Scans from the surprise new Gundam game for the PS3, titled Gundam Musou. This time, the game genre appears to be the Dynasty Warriors like war-simulation with single protagonists or armies taking on opponent armies or bosses. The visuals appear to have taken on a unique anime art style and looks much better and prettier than the last game, almost like a next-gen version of the highly successful Zone of the Enders series by Hideo Kojima for the PS2.
It appears as if like all the long running franchises, Namco-Bandai is taking a new expansive approach with the Gundam universe...experimenting with newer game designs while keeping the core theme on its original track. Lets see how this new look of a mech game fares.
411mania talks about this week's game releases. Highlights include DeathSmiles, Little King's Story, Fallout Trilogy, and Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2.
Do giant robots and a hack-n-slash battle system mesh well on the battlefield, or is this just one big next-gen piece of scrap?
Famitsu has revealed the top 100 total software sales for the region of Japan for the first half of the year 2007. In a bit of a suprise, a PSP title called Monster Hunter Portable 2nd tops the chart with 1,361,624 but from there on in comes the usual onslaught of Nintendo platform titles takes place.
1. (PSP, Capcom) Monster Hunter Portable 2nd - 1,231,624
2. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Sports - 1,128,701 / 1,681,915
3. (DS, Pokemon) Pokemon Diamond + Pearl - 893,743 / 5,196,558
4. (Wii, Nintendo) Wii Play - 810,616 / 1,313,801
5. (DS, Nintendo) Yoshi's Island DS - 788,530
6. (DS, Nintendo) New Super Mario Brothers - 787,813 / 4,606,027
7. (DS, Square Enix) Dragon Quest Monsters Joker - 765,365 / 1,398,449
8. (DS, Nintendo) Brain Age 2 - 724,724 / 4,473,362
9. (PS2, Koei) Musou Orochi - 627,756
10. (DS, Level 5) Professor Layton and the Mysterious Town - 586,676
11. (DS, Nintendo) Common Knowledge Training - 532,325 / 1,448,925
12. (DS, Nintendo) Animal Crossing: Wild World - 530,157 / 4,185,178
13. (DS, Square Enix) Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings - 505,543
14. (DS, Nintendo) Mario Kart DS - 464,847 / 2,249,504
15. (DS, Nintendo) Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney - 455,540
16. (Wii, Nintendo) Super Paper Mario - 449,393
17. (DS, Nintendo) The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 448,886
18. (PS2, Capcom) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - 399,837
19. (DS, Nintendo) Brain Age - 387,367 / 3,389,824
20. (DS, Nintendo) More English Training - 365,448
21. (DS, Nintendo) Flash Focus: Vision Training - 352,823
22. (DS, Nintendo) English Training - 339,192 / 1,868,810
23. (PS2, Banpresto) Super Robot Wars OG Original Generations - 332,373
24. (DS, Capcom) Megaman Starforce Dragon/Pegasus/Leo - 312,696 / 531,867
25. (DS, Bandai Namco) Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan DS - 308,786
26. (PS2, Square Enix) Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix+ - 301,830
27. (DS, Nintendo) Kirby Squeek Squad - 296,570 / 994,703
28. (PSP, Square Enix) Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions - 282,770
29. (DS, Nintendo) Kaitou Wario the Seven - 280,981
30. (PS3, Bandai Namco) Gundam Musou - 277,582
I love this game had it for ps2 and will be getting the one for psp and there is also this hack to let you play online...anyone with a psp and some friends should get this game on the 28.. http://www.ps3forums.com/sh...
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Great game but it's the only game that I have for some reason that I get sick and tired of it, then I feel like playing it again and spend hours of my life trying to kill the FATALIS!!!
Anyway it's nice to see the PSP shine in Japan for once. Such a great handheld but overshadowed by Nintendo's handheld dominance. Even though the PSP lacks quanity compared to the DS, it has quality which is by far the most important aspect.
I'll expect Crisis Core to also topple the chart on October.
We should expect it to arrive late 2008 or early 2009 in North America. Glad to see a PSP game on top.
True and more than that, its DSomination. The list is DS,DS,DS,DS... with a few occational non-DS games.
Good Lord... what lows will the Gundam franchise sink to? Well- how about becoming a Dynasty Warriors clone!? What better way to take a tired, repetitive, uninspiring franchise and turn it around except to combine it with a tired, repetitive, uninspiring franchise?
For ***'s sake, they even use the EXACT same HUD from the DW series.
To note: I absolutely love Dynasty Warriors (on a per-game basis), but for all practical purposes, each DW game has been more similar to its previous installment than most Madden titles have been to each other. At least Madden has roster changes! BOTH of these franchises need fresh blood and new ideas.
Seeing thse two team up is like seeing 2k sports and EA combining forces to make a basketball game.
the Gundam game franchise is one of those franchise that most of us non-Japanese will never understand. they keep on releasing these games that are often mediocre, yet it will always sell well in Japan.