After the Famitsu announcement a day or so ago, the first direct feed screens and first details have emerged from Watch-impress.
Included in the details are the different modes available:
Single Player
- Standard Driller: The regular single player mode.
- Quest Driller: Every 100 metres drilled will add a new "Quest" for the player to finish, which must be completed by the next 100m drop.
Multiplayer modes
- Solo Battle: 4 players compete for the highest score.
- Tag Battle: A 2 Vs. 2 mode where players play cooperatively against another team. This mode is brand new to Mr. Driller games.
The first trailer has also made it online
Currently the game looks.. okay. It's Mr. Driller, no doubt about that, but the graphics themselves are VERY blurry from being made large through a softening filter - not sharp at all, looks quite poor. Hell I'd even go for the pixelated look, but surely Namco have these very simple characters somewhere in a Flash or Photoshop file somewhere - there really isn't an excuse for it.
You can see all the new images here. Also, strangely, the Xbox.com Japanese page has also popped up at the same time! You can check that out here with more images.
Source: Mr. Driller Online on Watch Impress Japan
4 comments:
Man, talk about a huge disappointment. I was wondering how bad it could be, then I looked at the full resolution screenshot... horrible. How hard would it be to redo those sprites? There's not tons of them.
Wow, that looks extremly blurry.
Looks like they took the sprites directly from the DS-Version:/
I had recently been playing the original Mr Driller on the Dreamcast (VGA/480p) in anticipation of the coming XBLA-release, and I can´t believe how much better/sharper the DC - Version looks.
But as a Mr Driller & and XBLA-Fan I´ll be probably getting it anyway.
The japanese xbox.com page seems to have some kind of relase-date for Mr Driller. It reads:
発売日 : 2008 年春
Unfortunately I have no clue what it means...
The date purely says "Spring 2008" unfortunately. EVERYTHING is coming out in Spring 2008 :P
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