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Gamebrink has released a very detailed review (including 11 hours of video) of Phantasy Star Universe, the new multiplayer online followup to Phantasy Star Online. Sounds like it will be a fantastic game, and includes a full 30 hour single player mode. Release is currently set for October 24th in the US.
And it had better be a great game. The fans of the movies, and, to a lesser extent the Mario Puzo novels, will likely accept nothing less than excellence.
Creative Director Philip Campbell says of the game:
The Godfather movie story is exactly as we know and love it–a journey from Connie’s wedding to the climactic baptism scene–and we don’t monkey around with that too much. But it’s actually only one of the many stories we tell in the Godfather game.
Using the story from the first Godfather movie as a kind of spine to the game progression, we let the player go out into the Godfather world (a “living city” set in New York from 1945 to 1955) and create his own story by “freelancing”–that is, deciding, for example, what rackets he wants to shake down, which family he wants to take down–and which bad guys he wants to whack. All this, of course, with a little guidance from the Corleone family!
(from Gamespot)
One good thing about the game is the variety of the missions. You’ll drive tanks, and shoot down planes with antiaircraft guns. The major complaint across the board seems to be that the single player campaign is just too short, at maybe 7 or 8 hours.
Oh, and you get to play as the Dark Prince. Cool.
Dragon Quest VIII, the latest in that other Square Enix RPG franchise, was released a couple of weeks ago. It included a playable demo of Final Fantasy XII.
Good stuff here. Final Fantasy (two of these), Phantasy Star, Shadow Hearts, Kingdom Hearts, and Legendia. Plenty of good RPG’s coming your way. I’ll put Final Fantasy XII at the top of my list. Ah, Phantasy Star. I remember playing the original on the Sega Master System. (Yes, I’m that old).
Sony announced recently that as of November 29th of this year, they had shipped 100 million Playstation 2 consoles worldwide. The breakdown looks like this:
The PS2 accomplished this feat in a mere 5 years and 9 months. For comparison, the previous record was held by the original Playstation, which did it in 9 years and 6 months. No recent official figures are available from Microsoft or Nintendo, but estimates are that the XBox has sold 23 million units, while only about 19 million GameCube’s have been sold.
On the software side, about 6200 titles have been released for PS2, and around 7800 for PSOne. Total shipments of games is at nearly 1.9 billion. That’s a lot of games.
From Gamasutra.
It should be on sale March 2006 in Japan to coincide with the release of Final Fantasy XII.
