Tecmo has announced its official line-up to be shown at E3 next week. Of note is that the publisher has picked up the real-time strategy game Robocalypse for the Nintendo DS. It has also announced a new Wii game, Spray, that involves covering a game world in goo.
TECMO BOWL: KICKOFF (Nintendo DS / September 2008)
- Customizable Teams: Choose team colors, emblems, player names, team cities and abilities.
- Super Abilities: Tactically use over-the-top plays to take over a game.
- Wi-Fi and Wireless Multiplayer: Play against friends across the country or across the room.
- Variety of Teams: Choose from 32 different teams across the country.
- Cut-Scenes: All-new cut-scenes showing off the dramatic presentation of various plays.
- Stylus Control: Feel the action by using the stylus to control your player.
- Customizable Playbook: Choose four running and four passing plays to your liking.
- Music and Sound Effects: Turn up the heat on your opponent as you play the game to rock 'n' roll remixes of the most memorable tunes in football gaming history.
Robocalypse (Nintendo DS / October 2008)
- Robots with Attitude: Create an army by choosing from a multitude of different robot units with specialized skills and weapons that gain power as you destroy the enemy.
- Wacky Weapons: Over 20 groundbreaking weapon types with spectacular visual effects, including; Converter Cannons, Falling Anvils, the Head-Crack'n Gauntlet and Digitizers.
- Total Stylus Control: Simplified controls and innovative Action Flag system reduces the complexity of commanding units. No buttons – just point and tap.
- Multiplayer Mayhem: 2 to 4 multiplayer wireless DS multi-card play – play head to head or co-op with unique maps and multiple play modes, then track your progress in the Hall of Fame.
- Heroes Win the War: Courageous Heroes embody powerful abilities and can be controlled directly in combat. Rampage Mode, Conversion (turn enemies into refrigerators) and Leadership (unite soldiers into a single fighting unit) are just a few of their supreme capabilities.
- Epic Storymode: Military routines are accidentally installed into prototype robots, turning them into hunter killers. Disaster ensues and to save humanity, a new batch of robots is implanted with the brain scans of retired WWII vets, giving rise to an oil-swilling, brawling, robotic dirty dozen. Campaign includes 17 unique missions, hidden objectives and a robust reward system.
Spray (Wii / Holiday 2008)
Players will soak in the action in SPRay by playing a spirited Prince named Ray who must save his village from a banished evil Queen who's returned to capture and enslave the villagers. After donning a magic crown which summons two liquid spraying spirits, he sets out to defeat the evil Queen and her army of anti-matter soldiers. Skillfully use the "angelic" and "wicked" spirits to spray water, oil, goo, and other liquids on enemies and surfaces to solve puzzles and wipe out evil.
- Perform gravity-defying moves as you spray, stick, and slide your way through challenging puzzles
- Creatively fight enemies by blasting various liquids on them and finishing them with a flurry of sword slashes!
- Use the Wii Remote™ and Nunchuk™ to take hold of Ray's "angelic" and "wicked" spirits
- together with friends to play crazy multiplayer games like "Paint It!" and "Sticky Chewing Gum"
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Disappointed not to see Fatal Frame IV on the list. IGN sad it was definitely going to be there, so I'll be pretty annoyed if it isn't. (especially since the above list of Tecmo's E3 lineup is bloody awful).
And Tecmo Bowl is not awful.
True, Tecmo Bowl isn't awful, but its pretty sad if that's a company's main E3 game.
IIRC, Fatal Frame IV is assumed and expected to be shown, but not confirmed. Could be wrong, though.