Namco Bandai unveils God Eater on PSP

By Robert Purchese Published 2 July, 2009

Not at all like Monster Hunter.

Namco Bandai has unveiled a PSP alternative to Monster Hunter called God Eater, which will be released in Japan this autumn.

Like Capcom's game, God Eater has up to four friends battling together against increasing Goliath enemies either online or locally - sucking the life-force from them to power up their own weapons and armour. One shot shows a weapon shaped like a dragon's head, mouth and teeth and all.

The story takes place in a future world where divine creatures have suddenly decided to invade, leaving the God Eaters as the last line of defence.

There are no Western dates for God Eater yet.

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, and if the Japanese public bite as they have with Monster Hunter, then monstrous sales await. Head over to our Monster Hunter Freedom Unite review to find out why.

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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 (4) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Triggerhappytel #1 3 years ago

    Any similarities to products or persons living or dead is purely coincidental and should be dismissed without further thought pleasedon'tsueusCapcombutcanyoublameusImeanlookhowmuchtheMon sterHuntergamessellonPSPferChrissakes!

    I always wondered why Sony didn't invest in their own equivalent to Monster Hunter - particularly since the series went to Wii not PS3 as first intended, and given how well the series has done on PSP a similar-ish first party effort could probably do very well in their catalogue.

  • drumbaby #2 3 years ago

    Something about the wide open unspoiled outdoors that straight away makes Mhunter much more appealing than a future based sci-fi take on the same thing.

  • Goffee #3 3 years ago

    Get the combat mechanics "right" (by right, I mean okay for the "oh, its a bit hard" masses to cope with. I mean, if they were that screwed not even 3.5 million Japanese masochists would have brought it) and it could be a winner over here.

  • HermitArcader #4 3 years ago

    Post deleted at 09:17:39 22-12-2011