New gundam game coming to the west
A "Digimon Farm" mode harkens back to the series' Tamagotchi roots, allowing you to raise and train your monsters before taking them into the field. Players can team with hundreds of powerful creatures, forming parties to explore the disturbances. With the lines between the human and Digimon worlds blurring, tears in reality are opening across Tokyo.
#New gundam game coming to the west Ps4#
The new game - which is coming to PS4 and Vita in the west largely as the result of fan petitions demanding it - delivers a "traditional" turn-based RPG with a deeper story than casual observers might expect. While Pokemon was the greater success, Digimon enjoys a loyal following still, and the new game has grown up with that original audience. Producer Miho Nakagawa told WIRED that the more powerful hardware allowed for battles featuring up to six characters, destructible environments, and a huge leap in animation quality - Nakagawa said "it changes from TV animation quality to animation in the theatre it's that much of a difference on this system's power." It will also feature over 100 playable characters from the Naruto universe, and huge story-driven boss battles peppered through its single player campaign.ĭigimon Stories: Cyber Sleuth, meanwhile, brings back the "other" virtual monster series from the 1990s.
However, as the first developed with PS4 and Xbox One in mind, it sees the series go out with a bang. The former, based on the final storyarc of Masashi Kishimoto's manga about super-powered ninja, will be the final Ninja Storm game. The year kicks off with a double-header on 5 February, with the launch of both Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 and Digimon Stories: Cyber Sleuth.
#New gundam game coming to the west for android#
Set to launch for Android and iOS in early 2016, it joins the successful Pac-Man 256 - an endless runner twist on the classic arcade game which has racked up over 16m downloads and just launched on Apple TV - and Digimon Heroes, a card-based monster battling game also set for Android and iOS later in 2016.įans of anime will likely be pleased by the 2016 line-up. What is known is that it will have a Time Attack mode, similar to some console iterations, feature 35 recruitable "cousins" offering new powers and abilities, and support offline play. Quite how this will work on mobile remains to be seen - the console versions relied heavily on dual-thumbstick controls, for instance - but the series has a dedicated fanbase that will be eager to find out. The zany games have traditionally seen players rolling up objects into a rapidly expanding sphere, growing from a few centimetres in diameter to scooping up entire planets as you go.