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PlayStation 3 News by Tom Bramwell

15 March, 2006

One of Sony Online Entertainment's first PlayStation 3 games will be a full-blooded version of PSP RPG Untold Legends, the company's confirmed.

Called Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom, it'll be another hackandslash based role-player in which players choose from one of three classes and head off on a quest for vengeance against a nasty king.

Screenshots for the game originally appeared online at the weekend, prompting speculation that it would form part of Sony's Tokyo press conference presentation, which should be taking place right about now.

Instead the game was detailed yesterday by US gaming site IGN in a first look feature, with quotes from the developers.

According to SOE, the idea behind Dark Kingdom was to make a fun, fast-paced and accessible game that conveyed the PSP originals' visceral combat, character progression and enthusiasm for narrative.

Since the PS3 is a bit more powerful than the PSP, SOE has been spreading things like fully interactive water, particle effects, Havok-powered physics and the like across its multiple processor cores.

Apparently players will be able to do things like chuck an enemy at a group of his friends to take them out, and puzzles - which should pop up once every half an hour or so - will sometimes work around the physics. For example, you might have to position some crates to stem the flow of water into a room to make progress.

The three character classes are Brute, Mage and Scout, SOE says, and whichever you choose you'll be part of an elite military group deployed to stop people rising up and having a pop at the king - only for you to discover the king's a bit bent, and has something to do with disappearing townsfolk and the emergence of mysterious creatures.

All of which sets you up to go around clobbering them and, presumably, him.

The IGN preview doesn't offer any clue as to when Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom will be released, but we expect to find out more concrete details about the PlayStation 3's release date in the very near future. We'll let you know.

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Razz
15/03/06 @ 07:02
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Waiting for some news from the conference too eh mugsy?
Sorb
15/03/06 @ 08:31
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Wow the game looks amazing! It can have a character and a...a...a box in the view at the same time!!
groovychainsaw
15/03/06 @ 09:15
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Crazy, using the power of the awesome cell processor... to make a game that looks like it could be done on the PSP! Sony need better exclusive games than this... (I'm sure they will get them though...)
Beano
15/03/06 @ 10:10
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LOL... this must be the ugliest next-gen screenshots I have ever seen.. amazing this game had been shown!
marilena
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The pictures are poor, it looks like someone took a photo of the screen. I doubt that they are very representative of the game or of the PS3.
Markusdragon
15/03/06 @ 10:27
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Hmm... because as an ex-Dreamcaster with a grudge against Sony, I can't resist;


*Sneer*
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15/03/06 @ 10:48
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"The pictures are poor, it looks like someone took a photo of the screen. I doubt that they are very representative of the game or of the PS3."

But it just looks poo. Regardless of how bad the picture quality might be the gameplay that is implied (ooh I can punch a skeleton, ooh i can pick up a crate) looks like a PS1 game with tarted up graphics...
Beano
15/03/06 @ 10:52
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I agree... the game simply looks like shite.
Hopefully not the standard or the quality we can expect from the final product.
alpha-0ne
15/03/06 @ 10:55
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those shots look terrible ive seem better on the original xbox
The Bodybuilder
15/03/06 @ 12:20
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Shut up, all of you.
Can't you see this game is sexy?
frankie33
15/03/06 @ 18:35
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Had to add this comment.

PS2.5
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15/03/06 @ 18:38
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Have to admit, this does not look all that good at all. XBox quality, no better. That being said, it doesn't mean it'll be a crap game. Just looks crap.
tengu
15/03/06 @ 18:42
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Also looks incredibly unfinished. The textures seem fine, it's just that there isn't enough going on on screen yet to get an idea of how the game is going to turn out.

Guaranteed this is going to look a lot better come release I bet.

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