Namco Bandai signs Power Rangers IP
Disney no longer part of the picture.
Namco Bandai has struck a long-term deal with Saban Brands to make Power Rangers videogames again.
Disney had owned the IP, but Saban - the original creator of Power Rangers - bought back the shiny and brightly coloured Spandex heroes recently.
"Power Rangers is one of the world's leading children's entertainment properties and we are delighted to see its return," said Haim Saban, owner of Saban Captial Group.
"We are also very proud and excited to renew our long-standing partnership with Namco/Bandai and know that this powerful combination of experience and capabilities will continue to support the global success of Power Rangers."
No specific Power Rangers games have been announced. We'll take a co-op beat-'em-up, please.
With peripherals like that, we're surprised it's not Activision doing the deal.
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Sounds fun.
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5 Player co-op
Co-ordinated control of Megazord(s) when various individualy controlled Zords need to be combined
Combo and weapon based fighting system
DLC other colour rangers and their Zords, white ranger and tigerzord for example
The correct theme music and sound effects and dubbed over vocals effect to keep it authentic
What will happen:
Rubbish third person beat-em up with bad Zord implementation
terrible DLC options that noone will ever buy
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]http://www.supersentai.com/database/inde...[/link]
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If you're gonna diss SPD, we're gonna fall out.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Sydney Drew.....................
/drools
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WE have to face reality!!
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Just as many people keep saying they'd buy a proper Pokemon MMO, I'd totally buy a high quality Power Rangers sandbox game.
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They purchased this, and not Samurai Pizza Cats?
They don't have a clue what they are doing.
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Give me the Dragonzord and Lord Zedd over these shitty new ones any day of the week.
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Agreed, Samurai Pizza Cats was ace. But it's just archive stuff rather than an ongoing franchise, if they wanted to bring it back they'd have to actually make it themselves - and who knows where things stand with the rights to the original anime it was adapted from? Power Rangers they can just pick right up and start bastardising either Shinkenger or Goseiger (hopefully the latter, since Shinkenger was truly awesome and deserves never to be touched by an American company).
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