Parsifal
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 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: New Xbox Live Shooters Announced: Rez HD and Ikaruga |
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*hands Dee new pants*
Both were announced at Microsoft's pre-Tokyo Game Show press conference and should see release for the first quarter of 2008. See how the Dreamcast bleeds for you! Enjoy the spoils of its birthing pains you bastards!
Rez is kind of a funky sound based game where you fly around a wireframed landscape and dodge/shoot various shapes and forms. There is constantly a backbeat playing as you go and each time you target, shoot, or pick up something it creates a sound. Lock onto a group and shoot at them (while dodging their fire, which also makes tones) and you've just added an extra riff or two to the background beat. As the action speeds up the music gets more and more complex, and all this as you fly around and all the surfaces shine and pulse in time with the music. Its been described as both "fun" and "hypnotic".
"Ikaruga"'s main gimmick is that when you get shot at, and you will, it will come in the form of either white or black energy. Damn lucky for you that your ship just happens to have shields that can actually absorb white and black energy. Just only one type at once so you have to switch between them. If you've got a buckshot pattern of white coming at you with a few pellets of black thrown in there somewhere you had damn well better dodge or be pretty quick in terms of flipping that little "White/Black" switch on your console or you're just going to explode. A lot. Anything absorbed powers up your weapons for special attacks you can throw back at enemies, so that's a bonus. Bosses are huge and fill the screen with waves amd waves of "bullets" making surviving both impressive and impressive to watch.
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