Capcom Announces Second DC Title

TOKYO - Capcom's announcement that it would be supporting Dreamcast was no surprise, and neither was the fact that a Resident Evil game is soon to come. But this announcement is different in many ways: while it is a fighting game, it's not a fighting game in one of Capcom's most popular series (Street Fighter).

Instead, Power Stone is a 3 D free-roaming fighter set in the 19th century. While its arenas are not as expansive as Bushido Blade, they're comparable to a bigger Ehrgeiz ring. In the game you can interact with your environment and pick up objects and throw them or use them to swing at your opponents.

Not merely a fighting game, Capcom's dubbing this as a Katsugeki, or "action fighting game," where such moves like running up a wall and flipping (a la Jackie Chan) is possible. So is picking up a lamp post and using it as a baseball bat or sticking a pot on your opponents head (lights out!). There are a few indoor arenas as well.

It's a 1-2 player, one-on-one game, and is the first game that will appear first in the arcade on Naomi hardware and then later on the home system.

Capcom's Yoshiki Okamoto said that Capcom is putting its full effort in working on Dreamcast games. Hopefully we will see more games to come. Including 2-D fighters, which Okamoto said the machine could do really well in addition to doing 3-D.