Gaming Namco's Breakdown & TGS Stuff

[Semjaza]

In case anyone doesn't know, TGS started today in Japan. Normally it is kind of a boring show, especially since it used to be held twice a year. But now it's only held in the fall, and a lot of things most likely were held by Nintendo devs because of Spaceworld ending... Anyway...

Namco has announced a new Xbox game, Breakdown. I can't tell what it is exactly at this point... but graphically it looks decent. It looks like a first person fighter, which doesn't interest me at ALL. But maybe someone here cares lol.

[img]http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/xbox/breakdown/img/s1.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/xbox/breakdown/img/s4.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/xbox/breakdown/img/v1a.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/xbox/breakdown/img/s2.jpg[/img]

[url]http://www.namco.co.jp/home/cs/xbox/breakdown/[/url]

Don't ask me WHY Namco considers Summer 2003 to be "soon" lol.


Xbox Live will launch in January in Japan... after the holiday season for some reason. Apparently, MS didn't learn from launching Xbox after the holidays.

There is also some game called NUDE that was announced for Xbox, apparently it is some sort of Seaman/Tamigotchi type game... the big difference being that the thing you take care of is some sort of female robot.

Starcraft: Ghost was also announced... for multi-system release. The only system it is running on at the show is Xbox though. Blizzard itself isn't developing it... I forget the name of that team.

[img]http://www.blizzard.com/images/ghost/screenshots/ss02.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.blizzard.com/images/ghost/screenshots/ss04.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.blizzard.com/images/ghost/screenshots/ss06.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.blizzard.com/images/ghost/screenshots/ss08.jpg[/img]

Looks like an action game, can't say I am impressed just yet.

The only other real news to come out of TGS that I know was the announcement of a new Virtual On for PS2, and the possibility of Capcom Vs. SNK 2 EO being Live compatible (which personally I doubt).

[b]Blizzards site seems to be having trouble, so the images go down every so often. I'll remove the links later if it's an ongoing problem.[/b]

[RicoTranzrig]

[COLOR=darkblue]Starcraft: Ghost really caught my eye but the game reminds me of Alient Versus Predator for some reason. Breakdown looks interesting...but I really don't know judging just by the screen shots.

NUDE sounds alright...but the title...iono... :therock:[/COLOR]

[Red]

[b]An first person fighter? I played a Samurai 'FPF' in the arcade, where you controlled the sword your character was holding with the joystick. It was quite fun but got incredibly boring very fast, with very repetitive movement being the end product of your vicious joystick shaking.. [/b]:drunk: