Tales of Vesperia coming to Europe

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009 | 3:02 PM
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Namco-Bandai today finally announced a release date for Tales of Vesperia in Europe, unfortunately we'll have to wait until June for it. A couple of images can be found inside.

Atari press release:
NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe today announced that acclaimed role-playing title Tales of Vesperia is heading to Europe and PAL regions in June 2009 for the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. Tales of Vesperia delivers majestic storytelling and compelling gameplay on a massive scale as players embark on a grand adventure of discovery and intrigue.

The world of Terca Lumireis is in transition. Ten years of peace have led to an uneasy truce between the Empire and guilds, which desire to live by their own rules. Controlling the ancient technology known as “blastia,” the Empire has provided safety and prosperity to its citizens, but the people have grown uneasy with the heavy hand of their government. As former Imperial Knight Yuri Lowell, players will explore the complex relationship between blastia, the government and its people, setting foot outside the safe confines of the cities to explore a mysterious and dangerous world.

The first high-definition installment of the renowned Tales role-playing series, Tales of Vesperia brings a decade of gameplay heritage and storytelling pedigree to Xbox 360. Featuring an action-packed real-time battle system, players can chain together powerful attacks to create combos on the fly and give detailed commands to the rest of their party to create cohesive battle strategies. All-new battle features such as Fatal Strikes, Burst Artes and a multi-stage Over Limit provide more tactical depth to each encounter, while series traditions such as cooking and skits return with new twists to delight longtime fans.

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Arslan

Commented on 2009-03-25 15:11:28

nice

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OnPole

Commented on 2009-03-25 15:20:38

SUPER!!!!!!

2PintsOfInsulin

Commented on 2009-03-25 15:22:13

I'm pretty sure I've seen this in the shops... [scratches head]

jesuschrist

Commented on 2009-03-25 15:33:23

Hell... bout' time.

bleachedsmiles

Commented on 2009-03-25 21:42:37

almost a years wait and it doesnt look like anything extra is going to be on the disc..nice.

Be interesting to see if it hits the ps3 by the end of the year with the standard additional contents for the extra wait

Ishigami

Commented on 2009-03-25 22:04:52

About time.
And they spend all this time so well doing absolutely NOTHING! – They don’t even mention any (for me unnecessary) localization efforts… I can’t thank these fucking idiots at Bandai/Namco enough…

noxian

Commented on 2009-03-25 22:40:27

they probably started dragging their feet after the game has gotten burned in sales. After all the hype of how "Vesperia broke MS into the Japanese market!" its final tally after that first week has been fairly mediocre. Considering Blue Dragon didn't actually break them into the market and Vesperia ended up still selling less than BD, i think ppl really need to update their views on how well it did there.
Then come to the US, it fairly predictably (if you actually know how well the Tales series has ever performed here and don't just go "its an anime game, all the anime fanboys will buy it!!!!") didn't sell as well as Namco probably hoped it would.
With the EU release they have a chance of barely hitting their 500k goal, but they be betting on pretty incredible sales from a region where jrpg interest has dipped lower than the US.

in short, Namco's bummed and dragging their feet.

all said, a shame, because its a damn good game.

Commented on 2009-03-26 01:21:53 In reply to noxian

Posted by noxian

Yhea makes sense.
Doesn't sale as we expect in territory one and two, just forget about selling in #3.

Total sense. *really not sarcastic*

*or am I*

[quote=noxian]they probably started dragging their feet after the game has gotten burned in sales.  After all the hype of how "Vesperia broke MS into the Japanese market!" its final tally after that first week has been fairly mediocre.  Considering Blue Dragon didn't actually break them into the market and Vesperia ended up still selling less than BD, i think ppl really need to update their views on how well it did there.  
Then come to the US, it fairly predictably (if you actually know how well the Tales series has ever performed here and don't just go "its an anime game, all the anime fanboys will buy it!!!!") didn't sell as well as Namco probably hoped it would.  
With the EU release they have a chance of barely hitting their 500k goal, but they be betting on pretty incredible sales from a region where jrpg interest has dipped lower than the US.[/quote]Yhea makes sense.
Doesn't sale as we expect in territory one and two, just forget about selling in #3.

Total sense. *really not sarcastic*

*or am I*

Kadajj

Commented on 2009-03-26 07:36:08

Finally!

Haseo

Commented on 2009-03-26 13:55:50

Meh too long of a wait since the us launched not interested now will give it a miss

PlumbDrumb

Commented on 2009-03-26 14:07:55

That's unfortunate.

You should give it a whirl; I mean who cares about what the US plays?

I surely don't care about what Japan or Europe plays.

Commented on 2009-03-27 23:52:03

Well according to a spanish source the EU version features two languages: Japanese and English

At least something (afaik the US version only features English) for the longer wait but hardly compensative.