After seeing this trailer at Captivate, the hotel was rattling with chat of ‘God Finger’, ‘Heavenly Point’ and ‘Space Cuticle’. The game was actually Asura’s Wrath and, with so many of the games on show such as Dragon’s Dogma suggesting a shift towards more western influences with new CAPCOM games, it had a distinctly Japanese feel along similar lines to the likes of God Hand.
However, while there’s nothing new about an action game featuring gigantic Gods, there’s one series that PlayStation fans are particularly familiar with, so I asked director Seiji Shimoda how far the similarities run…
First of all I’m honoured for Asura’s Wrath to be mentioned in the same breath as God of War – I have played it and it’s an incredible game. Superficially, there are some resemblances but we’re hoping that, as you see more of Asura’s Wrath, you’re going feel that it’s something completely different; that it doesn’t really compare with anything else in action gaming.
This fight shown today occurs at the beginning of the game and he is actually one of the weaker bosses. The boss fights aren’t all going to be on this scale… well, the scale may be grander but that’s not to say the bosses have to be bigger, if that makes sense; some will be quicker or simply better fighters. We’re striving to use bosses to heighten the drama of the story, not just use them as an action set-piece at the end of a level.
It’s not your typical action game where you start out with a small sword and work up to a huge weapon; it doesn’t have that style of progression. However there are various stages where Asura can power up – you have already seen here that he started out with two arms and then he has six, and there will be quite a few transformations along those lines. The character you see here is not all there is.
We’ve tried to make the camera feel part of the game, not just a lens to view it though, so that the action and the drama feel grander, if you will. So to take today’s example, we’ve placed the camera in a position that makes the boss seem huge. In the fighting sequences, you want the camera really close up so that each punch is at its most visceral. We keep going through this internal self-critique over camera placement and you’re going to see that it’s not there for the sake of being there, but it almost feels like another character.
That’s just about all we know about Asura’s Wrath right now, other than that it satisfies a common request from modern games fans – the option to choose between Japanese and English Voiceover. It’s coming to PlayStation 3 in 2012.
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Posted on 18 May, 2011 at 5:56 pm by Izorpo
@ skookie
I always used VGA for it and I have a HD telly- looks better than HDMI as HDMI does look extremely jittery and well wrong – pixelated kind of – VGA is definitely the way to go – but HD telly’s are so ridiculously cheap now check places like amazon or ebuyer
and yes they do keep sending me stuff via e-mail things like we missed you, serious reductions in live, free games etc – I’m just not interested – even when they had the free weekend during the outtage I was playing Atelier Rorona on the ps3- not to say there aren’t some good exclusives (Lost Odyssey or L4D series on it) but been there – done that – kind of like the saying x’s are x’s for a reason and they’ve given me plenty of reasons
a lot of people are going to be severly disappointed – once the newness of it wears off and the 30 days free gold runs out- it is an inferior system
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Posted on 18 May, 2011 at 6:16 pm by joao999
“OMG this is great”
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Posted on 18 May, 2011 at 6:22 pm by Skookie30
I‘m hopeing to get 1 at years end sooner if possible SD in the mean time suit me fine it does the job.
wasn’t there a POST twisted metal Before it was PULLED again a article was PULLED yesterday lol
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Posted on 18 May, 2011 at 7:02 pm by Biker_Bob_1971
But really, seriously, even Kotaku just posted how the get a password reset on any account. This is a serious problem guys and after they had promised to secure everything as watertight as possible and then make this fatal mistake…that really doesn’t gain my trust back.
On another thread my initial post was even deleted by Sony. There has been another major security flaw and Sony is trying its best to cover it up again. So, if you are waiting for an e-mail password request: you will not get that anytime soon since Sony is trying to fix the security hole first. Perhaps it was wiser to state that fact, Sony, instead of lying again.
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Posted on 19 May, 2011 at 11:48 am by procion
How coincidental. Zachariah Stichin’s life-long study writes about the Sumerians and other early writings. Of their visit by other human whom genetically changed us and us us to farm gold for the sheild on their planet Nibiru, which swoops into the inner solar system every 3,600 yrs. There are descriptions of ancient aircraft or vimana in the Vedas. There were battles between Devas and the Asuras. Asura is know as Osiris as well. And here we have the game coming in 2012. Is it set on Nibiru. Nibiru is supposedly set to swoop by us in 2012 onwards. If that doesn’t happen, at least we can say it did manage to happen in the game.
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