Silicon Era noticed that Japanese Xbox 360 owners will be getting a full remake of the popular, super-gory, budget console title Oneechanbara, or Zombie Zone, as it was called when a version of the game hit UK stores.
The game's formula is simple:
- Endless host of defenseless zombies
- + tributaries of lumpy zombie blood
- + freshly harvested zombie sweetbreads
- + nearly naked babe wielding a katana
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Given the success of Dead Rising on the Xbox 360, this one might make it all the way to the US. Then again, we might be all zombied out by then.
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You can never be zombied-out. It's impossible.
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They should make a game where you fight nothing but zombie animals. Like "Zoo of the Damned" of....something.
....Zombie Zoo?
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And of course, all this from Tamsoft, the guys who brought you Battle Arena Toshinden for the PS1!
Then again, Microsoft's definition of "budget" is $40 - and the game really was only worth $20.
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And hot chicks just make anything better. Especially if the hot chicks are capable of kicking ass instead of just standing around waiting to be saved.
Although it would be entirely possible for hot chicks to wear more realistic armor or clothing and still be hot, but I guess developers can't help themselves. And I can't bring myself to complain too loudly.
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And if hot chicks make everything better, how much more would the Dead or Alive series suck if they got rid of them?
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Assuming that the 360 game will be strongly similar to the PS2 game, here's what to expect: The game is repetitive, the music in it even moreso. An issue on the PS2, but probably won't be on the 360, is massive slowdown especially in later levels when you have hundreds of zombies everywhere. Given that I don't think I've seen Dead Rising slowdown, they can probably get the 360 Oneechanbara game to stay at full speed as well (though it includes MANY more zombies at once... more akin to 99 Nights than Dead Rising in enemy count). The game is bloody as hell and just as fun. You may not curl up with it for an 8 hour session, but to pick up and play for a couple of hours it is fantastic. It is a budget title but of exceptionally higher quality than any budget title I've seen from American studios. The animation is fantastic, and all of the graphics are detailed and well done.
I'm crossing my fingers and hoping this game isn't region locked when it is released in Japan, because I doubt we will ever see it in the USA. I don't even know if D2, the publisher, has distribution channels in the US.
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http://www.d3p.co.jp/one/img/ss/ss2p.html
Pretty GROSS!
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# Endless host of defenseless zombies
# + tributaries of lumpy zombie blood
# + freshly harvested zombie sweetbreads
# + nearly naked babe wielding a katana
Is teh nearly naked chick with katana not a zombie? and if she is then isn't the first bullet point of defenseless zombies inaccurate?
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And speaking of "ultraviolent white chicks with bigs t*ts," as #8 mentioned ... my girlfriend is getting big boobs in 2 weeks :D Just thought I'd throw that in ... this seems like the appropriate thread.
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Oh, that's right, they'll probably charge $40 instead of $20 and wax their moustaches as the Microsoft train comes rumbling down the track at our wallets in distress which have been tied to the rail.
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I do suppose calling the zombies defenseless is a bit of hyperbole. They don't put up much fight (their real strength is in overwhelming numbers) but they can attack you... so not entirely defenseless.
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"I don't even know if D2, the publisher, has distribution channels in the US."
Actually, yes, D3 (not D2, but that was probably just a typo) has an American branch. They recently released Tomy's Naruto GCN game here (and the sequel will be out soon).
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I mean, decent looking protagonist, zombies, and blood. Hell, I'd play it just for the zombies.
Anyone note the zombie Shamoo (screenshot #7)?
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http://www.d3p.co.jp/one/img/ss/ss2p.html
Now is it me, or does this look sort of like some wicked period attack? Just look at it. She just nocked over a zombie with her reproductive waste juices!
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-Rename is "Undead or Alive"
-Have Team Ninja take over right and redo or modify it with better graphics and all
-More zombies and make the characters look like DoA characters
Nuff Said!
"It can't brain all the time" - Undead Eric Draven
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I meant "rename to".
God, I eat all of these brains but I dont have one of my own that works.
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