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Ninja Gaiden 2 headlines MS pre-TGS conference News
Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
Microsoft has announced Ninja Gaiden 2 will be released exclusively for Xbox 360 next year during a press conference in Tokyo earlier today.
The media briefing - ahead of next week's Tokyo Game Show - also saw the publisher announce that Lost Odyssey will be released on 6th December in Japan and in Europe and North America next February.
Meanwhile, Xbox Live Arcade was given a boost by news of Rez HD and confirmation of Treasure shoot-'em-up Ikaruga.
Other titles on the way to Live Arcade courtesy of Japanese developers include EXIT (by the end of the year), Omega Five (Hudson) and Triggerheart Exelica (Warashi - a shoot-'em-up with dynamically adapting difficulty).
Square Enix also demoed Xbox 360's Infinite Undiscovery and the 360 build of next-gen title Last Remnant, while Beautiful Katamari - still, by the looks of it, a 360 exclusive - was highlighted ahead of its October release.
You can check out a brief Ninja Gaiden 2 teaser trailer on Eurogamer TV right now, or have a look at the first shots in our NG2 gallery.
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\o/ to Ninja Gaiden 2.
\o/ to Ikaruga. Like Rez, I shall be buying this though I already own it on Dreamcast. It's a bit of a shame that the AA XBLA titles coming out I already own. I'd love to see an HD version of Radiant Silvergun on XBLA as I never got the opportunity to experience RS having never owned a Saturn. Come on guys (Treasure)... make it happen! |
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SomaticSense
12/09/07 @ 09:17
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Hmmm Rez HD, never played it but always wanted to. My prediction going by Lumines Live:
First pack, includes a quarter of the levels, and couple of the options in the options screen unlocked - 800pts Second pack, with some more levels and a couple more options included - 400pts Third pack, with the rest of the levels and options unlocked, including the ability to now change the volume - 800pts
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Ninja Gaiden 2 looks just freaking incredible! Blood and chopped off limbs all over the place, sweet!
http://www.gfdata.de/archiv09-2007-gamef... |
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Ikaruga is rock hard... unless of course you are this man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzhCa5l5AFA |
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Monkey_Puncher
12/09/07 @ 10:04
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I read somewhere that Microsoft are actually financing the development of Ninja Gaiden 2, so I'd be very suprised if it does ever actually appear on PS3.
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I can think of several retro games that should be published on Live! just like Rez and Ikaruga... Chu Chu Rocket (can you imagine how much fun you can have with it on Live?), Guardian Heroes, Radiant Silvergun (I WANT THIS!), Dracula X Rondo of Blood (THE PcEngine classic), IK+... not to mention a lot of different Neo Geo games...
Oh, and we need Powerstone 1, 2, 2.5,3, whatever... just release a Live! playable Powerstone, Capcoooooooooom!!! |
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insane_cobra
12/09/07 @ 10:21
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Braid has also been officially confirmed for XBLA which to me is just as significant as Rez HD and Ikaruga announcements.
Anyway, speaking of Infinite Undiscovery, I think I read an explanation coming from one of the team members some time ago. They took (confused?) discovery as a term for uncovering something or someone so undiscovery would mean, uh, un-uncovering. Yeah. |
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rhinoxious
12/09/07 @ 10:24
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WOW those screens loke groe-tastic,
Ninja Gaiden is probably my favourite game I haven't completed, must grit teeth at difficulty and go back and finish it. Is it backwards compatible on 360? |
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Chu-Chu - can't be far off.
They took (confused?) discovery as a term for uncovering something or someone so undiscovery would mean, uh, un-uncovering. Yeah. Sounds like the characters find something they don't want others to - so, they undiscover it? Infinitely :P (or forever ) See, it makes perfect sense. :D |
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The Bodybuilder
12/09/07 @ 10:54
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>"just to have Ninja Gaiden 2 announced as exclusive to the 360. "
Then they should buy a 360. If you can afford a ps3, then surely.... |
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"I mean 360 is becoming one of those machines that everyone should have, just like a PS2 in the old days."
