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Xbox 360 News by Tom Bramwell
Square Enix and Microsoft's sci-fi shooter Project Sylpheed has popped up on Xbox Live Marketplace in demo form, all set to occupy 613MB of friendly space.
Due out in the US on 10th July and listed by UK retailers for 29th June, Project Sylpheed is a Game Arts-developed single-player shoot-'em-up with a noisy website.
The demo features a tutorial and an intro trailer followed by an entire mission from the full game.
Which, as you might have gathered, we know relatively little about. Microsoft hasn't released much information, despite the game having been out in Japan since September.
What we do know is that you'll pilot a ship in 3D space, barrel-roll and fire lock-on weapons that can overheat if you use them too much, with a Halo-style rechargeable shield to protect you from teh ailerons!
If you've downloaded the demo, why not tell us all what you think? We know you're dying to.
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It's fantastic (imho). I've got a real craving for some 'next gen-ish' shmups at the moment, and this has the jamanga style and eye-bleeding particle effects to definitely tie me over until I can get my hands on a copy of Ikaruga.
I highly suggest actually going through the tutorial missions to get the most out of it. Think of this perhaps in the same vein as EDF2017, but slicker and with 100x the production values, and from a Wing Commander / Privateer / Ace Combat perspective. Great cutscenes too. (Speaking of Ikaruga - anyone got any updates on whether it's coming to Live or not still?) |
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AaronTurner
15/06/07 @ 07:04
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Microsoft are such cunts when it comes to webpages, they never work in Firefox.
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Anyone wanting to see footage of it can do so here:
http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php... ..with footage of the *actual* Xbox Live demo here: http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.ph... |
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..and for a great walkthrough of all the features, from the developer:
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.ph... |
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I think it's shite. Graphics aren't that much better than the stuff we had years ago on the pc and it's absolutely cluttered! Enemies seem to appear out of nowhere faster than you can kill them and you have no idea what's going on because of a sea of unidentified interface items. Basically:
I had a hard time separating enemies from friends. There is better stuff out there right now (freespace to start with) that doesn't make the battlefield a confusing mess. 600mb in 15 minutes; that's kinda slow isn't it?
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just watched intro and I already want the game.
EDIT/ Now I've played it, and I must say i'm somewhat dissapointed!! You can't see what's going on and while the frame rate would apear to be find the other ships stutter and jump all over the place as though you were playing online with a slow internet connection!! I must say i'm bumbed, used to have so much fun with XvT and XWAlliance and nothing has come close since
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Funny how, whenever there's a game I've been breathlessly waiting for for months, Eurogamer "doesn't know much about it". I'm beginning to suspect our gaming tastes differ. :-)
So yes, nice to see a space sim/shooter done in today's tech. But be warned, this is more Colony Wars than I-War. Still, a definite buy. (Working through the tutorial is a must if you want to have the least clue as to what's going on in the mission.) |
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sambo_nz:
I really like the demo but come on - Xerx3s has every right to express his dissapointment without being flamed. Don't be an asshole. I feel that this mission is a mission you probably get after playing the game for some while. So you get thrown into it quite abrubtely. I found the tutorials perfect for telling me how things work and while it certainly is chaos i had no real problems sending my wingmen to target the big ships while dealing with the smaller ships and vice versa. I kind of also feel that the chaos feel is fitting. This is how I expect a huge fight in space to be. I've watched to may Battlestar Galactica episodes I think, but I get the same feeling as there - ships flying around everywhere - lots of things happening - you having to try to find targets and stay with them. I got a nice XvT/Freespace/Wing Commander wibe which is why I am getting it. I agree that Freespace problably was better but since it's not on the 360 - it doesn't help much. |
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Guys I think Sambo was a bit harsh but I can see his point of view, something that you are excited about and enthused by and then someone comes along without so much as a blink says its utter shite and crap in to be honest quite a trollish fashion (valid or not). youd be pissed off with him too.
I think Xerx3s needs a lesson in tact, and sambo needs to chill out :) |
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Find it hard to find any redeeming features.
what a messy, tedious, awful game. So repetitive, feeels like heatseeker on the wii. I'll be surrised if Eurogamer give this any more than a 5 if the demo is anything to go by. Still, its Japanese, so i'm sure there will be plenty of people who bum it even if it is shite. |
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actually run through the tutorial missions, moron.
I did. This game just features bad interface design. And thanks for the insult. Xerx3s, you're a fkn moron. Ah yes. It really shows that your argument is so much better than mine. Bravo. I think Xerx3s needs a lesson in tact, and sambo needs to chill out :) Maybe I need that, never the less: He should defeat me with arguments not insults. The problem however is: There are so many space shooters that defined how an interface should be done properly, there really is no excuse for this poorly designed thing. Edit: beating the grammar gestapo to it.
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considering how much I really really want a good update / remake of old Atari game Star Raiders and Battle Engine Aquila and that Silpheed is a damn fine Mega CD game I was surprisingly underwhelmed by this. I deleted it to make room for DiRT in the end.
