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| AM2 |
SEGA |
December 1st |
RPG |
£39.99 |
1 |
11+ |
VMS, Vibration Pack, VGA box, Arcade stick.
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To describe the graphics for Shen Mue in 3 words, those words would have to be: Best Graphics EVER! (I am not being biased saying that, it is a fact.)
As you can tell from these screenshots below this is the best looking game ever! Lets hope the gameplay matches!
Some Game Facts.
The game has been in development for over 3 and a half years! Yu Suzuki first came up with the idea 7 years ago and only now with the technology of Dreamcast Suzuki-san's "perfect" game has been made. The game was released in Japan on December 29th and sold loads on it's first day. Suzuki also has been the mind behind classics such as Virtua Fighter, Daytona USA, Space Harrier, Out Run, Afterburner, Virtua Cop and varios other AM2 classics.
The game has loads of different effects like magic weather and different times of day (according to the internal clock) which gives the game a more realistic feel.
There are fast scenes in the game and have QTE (Quick time event) sequences with has you pressing a button as quick as you can as soon as it flashes up on the screen to win a fight sequence or whatever else is happening.
The game is an adventure RPG set in China which starts in 1986 and this is the first chapter of 15! It follows a character called Ryo and his father is murdered by a mesterious stranger who seems to be a great martial artist. His father is fighting that stranger and Ryo comes in too late to save his father and gets knocked out, he wakes up and talks to his diing father, who then dies, and Ryo is determined to find out who did it and avenge his fathers death!
From what I can gather you walk around China, talk to people to find clues and it's like a real-life simultion (apart from your father being murdered by a mesterious matial-artist)! You can get a pet cat and buy food for it, go to the shops, to pay for stuff you buy you can even get a job, use vending machines, go to public places for the local and latest banter and even hit the arcade and play classic AM2 games or darts, then when you get home at night unwind and play your Saturn (even though Saturns weren't around then)! What a game this is gonna be! In my opinion this is probably gonna be the best RPG since the excellent Panzer Dragoon Saga on the Saturn!
I hope this game is a massive hit when it comes out over here cos it's been in development for sooo long and if this doesn't sell well and go to number 1 in the all-format charts it just goes to show how many PS and PS2 idiots there are. Hopefully it outsells every other game in the charts at that time and since Samba De Amigo comes out on the same day I hope Samba goes to number 2. Shenmue simply can't fail! Yu Suzuki is behind this game! It musn't fail!!!!!!!
Final comment: Shenmue is NOT gonna fail!!!! It's gonna beat every PS2 game into a pulp!!!!
Barry the SuperScot
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