While the Game Developers Conference isn’t known for being as big an expose of new titles like E3 and the Tokyo Game Show it usually has a few newsworthy notes. With one of the highlights yesterday being the announcement of Gears of War 2 it seems that an announcement from EA was swept under the rug. In an unusual move on EA’s part the publishing firm has announced they are collaborating with Starbreeze Studios, developers of the excellent game The Darkness as well as The Chronicles of Riddick, on a new project. While details are lacking EA did say that the project is a revival of a classic EA developed franchise with a project codename of “RedLime.” The title has been in development for some time and will be released on the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC.
As a fan of many Electronic Arts games back in the day I suddenly get a nostalgia trip at this. I’ll have some personal considerations of what the title could be after the jump.
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There has been some shaky-cam footage of KOF XII floating around for a few days now, but the quality was pretty terrible. While we don’t have any direct feed “yet”, the good folks over at gamevideos.com were nice enough to get some high res (non shaky) cam footage from GDC08.
This game is seriously breath taking… SNK has finally let go of their 18 year old (damn… has it really been that long?) Neo-Geo technology and has visually surpassed every other 2D fighting game. KOF XII even looks better then Arc System Work’s Guilty Gear which up until now was the king of 2D Fighting Game visuals.
With King of Fighters XII and Street Fighter IV looking really promising, I can finally say fighting games are BACK! and I for one couldn’t be happier.
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