Star Ocean dev unveils PS3/360 RPG

By Robert Purchese Published 9 April, 2009

Futuristic collaboration with SEGA.

Valkyrie Profile and Star Ocean developer Tri-Ace has unveiled a futuristic RPG called End of Eternity for Xbox 360 and PS3, according to Japan's Famitsu magazine.

This will be a collaboration with SEGA, and the first project Tri-Ace hasn't partnered with Square Enix on. The Famitsu article (translated by 1UP) forecasts a Japanese launch at the end of the year.

End of Eternity - around 65 per cent complete - sets the scene in the massive machine-city of Burzel, where day-to-day life revolves around an unspecified one-god religion. Just imagine.

Three characters have been revealed: Vashyron, a 26-year-old soldier working for a private military company; Zephyr, a 17-year-old boy scouted by Vashyron (a dialogue quote - "The fact that I live is proof there is no God" - is attributed to him); and "Experiment 20", a girl fated to die on her 20th birthday.

Gameplay is based on a grid of hexes, although dungeons play out in third-person and battles are semi-real-time. Parties can contain up to three members at once.

More will become clear when the official End of Eternity site opens this Friday. Sounds interesting so far.

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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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