Long Winter NiGHTS For Nintendo Wii Ahead
SEGA finally announces release date for reworked classic
SEGA’s reworked classic NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams for Nintendo Wii will be releasing in January 2008 in Europe, which gives us something to look forward to after the consumer frenzy that is the baby Jesus’ birthday in December.
Bizarrely, SEGA plans to release the game in the US one week before Xmas Day - on the 18th December to be exact. This appears to be a strange decision as most ‘moms and pops’ have made and executed their holiday buying decisions by that time (or in plain English: bought their Christmas presents).
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams will enable players to take flight, glide, spiral and loop through a variety of mystical dream worlds unleashing incredible airborne manoeuvres, while exploring seven "magnificent worlds of imagination, dreams and nightmares" - just like Xmas Day at the parents then.
SEGA also unveiled plans to reawaken the Artificial Life (A-Life) feature that gives gamers the freedom to oversee and develop their own sandbox environment. Within these you can capture, raise, and even combine the inhabitants from the world of Nightopia. The game will also feature a two-player mode and network support at launch.
“Finally developing a sequel for NiGHTS is a dream come true – for myself and, I hope, also for fans of the original game as well as people new to the game!” commented Takeshi Iizuka of SEGA Studio USA “NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams will be a unique game making good use of the great features Wii has to offer”.
Bizarrely, SEGA plans to release the game in the US one week before Xmas Day - on the 18th December to be exact. This appears to be a strange decision as most ‘moms and pops’ have made and executed their holiday buying decisions by that time (or in plain English: bought their Christmas presents).
NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams will enable players to take flight, glide, spiral and loop through a variety of mystical dream worlds unleashing incredible airborne manoeuvres, while exploring seven "magnificent worlds of imagination, dreams and nightmares" - just like Xmas Day at the parents then.
SEGA also unveiled plans to reawaken the Artificial Life (A-Life) feature that gives gamers the freedom to oversee and develop their own sandbox environment. Within these you can capture, raise, and even combine the inhabitants from the world of Nightopia. The game will also feature a two-player mode and network support at launch.
“Finally developing a sequel for NiGHTS is a dream come true – for myself and, I hope, also for fans of the original game as well as people new to the game!” commented Takeshi Iizuka of SEGA Studio USA “NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams will be a unique game making good use of the great features Wii has to offer”.
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soanso 16 Oct 2007 10:51
1/2
Do you think it will have a Christmas nights feature again?
Dreadknux 16 Oct 2007 21:10
2/2
It bloody well better Iizuka, I know what you're like!
Truth be told though, they're not rushing it for once and the game was just sublime to play at TGS. I'm actually kind of glad it's not contending with Galaxy and Olympic Games this Christmas. I don't want to see this one severely overlooked like the original was (if it turns out just as good).
Yay for Nightopians btw. Although I hope they don't make them a necessary element for completion, like Sonic Adventure's Chaos (I like raising them, but to get all the emblems by having to use them for races annoyed the hell out of me).
Truth be told though, they're not rushing it for once and the game was just sublime to play at TGS. I'm actually kind of glad it's not contending with Galaxy and Olympic Games this Christmas. I don't want to see this one severely overlooked like the original was (if it turns out just as good).
Yay for Nightopians btw. Although I hope they don't make them a necessary element for completion, like Sonic Adventure's Chaos (I like raising them, but to get all the emblems by having to use them for races annoyed the hell out of me).