There was an event yesterday (2011-01-19) by the publisher Square-enix called the ’1st Production Department Premier’ where they show case their first party titles. Although the event was a success people were not that intrigued like they were when they first previewed some of the games 4 years ago. I have read people’s thoughts after the event some were delighted because it’s been ages since they got anything new from Sqeenix and a lot of them were not so pleased. One of the reasons is that FF: Versus13; a game which was shown, was supposed to be a dark gritty game with blood on every hack and slash.
The thing is it was still as they described but with the new trailer it seems like they were slowly going back to their roots with very bright coloured and unrealistic atmosphere. Versus13 was supposed to be a complete different game, it is to be the first FF game to have blood and gore in it. A lot of people were speculating that Versus13 was going multiplatform and it was going to be as crap as ff13, OH that reminds me although ff13 was kind of crap because of the girly and annoying characters and other reasons. They decided to make a direct sequel called ff13-2...Oh great... more pansies running around half naked. There’s just no point in it.
Anyhow back to Versus13 because it’s just cool. People thought it was going multiplatform but they announced that it was staying for the PS3 or is it..... see the thing is most exclusives will have ‘for Playstation 3 ONLY’, but Versus13 had ‘for Playstation 3’ and that’s it. So I think there might be a possibility for multiplatform.
All in all I was quite pleased with trailers and images they showed at the event. Versus13 has been in development for about 4 years now and they only started to open up with the public showing real-time game footage and epic cut scenes. Speaking of cut scenes the CGI is so good every time I see it I always think it looks too good to be real all the more reasons I want to play it. I would have been even happier if they gave a release date for Versus13 that would make my day very special.
