Sega Announces 2007-2008 Game Line-Up

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Major Japanese-headquartered publisher Sega has revealed its 2007-2008 line-up, including Condemned 2: Bloodshot for PS3/Xbox 360, a conversion of arcade gun game Ghost Squad to Wii, Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm for XBLA, RTS Universe At War adding an Xbox 360 SKU, and a new PC RPG deal with Gas Powered Games. Listing these titles and announcements, made at Sega's Gamer's Day in San Francisco currently being attended by Gamasutra, in further detail: - Condemned 2: Bloodshot for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, developed by original franchise creator Monolith Productions, and sporting "an all-new fighting mechanic and online multiplayer functionality", will debut in early 2008 for the next-gen consoles. According to the firm, "Players will engage in visceral combat using a variety of firearms, blunt instruments and an all-new fighting system complete with defensive and offensive combo chains, [as well as an] all-new set of high-tech forensic tools." Online multiplayer modes will include hand-to-hand deathmatch playable across the network. - Ghost Squad for Wii is a conversion of the arcade gun game title originally developed by Sega’s AM2 arcade division. The Wii version brings the arcade experience home and adds a number of new Wii-specific gameplay modes and features. The game features the use of the Wii Remote as a multi-purpose tool that allows players to easily control the targeting of on-screen enemies, defuse bombs, and rescue hostages, and will debut Holiday 2007. - Happy Tree Friends False Alarm, based on the popular and gory animated series, Happy Tree Friends, is currently under development by Stainless Studios (Novadrome), and is scheduled for release via digital download on PC and Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade in Fall 2007. Sporting a "physics-based reactive environment", Happy Tree Friends False Alarm is an action-puzzle game in which you use resources such as concrete, ice, gasoline, and nitroglycerin and "save the Happy Tree Friends from hilarious disaster situations and their own bad luck." - Universe at War: Earth Assault, the already-announced PC RTS title from the former Westwood veterans at Petroglyph, is now also confirmed to debut on the Xbox 360 in Q1 2008. The title is themed around a near-future Earth under siege by aliens, and is scheduled for a PC release in Holiday 2007, before moving onto Microsoft's next-gen console next year, with "...a control scheme built from the ground up to ensure smooth gameplay and ease of command for console gamers." - Finally, Sega has announced a new partnership with Gas Powered Games, the Redmond, WA-based creators of Dungeon Siege and Supreme Commander. Under the terms of the worldwide agreement, Sega and Gas Powered Games will collaboratively develop an original, and as yet unspecified role-playing game for the PC. A release date for the RPG is not yet announced.