(OT) R-TYPE TACTICS for PSP
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talk about "I never in a million years saw that one coming".....
a famous space shmup / shoot 'em up series becomes a turn-based
hexagonal strategy game for the PlayStation Portable.
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http://psp.ign.com/articles/791/791049p1.html
R-Type Tactics Set For PSP
New strategy take on shooting classic.
by IGN Staff
May 23, 2007 - It's the most unexpected genre crossover since Virtua
Fighter became an adventure game starring a bunch of punk kids, and
it's coming to the PSP. The latest issue of Famitsu has a first look
at R-Type Tactics. That's right, the classic shooting franchise has
gone the way of the Final Fantasies, and Onimushas before it and is
being reborn as a strategy game.
Like Wild Arms, Sony's RPG franchise that's also taking a strategic
twist for its first PSP outing, Irem has opted for a hexagonal-based
combat system. But the similarities appear to end there.
R-Type Tactics looks like a traditional shooting game, right down to
the side-scrolling perspective, only instead of freely moving about
and blasting enemy ships, you take turns with the enemy, making
careful movements over a grid. Perform an attack, and the game
switches to an effect-filled attack sequence.
The side-scrolling perspective isn't all you'll recognize from the
series. The game includes similar weapons as well as boss characters
who will be instantly recognizable by hardcore fans. The "force" sub-
weapons play a big part as well, adding extra power to your ship.
Speaking with the magazine, producer Kazuma Kujo fielded the obvious
question: why a strategy game? The answer, according to Kujo, is that
the R-Type series came to an end with R-Type Final, so with the new
game, Irem wants you to think "This is new." Hopefully this doesn't
mean that R-Type shooting games will never return.
This surprising twist on a classic franchise hits the Japanese PSP
later this year.
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http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/PSP/R-Type䶧ⶉ쬿鷬.asp?c=3141
R-Type Tactics announced for PSP
A change of direction for the classic shooter franchise?
Product: R-Type Tactics
Developer: Irem
Genre: Shooter, Strategy
by João Diniz Sanches
Irem has just revealed R-Type Tactics to the Japanese press. The
latest instalment in the popular shoot-'em-up series, the screenshots
of Tactics revealed so far (in the trusty Japanese magazine Famitsu)
look suitably beautiful, but then graphical splendour has
traditionally been a hallmark of the series.
As has relentless alien blasting, of course. However, the new game's
name suggests a change for the series. Indeed, reports claim R-Type
Tactics is a turn-based affair rather than the straightforward side-
scrolling shooting action typically associated with the game's
predecessors (which date back to the late '80s). This would certainly
tie-in with the wi-fi multiplayer support the game is said to feature.
We'll keep an eye on this one and report back once we have more
details.
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Holy Shit
R-Type Tactics... R-Type. Tactics.
Looks like Irem wasn't kidding when it titled R-Type Final, the
supposed final shoot 'em up in the long running, hard-as-hell
sidescrolling series. Yes, details are scarce, but from what we can
gather by these awful, awful scans from the latest Famitsu, R-Type is
ditching twitch gameplay for a more chin-rubbingly strategic bent.
Hex-
based, turn-based and awesome-based, R-Type Tactics looks like a crazy
cross-genre shooter that's just crazy enough to work.
I promise, I'll be watching like a hawk for any and all updates on R-
Type Tactics. Keep your eyes peeled for news and the inevitable online
campaign for a North American release.
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=164635
New R-Type takes flight on PSP
Wednesday 23-May-2007 12:56 PM
R-Type Tactics looks to take the series in a new direction
PSP will be the home of the next R-Type game, titled R-Type Tactics,
reveals the latest issue of Famitsu magazine.
Firm gameplay details are yet to be revealed, but the word 'Tactics'
in the title suggests it being some sort of turn-based strategy battle
game, a theory supported by one of the screens in a blurry photo of
the magazine. Just look to the right at the screen above the black box
- that looks like a grid-based battle system to us.
We'd hope that the traditional shoot-'em-up gameplay of the series
isn't completely abandoned, but we'll have to wait and see.
date: 23 May 2007 10:17:13 -0700
author: AirRaid
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