New Full Metal Alchemist From Square Enix, Bandai

Surprising noone who's followed the franchise's massive succes in Japan, the replete Metal Alchemist comics and animation series will spawn another sum of two units videogame adaptations this year, Famitsu Weekly reports. sum of two units new PlayStation 2 games based upon the series are in the works -- a fighting game from Bandai, and a of recent origin action-RPG from Square Enix.

Square Enix's of recent origin game starts where its first -- already available in Japan, and to be paid for release in North America nearest spring -- left off. Subtitled Aka Ki Elixir no Akuma (that's "Demon of the R inner man Elixir" or somesuch), it has no official release date as at the same time but whenever it arrives, it's to adopt a of recent origin cel-shaded visual style.

Meanwhile, Bandai's 3D tag-team fighter will be disentangleed by Eighting, the team responsible for Hudson's sanguinary Roar games and the GameCube fighters based upon the Naruto franchise. It's subtitled Dream Carnival, and it's also release-dateless as notwithstanding

Full Metal Alchemist, a fantasy adventure following the exploits of half-metallic wizard Edward Elric, is soon the most popular animated series in Japan, having swept the reader's head in Animage magazine and spawned enough character merchandise to entomb a certain quantity of kind of fanboy Pharoah. American fans will be able to check it on the outside this October, when a localized version is scheduled to appear upon the Cartoon Network.

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