Capcom 1942 remake out this month

By Robert Purchese Published 9 July, 2008

Joint Strike for PSN and XBLA.

Capcom plans to take us back to World War II by unleashing 1942: Joint Strike at the end of the month.

This is the old arcade blaster being remade by Backbone Entertainment (of Commando 3 fame) for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. The former will get it on Wednesday 23rd July, and the latter a day later.

The 2D top-down shooter charms of 1942: Joint Strike are being revamped to sport 3D graphics and online co-operative fun. There's new music in it from Norihiko Hibino, who worked on the Metal Gear series.

Chocks away.

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  • mungolikebeans #1 4 years ago

    1st!

  • mcwildcard #2 4 years ago

    I hope this is good, there's a pretty high bar been set by the original!

  • septimus #3 4 years ago

    EDGE gave it a lacklustre review. Still worth a shot via the demo I guess.

  • monkie_king #4 4 years ago

    Edge said the gameplay totally fails in widescreen, gave CWotB higher marks.

  • ToAks #5 4 years ago

    Commando 3 was fine, nothing wow or whatever but it made me complete it atleast. as for this 1942 thing, the first was a classic, 1943 sucked rats ass and there was one remake in the 90's (which i can't remeber the name of..was it 1941-II ?) which was pretty darn good!. i have high hopes for this although i never thought it would be a AAA title or anything. hopefully its got online multiplayer :)

  • ToAks #6 4 years ago

    Commando 3 was fine, nothing wow or whatever but it made me complete it atleast. as for this 1942 thing, the first was a classic, 1943 sucked rats ass and there was one remake in the 90's (which i can't remeber the name of..was it 1941-II ?) which was pretty darn good!. i have high hopes for this although i never thought it would be a AAA title or anything. hopefully its got online multiplayer :)

  • Colin8703 #7 4 years ago

    ToAks.

    It was called 19XX and was great. Not made by Capcom though but by a company called Raizing.

    They also did Battle Garegga amongst others.

    I'll be avoiding this as the footage they released on XBLA a while back looks rubbish.

    They did one called 1941 also though which was OK but not outstanding.
    Edited by 1 at 09/07/08 @ 14:51

  • rick_x #8 4 years ago

    £4.99 = Buy!!!
    £6.99 = No Buy.

    Simple really Sony, stop overcharging for content!

  • rhubarbandcustard #9 4 years ago

    Rick_X- Sony have the cheapest online slections of all the consoles!

    I think I will buy this on XBLA for the Achievement Point haul.

    But now PSN has trophies!!! AAAARRRGGGHHH. What to do!

    Fuck it, I'll just buy a book instead.

  • ToAks #10 4 years ago

    @Colin , yes thats it !!! 19XX , exellent game it was indeed. must see if i can play it in MAME :) @bill , Strikers 1945 imo was a pretty boring gamem atleast the version thats on PSone + PStwo and Saturn.
    Edited by 1 at 09/07/08 @ 17:06

  • Trafford #11 4 years ago

    We'll have to wait and see about the widescreen issues.
    Maybe it wonn't be much of a fail with 2 players

  • DuTraveller #12 4 years ago

    Hope i can play this one...i tried the COMMANDOS 3 Demo and i couldnt play because it was in black and white..hopefully 1942 will not be...

  • BBIAJ #13 4 years ago

    Eh, black and white!?

  • Pulsar_t #14 4 years ago

    Widescreen vertical shmup? Are they nuts? Anyway I had the older one on MSX. That machine lacked scrolling but I loved it all the same.

  • Colin8703 #15 4 years ago

    @ Bill. Strikers 1945 1 to 3 was made by Psikyo who also did the Gunbird games.

    Their games tend to be quite dull I find and don't come anywhere the shooters made by Cave and Raizing.

    @ ToAks. Get hold of horizontal shooter Pro-Gear for MAME. That's awesome. Made by CAVE also and often overlooked as it was released by Capcom.