Square Enix games headed for Steam News
PC News by Robert Purchese
Valve has secured Square Enix's PC releases for sale on Steam.
The Last Remnant will be the first to appear on 9th April, and be joined over time by more Square Enix titles.
It's another feather in the western-expansion hat for the Japanese role-playing game specialist, which believes that multi-format, multi-region launches are the way forward.
Square Enix put its money where its mouth is earlier this month by offering a hefty 84 million pounds for Eidos, the company that owns the iconic Tomb Raider series.
Valve has now secured the catalogues of some of the world's biggest publishers for release on Steam. The most notable absence is EA, which is still soldiering on with its own digital delivery service.
The Last Remnant was confirmed for PC late last year and adds a choice of Japanese or English voice-overs, better character animations and the option for multiple leaders to form unions.
That, however, may not be enough to counter the average repitation of the action role-playing game.
Head over to our Xbox 360 review of The Last Remnant to find out why.
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GamesConnoisseur
25/02/09 @ 16:18
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SE offering on PC would indeed I believe be far more visually pleasing with the elimination of the dreaded texturing pop ins as too evident on X360.
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paul_haine
25/02/09 @ 16:39
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"Surely they are capable of making a game like tomb raider or dirt if they really wanted to."
Yeah, but they need someone else to make the game while they make the lavish cut scenes featuring spiky-haired androgynous personality-free characters. They'll be gorgeous, mind. |
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...just not for UK, Europe's got 'em!
It's coming apparently, if posts on Valve's EA forum can be believed. They've missed out the UK on whoppers like Dead Space and Mirror's Edge, how long do they want to do that? Edit: Please insert obligatory statement about how smashing Valve are.
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hiddenranbir
25/02/09 @ 17:56
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Wow more locked into Valve's steamworks?
Why is Stardock's Impulse Reactor the only potential competitor? |
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You can download the PC demo of The Last Remnand now from:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_40086... Since it uses the Unreal Engine 3, The Last Remnant runs better and smoother on the PC than it does on the 360 if you have a moderately powerful setup, and obviously looks sharper at resolutions above 1280x720. I didn't notice any performance hitches or framerate issues in the time I played it and the demo itself is very generous with two cities and three locations to explore although the cutscenes and quests have been removed. It basically just lets you sample the battles and talk to people in the cities. It also works perfectly with the 360 controller too using the same button mappings as the console version. I played the 360 version briefly before Christmas and I wasn't that impressed with it. The battle system is cool and exciting but it feels like it plays itself and you don't have much control. The story and characters were nothing exceptional either. For PC owners though this is probably something a bit different as Japanese RPGs are a bit of a rarity on that platform than they are on the consoles. |
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@Darren: "I played the 360 version briefly before Christmas and I wasn't that impressed with it. The battle system is cool and exciting but it feels like it plays itself and you don't have much control. The story and characters were nothing exceptional either."
Yea, that pretty much sums up the beginning. BUT it does get more meaningful later on, when you have more control over the groups you set up and the difficulty of battles goes way up. There are some epic showdowns later on, which makes it a shame that some good 10 - 20 hours of the beginning can seem so bland. |
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sherpa1984
26/02/09 @ 23:32
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PLEASE JESUS LET THEM SELL THE PC VERSION OF FINAL FANTASY 7 FOR 5 QUID ON STEAM
(I know Square-Enix != Square but fingers crossed)
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