Ninety-Nine Nights dated

By Tom Bramwell Published 8 June, 2006

US version 53-84 nights away.

It's been out in Japan for ages, but Microsoft's finally announced that Western gamers will be able to get their hands on Xbox 360 exclusive Ninety-Nine Nights this August. Well, the yanks will anyway - there's still no word on a European date. Bah.

A collaboration between Tetsuya Mizuguchi and Kingdom Under Fire's SangYoun Lee, Ninety-Nine Nights (or 99 Nights, or N3, or CAN WE HAVE ONE TITLE PLEASE) is an epic game of Dynasty Warriors-style battles, about building up ludicrous 500-hit combos and the like.

Import reviews haven't been overly glowing, with the game picking up a bit of criticism for the way combos break off for cut-scenes and things like that, and we didn't think it looked that exciting at last year's Tokyo Game Show either - but that's not going to stop us getting excited about a new Mizuguchi game, with certain fiscally irresponsible elements of the EG hierarchy busily forging expense forms to try and get a US Xbox 360 between now and the game's release. That'd be me then. Don't tell anyone.

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Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 6 years ago

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  • rinoaMW #1 6 years ago

    is there a demo hidden away on the japanese market place i wonder? Hopefully there might be a US one soon.

    anyone know?
    Edited by 1 at 08/06/06 @ 11:09

  • #2 6 years ago

    This is a serious question though - don't flame me; does it have real-time weapon change? And can you do Massive Damage?

    Not inspired by this kind of game in general, but a welcome addition to the 360 lineup, and one that would make me seriously consider a rental policy.
    Edited by 1 at 08/06/06 @ 10:56

  • Les #3 6 years ago

    "try and get a US Xbox 360 between now and the game's release."

    So 360 isn't region-free?

  • myiagros #4 6 years ago

    "try and get a US Xbox 360 between now and the game's release."

    So 360 isn't region-free?

    no the machine itself is region locked, but a handfull of the games so far have shipped with no lock on the disks.

  • bloodflowers #5 6 years ago

    Enough with the bullshit delays. Drop regioning, bring us games /now/.

  • rinoaMW #6 6 years ago

    er...i hate to sound like a sony fanboy, but..er...like the ps3?

  • tengu #7 6 years ago

    I thought it was that the 360 wasn't region locked, but most of the games were, no? Either way, I'd like it if N3 was region free when it hits the US so I can just get it from there.
    Edited by 1 at 08/06/06 @ 15:10

  • bloodflowers #8 6 years ago

    rinoaMW: If you really think the PS3 games will be region free, then you're a sucker.

    Sony have been among the most rabid supporters of regioning and all forms of media control for some time now.

    Of course, the PSP was region free. If you looked at the news though, you'll find they were threatening legal action against exporters instead. Even now some established export shops won't sell PSP games to the UK, because of Sony.

  • rinoaMW #9 6 years ago

    Er, I don't think that ps3 games WILL be region free. I was merely pointing out that the PS3 console is region free.

    But I think you'll find that Sony only threatened legal action against Importers who sold PSP's BEFORE the street-date release of the console in European territories. Importing Software from other countries maybe frowned upon by Sony, but lets face it they can frown all they want.

    I have read reports, however, that due to 'unknown' factors like unstable security data-encryption on the blu-ray media, that Sony might have to resort to releasing region-free games (at least at the very start of the consoles life). Like you said (and is common knowledge) that the PSP is already Region-Free, so there's a small possibility that the PS3 and more importantly it's games might indeed be region-free also.

    You’re Right, Sony have always been advocates of pushing new media systems onto consumers, but let’s not forget that they are trying to monopolise with the new Blu-Ray media, I think that they will be hard pushed to force regionalisation as well. But we’ll all have to wait and see, I guess. They are a massive conglomerate after all so they definitely have the sway to enforce their will upon us all, whether we like it or not.

    It’s all very speculative at this point, after all, Sony are masters of hiding information until a day AFTER release. :)

  • IronGiant #10 6 years ago

    Why bother even releasing it here, it's average at best.

  • TripSkyway #11 6 years ago

    It's good fun, I think some people will enjoy it. But unless they polish it up a fair bit a lot of people are going ot be disapointed.