One Piece: Pirate Warriors announced

Game2k
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 | 8:12 PM
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NAMCO BANDAI GAMES ANNOUNCES ACTION ADVENTURE ONE PIECE : PIRATE WARRIORS FOR PLAYSTATION®3 SYSTEM
The Number One Best-selling Manga of All Time, ONE PIECE , Embarks on its Maiden Voyage Aboard the PlayStation®3 system

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, (April 11, 2012) – Leading video game publisher and developer NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. today announced ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS exclusively available as a digital title on the PlayStation®Network for the PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS is developed by Omega Force / TECMO KOEI GAMES CO., LTD., and brings together the world’s most popular manga franchise with non-stop action of the DYNASTY WARRIORS franchise to create a ONE PIECE perfect storm. ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS will be available in North America in 2012.

The first nautical outing for the ONE PIECE series on the PlayStation 3 system, ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS will immerse players in the Straw Hat Pirates’ grand voyage around the globe, letting them face hordes of pirate and Marine enemies as well as experience all the great moments from the anime from Orange Town through Marineford. Faithful to the original ONE PIECE manga by Eiichiro Oda, players will relive their favorite scenes controlling many of the beloved Straw Hat Pirates including; Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and others, each with their signature moves, including Luffy’s Gum-Gum attacks.

ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS will invite players to do battle with a massive amount of opponents using the simple controls from the DYNASTY WARRIORS series to wreak havoc on the battlefield. The story mode will drop players right into the heart of the rich ONE PIECE universe filled with treasured characters, powerful enemies, touching moments and memorable scenes.

ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS for the PlayStation3 system will be welcoming ONE PIECE fans on board in 2012. For more information about NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc. and ONE PIECE: PIRATE WARRIORS please visit http://www.namcobandaigames.com, and http://www.facebook.com/namco.

ONE PIECE the animated series is available for purchase on the PlayStation®Store. For more information about the animated series please visit http://www.onepieceofficial.com.

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Tinks

Commented on 2012-04-17 21:47:27

This looks pretty legit

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catfish

Commented on 2012-04-17 22:16:56

YES

KORNdog

Commented on 2012-04-17 22:55:07

I love the style of this, looks awesome. But it looks to play like a dynasty warriors title, which kinda puts me off.

deafwing

Commented on 2012-04-18 01:04:00

good! subtitles ... relieved .. even though the JP voices can be annoying sometimes to :p

Akumajo

Commented on 2012-04-18 01:17:30

I prefer the original voices... day one purchase right here.

Commented on 2012-04-18 01:37:56 In reply to KORNdog

Posted by KORNdog

I assumed it to be 1v1 like Naruto Ultimate Ninja Stormwhatever?

synce

Commented on 2012-04-18 18:40:51

I can't believe these Dynasty Warriors clones sell... Ken's Rage had to be one of the worst games I've ever played, and I love Hokuto no Ken

Megido

Commented on 2012-04-18 18:43:29

Why would you ever phototexture something, then cell shade it? makes no sense >_<

Commented on 2012-04-18 18:46:56 In reply to Megido

Posted by Megido

Cos it looks cool as hell, crackdown, darkness 2, borderlands...all very purdy imo.

Commented on 2012-04-18 18:50:50

None of those games do that. They have a much more painted look to th textures. This just looks like..they slappeda photograph on there, hit the toon button in Maya and done. Looks awful imo :P

Commented on 2012-04-18 19:04:20

It's the same principle tho, it's cel shading on top of a textured model, rather then, say, the naruto games, which was traditional cel shading, hell, these images even show sketch lines as shadows, which is used in an attempt to approximate the manga. It reminds me of valkyria chronicles, another game i thought looked great. Just gives it a bit of uniqueness in the art department imo. It's the one thing that will get me renting it, cos the dynasty warriors gameplay sure isnt going to...lol

Commented on 2012-04-18 19:25:48

It's the same principle in that it's got diffuse maps instead of vertex color, yes, but that's pretty much any game ever post launch lineup for PS1 :P

What i'm saying is that the photo texture on is shorts, vest and hat look rather jarring with the would-be ink shading effect and the cell shading. I just think it'd look a lot better if they had hand painted the stuff instead, making it look more like something in the vein of Borderlands or Valkyria Chronicles (shitty art aside that is, because One Piece can never be made to look good as the art is just fucking awful from the get go).

i mean, really?

