ECTS: First Gun Valkyrie Details

Smilebit, developers of Jet Set Radio and the upcoming real-time strategy game Hundred Swords, is working on yet another Dreamcast game tentatively called Gun Valkyrie. This mech-based 3D action-shooter is heavily influenced by anime design styles. In fact, the company calls the game's visual style "anime-dimension." In the game players assume the role of mercenary soldiers who traverse a chaotic world. Mankind has rushed into space in the late 1990's and in the game those historical events have some significance to a genius who completely changes the terrestrial world.

The game will have single, multiplayer, and co-operative online play modes. Additionally, Smilebit has implemented a unique control system where players will use the controller and the gun peripheral simultaneously. Not much is known about how that will work, but Sega feels that it will "allow the player a unique in-game feeling of unrestricted aiming via the Gun whilst maintaining the freedom of movement you get with a controller."

Gun Valkyrie supports up to two players and will be released sometime in 2001.