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:
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
