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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Xbox 360 owners with a burning desire for fantasy RPGs will be infinitely thrilled to learn that the Square Enix published, tri-Ace developed Infinite Undiscovery will hit on September 2, 2008. You know the drill—young man with cool hair adventures with a group of like-minded heroes, wearing dandy outfits on a journey to save a planet from certain doom. Should be fun, as team members from the Star Ocean and Valkyrie Profile series make real-time battles pretty on 360 hardware.
Full press release, with additional details from Square Enix, follows.
Aside the super-brief trailer shown at Microsoft’s pre-TGS conference that’s now looping at Square’s booth and the anemic website, tri-ACE hasn’t really given us much about their long-festering, upcoming RPG Infinite Undiscovery. Piling into a hotel suite with director Hiroshi Ogawa (tri-Ace) and producer Hajime Kojima (Square Enix), they filled in a few of the blanks for us, including the big question: “What the hell does ‘Infinite Undiscovery’ mean?”
While the “underlying concept” of the game is discovery, the “overall concept of the game is that it’s always going.” The game’s engine, in fact, seems to be its raison d’etre. Everything is in real-time, so that it’s hard to separate the battle system from the rest of the game—it’s seamless. For instance, weather and other outside forces can influence the battle, like a tsunami. World damage is persistent as well, so that if a wall or something is destroyed by a dragon, it stays that way. Interestingly, Ogawa said it’s kind of like an MMO in that way, but singleplayer with a party system.
Ash got a brief look at tri-Ace’s Xbox 360 title Infinite Undiscovery in motion at Microsoft’s pre-TGS press conference, but now, you too can enjoy the beauty of this glorious RPG with these magical stills. The recently launched official web site for the Square-Enix and Microsoft Game Studios co-venture isn’t exactly dripping with content, but it’s worth mentioning. For now, enjoy these gorgeous screenshots of the Xbox 360′s next attempt at capturing the imagination of JRPG fans.