Commented on 2012-04-19 00:11:56 In reply to synce

Posted by synce

Don't knock it till you try it... specially if you have watched every anime episode...

The idea is that you gotta fight scrubs before you meet the major characters to give you hours and hours of gameplay instead of just a half hour game...

The other way to think about it is that the Dynasty Warriors type gameplay (really it more like originated via SEGA's Spike arcade series) is that this is a 2d side scroller but in 3d polygon game and given the human programming limitations as well as funding and current hardware limitations as well you have to sacrifice multiplayer coop for single player... eventually these game programmers will get better and hardware will be more powerfull but currently there is no guarantee of break even sales (unlike CoD series...) so we will eventually start seeing these 3rd person beat-em ups incorporate coop in the future that does not degenerate into deathmatch multiplayer.

Also I happen to have purchased Ken's Rage aka Hokuto No Ken... and I have seen the old anime, the film and the OVAs as well as played previous incarnations of games based on that anime... the game has its limitations but its still great as long as you understand how the anime was and as I already mentioned elsewhere...

these Dynasty Warrior type 3rd person beat-em ups are no different than Star Wars The Force Unleashed series... at least they don't abuse the canon by having some overpowered dink emo (who demonstrates more power than established canon characters as your main character) but you still have to go on a murder spree of endless waves of clone troopers in those games...

[quote=synce]I can't believe these Dynasty Warriors clones sell... Ken's Rage had to be one of the worst games I've ever played, and I love Hokuto no Ken[/quote]

Don't knock it till you try it... specially if you have watched every anime episode...

The idea is that you gotta fight scrubs before you meet the major characters to give you hours and hours of gameplay instead of just a half hour game...

The other way to think about it is that the Dynasty Warriors type gameplay (really it more like originated via SEGA's Spike arcade series) is that this is a 2d side scroller but in 3d polygon game and given the human programming limitations as well as funding and current hardware limitations as well you have to sacrifice multiplayer coop for single player... eventually these game programmers will get better and hardware will be more powerfull but currently there is no guarantee of break even sales (unlike CoD series...) so we will eventually start seeing these 3rd person beat-em ups incorporate coop in the future that does not degenerate into deathmatch multiplayer.

Also I happen to have purchased Ken's Rage aka Hokuto No Ken... and I have seen the old anime, the film and the OVAs as well as played previous incarnations of games based on that anime... the game has its limitations but its still great as long as you understand how the anime was and as I already mentioned elsewhere...

these Dynasty Warrior type 3rd person beat-em ups are no different than Star Wars The Force Unleashed series... at least they don't abuse the canon by having some overpowered dink emo (who demonstrates more power than established canon characters as your main character) but you still have to go on a murder spree of endless waves of clone troopers in those games...

ebola9717

Commented on 2012-04-19 01:47:44

I know One Piece is huge in Japan, but does it have much of a following in the west? Are they just hoping that Dynasty Warriors fans will be attracted to it?

Commented on 2012-04-19 02:05:34

One Piece is big in the west too

Commented on 2012-04-19 02:23:10 In reply to ebola9717

Posted by ebola9717

It really does not matter if its big in the West or not, we are getting a subtitled copy with no crappy English voice actors, that is a huge plus in my book, I would wager if the game sells decent they might justify eventually doing English voice actors... but really most of the time they ruin the translation that way by adding too much dialogue that was never mentioned to begin with.

Also it depends how you watch anime, alot of anime fans eventually just go and watch the subtitled stuff because of the editing, censoring (due to cultural and sometimes unfair reasons while other animated shows on CN have worse offensive content) so if you never watched One Piece it will not mean much to you as a videogame... just like if you never watched Star Wars and then you played The Force Unleashed and pointed out all the problems ....

[quote=ebola9717]I know One Piece is huge in Japan, but does it have much of a following in the west? Are they just hoping that Dynasty Warriors fans will be attracted to it?[/quote]

Also it depends how you watch anime, alot of anime fans eventually just go and watch the subtitled stuff because of the editing, censoring (due to cultural and sometimes unfair reasons while other animated shows on CN have worse offensive content) so if you never watched One Piece it will not mean much to you as a videogame... just like if you never watched Star Wars and then you played The Force Unleashed and pointed out all the problems ....