From the Games Convention in Leipzig is a brand new batch of screenshots for the upcoming oddball release from Konami: Castlevania Judgment, the series' first fighting game, for the Wii. This set of screenshots introduce a new character that previously didn't exist in the Castlevania franchise: Aeon. The rest of the screenshots can be seen at the source.

In a large departure from the series, the current producer of the series, Koji Igarashi announced that the upcoming Wii installment in the storied franchise would be a 3D fighting game, that involve the heroes and villains of past iterations in the castle-exploring, vampire-hunting series. Comparisons have been made to Capcom's Power Stone, but overall current impressions have been lukewarm.

IGN also has a trailer for the game:


They have also confirmed that the US release date will be pushed back to early 2009.

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