Platinum Games' fourth game is Vanquish

by Ben Gilbert on Jan 29th 2010 1:05AM

On this evening's "World Exclusive" laden episode of GameTrailers TV, host Geoff Keighley unveiled the latest game from Japanese development all-star team Platinum Games, a futuristic shooter named Vanquish. From the bit of trailer we saw in tonight's show, the game is set on US soil sometime in the future. Also, hey, there are some mechs -- it's from Japan, right? We've got the whole thing embedded after the break, should you be so inclined.

As noted earlier this week, the upcoming game comes from Resident Evil designer Shinji Mikami and marks the fourth title from the development studio -- the last of a four game deal with Sega inked back in 2008. Though we've got tonight's game announce still fresh on our brain box, we have to wonder what this means in terms of a publisher for upcoming games from all those other famous developers sitting around Platinum Games HQ, wondering what to do next. Okay, okay, they're probably not just sitting around. But still!

No consoles were named or release windows given -- heck, the whole trailer was live-action -- but we have to imagine that kind of info isn't too far off.

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Tags: atsushi-inaba, gttv, platinum, platinum-games, sega, shinji-mikami, vanquish

Reader Comments (41)

The suit + Mikami's involvement makes me hope for more P.N.03 styleized action. Love that game!

Trailer was directed by the same crew behind MGS4's wicked opener, they're definitely going all out.

If it's a spiritual successor to PN03, sign me up too. I would retract my previous comment in a fraction of a second!

+ for some P.N.03 love!

But since the protagonist seems to be male, let's hope there's no, uh, booty shaking this time.

What about all the girl gamers out there? Or gay gamers? They need some booty shakin' too!

no they dont

Holy crap, there are people here besides me who enjoyed P.N.03?

Sure brings back memories. That game was the first video game I ever bought for myself. I didn't even have a GameCube at the time (or any other gaming device outside of the original Game Boy I had since 1990). I rented a GameCube a few times to play the game before deciding to just buy the hardware.

looks generic from the trailer.. reminds me of Halo type of look

that. and a little iron man.

Only much better. It looks gritty...which I like. The question is.....what will the actual gameplay look like?

Yeah, but did Halo have Hilary Clinton as president (?) in it? I dooon't think so!

Yeah, it doesn't look nearly as original as most of Mikami's/Platinum's/Clover's stuff.

I was getting kind of a Master Chief meets Robocop type vibe.

The trailer screams ripoff.
It'll probably be a FPS.

EPIC!!!

All I have to say is sign me up! Kamia is a goddamned genius! This will be great!

Nevermind.... lol I mis-read the name. Its not Kamia but hey... Platnium still kicks ass all around...

Well, let's see what creative measures they take to screw up the PS3 version this time.

I almost wish it was just Bayonetta 2.

Hm. Could be interesting. With the Platinum and Mikami names behind it, it will if nothing else be extremely badass. But... will it be fun? Or innovative?

Knowing absolutely nothing at this time but going by the track record of the people involved... I'm going to say "probably".

I'm tentatively excited.

On the one hand, it's a Mikami game. His games haven't disappointed me yet.
On the other hand, this has, "samfish doesn't like these kinda games" written all over it.

To be honest, I've been disappointed with Platinum, much as it pains me to say it. It feels like all their games have been blatant panders to their respective consoles' 'hardcore' markets. The creativity that was in their games when they were Clover is a lot less obvious in MadWorld and Bayonetta in favor of...stereotypes.

I didn't say the characters were stereotypes. I meant that the audiences they're seemingly making their games for are.

Also, God Hand was a parody, not a stereotype.

Also also, Platinum's games haven't come close to the games they made when they were Clover. The Clover games are in a totally different league, in my opinion.

God Hand-->Okami-->Viewtiful Joe------------>MadWorld---->Bayonetta

They all all good games, case closed.

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Despite of my misgivings towards Platinum, I definitely agree with you on that.

I'm excited. Now if only we knew if it was 1st person or 3rd person?

This game is going to suck on PS3, I just know somehow that Platinum is going to screw over PS3 owners again.

They trsuted SEGA; SEGA were the ones who screwed us up!!!

I hope they dont let them publish any more of they jewels

Have to agree with samfish here there games were more original when they were clover.But you could fault that because they are just starting out again as a new studio and want their games to sell, which is why their games seem less "creative" but I loved madworld and bayonetta and they weren't bad games at all.

Looks pretty awesome, plays on our feelings on 9/11 hah.

Actually looks nicer than the Starcraft 2 trailer for marines. Its beginning to seem SC2 was hyped too early, if Blizz don't release SC2 soon, the stuff might just age, Duke Nukem syndrome? And also Diablo 3 too ...

looks interesting but have to say it reminds me a lot of Shadow complex, the white armor and the white two legged Mec at the end of the trailer. looks interesting though.

on a side note i still want someone to make a game where you are NOT the super soldier. but work along side one i think that would kick ass.

Lots of people say "japanese Halo" or "looks like halo", but am I the only person that sees Crysis, when I see this trailer? o.O

WOW...guess i'm the only one who thinks this looks like a ShadowComplex sequel...the suit, the mech, the attack on america...idk, it just all seemed like a more expensive ShadowComplex...no one else sees it?

Totally looks like a sequel to PN.O3. Awesome if true. One of the best gamecube games by far.

The art style is very much like shadow complex which rips it's own art style from MGS.
Platinum has my attention....but I will remain cautiously optimistic for when we see some gameplay. (There was a bit too much cheese involved in the trailer)

Also...why are people in the comments comparing this to iron man or halo? Every other game that get's released has some sort of dude in a mini mech/space marine suit. Why start the comparisons like 10 years after that type of character has already become a video game norm?

Because originality is dead apparently. Long live repetition!

A game about a space marine decked out with super soldier armor taking on a bunch of intergalactic baddies. Now where have I seen this before? Hmmm...

I hope they take Bayonetta as a learning experience. Selling on both systems is a great idea, but the panning that the PS3 version took in the media cost them sales. Bayonetta may be a critical darling, but it would harldy be the first time that something the critics love failed to get the same attention from the consumers. The simple fact that they (Sega) patched the game for the American audience speaks volumes, and I am hoping that Platinum will be handling both versions of this next effort in-house.

Platinum is really hot and I am looking forward to playing more of their games. I am not impressed with the trailer since it shows nothing about the actualy game, but I am interested in what Mikami is thinking for his next game. Looking forward to seeing some solid information about this one.

That mecha at the end looked a lot like a Regult from Macross to me.

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