Cellius Announces three PS3 Exclusives
Cellius is a joint venture between Namco and Sony that was announced earlier this year. Their stated purpose is to make games for PS3, PC, and mobile phone.
The first three PS3 games from this venture have surfaced on Japanese site mpack. These are all said to be PS3 exclusives. Given that Sony owns a large stake in this venture, that isn’t too surprising.
- Brave Arms Third-person action game.
- Chain Limit Espionage or survival game
- Second Season 01 Sci-Fi drama first-person action
These all sound like very unique and interesting content. We’ll have to wait a little longer to get more solid details.
(thanks to Sporty for the pointer)
UPDATE: Minor corrections.
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March 25th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I dunno, I think Sporty deserves this honor rather than me^^
March 25th, 2007 at 10:57 am
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Iron-9/20070324/ace#c
『この画像はmpackのアンケートで使用された画像ですよ。
現在開発を検討している作品との前置きで、印象についての調査です。
自分も登録しているのでアンケートに答えました。』 (2007/03/25 15:05)
# ab 『画像は最初からあのファミ通風のままですよ。加工などは一切されてません。
ほんとは転載などは禁止されてるんですけど、誰かが破ったんでしょう。
コナミのヨガゲームも発表前にmpackで調査されてました。
この３作品も調査結果次第で製品化されたり、没になったりするんでしょう。』 (2007/03/25 16:25)
These game pics are from japanese online survey site ‘mpack’, not magazine.
March 25th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Segitz+shodan, thanks for the corrections. Updated main post.
March 25th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
My Spidey sense is tingling at the words: 3rd person action game.
March 25th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
can you link to larger images?
March 25th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Now that’s the kind of stuff i like to read about !! More exclusives !!!
March 25th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
The graphics look great if that’s not CGI.
March 25th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Thanks for the plug Segitz,
BTW I read on qj that these games are QTE (Quick Time Event) games. (Like Shenmue) I am slightly worried if it’s true that ALL three are but they are mainly translating from those same images. Hopefully we will learn more about these in July.
March 25th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
This is great news.
As musch as I hate to see Dante on another system DMC is something of the past ( not saying the series is old/dead or anything ). What Sony really needs is some new games like these. Hopefully they’ll prove to be just as good.
March 25th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Guys the screens for Second: Season 1 are not target renders. I can read Katakana and it says many times in that article that they are Real-time. リアルタイム means “Real Time” in Japanese. Here, if you don’t believe me you can copy and paste the Katakana into Babelfish on Altavista. Heres a link.
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
I circled the parts were it says realtime.
Here.
http://www.imagehosting.com/show.php…time1.JPG.html
March 26th, 2007 at 1:02 am
If these are from cellius like many are saying (its not totally confirmed yet), it would make sense that the graphics are pretty good. After all, the company is headed by kutaragi, who knows the architecture through and through.
March 26th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Link to larger images?
March 26th, 2007 at 9:23 am
Here’s the largest images I can find on it.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=147846
March 26th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
Brave Arms – Just the sound of “3rd person action game” makes me hope it crushes Gears.
Chain Limit – “Espionage or survival game”…Reminds me of Metal Gear Solid.
Second Season 01 – Sci-Fi. I think of Assassin’s Creed, which does have a sci-fi twist to it. Don’t know if it’s a good or bad thing, though…