The Last Ninja - The Return

Nu las ik hier op fok een hele tijd geleden dat er een nieuw deel aan zat te komen van dit geweldige spel. Er stonden destijds al een paar screenshotjes bij en een linkje.

Maar ik vond het is zo akelig stil geworden rond dit spel dat ik twijfelde of die uberhaupt nog uit ging komen
Dus ik ben nog even op zoek gegaan en zie hier het resultaat:

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By: Studio 3 Interactive Entertaiment Limited (formerly System 3)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release date: Q4 of 2003
Platforms: Xbox & Gamecube (scheduled), planned but uncertain: PS2, GBA, PC

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Hier volgt een stukje tekst in het engels:

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Beautiful backgrounds, detailed animations and varied action revive the legendary Last Ninja. Years after their 8-bit debut System 3 are working on an up-to-date sequel to their classic game.

Close to being forgotten, the Last Ninja still is a cult game among C64 users. Even the poor PC conversions were sought after but EGA graphics and PC speaker sound won't help you much these days.
About time for a new version.
System 3, who last received attention through their game Constructor, finally send the Last on a journey into high-res land, brilliantly animated with excellent gameplay. Despite the dazzling appearance System 3 concentrates on one aspect: "It would be easy to copy the successful idea of games like Tomb Raider but the only thing we're aiming at is gameplay!" big boss Mark Cale points out.

Nevertheless, the graphics look awesome because even without 3D-accelerator support The Last Ninja has detailed scenery like rippling waves, animated backgrounds and astonishing lighting effects with the old screen-after-screen display. This was intended, explains Mark Cale: "We stayed with the isometric point of view. Rich, 'breathing' scenery, interaction with the environment and free movement of the character are some of the important features for us." In addition to the classic elements of every action adventure like fighting and puzzles some new ideas are to be implemented. However, System 3 are keeping their mouths shut about these things to avoid being copied by other designers. But we could get one fact from the System 3 CEO: For the first time. the PC-Version will have trading with computer controlled characters.

Your aim in The Last Ninja is not clearly defined. As the last brave Ninja you face the evil Shogun and his many minions. The game is divided into 5 stages which are again divided into 20 other levels. Each of these are up to 100 screens in size which means motivation for a very long time. In addition to that, The Last Ninja is not a pure fighting game, it has loads of puzzles as every good action-adventure. You have to choose the right weapon according to your enemy, disarm traps, find food or open concealed gateways. Sometimes you need to seek the meaning of an artifact you found or prove your skill when jumping over a stream of lava. To make it comfortable, the difficulty level rises slowly but steadily affecting enemies as well as puzzles. Your enemies consist of arrowmen, drunken guards, wild dogs, giant crabs and other monsters which you can fight with the weapons of a Ninja or using magic. At the end of each level an especially huge baddie is waiting for you.

The five different landscapes consist of the Wastelands, the Palace Gardens including a labyrinth, the Dungeons and the pompous Shogun's chambers. There's one thing System 3 want to achieve most of all: Their new action-adventure is not only supposed to bring back the last Ninja, it shall reestablish System 3 on the world market.

Mark Cale says how they will prove System 3 to be a forge for quality games:
"Game have nothing to do with technology but many companies rely too much in it. Many Amiga and Atari ST programmers jumped at the faster pentium processors without having any experience with it. Thus came out many games that looked great but were they great as well ? The answer is no!" The philosphy of these Englishmen is different: "all System 3 games run smoothly on a Pentium 90 - without a 3D card!" says Gameplay worshipper Mark Cale. His attack on technology-hype should not be regarded as technology hostility. "The 3D cards allow our games to look like arcade machines. We can use more colors, the programs run faster but we still need to make sure that we design a game the customer wants.
"We from System 3 believe to know exactly what the people want!" Whether Mark Cale's philosophy proves true we'll find out as soon as The Last Ninja is ready!

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Maar nu komt het dus
Op de homepage van System3 kan ik niks, maar dan ook helemaal niks terugvinden over dit spel!?
Geen demo, geen screenshots, geen info, echt helemaal niks.
Ook die twee artikeltjes zijn al uit begin 2002.
Daarna heb ik er niks meer over gehoord?
Is er iemand die wat meer info heeft over dit spel en of het uberhaupt nog uit gaat komen?

[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door vosss op 01-11-2003 19:12]

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Op zaterdag 1 november 2003 19:14 schreef mat_herben het volgende:
ik zie kruisjes

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Damn, nu zie ik idd ook kruisjes ja
Ze staan iig op http://lastninja.c64.org/ en dan linksboven in op last ninja 4 klikken

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Op zondag 8 februari 2004 11:13 schreef Omkron het volgende:
Cancelled...

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Op zondag 8 februari 2004 11:15 schreef Georges het volgende:
Cool, those were the days, dagen lang achter de C64
Een van de mooiste spellen ooit trouwens voor de C64

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Op maandag 9 februari 2004 23:00 schreef kingmob het volgende:
Godver, ik helemaal blij toen ik de titel zag .

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Op maandag 9 februari 2004 23:02 schreef Dr.Daggla het volgende:

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http://www.tothegame.com/game.asp?id=1449

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Op zondag 8 februari 2004 11:17 schreef Omkron het volgende:

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http://lastninja.lemon64.com/ln4.htm

http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&SQL=GIH||||39177

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Op maandag 9 februari 2004 23:32 schreef Omkron het volgende:
Neem even contact met ze op.. ik wil ook graag weten hoe het ervoor staat.

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Address Studio 3 Interactive Limited
90 Long Acre, Covent Garden
London WC2E
England

Telephone 0207 849 3080

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