Anyone else played the Zegapain demo from the jp marketplace? - kinda similar I thought... anyway |
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oooh sensitive bunch, you poms.
thought i'd mistakenly logged into a FRENCH site. why on earth do any of you think i need to chill? i don't recall typing in caps, or using a plethora of exclamation marks. i simply noted that, a member here *stated* that there are 'better' games out there, based upon the fact he couldn't decipher this game (re-read his post). then he goes on to troll bout his d/l speeds.. the guy isn't a moron. hes a fucktardmoron. he's not simply 'expressing his disappointment', he's being a cockwit. sorry if my Australian bullish-ness offends your gentle pommy sensibilities. welcome to Teh Intehnets. watch the videos i posted before you download it, if you are not sure whether a genre called 'shoot em up' is not your cup of tea. < /carefactor >
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"Silpheed is a damn fine Mega CD game "
MMM, I don't know about that. wasn't it just a kind of Galaga with fancy backgrounds (which looked way better in the hyped screenshots then the actual game, I remember the planet level moving at 5 frames a second in the background). It was Sega';s answer to Nintendo's Starfox. I'd pick SF any day of the week. I do have an interest in this new version, I'll check the demo this night. I like Japanese crap like this. |
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"Any good Duffking?"
Yeah, it's decent. Tutorials are a must and it's a little tough to get the hang of the controls. It's certainly very hectic and there's loads going on, looks nice too but the framerate does take a hit sometimes. Prety exciting to play but it probably won't be to everyone's taste. |
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lol well i for one am gonna sit this out from now on, its made the morning more interesting from the usual friday tedium anyway! :)
Il download the demo and give it a blast when I get home, as I like the genre! edit: one more 2p worth first ... when was he racist? honestly chill out with the stress levels guys, whatever happened to "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"?
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@ geepersd
He, you a right about that, I even convinced myself in the befginning that it was awesome, but then I realized it wasn't. The Mega CD had some awful games though, so in comparisson it was pretty good. Shame that the best game on the system was just a very big megadrive Sonic with cool music and no fancy effects at all. Come to think of it, every game on that system that was any good could've easely been done on a megadrive (bar the music. and some small fx) Lunar 2! rocked though.
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15/06/07 @ 10:51
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The framerate's not going to get any better either, the game's been done for nearly a year.
This has to be one of the most painfully awful english dubs I've heard in a while. Quite a departure from the quality of Squenix's localisations of late. I was pretty interested in the game, but to be honest after playing with the demo for a bit, I don't think I'll bother. As other people have pointed out, it feels very cluttered. My main gripe was with enemies appearing and it really not being made obvious. I guess I'm mentally comparing it against TIE Fighter, which is still IMO the best overall example of this style of game. |
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Penguinzoot
15/06/07 @ 11:11
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Yep, Freespace was really good, but Xwing/TIE games hold a special place in my gaming heart.
/fondly remembers Actually, I would love an updated XWing with TIEs improved mission structures etc. /puts on wish list |
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I have to say sambo, you have managed to come across as a bit of a tosser. If that makes you happy I'm happy for you. In his original post xerx3s did not say "this game is shit" he said "I think this game is shit. There is absolutley no way he can be wrong, what with assholes being like opinions and all.
TBH your "welcome to the internets" comment in a later post does piss me off somewhat, as I do belive we should try to minimise the anonymous name-calling and abusive commentary that can be found at will on the internet, instead of just accepting it and letting it continue. Eurogamer has (on the whole) been pretty good as discussion forums go, and I hope it continues to be this way. Obviously you have different ideas. Not a problem, but I do think you're wrong. Anyway, back to the game. Will be trying it out when I get away from the hell called work. Been out of the loop on the space combat sims of late. It's hard to complain really - it's a demo, thus free, thus even if I don't like it at's all good as I got to try it first and not waste my money. |
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spoken like the true Kameo player you are, Jimmy.
(kudos for figuring out that it's the evening over here in Australia though) and what, prey tell, is it that you are doing that is so much more productive than I? (for the record, i'm still at work. a night of music, women, alcohol and other mind-altering ingredients awaits.. it's called The Outside, Jimboy. You should try it one day, if you can rip yourself away from trying to angle the in-game camera to see up Kameo's skirt..) |
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Well looking at the comments on here I'll definetly download it tonight. And considering there has been only one remotely decent space fighter in the ten years or so since Freespace 2 (Starlancer) buying games like this should increase the market and perhaps we'll get a Freespace 3 or X-Wing vs TIE Fighter 2
Edit: For the record I like Kameo
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I'm stuck at work too.
My company does a lot of stuff internationally, so that's how I figured out it was evening there. You must have a wicked job to still be at work at 8pm or whatever zone you're in. I am glad you have a great evening planned. It must distract you from the utter tosser it seems you become when you go on-line. |
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Swedbear wrote: "I feel that this mission is a mission you probably get after playing the game for some while. So you get thrown into it quite abrubtely."
I thought that, as well. It seemed the most rational explanation for all those unlocks before I'd even left space-port, lol. It certainly accounted for the mayhem, too. Has anyone found an effective use for "Padlock" view? How can you fight effectively from that bizarre perspective? (In my case, during the tutorial, camera locked below the fuselage, with the target at eleven o' clock...) |
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