No, that'd be the DS and Wii... "Skeletor: you shouldn't "personaly aim" at me in those terms, I think it's rude and out of context." It's definitely rude. Not sure about out of context though... |
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SomaticSense
12/09/07 @ 11:31
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"Davey: yeah... I mean 360 is becoming one of those machines that everyone should have, just like a PS2 in the old days. It's not expensive, it has every great title, when it's not exclusive is equal quality (more often than not, even better). PS3 you should keep, for... historical reasons."
While I don't believe you are trolling as such, you are actually wrong on a few of those assumptions. PS2 was expensive when it came out, granted not as much as the PS3, but the difference in price was not that different to the Xbox. Or at least not as much as the difference between the 360 and PS3 is now. The PS2 had loads of quality games, but it didn't have EVERY one, like you claim. And as both an Xbox and a PS2 owner, I can categorically say without doubt that the multi-format releases were almost always better quality on the Xbox.
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Monkey_Puncher
12/09/07 @ 11:34
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Just incase people are wondering about exclusivity with the game, it sounds like Microsoft are funding development so the game won't appear on any other system even 6 month or a year down the line.
Got this quote from gamespot.. "Currently, Ninja Gaiden 2 is set for a worldwide release on the Xbox 360 sometime in 2008. However, unlike its predecessors, it won't be ported to other consoles down the line. Instead of being published by Tecmo, holder of the Ninja Gaiden license, the game is being bankrolled and distributed directly by Microsoft Game Studios. Exact terms of the publishing deal were not made public as of press time, nor were any details on the title's story or gameplay"
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The Bodybuilder
12/09/07 @ 12:12
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If it's bankrolled by MS, that will mean it will get a public, nationwide maerketing push that it derserved (unlike the first one, which just had a couple of posters in HMV at oxford street).
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@miiiguel
I aim at you "personaly" because YOU keep dissing other systems and their players for no apparent reason. Just keep on trolling, mate *hits ignore poster* Btw, NEW SCREENS: http://www.1up.com/do/media?cId=3162695&...
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As a PS3 owner, and a massive NG fan, this hurts me :-(
Why did you think that they did NG: Sigma? To hook up more players and expand the fanbase for NG2. Sure, profit is nice but the timing is too perfect for it to be anything else. No doubt that there will be quite a few sigma fans who will be picking up a 360 for this. |
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Have Ikaruga on the Cube, without doubt the finest shooter I ever played (never played Silvergun to be fair). It was one of the most enjoyable games too, and I'm not even much of a shooter fan. Whilst we're on the subject of XBLA arcade games we fantasise about, wouldn't it be great if they all buried the hatchet and allowed a release of Goldeneye. It would be quids in for everyone involved (Microsoft/Rare/Nintendo) if you had a virtual console release at the same time. Also there's an overlooked little game that had stunning multiplayer, it was called Return Fire. That would be awsome on XBLA, surprised no-one else has released it yet. Anyone know if it's planned? Also can someone explain why they're not releasing old Xbox games? Something like Mashed would be awesome on XBLA, it's already made so I'm guessing a conversion would be simple enough and an instant moneyspinner. Any plans for putting early xbox titles on XBLA?
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"Anyway, I only diss people. People that I think are stupid. Which is about 90% of this world's population. Makes no sense to diss a product. "
You do, "diss" products, I remember a Vista argument not so long ago, but anyways, things seem to get personal with this very unimportant thing that is in fact, "what's the product that delivers more", and I can imagine why, and for that I am sorry. |
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Here's some more good news for you 360 owners and 2d beat em up fans: SNK will be releasing Fatel Fury, Samurai Showdown, King Of Fighters series on XBLIVE. All given the HD treatment. Also the next Castlevania might appear as 2d game on 360, this depends on the sales on DS/PSP versions (Though different games).
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