Proving that the Tokyo Game Show is about more than just announcing Ninja Gaiden 2, several new (and notably Japanese) games have been announced for Xbox Live Arcade. First and foremost among these are Lumines creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi's Rez and Treasure's Ikaruga. While Ikaruga's appearance on XBLA shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone who's been paying attention, Rez comes as a pretty big surprise. If you're not familiar with Rez, you're probably better off watching the video embedded after the break than having us attempt to explain it.
Microsoft also touted several other games for XBLA including EXIT (previously announced), Every Extend Extra Extreme (ditto), Omega Five (impressions), and Triggerheart Exelica (a shooter apparently). Things are looking up for XBLA, no?
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9-12-2007 @ 11:28AM
thisguyrighthere said...
Those have to be two of the greatest Dreamcast games. Both deserve greater and wider release.
I hope everyone gives these a shot.
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9-12-2007 @ 11:50AM
GazzaScotland said...
Played Ikaruga on the Gamecube, fantastic game.
Looking forward to these.
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9-12-2007 @ 11:53AM
Jonah Falcon said...
Rez was published in the US by Sony for the PS2. Hee he.
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9-12-2007 @ 11:54AM
Jonah Falcon said...
You forgot to mention Schizoid and Braid, which were also announced.
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9-12-2007 @ 11:56AM
Magic Whiskey said...
HOLY MOTHER....REZ!!!!!
That's it... I'm in heaven..damn...wow. You all have to play REZ the second it's out. Wait overnight that Wednesday if you have to. Dammit. Imagine my virtual shotgun pointed at each and every one of your heads right now. Play. It.
Okay...with that said, REZ can be called one of THE best PS2 shooters ever made. It's most easily classified as an 'on rails shooter', much like the original Panzer Dragoon. You can lock-on to numerous targets at once all to the backbeat of trance music. Now that REZ is indeed coming to XBLA, there's very little left that we are missing to really build up an amazing library of games, truth be told.
This absolutely makes my day.
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9-12-2007 @ 12:02PM
ridestowe said...
rez is amazing, any word on a release date?
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9-12-2007 @ 12:48PM
elmersglue said...
Ikaruga! Is it gonna have online co-op??? Cuz damn, my friend that i used to play that game with on the dreamcast just moved to D.C., it would be awesome if we can play this over live with one another. Ikaruga was amazing.
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9-12-2007 @ 1:03PM
MYPS3KilledMy360 said...
if you own an origanl copy of REZ then you know what the hype is about.
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9-12-2007 @ 1:37PM
Anticrawl said...
Ah Rez, the game my significant other loved to "watch" me play if you catch my drift, huh huh *nudge* alriiiight.
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9-12-2007 @ 1:38PM
Anticrawl said...
Wait.. are we gonna get the "Trance Vibrator" for this as well? Can we use the old USB one for the 360 for this game?
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9-12-2007 @ 1:46PM
Scott Beeson said...
check 1, check 2
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9-12-2007 @ 2:34PM
Mark said...
I think we need the vibrator support or it's not the same game.
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9-12-2007 @ 5:26PM
Mauricio said...
Has anyone played Einhander for the PlayStation? Omega Five kind of reminds me of that game, visually at least. Einhander was a really really good game side scroller 3D/2D Shooter.
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9-12-2007 @ 10:04PM
rockeranimefreak said...
O MY FUCKING GAWD!!!!!!! *JAW DROPS* I WANT REZ! NOW!!!!! IN HD BABY!!!! ;)
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9-12-2007 @ 10:58PM
CaptainColon said...
Never played either of these before so I'll finally get to check them out now.
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12-03-2007 @ 10:00AM
Fleischpeitsche said...
OMG!! REZ in HD!!
REZ was one of my favorite games on Dreamcast, I wonder how big the download is, on the Dreamcast GD-ROM fits like 1,2GB so I hope the 360 version has all the music and trippiness of the original..
and yeah a wireless vibrator for my wife would be nice :-))
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