Senko no Ronde in May

By Robert Purchese Published 3 April, 2007

Japanese shooter for X360.

Ubisoft's latest release schedule has revealed it will be bringing Wartech Senko no Ronde to European shores in May.

The Xbox 360 shooter pops you up against increasingly enormous bosses in a beat-'em-up-style versus battle. The only difference being that you are a spaceship, rather than a person, and you use laser beams and missiles instead of karate chops and Van Damn spin kicks.

It launched back in August across Japan and has received strong reviews.

Unfortunately Ubisoft was unavailable to tell us any more about the title, but we expect all of the features of the Japanese version will make it to Europe, including mutliplayer head-to-head.

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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 (16) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • mattigan #1 5 years ago

    Screenshots???

  • Machetazo #2 5 years ago

    http://ww w.armchairempire.com/Previews/X... INFO. http://ne ws.teamxbox.com/xbox/11245/Senk... SCREENS = Clarity, at least until Ubi explain what their anime-look shooter-fighting release is actually all about. :)

    Looks like a good concept with some flashy visuals, so colour me interested. I wonder what the soundtrack might be like, though?
    Edited by 2 at 03/04/07 @ 14:33

  • [maven] #3 5 years ago

    Nice! I was hoping for a release here...

    Full price or budget?

  • [maven] #4 5 years ago

    Oh, and some high quality video footage from the Japanese release here: http://xboxyde.c om/news_3323_en.html

  • kissthestick #5 5 years ago

    Surprised UBI SOFT is doing the porting, i honestly thought they stopped messing with japanese titles espicially for next gen but i guess i was wrong, good for them..

    Looks interesting anyways, not all my future purchases are AAA ya know ;)
    Edited by 1 at 03/04/07 @ 14:56

  • Skeletor #6 5 years ago

    I really hope they won't try to sell it at full price...

  • BillGaitas #7 5 years ago

    this kind of reminds me of virtua on

  • Jonathan_Fakenham #8 5 years ago

    Yeah, XBLA definately needs more crazy japanese stuff!
    This looks intriguing.

  • CrunchinJelly #9 5 years ago

    Reminds me of Psychic Force, except with big mech things. I hope it's not as shit.

  • Machetazo #10 5 years ago

    "Yeah, XBLA definately needs more crazy japanese stuff!
    This looks intriguing."
    Actually, I'm fairly sure it's a retail release.

    Having seen the footage that [M] linked to (thanks!) I'm still interested, but I seriously hope there's going to be a demo. I'm concerned it might be too easy atm (selectable diff?) but I just really want it to be fun to play. A demo would help this a lot, I think.
    Edited by 1 at 03/04/07 @ 18:25

  • bloodflowers #11 5 years ago

    It's an arcade conversion. People will complain it's too easy after they keep pressing start to continue, and missing the point entirely. It's also, if such a thing can exist, somewhat like ZOE meets SF2 meets Ikaruga. And yes these are bad examples, I'm picking from ones more people might have heard of ;)

  • Macross #12 5 years ago

    Ive played it its quite good fun, but kinda shortlived in a way, I even have the collectors edition postcards which came with the japanese 360 version, they are ever so slightly paedophilic but then again, they are japanese :p

  • NegativeZero #13 5 years ago

    This looks fun, but I'd never pay full retail price for it. Hopefully Ubisoft realise this as well, and will price it appropriately. Also, it better not lose the Japanese voices.

    EDIT: If anything, it's more like a blend of Virtual On and Ikaruga than it is ZOE
    Edited by 1 at 04/04/07 @ 00:51

  • Rohow #14 5 years ago

    Huzzah for ridiculous Japanese shooters!

    just need Ikaruga and DoDonPachi on XBLA now :)

  • Zuiyo #15 5 years ago

    It's "Van Damme", not "Van Damn". Also, it isn't "Viva Pinata" either, but "Viva Piņata". I thought this was EURO gamer, man. I guess it is as long as you're not from Belgium or France.

  • neonxaos #16 5 years ago

    That looks so much like My Kind of Thing!

    And Rohow, you're right. Actually, just give us the Treasure all-stars. We got Symphony of the Night. That proves to me that anything is possible. Any machine that lets me play Ikaruga, Silhouette Mirage, Radiant Silvergun, Guardian Heroes, Bangai-O, Sin and Punishment and Gradius V would be... mind-blowing. We know that Treasure is developing a new shmup for the X360, so... please? Pretty please? With a cherry on top!

    And Zuiyo, you're right about Piņata, but... Damn, the other one's pun-tastic! :)
    Edited by 1 at 04/04/07 @ 08:57