Gamer's Corner: Heavenly Sword 2 Details Emerge (rumour)

Gamer's Corner writes "The second game is expected to be an open world sandbox affair set 10 years after the events of the original game. Missions are said to be replayable within an interactive environment (presumably deformable scenery and pickup and play makeshift weapons?). The titular 'Heavenly Sword' will not be with you from the outset of the game, this time around you are required to earn the sword by mastering a number of martial arts. Our guess is that you will start with the basic hand to hand style arts such as Karate and Jujitsu and move up to sword based skills like Kendo before earning the Heavenly Sword."

[NukaCola]

Here is the whole article:

"The original Heavenly Sword arrived as a PS3 exclusive very early in the console's lifecycle. Courtesy of developer Ninja Theory, the God of War clone acheived reasonable sales of around 1.5 million back in 2007 when the PS3's gaming library was threadbare. Ninja Theory has moved on to pastures new - now prefering to create multi-platform titles, so it will not be involved in the development of the second title in the Sony owned franchise. Clearly the second game will also be a Playstation 3 exclusive.

The second game is expected to be an open world sandbox affair set 10 years after the events of the original game. Missions are said to be replayable within an interactive environment (presumably deformable scenery and pickup and play makeshift weapons?). The titular 'Heavenly Sword' will not be with you from the outset of the game, this time around you are required to earn the sword by mastering a number of martial arts. Our guess is that you will start with the basic hand to hand style arts such as Karate and Jujitsu and move up to sword based skills like Kendo before earning the Heavenly Sword.

We're visualising this as a cross between God of War 3 and Skyrim.

Currently no news has been announced regarding a release date, nor has any media been released. Expect to hear more at E3."

source info: UK PlayGamer magazine

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Well we will have to see. I am always interested in seeing how a Heavenly Sword 2 will be. The less GOW, and more Way of the Samurai seems pretty interesting to me. But until I see some actual footage or hear something legit, I am calling shennanigans.

EDIT: terrordactyl
Not discrediting the info giver, but this is details about something that isn't even confirmed in development.

[NewMonday]

Sandbox! Brilliant!
Believe it or not I fantasize about them making the sequel open world, this would different it from GOW, I hope they get some influence from Jade Empire as well.

I really hop this is real not just a fan fantasy like mine.

[TOO PAWNED]

this sounds like pure win. Even if still haven't played HW, if something like this (sandbox) was released I would be over it.

[MehmetAlperTR]

if it will be sandbox and open world i ll pass it for sure.. first tomb raider and then this ? i think it s enough.. ohh i forget already Resident evil ORC sh*t..

[Istanbull]

Heavenly Sword 2 at E3 2011

Make.believe

[50Terabytespersec]

This with the help of Sony in house could be a phenominal sucess of a game that with 2 player co-op and such !!!
The last game was so defining!
shame the team went on to do sub par games that didn't go well on multiple platforms!

[terrordactyl]

The information is taken from the reputable UK Playgamer magazine. It's legitimate news.

[theunleashed64]

i'm very skeptical, if true who would we play as?. not to mention how in the world did anyone find where kai buried the sword?. anyway if this does turn out to be true color me excited! i've been wanting a sequel to it for quite a while but for it to be a open world game? awesome!.

[ClimateKaren]

Well, Ninja Theory did talk about a sequel back when HS was released, and mentioned how Nariko would not be a part of it. I'm guessing they've had some ideas kicking around for a while, I'll stay cautiously optimistic. It really is a shame though, she was such a badass character. Maybe we'll get to see her in a future Mortal Kombat or something, since people love to call her Godess of War anyway.

[cemelc]

Spoiler here!!!

The torch was passed in the game...RIP Nariko.

Kai could be the new lead.

[terrordactyl]

Edited to rumour, just in case.

[tehpees3]

I felt Heavenly Sword deserved better treatment than it got

[AliC]

Yeah it arrived quite early in the PS3 life cycle, definitely a game you should pick up now if you see it in stores, it still looks impressive now.

