Koei dates games, demos

By Robert Purchese Published 13 August, 2007

Organisational rampage.

Koei has pulled out the calendar and stamped official dates on its biggest upcoming games and their demos.

The first treat for us is the European Live demo of Fatal Inertia, which will be available to download tomorrow. It will give you the chance to try out the futuristic racing game ahead of its 14th September release. But unfortunately those of you waiting for it on PS3 will have to keep twiddling your thumbs, as it lingers on in the land of TBC.

However, if it's a good slice of slicing you like, then you'll be pleased to know Bladestorm: The Hundred Years' War will be demoing on both Live and PSN in October, before its full release in 2nd November. Apparently it's quite different to what Koei has done before, too - despite obvious similarities. Catch up with its progress in our Bladestorm gallery.

Last of the bunch is a fusion of franchises in Dynasty Warriors: Gundam, where mechanoids meet enormous hackandslash carnage - resulting in mega sales throughout Japan and a good import review score. You'll be able to test it out for yourself on both Live and PSN in late October, before whipping out the wallet and buying the full banana on 9th November.

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About Robert Purchese

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 (16) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • Anthony_UK #1 5 years ago

    Meh

  • Blerk #2 5 years ago

    Never mind all that, give us a Persona 3 date!

  • Fernando #3 5 years ago

    Koei publishing > its own games

  • DrunKao #4 5 years ago

    Bioshock.

    *giggles*

  • absolutezero #5 5 years ago

    DW Gundam was fucking terrible. I mean really bad. Imagine DW re-skinned, thats it. Theres nothing connecting the action on screen to Gundam apart from the characters and what they look like, its horrible.

    Fatal Inertia is horrible aswell.

    Im betting on Bladestorm being cack aswell for a 3 out of 3 triple header of crap.
    Edited by 1 at 13/08/07 @ 16:37

  • afghan_jones #6 5 years ago

    none of koeis output is even remotely interesting to me.

    fuck it, it may be against my principles but ill just come right out and say meh.

  • Steroyd #7 5 years ago

    I was shocked to find that after downloading the Bladestorm demo off the JPN PSN store that it wasn't a trademark Koei hack n' hack.

  • Moz #8 5 years ago

    i'm guess my DW:gunddam came from the american PSN then, I loose track!

  • Machetazo #9 5 years ago

    Too early for much on P3 yet, Blerk. Patience now! :)

  • Mageme #10 5 years ago

    Meh-tastic.

    Saw a dev diary on Bladestorm, looked cack. Made even worse when the dev said "well, you go round taking on quests, earning money and fame... and that's it". Not the best words to use when selling your game.

  • BadBoyBonner #11 5 years ago

    I LOVE futuristic racers.

    Fatal Inertia - looks to be suffereing terribly from being on the UE3. The framerate on all the trailers I have seen so far looks to suck - which must be the biggest no-no ever for the genre.

    Fingers crossed, Epic have not shafted them with promises of what UE3 will be able to do, the dev's have then built all the levels, and then had the pile of steaming ***dropped on their desks to run it on.

    Hope it manages a smooth 30fps, surely that isn't a big ask.

  • SeesThroughAll #12 5 years ago

    Dynasty Warriors: Gundam?

    As of now, it became socially unacceptable to support this publisher.
    Edited by 1 at 13/08/07 @ 17:00

  • Steroyd #13 5 years ago

    OI!

    KOEI Publish Nippon Ichi games which I love so I have to support them. :(

  • Scimarad #14 5 years ago

    Dynasty Warriors Gundam is fantastic; Just feck off, all you naysayers!

    It's Dynasty Warriors!! With GIANT ROBOTS!!! WHAT THE HELL MORE DO YOU WANT?!

    Ahhhh, I don't care what all you freaks think;-)

  • Ghettomurph #15 5 years ago

    DW:Gundam isnt that bad. I downloaded it off marketplace using my yank account the other week. Its just DW set in the Gundam universe. It was quite an enjoyable hack n slash, kept me occupied for the length of the demo anyway.

    If you like DW already then you'll like DW:Gundam, just a different take on the same game.

    Now just got to wait another few hours for the Bioshock demo to download.......

  • Hughes. #16 5 years ago

    I've already played the Bladestorm and Gundam demos, and going on 360 owners impressions of the Fatal Inertia demo, all 3 can all be carried away in a great big bucket o' MEH!