NintendoWorldReport has put up a preview with some of the first details about SteamWorld Heist. You can find them rounded up below.
– Play as a captain going on a massive raid in space
– Go from base to base with your ship
– Side-scrolling turn-based strategy game
– Defeat enemies, collect the loot, and get out of the base
– Need to strategize to get out of each scenario with your crew intact
– Each character can only move a set amount of steps and can only do so much once they are settled
– If your steps remain within a certain buffer area, you are able to fire at your opponents
– Each character can use an array of guns
– These fall into a wide variety of shot types
– Some only shoot one strong bullet, while others shoot three weaker ones
– Combine these skills with abilities
– Abilities example: let bullets bounce against the walls
– More than just guns
– Can throw grenades and use other special items to get to the loot and harm enemies
– Outside of battle, you have to go to various bars and recruit new crew members
– Once the initial payment is done, they become part of your team until they are defeated
– Need to make sure your captain doesn’t get defeated because that makes you lose all of your crew
– In those rougher places, multiple paths come into play and you have to use your team wisely to explore every nook and cranny
– View maps on the touch screen
– Massive overview map lets you travel to the specific locations
Is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U coming to Europe on November 21? Apparently so! An official ad was spotted on French website Puissance Nintendo along with the aforementioned release date.
While Nintendo has yet to officially confirm launch plans for Smash Bros. Wii U, November 21 is certainly plausible. It wouldn’t be surprising if the game were to launch in North America on the same day as well.
Image & Form has finally unveiled the next entry in the SteamWorld series. Today, the company announced “SteamWorld Heist”.
Here’s an official “elevator pitch” from Image & Form:
SteamWorld Heist is a game about space adventures and survival. Recruit a team of ragtag robots to explore and scavenge the remains of a destroyed world. Board enemy ships and command your crew in a unique variety of turn-based combat.
Taking place some time after SteamWorld Dig, a cataclysmic event has shattered the planet and forced its population into steam-driven spaceships. It’s a robot-eat-robot world out there, and water is desperately hard to come by. Heisting other ships and bases – bad guys fortunately, the lot of them – is their only way to remain in operation.
“Heist isn’t a sequel to SteamWorld Dig,” Image & Form CEO Brjann Sigurgeirsson said of SteamWorld’s Heist announcement. “It’s set in the same world and the cowbots are still the heroes. But a lot has happened to SteamWorld since then, and we want to make a game that is radically different. Partly because we really wanted to make a turn-based strategy game, but also because it felt like a clever move. The obvious follow-up would’ve been Dig 2; we wanted to surprise instead.”
SteamWorld Heist will be available in spring 2015. Check out a teaser trailer above.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Bayonetta 2 (Wii U) – 10/9/10/9
Danganronpa: Another Episode (PSV) – 10/8/9/8
Kiniro no Corda 3: Another Sky (PSP) – 9/9/9/8
Bakumatsu Rock Ultra Soul (PSV/PSP) – 8/8/8/8
The Legend of Heroes: Sen no Kiseki II (PS3/Vita) – 8/8/8/7
Toki Tori 2+ (Wii U) – 8/8/7/7
Custom Monsters (3DS) – 8/7/7/8
Haikyu!! Tsunage! Itadaki no Keshiki!! (3DS) – 7/7/8/7
Kamisama to Unmei Kakusei no Cross Thesis (PS3) – 8/7/6/7
Killer Instinct (XBO) – 8/7/6/7
Monobeno: Pure Smile (PSV) – 6/8/7/6
Satomi Hakkenden Hamaji Hime no Ki (PSP) – 7/7/7/6
Gardenscapes (3DS) – 6/7/7/6
