure if to get it or not.

  • FenderMaster #12 3 years ago

    ah, so we're not getting screwed after all? nice!

  • Bennicus #13 3 years ago

    "ah, so we're not getting screwed after all? nice! "
    And a few articles up on the front page you will see we are returned to our scheduled programme, with a UK-only Xbox360 price increase :)

  • KujiGhost #14 3 years ago

    I for one am glad that it is getting a Q1 release as I'd hate for it to be swamped by Tekken 6.

  • Mortified_Penguin #15 2 years ago

    This is really good news, and we get extra characters (I'm expecting the extra characters will be DLC in US). Can't wait! Q1 2010 is starting to look better than Q4 2009, which is weird.

  • Dustloop #16 2 years ago

    Makes me laugh on all the American forums they're all going mental about this saying how lame it is that we get extra stuff. Pshhh... They really haven't got a clue... We're constantly getting dumped on when it comes to PAL games and they've had this game since June or something anyway. These so called extra goodies will be rubbish. Unless we get a console version of the new Continuuam Shift with Hazama and Tsubaki I don't see how we can get any new characters. It'll probably be something rubbish like EX versions of the some characters. Meh, I imported it anyway. I do so love my region free PS3!
    So yeah, this promise of exclusive features i'm sure will just turn out to be a sham.

  • rommy667 #17 2 years ago

    Picked up battle fantasia today for 7 euros :) cant wait for the pal blaze blue 2d is the dogs nuts........