Raiden III official thread.

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:56 pm

EDIT from Dylan 3/15/05 : I am making this the official news/release/impression and all around thread for the game.

Check this page for some good ones. They can be clicked on and enlarged to 480x640 res.

I really like the last screenshot to the far right for round 3. Looks pretty manic.

Do any of these shots remind anyone else of Border Down's graphics in a few spots?

Blue Lander · Post by **Blue Lander** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:11 pm

I think Seibu Kaihatsu's favorite colors must be green and brown.

Post by **Ghegs** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:16 pm

Lookin' pretty. It looks like the action is zoomed in really close, though...or maybe it's just me.

df0notfound · Post by **df0notfound** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:19 pm

looked nice as thumbnails but at regular size it looks like a bad example of dreamcast graphics

whoisKeel · Post by **whoisKeel** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:37 pm

Lookin' pretty slick if you ask me.

alpha5099 · Post by **alpha5099** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:59 pm

Looking good.

Although the odd angle of some of the shots bothers me. Some, the camera seemed to be behind the ship, while in others it seemed to be angled to the right or the left. What's that about?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:34 pm

Rastan78 wrote:Do any of these shots remind anyone else of Border Down's graphics in a few spots?

It reminds me of a lot of 3D shooters. Maybe because it has a somewhat generic 3D style.

Looks fun to play anyways.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:59 pm

I'm not blown away by the graphics, but I wasn't really planning on buying this because of the graphics anyway. I'm sure the game play will still be stellar, and that's about all that counts to me.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:00 pm

alpha5099 wrote: Although the odd angle of some of the shots bothers me. Some, the camera seemed to be behind the ship, while in others it seemed to be angled to the right or the left. What's that about?

Looks like just the 3D backgrounds that are tilting around, the planes/action are still on a 2d field (same as Ikaruga in some sections). It also looks like your ship rolls slightly when moving from left to right.

TVG · Post by **TVG** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:01 pm

seems pretty fine.

altough i wonder why the hell the blue lazer is curved in some pics.

and the green laser seems to have become a traditionnal spiral thing blob homing lazer, instead of the GV style orientable one seen in the vids.

Guardians Knight · Post by **Guardians Knight** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:30 pm

mmm looks nice

roll on a ps2 conversion!!

Post by **nZero** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:56 pm

Awesome

Perfect way to upgrade the ol' avatar, as well.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:08 pm

Thanks Drunna, those look awesome!! More old-school shmups with next-gen graphics please!! *slobbers on keyboard*

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:24 pm

Looks like something to look for.

Andi · Post by **Andi** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:02 am

Whoa! You get to fly through a city level! Complete with a multi-leveled highway below.

I wonder how many games use something like that. I've hardly played a huge number of shooters but already Layer Section and Varth come to mind.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:40 am

Wow, these pics give a better idea of the game's visuals than any others I have seen. The game looks so crisp and detailed, and futuristic but still looks like the old games. PS2 port pleeeaase.

Wint'ogreen beam versus mercilessly manic bullets and asteroids!

High octane vanilla space base shooting, whoo:

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:33 am

I'm not impressed. Raiden II looked a million times better than that. It has too much of that "generic 3D" look to it. The asteroids in particular look really awful.

The sandworm boss seems cool, though.

I'll just wait until I see it in motion.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:27 am

Where a console port? I'm waiting for a PS2 port. I Dreamcast post, well thats will be nuts.

chtimi-CLA · Post by **chtimi-CLA** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:12 pm

Herr Schatten wrote:I'm not impressed. Raiden II looked a million times better than that. It has too much of that "generic 3D" look to it. The asteroids in particular look really awful.

The sandworm boss seems cool, though.

I'll just wait until I see it in motion.

i agree, the graphics are exactly what i feared when i heard it would be 3D.
-green, brown, grey? check
-cold and metallic? check
-empty background? check
-generic feeling, like every other 2.5D shmup? check
-transparent explosions? check
it doesn't look like raiden at all except the "sprites", good job on that (except the colors). why on hell couldn't they keep the awesome pixel art?
like you said we have to see it in motion.
also, I WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THE MUSIC AND SOUND EFFECTS.
if the music is standard techno, fuck that.
i hope the explosions are huge and cavernous.

stoneroses · Post by **stoneroses** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:03 pm

This kind of reminds me of when I first saw the screenshots for Gradius V. Everything had that high-rez look but still had the flava of the original. If this game keeps the speed and manic pace of the original, is should really be something special.

Fighter17 · Post by **Fighter17** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:41 pm

I'll wait for the game in action on video!

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 11:08 pm

I like 2d more than 3d for shooters, but in my opinion I'd say they stuck to the raiden 1 / 2 theme really well, there is something odd about 3d shooters in general, they feel too empty and lightweight when compared to 2d games, I'm sure it will look better in motion though.

I'm still interested in this game though... wonder if it will get a PSP port

(i'm hoping many current shooters get ported to the psp, the controls would be slightly weird rotated but it would work)

any idea how much the pcb kit will cost?

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:23 am

It may be 3D graphically, but they're keeping it faithful sure enough. I'm loving what I saw. Hopefully we'll see the PS2 version by year's end- or sooner if GWG is any indication.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:46 am

Where are the cows!!!???

MJR · Post by **MJR** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:58 am

The 3D art on Raiden 2 was so well done that I would have been stunned if they were able to repeat it on todays hardware. But no, as every other 3D game, this also lacks the proper contrast and shading becasue of obvious technical limits. But then, in my opinion, Raiden 2 has the best pixel painted landscape, ever.

But then Gradius V looked better in motion, so there is hope.
And if the gameplay lives up, then I might even play it.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 4:46 am

gameoverDude wrote:It may be 3D graphically, but they're keeping it faithful sure enough. I'm loving what I saw. Hopefully we'll see the PS2 version by year's end- or sooner if GWG is any indication.

What Steve said. I think folks should be glad the game looks very close in gritty vanilla detail to I and II despite the fact it's in 3D.

Naiera · Post by **Naiera** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 2:42 pm

What system does this run on?

brand1bil · Post by **brand1bil** » Sun Feb 27, 2005 3:02 pm

Fighter17 wrote:I'll wait for the game in action on video!

With the Raiden Fighter DVD-pack from Insaity DVD came a nice little bonus DVD with superplays of the first three Raiden3 levels. Those above screens are on the video btw.

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 5:25 pm

Official arcade release date of April 1st. Thanks to click-stick.com for the news. Let's hope it gets a home port date soon after.

Tony Gradius · Post by **Tony Gradius** » Tue Mar 15, 2005 6:57 pm

Mmmh. Especially the pic on top looks disappointing manic in my opinion. I hoped they keep the game like Raiden II was in terms of gameplay, rather than copying the style of it`s more manic predecessors. I will wait and see...

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