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Akira Game for PS2?
Deltan writes: "Akira fans rejoice! According to ICV2.com a game based on the classic Japanese animated film Akira is being developed by AIA for release in August, soon after the Akira remastered Video and DVD are released."
(user inserts game CD)
(Neo-Tokyo blows up)
Rendered Kaneda: Tatsuo!
Rendered Tatsuo: Kaneda!
(user inserts second game CD)
(Neo-Tokyo blows up)
(with apologies to whoever came up with the world's shortest Akira plot summary originally)
Chris
will we have a video game version of "Ledgend of the Overfiend"?
JET Program: see Japan, meet intere
There are only two things that are worth getting horizontal over in life: having sex, and riding those motorcycles from Akira. If the game doesn't let me be able to ride those things, then I ain't buyin it. Those were just about the sweetest pieces of personal hardware I've ever seen on the big screen, and that's saying alot considering stuff like Major Kusanagi's inviso-suit-thingy and the various flavors of body armor that pops up consistenly in anime. They just looked so freakin cool!
- Rev.You could have:
But seriously, this game will suck, just like the Gundam games and movie adaptations in general always have...
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Just get four friends to stand around you and wheeze loudly. "Tuhh tuhh... WHEE-huhhh! Tuhh tuhh... WHEE-huhhh, WHEE-huhhh!"
I wonder if I beat the game will I understand the ending?
G.H.
Just wait till some crappy band steals your nic.
So how are they going to do this?
Oh, of course - flashy graphics, incomprehensible (or arguably non-existant) plotline, strange things suddenly pop up for reasons never explained. And lots of shit blowing up.
Tell the truth - did _anyone_ understand that film? And if so, how?
Grab.
It must have the following ingredients:
1) Cel shading. Jet Set Radio rules, but now everyone and their dog has to code the same technique.
2) Any beat-em-up or third-person shooter section must do a bullet-time thing at one point.
3) Please, oh please let us ride Kaneda's bike!
4) Mind numbing cut-scenes taken straight from the film, or (more likely) drawn by the game artists in a noticibly inferior style.
5) There is about as much chance of us not seeing that big railgun as there is of there not being one in Doom3.
any other suggestions? (and please, lets hope lens flares have finally died a death)
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
(ok, so this is semi-offtopic, as its about the DVD not the game. Still, mirko asked, so its only fair)
I think there will be a European (Region 2) release as well as the US Region 1 one. These will almost certainly both be Region encoded, as multiple companies are involved with the distribution rights globally, if memory serves.
Anyway, if you've not got your machine region chipped then do it now; missing out on imports is just too much hassle to do without. After that, try someone like Play 247 or Movietyme USA if you don't want to do the importing from the US. You'll be wanting the limited edition tin from the US anyway if you're a fan.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
Anyway, back to the point - Jet Set Radio uses a (then innovative) cel-shading technique to make its 3d characters look like 2d hand-drawn animated ones, and so is ideal for a game based on an animated film such as Akira. If you've only got a PC but own Quake 3 then try one of the models inspired by this idea over on Polycount: Honey was the first one I saw that experimented with this technique.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
From what I remember of the Akira game for the Amiga, it was complete rubbish. I'm sure they can improve on that, even if it does end up as a mix of NeoTokyo Road Rash and Nursery DOOM.
However, I also remember seeing Akira for the first time on BBC2, subtitled with a decent, rich translation of the story. The subsequent Manga Video release did a hatchet job on the subtitles, very much in the "We get signal! What!" style. So: please oh please oh please let the Akira rerelease have a decent translation. As good as, if not better, than the BBC version.
Does my bum look big in this?
What ever. You all suck. The game industry sucks. No one even has the right to clean Otomo Katsuhiro's boots. Like any ameriKan who isn't on lots of meth is going to take the time to draw ever last fricken circuit and pebble and oil spot and rip and tear. This is going to suck worse and physically hurt me more then the last attempt at making a Dune movie. A) None of you have said anything worth reading about this. B) No one working in the game industry has the balls to make this game. 1. It should have a find the artery sub-game for Tetsuo's little stint with the clowns when he was shotting 1000ml of pure Heroin and shotting bowling balls at people. 2. You shoud be able to pop peoples' heads like when Yamato took on Tetsuo; Clubing people's heads off from the back of a bike. shooting half a person's face off and let them slide into raw sewage. The list goes on and on and none of it will be in the game. Did I forget tits. Lots of tits. Rape murder and all the things that make Neo-Tokyo rotten. C) No one in the game indutry has the time to make this game. 1. Needs to be the best motor cycle game ever. 2. Needs to be the best super power game ever. a. OH GOD NOT ANOTHER DBZ! b. I want to be able to take down buildings. c. I want to stop tank shells. 3. Needs graphics the likes of which god has never seen. a. NOT CELL SHADING! 4. Shenmue x10 as far as things to do. 5. More political then any game before. 6. Better than Descent with the hover bike. 7. Sound track? Yeah right. 8. FMV? don't make me puke. 9. THEY DRAW PEOPLE OUT OF FOCUS IN THE MOVIE! YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT KIND OF ATTENTION?! Basically anything that makes this Movie cool is going to be removed by some guy who hasn't a friken clue. Look at the Lord of the Rings movie! The trailer makes the whole movie look like it was filmed in Terry Brooks cover-art'o-vision. Please for the love of GOD stop trying to make great things shitty. Go away. Die.