Wartech sequel in development

By Tom Bramwell Published 18 December, 2007

Heading to arcades in 2008.

Japanese developer G.rev is working on an arcade sequel to Wartech: Senko no Ronde.

Ignored by most, the Ubisoft-distributed original was clearly popular enough in its native land to justify a return.

A mixture of beat-'em-up and shoot-'em-up, it saw players controlling one of two big shooty robots as they circled each other trying to blow one another away.

Dave McCarthy was very fond of it, although you seem to have been less so.

Still, as Kotaku notes, the arcade sequel will be playing to its home crowd, and will probably catch their attention when it pitches up next year.

You can find out a few more details by poking around the Japanese announcement. Although not many, admittedly.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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  • wakeupjake #1 4 years ago

    I for one am really looking forward to this. The original wasn't well recieved by the public but I found it to be very refreshing. A tiny bit inaccessible to begin with but once you got to grips with it, it was truly great. The main problem was the online play as there were barely any european matches and all the japan matches lagged like hell.

    My eye is firmly on this one, hopefully if its good joe public will give it the recognition it deserves this time :)

  • Der_tolle_Emil #2 4 years ago

    I have the predecessor and it's great fun and different. I have no idea what to improve in the sequel but I'm really looking forward to it.

  • miiiguel #3 4 years ago

    We hear so many nightmarish stories about the 360 in Japan, but at the same time I see loads (like more than 30) Japan-only titles in playasia.com.


    hummm...
    Edited by 1 at 18/12/07 @ 12:42

  • Number1Laing #4 4 years ago

    Ugh, I hope they revamp the gameplay - the first one was a seriously broken, misshapen, awkward mismatch of two gameplay styles. I was really looking forward to it and was absolutely revolted when I tried it. Good thing I didn't pay $60 for it!

  • BBIAJ #5 4 years ago

    Love this game, some of the boss battles for certain characters are bastard hard though!

  • miiiguel #6 4 years ago

    agree on the 2-hard issue..., a bit off-balanced, some fights were dead easy, then out-of-the-blue "BANG! Obliterated!".