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After the disappointing experience that was PSU, I started thinking about this game again. It's a shame that it was cancelled, and I could see this being a big seller on the 360 (enhanced graphics = VISUAL SHOCK!). Too bad it'll never happen. :(
Any others missing this one?
I remember waking up to read some gaming news only to find out the game I was looking forward to the most on Xbox was cancelled. That XBN article had me so hyped for it.
I hope to see it return someday.
I thought it was a "maybe" for the 360. Well, that was years ago that i read that. Yeah, i'd like to see it brought back.
I was gonna be a lumberjack and Mike was going to be a cook who made me flapjacks.
And I was going to be a witch who flew around all day on a broom.
*cries*
I'm glad this got canned.
No you aren't.
Yeah I am. I like settings that are big on technology rather than cel-shaded limp wrist action. Shmups with ships > shmups with characters, etc
You're right. It would've taken attention away from Technology Future Space War if Level-5 hadn't stopped working on True Fantasy Online. Since True Fantasy Online was all about character interaction and living in a fantasy world, replacing the fantasy setting with that of a dark future and replacing characters with tanks and jets (maybe the occasional space marine) would've been a huge improvement.
Also, they totally should've left that cell shading crap behind. Playing a cartoon is lame. Realistic is where it's at! How can you better represent machinery, nasty aliens, and tough guys? There should be pipes everywhere and everything will either be grayish-blue or brown, EXCEPT if there's some kind of danger behind it, in which case it'll be red or yellow.
At most, if there are any characters, there should be maybe a central bad alien and a general guy to give your guy orders. The character selection screen lets you pick a tank, a jet, a GRREEPPT (it resembles a futuristic Jeep but with low flying capability), a space marine, a mechanic, or a blonde girl in a space suit, which you can only pick and is your only choice if you're really a girl. The world is a post apocalyptic battle field on Mars, left behind by an amazing advanced civilization. If you're a scientist or space marine, you can sleep in tents and in the B.I.G. S.H.I.P. and buy ammo from computer stops, but if you're a GREEPPT or tank you can just park anywhere. Blonde girls have to kill or sex with a male character to save the game or recover energy, or find and befriend a GREEPPT. Jets have to fly back to B.I.G. S.H.I.P. when they run out of fuel, or they'll crash. You fight lots of aliens and sometimes other jets/tanks/GREEPTs.
So, thinking about it, i'm glad Level-5 cancelled the game too. There are way too many online rpg's that allow you to do something besides kill bad things, and too many fantasy -chan games on Xbox and the 360. I hope the few on the horizon are quickly cancelled, as the people who want the Bioshock might mistakenly buy the Trusty Bell and thus give money to the wrong developer. I weep to think what kind of jet flying tank space colony war game Level-5 would've created if the company hadn't been trying to focus on an unfamiliar fantasy setting.
SPEEDSHOCK! SET THE 360 HEART ON FIRE!