Gunslinger Stratos is a spectacular mutant crawling from the deepest sewers of Japanese arcade culture. Shibuya’s iconic scramble and Ichi-Maru-Kyuu are especially well rendered at a slightly shrunken scale, and can be blown to bits with rocket launchers at your leisure. Anyway, the upshot is that you run and fly around 2015 versions of some Tokyo districts and other Japanese cities. This isn’t the Wild West it’s the future, and in the future there are some parallel universes or something, so you have to time-travel or something, to save the world or something, by fighting in teams of four with pistols, or something. Don’t forget you’re also whizzing around a vertiginous future city playing Virtua Cop against fast-moving human opponents. Melee attacks require you to aim off screen and fire in combination with stick movements, while a communication system - presumably only useful if you’ve no headset - is bound to double clicking the right thumbstick in combination with movements on the left. This is already a dash more complexity than most arcade shooters, but it goes further - beyond most console games, even. You can use them freely in both hands if you like, or you can use them like this or like this: Those two guns can be joined together - actually physically connected to each other - to change firing modes. Yeah, so this is actually a multiplayer third-person arena battle shooter played with console-style controls built into dual light guns. With a pistol in each hand, you have a standard twin-stick setup for navigation, which incidentally, you are doing in third person. These are like the PlayStation GunCons that came out in the 90s, but with a whole arcade game built around you having two of them. So, on the back of each gun is a thumbstick.
I don’t care how many pedals there are on a Time Crisis cab, it’s not going to make for a strategic eight-player battle. How the hell does that work? Well, first of all, if you’re doing arena combat, you’re going to need to move somehow. Just like Bonds of the Battlefield, Gunslinger offers team-based network deathmatches. The closest thing to the structure of the gameplay is the row, just opposite in this game centre, of similarly networked and miked-up Gundam pods. This is a light gun game that is built primarily for multiplayer. There’s a clue in the picture - those little headsets hanging up next to each cab are for multiplayer comms. And that isn’t a row of isolated solo machines, either. Gunslinger Stratos is slated for a 2012 summer release in Japan.First of all, those aren’t two-player cabs: you play the game with a gun in each hand. The character design work is done by Mari Shimazaki, known for creating designs for characters in Bayonetta and Okami. The producer is Nobuki Kadoi, whose previous acclaim was the arcade title Lord of Vermillion, while the game's lead director is Byking founder Shinichiro Obata, who previously worked on the Street Fighter and Darkstalker series. The game is developed by Byking, the company responsible for the Gundam Vs. Players will also be able to link up their personal data via the NESiCA mobile site, where they can customize selected characters and weapons, as well as purchase in-game items using in-game points. Other modes include personal missions and cooperative missions.
The game will also feature destructible environments that affect the layout of the stage.Īpart from local play, players can choose to take the fight online against other players all across Japan. Gamers will get to select different characters, with each of them having access to different types of weapons and power-ups. Players will get to fight using three methods of combat: a double gun style with dual-wielding pistols a side style, in which they must combine the device side by side to mimic a machine gun or shotgun and the tandem style, in which they must combine the guns one atop the other to form a rocket launcher or heavy weapon. Each arcade cabinet will have two gun peripherals and a 60-inch plasma monitor.
The game is a four-on-four action shooting game, where players can use two guns to combat each other onscreen. Unleash your inner Chow Yun-fat gunplay in Japan this summer. In a recent press conference streamed live at Nico Nico, the publisher announced yet another new arcade game titled Gunslinger Stratos, at the same time revealing a site for the game. Square Enix seems to have plans for the arcade scene in Japan if games like Gyrozetter are anything to go by.
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