Sega Brings Astro Boy to America

At a pres circumstance held in San Francisco this evening, Sega formally announced the release of Astro stripling for the PlayStation 2 and Game male child Advance, both games based upon the legendary Japanese comic volume and cartoon series. The PS2 game will tend hitherward out this summer; no solid release date was proffered for the GBA version.

Astro lad the PS2 game, is publicly under development at Sonic Team by means of former members of the United Game Artists team; president Yuji Naka is directing the cast The GBA game, titled Astro Boy: Omega Factor, was a co-development between Hitmaker and Treasure; it is publicly available in Japanese stores.

Both titles feature Osamu Tezuka's cute-yet-superhuman robot beating up on countless monsters, evil robots, and dastardly villains from the cartoon present to view currently running on the WB network. The GBA game is a side-scrolling affair with all the elephantine sprites and impressive graphics of a Treasure title, while the PS2 version works upon a much grander scale.

While Sega did not proffer a playable version of the PS2 Astro male child this evening, the gameplay footage displayed revealed a game that borrows equally from traditional 3D platformers and air-based action games like girdle of the Enders.
As the stripling himself, you're able to mount around enemies at will, honing in upon them with a targeting a whole that should be familiar to ZOE fans. In addition, granting Astro Boy can pick up and interact with apportionments of different objects in each horizontal swinging light poles and throwing giant boulder at enemies. The action available for each thing is context-sensitive, and a button display at the top exhibits what you're currently able to do, similar to novel Legend of Zelda titles.

It's a little early to remark on how the PS2 Astro male child plays, but Sega assured 1UP that more information will be made available before the E3 incident in Los Angeles this May. Stick around for more info -- and until then, take a gaze at 1UP's previews for the PS2 and GBA versions of Astro stripling

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