Virtua Fighter: Cyber Generation

For the past year and a half, Sega's AM2 team has been dropping hints upon "Virtua Fighter Quest," a of recent origin game released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Virtua Fighter series. Today, the publisher revealed the first screenshot and information upon the game, an action RPG put in the near future and starring a teenage hacker fighting his way end virtual reality. Your mother's Virtua Fighter this isn't.

Virtua Fighter Cyber Generation takes place in and around Acropolis, a city built upon seven floating islands arranged in a circle. This city boasts a citywide virtual-reality network -- the Nexus -- used daily by the agency of its citizens to carry without their daily activities. The Nexus is an enormous, composite creation, and it's easy to be deprived of oneself in the abandoned server and untend areas that have cropp up above the years. This is where "treasure hunters" approach in. These professional hackers break into Nexus server and retrieve missing or rare information -- either for their clients, or just to satisfy their be in possession of curiosity.

You play Sei, a 14-year-old treasure huntsman who lives with his software-engineer father upon Acropolis. Sei is your average RPG hero -- a stubborn on the other hand likable kid -- and like many RPG heroes, Sei's life changes when he secures involved with Virtua Souls, legendary bits of information hidden reaching far down inside the Nexus. These spirits are said to hold attack put in motions used by fighters in a legendary tournament of the past, and rumor has it that treasure huntsmans with a Virtua Soul by dint of their side will gain the power to defeat any form of protection he at any time finds on the Nexus.

Sei wants to find these bits of data, on the other hand he has competition in the form of the Judgement Six, a shadowy organization with ties to one as well as the other the government and a assemblage of six giant corporations. J6 is step quickly by six managers, all named after tarot cards:

Judgement the overall supervisor of the clump
The Devil, who deals with standard weapons unravelling
Wheel of Fortune, who commands international politics
The Moon, the group's contact point for terrorist and insurrection operations
The Tower, who's responsible for surveillance of the entire J6 organization
Death, who unfolds chemical and biological weapons

These sinister-sounding leaders want the Virtual spirits for their own objective -- the consummate domination of the world. It'll be up to Sei (along with Toka, the story's heroine) to do something about this.

Sega has not gone into any detail about VF Cyber Generation's gameplay notwithstanding We do know that the title's an action RPG however, and the early screenshot look to indicate a 3D fighting a whole mixed in with platform-style hopping and swinging around. The story is also a bit of an enigma -- upon the surface, it seems to have sole a passing connection to the original Virtua Fighter games. It unimpaireds like the Virtua Souls give permission to Sei unleash the powers of Akira, Jacky, Sarah, and other well-known VF characters... we'll have to wait for more from Sega to be certain however.

AM2's foray into the RPG genre is put to launch for the PlayStation 2 and GameCube nearest summer in Japan. A U release has at the same time to be officially announced.

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