Anino's foray into Xbox360 ("Project Phoenix")... Flop or Hit?

[cooldude75ph]

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Anino's Xbox360 project "Project Phoenix" has been announced on many local websites but it is only at Starcade that pics have been included.

An excerpt from Starcade article about "Project Phoenix"
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Starcade: What is "Project Phoenix" all about?

Luna Cruz: Project Phoenix is an RPG set in the dark future.

Story - Inspired by cyberpunk, Project Phoenix is set in a North American megacity called Xenon. It's a dark future full of corruption and oppression from the megacorporations who control the city. Our heroine is Sara Calyx, the best hacker in the underground, who was set up and caught by a megacorporation. They offered her a deal - she agreed to become a cybernetic agent for the megacorp.

Genre - Project Phoenix is a role-playing game, still rooted in the traditional stat-based RPGs we know and love, but the action will be faster and more exciting than other RPGs.

Gameplay - Project Phoenix features open-ended gameplay, with randomly generated missions and several factions (like ‘sides' in a story) to choose from. Sara's cybernetics give her abilities never before seen in an RPG - she can jump up and over buildings, attack multiple enemies at once and on different levels (ground, vehicles, air), and has a wide arsenal of weapons and skills to choose from. Instead of magic, we have ‘nanites' (small microscopic robots that manipulate the basic building blocks of matter) and she can use these nanites to form spectacular attacks, like missile attacks, area of effect attacks, status effects, etc. There is plenty of customization, from weapons and armor to clothes and cybernetic parts.

Interface - We're trying to make the interface as intuitive as possible, especially because we're targeting it to be on consoles as well. Nanites and weapons can be accessed/switched instantly so your gameplay will be seamless.

Characters - Sara will have different factions that she can align allegiance with, from megacorporations to the rebels/hackers in the underground. The story is not yet finalized at this point (as we're only in pre-production, experimenting with gameplay ideas) but we're going to create memorable non-player characters that RPG fans will like.

So what do you think guys?

[Spec-V]

^have it on Xbox Live as a Demo, then we can make a prediction if its a Sleeper hit or not.

[dabid32]

Illusions of grandeur!!! I say. They should start small like XBL arcade games. Not this big. a KOTOR slash Crackdown wannabe.