[supremacy]

Yeah all its missing is some trophies, because though it was a good game. It was at that a very short lived experience, at least a trophy patch would do this game some justice.

Also would like to see a sequel to the following games.

Syphon filter logan's shadow on ps3
Legend of dragoon
Dark cloud
Roque galaxy
Wild arms
Omega boost
Jak n daxter
Folklore
Genji, yes i know, i know but i think this franchise can be improve just like any other reboot.

Get Sega to do a sequel to shinobi exclusively for the ps3 like they currently do so with yakuza.

A coded arms sequel for the ngp and i think we are good to go.

[trainsinrdr]

HS was a one off and is one of those games that shouldnt have a sequel because it had closure but go ahead and disagree with me and then end up saying the sequel was nothing like the first game and why couldnt you do this and that like the first one etc

[ClimateKaren]

I don't really agree with Heavenly Sword (and other games) being called a GOW clone. GOW was far from the first game of its genre, and HS had a really unique combat system that stood on its own. It's part of the reason people didn't like it.... "Why can't you jump like in GOW?!". Because it isn't GOW. Every game that has you executing combos is not a GOW clone. Just stop it.

Anyway, I'd love to see a sequel. It sucks that Nariko won't be around.... Maybe I wouldn't love it. I guess time will tell. The sandbox part sounds interesting.

[Lyr1c]

You never know.

She may get resurrected.

[Kingdom Come]

Hope this turns out to be true, the original was severely underrated...

[AliC]

I really enjoyed HS, though I still never got around to completing it, last boss was really annoying and required a certain combination of combos to kill.

Would love to see a HS2, would if they would bring back Nariko.

[OooHJohnny]

If true, this is good news

[Gambit07]

I just hope we play as Kai.

[Sharingan_no_Kakashi]

Hope not.

I mean I know Nariko is dead but Kai's personality is too.... weird. Maybe the 10 years have changed her. (assuming the rumors are true)

[terrordactyl]

Kai sounds like the likely lead character.

[BushLitter]

I think i just soiled my pants. wait.... let me just che - yup, i did... i soiled my pants.

I wouldn't want to play as Kai though.
She's great as a side-character, or distraction, but to play through an entire campaign with her may just be painful.
I say go the cheap route and resurrect Nariko :)
It would be easy. Just get Kai to find the sword and accidentally find the resurrection button and presto manifesto - Nariko reappears
Maybe the game could start with Kai on a quest to resurrect Nariko (a good 1-2 hours worth of gameplay) and then the open world awesomeness can begin.
No ending to any game has ever affected me like the ending to Heavenly Sword. She...must...come...back (***sniff***)

[DigitalRaptor]

Heavenly Sword was a curiously underrated title. I guess it was the early days of the PS3 when it was released, back when the gaming media's agenda was crystal clear. They called it a "God of War clone" when it's not really alike besides being a hack & slash.

It formed its own identity. It even had unique gameplay sections that utilised the Sixaxis functionality, whilst perceived as gimmicky, worked quite well.

Although a relatively short experience, it's still a wonderful cinematic action game, with high production values. It's very much deserving of a sequel, and although I'd like Ninja Theory to be on board, I doubt that will happen. If anything, it will be handled by an internal Sony developer, and god knows how many of those Sony have at their disposal.

[HmongAmerican]

HipHopGamer already confrimed this last month.

[Sharingan_no_Kakashi]

Yup

Of course no one will give him credit though.

[BushLitter]

I'd love to watch one of his shows, believe me I've tried. just isn't for me. Can't handle his whole....style.

Maybe he should get someone to post a written summary of his show, minus the vernacular.

I've been made to understand that he was right about a lot of things - but then he's wrong about a lot of them too :)

Let's hope he's right about this

[jay2]

:) Yeah, I'll buy it.