No More Heroes may go online
by Ross Miller 
{ Apr 12th 2007 at 7:25PM }
Online swordfighting of the most violent proportions on the Wii? Perhaps. Game developer Suda 51 (Killer 7, Contact) has told CVG that he is "very interested in online play" but that its inclusion in the upcoming Wii title No More Heroes is still up in the air.No More Heroes is about Travis Touchdown, a character inspired by Johnny Knoxville, who wins a beam katana via an internet auction site and joins an assassin's league by killing the 11th best (named after a Beatles song associated with Charles Manson). Other assassins you must face off in the free-roaming city of Santa Destroy include a Japanese school girl reminiscent of Go-Go from Kill Bill, a superhero assassin named Destroyman and a French-born assassin named after a French softcore porn actress.
Sound crazy enough? We think so. Suda 51 has also said he wants to make the game "as violent, or even more violent than Manhunt 2!" No More Heroes is being planned for a Summer 2007 release in Japan and late 2007 / early 2008 for North America and Europe. The latest trailer, from GDC 2007, embedded after the break.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
pete @ Apr 12th 2007 7:46PM
Damn you websence I really want to see this trailer, I’m off in 15 guess I’ll have to wait till I get home. I am happy to see pure satisfying violence coming to weeeeee! Oh I mean wii
driven2sin @ Apr 12th 2007 7:56PM
this has to be good gameplay or the Wii is doomed since it isn't trying to do anything graphically and is hyped to finally be something designed for the Wii that everyone is thinking should be done.
yeah that was 1 sentence
Rubang B @ Apr 12th 2007 8:02PM
This game looks to be all kinds of awesome. I think he can pull it off. Killer 7 worked and it had the craziest gameplay I've ever seen.
Ralidore @ Apr 12th 2007 8:12PM
"No More Heroes is about Travis Touchdown, a character inspired by Johnny Knoxville..."
Why? Why?
James @ Apr 12th 2007 8:21PM
The name of that game keeps causing me to panic for a split second every time I see it in a headline.
No more Heroes!?!? What!? But we don't even know what happened to Peter! Did he s'plode or was Ted always the s'ploding man? Does Sylar ever come out of the closet?? Does Claire get knocked up by the Haitian? I must know these things.
Mr Khan @ Apr 12th 2007 8:30PM
I said it on WiiFanboy, which i shall repeat here
Friends only co-op and random matchmaking Assassin Deathmatches would kick all kinds of ass
This game has the oppurtunity to make up for the lost oppurtunities of Sadness, mature, wii-unique action, delivered in the most nerd-centric way possible...
BPM @ Apr 12th 2007 8:57PM
The story sounds like the campiest thing possible.
But, that's why I'm interested in getting this, and not Manhunt 2.
Alex @ Apr 13th 2007 7:10PM
So No more heroes = American Pop + GTA + B movies with a dash of anime style. Sounds sweet
SledgeHammer @ Apr 14th 2007 12:23PM
Shame on you... Sylvia Kristel, the star from Emmanuelle, isn't French but Dutch.