0 Day Attack on Earth - new arena shmup from Square Enix

worstplayer · Post by **worstplayer** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:32 am

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3173844
Looks quite interesting.

D · Post by D » Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:22 pm

3 new shmups on one day, wow!
but this looks like crap in all honesty. I feel no urge whatsoever to play this. Nevertheless thanks for updating us.

neist · Post by **neist** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:06 pm

I like arena shmups and I'm not sure how I feel about this.

It's nice that they are releasing another one, but nothing in that trailer makes me think its any better than any other game. It could be Mutant Storm with prettier graphics.

MathU · Post by **MathU** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:09 pm

Square Enix is developing this? Not Taito?

neist · Post by **neist** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:17 pm

MathU wrote:Square Enix is developing this? Not Taito?

Well, Square Enix seems to be publishing it.

Though it would seem odd if Taito was developing it and not publishing it.

Post by **Dave_K.** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:18 pm

Is that inertia based movement?

neist · Post by **neist** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:23 pm

Not sure.

The CUBE game actually looks a bit more interesting to me, mostly because it's hard to know exactly what's going on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BI7wEYL27c

Wonder if that's the actual music, too.

D · Post by D » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:29 pm

neist wrote:Not sure.

The CUBE game actually looks a bit more interesting to me, mostly because it's hard to know exactly what's going on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BI7wEYL27c

Wonder if that's the actual music, too.

You shoot the blocks and they blood wtf.
Nevermind, blood sells, so everything you blast should just ..... bleed. Lol
Indeed, this looks alot more interesting. Nice Souky secondairy weapon
feature

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:42 pm

christ this game looks pretty awful. the postprocessing effects, grey colors and horrible framerate are - unfortunately - to be expected in this generation of gaming, although I wouldn't expect them from a shmup. at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the game also had regenerating health...

Malc74 · Post by **Malc74** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 1:58 pm

Blimey, let's hope that's from an early, early build, huh? That's not looking very promising at all.

it290 · Post by **it290** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:07 pm

'0 Day Attack on Earth'? Sounds like some kind of leetspeek parody.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:39 pm

I agree, this looks quite poor at the moment. So this is long awaited Einhander follow up? .

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:45 pm

Looks horrible from the video. Fiddly little graphics and inertia don't make a good game.

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 2:59 pm

Though it would seem odd if Taito was developing it and not publishing it.

This happened with Space Invaders Extreme and Arkanoid DS.

postman · Post by **postman** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:05 pm

Armada lives!

neist · Post by **neist** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:52 pm

DJ Incompetent wrote:
Though it would seem odd if Taito was developing it and not publishing it.
This happened with Space Invaders Extreme and Arkanoid DS.

Outside of Japan, sure. I can't think of any game in the last several years that was published in the US by Taito proper. Most of them get picked up by other publishers or by Square Enix.

It may not be all that uncommon in Japan, but this is the first Japanese released game that I've noticed wasn't published by Taito itself.

Of course, I could completely be missing something. Wouldn't be the first time.

the2bears · Post by **the2bears** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:41 pm

Squeenix, putting the Euro(tm) back in arena shooters.

Bill

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:35 pm

Man it looks like a European FPS company designed the color pallet.

Can I have some gray with my black?

Lead Artist 'Just worry about getting the city modeled, I want it to be so epic that the player feels as though the game is real! We can worry about the programming and play later."

CHR_AeON · Post by **CHR_AeON** » Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:30 pm

neist wrote:
DJ Incompetent wrote:
Though it would seem odd if Taito was developing it and not publishing it.
This happened with Space Invaders Extreme and Arkanoid DS.
Outside of Japan, sure. I can't think of any game in the last several years that was published in the US by Taito proper. Most of them get picked up by other publishers or by Square Enix.

It may not be all that uncommon in Japan, but this is the first Japanese released game that I've noticed wasn't published by Taito itself.

Of course, I could completely be missing something. Wouldn't be the first time.

Taito is owned by Square Enix, so that's the reason why they are publishing Taito games (outside of Japan).

However, where does all this Taito talk stem from? "0 Day Attack on Earth" is developed by Gulti, not Taito.

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:54 am

looks like they just grabbed city data from google earth

this still looks cool... the concept of it at least.

t0yrobo · Post by **t0yrobo** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:56 am

kemical wrote:looks like they just grabbed city data from google earth .

That's what I though too. Looks asstastic, but as long as the squeenix name is attached people will buy it. If they get really worried about sales they can always change the name to Final Fantasy: 0 Day Attack on Earth.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:55 am

another dual stick with the same odd ass control scheme all dual stick games have

gulti if you're going to do something original please turn tyrian into a good game at least :< or convince shoichi yano to come out of retirement, that works too

hopefully they find something that clicks like milestone did (illvelo)

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:55 am

Take a look here gents.

http://citygen.net/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI5YOFR1Wus

Looks like the game might be using procedural cities.

nem · Post by **nem** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:45 am

That looks really cool.

Obviously, it would have been even better with bright, pastel colors and some underage lolis, but unfortunately Cave already has the market cornered.

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:23 am

nem wrote:...but unfortunately Cave already has the market cornered.

Imagine if Psikyo were still in business.

anyways, interesting. why haven't I bought a 360 yet oh that's right I'm too fucking broke now

Erinu · Post by **Erinu** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:17 am

Lol, this looks like shit.

ex.machina · Post by **ex.machina** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:20 am

Judged only on the graphics, this one looks amazing to me. However I am not a huge fan of those area type shmups, I prefer those ones scrolling fixed in one direction.

tommyb · Post by **tommyb** » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:31 pm

Looks absolutely horrendous. It actually made me lol.

Oli · Post by **Oli** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:58 pm

kengou wrote:christ this game looks pretty awful. the postprocessing effects, grey colors and horrible framerate are - unfortunately - to be expected in this generation of gaming, although I wouldn't expect them from a shmup. at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the game also had regenerating health...

This. D:

ZyN · Post by **ZyN** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:20 pm

Would like to see a PSN release