Bandai making 360 mech game

  • By Staff, GameSpot
  • Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:08 pm PT

Bandai and Cavia developing action mech game Zegapain for summer release in Japan; TV anime series to air starting next month.

According to the latest issue of Famitsu, Bandai is currently making a new Xbox 360 mech game titled Zegapain XOR for a summer release in Japan. The game is being developed by Cavia, best known as the studio that worked on Square Enix's Drakengard series. Cavia is also working on two other Xbox 360 titles: an action game titled Bullet Witch, and a role-playing game named Cry On, which is being produced by Hironobu Sakaguchi's Mistwalker.

Zegapain is a sci-fi game in which mankind is fighting for survival against enemy beings called the Gars-orm. The player takes the role of ace pilot Toga Victor, who is resurrected after being killed in battle. To fight against the powerful Gars-orm, Toga pilots the mech Zegapain.

The Zegapain uses various weapons to take on the Gars-orm, such as a lightsaber and a rifle, and it can also adapt to different situations by trading its parts. The player will fight against the Gars-orm in various locations such as outer space, the mountains, and destroyed cities, as well as "virtual experiment spaces" that have been created by the Gars-orm.

Details on Zegapain XOR's game system haven't been disclosed yet, but Famitsu reports that it is a "robot action shooting game." Bandai is taking a mixed-media approach to the project and is launching a Zegapain anime series on April 6. The show will air on the TV Tokyo network every Thursday.

41 Comments

  • dct

    Posted May 17, 2006 8:25 am PT

    ZEGAPAIN TRAILER

  • dct

    Posted May 16, 2006 7:40 pm PT

    Everyone needs to check out YouTube and type in ZegaPain, that way you'll see the anime and how much potential this game has to offer if done correctly. I have faith in Bandai mainly because, they don't disappoint when it comes to anime game conversions and I'm not referring to just recent Bandai titles but their old ones DBZ Legends arguably the best DBZ game ever made.
    Zegapain

    not sure if html inputs work on here but here's the link (place in address bar)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=170ZCu30avo

  • shooterfanplus

    Posted Apr 7, 2006 12:57 am PT

    Does anyone remember a game called Zone of the Enders? Looks way too much like it. Seems like Namco is re-launching it as a new title. Hope it's good.

  • Kounji

    Posted Mar 20, 2006 12:32 pm PT

    None of bandai's anime based games are ever good. they're usually mediocre. THey should just let namco's teams work on anime properties they'd probably do a better job

  • ffviiifreak

    Posted Mar 20, 2006 8:41 am PT

    I vote it most likely to suck.

  • chex81

    Posted Mar 20, 2006 4:45 am PT

    i've been viewing scans for this game for months now...and ya, it looks awesome. More Japan support for MS is excellent, that means more japanese developers will jump onboard. woot!

  • skitzocyko

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 10:11 pm PT

    hope it is fun!

  • ghostpanther

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 8:38 pm PT

    they should make a Universal Century-based GUNDAM game. That would rock.

  • GameDestroyer88

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 8:19 pm PT

    Ahh man......If there is a god out there somewhere, hopefully he could help the good people at Bandai on this.....Bandai is not known to produce all that good games.

  • TckeyTheGlove

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 5:18 pm PT

    I like Mech Games, but this one had better not be like Armored Core, where the enemy can just circle you with perfect accuracy when you can't even shoot.

  • madgamer2000

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 1:59 pm PT

    with it being bandai i figured gundam at first, but i'm glad to see that it seems to be something original.

  • dwmorrow

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 1:42 pm PT

    Mechs wielding lightsabers? Sounds good to me.

  • gaiden1024

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 8:43 am PT

    I love mech games , bring it on , now if only i had a 360 to play them on

  • daveg1

    Posted Mar 19, 2006 4:23 am PT

    hopefuly it will be better than mech warrior!

  • Kawnhr

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 4:20 pm PT

    Haha I thought this said "Bandai making 360 mech games" at first.

  • QualityJeverage

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 3:41 pm PT

    I like mech games, when they're GOOD! The problem is that there are just too many crappy ones out right now. Hopefully this one will evade that folly, I'm also looking forward to Lost Planet, now there's what looks like a good Mech game!

  • mp5b

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 11:00 am PT

    i want gundam, now (its the only anime i ever enjoyed (08th ms team is awsome))

  • Hellisunreal

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 8:18 am PT

    will it be like Gundam or... ZOE

  • Orasion_Seiz

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 6:18 am PT

    i never like mech games

  • azizrulez

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 1:06 am PT

    i hope it utilises the 360's power

  • dxtx

    Posted Mar 18, 2006 12:06 am PT

    there are two schools of mech design in Japan.. the highspeed mechs that catapult into the air doing acrobatic backflips while dodging swarms of missiles, and the massive behemoth mechs that plod across the landscape in slow but highly strategic battles.

    they're both pretty cool, but I'd like to see at least one slow moving 'sim' mech game for a change of pace. there was steel batallion on the xbox but.... i would have paid for the $200 controller if the game was more extensible.. like a PC game.. something that people would be modding and playing for years and years.

  • JackThompsonAmI

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 8:40 pm PT

    mechs r big robots that i like to make friends with a blow stuff up with.
    me excited

  • UltimatumCHIEF

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 8:27 pm PT

    TV Anime Game for Xbox 360? retarded as hell.

  • samekila

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 7:22 pm PT

    japan allways gets the fresh games hope we get it

  • polyh3dron

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 7:13 pm PT

    Does Bandai EVER publish good games? Especially when they're based on an Anime show? No, because the Anime show will get a fan base that will buy the game even if it sucks, so why spend the extra money to make the game really good? It doesn't make sense for them to do that now does it?

  • Imavnas

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:37 pm PT

    Cavia? yech. Drakengards a horrible series. And Bandai's track record is horrible as well. My expectations here are slim.

  • Sandman100

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:24 pm PT

    There too many Mech Games out their like WW2 games. But I like WW2 games. I don't like alot of Mech games.

  • Petri87

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 6:23 pm PT

    If its not Gundam then im not buying. Yes i am a huge Gundam fan

  • x-wing20

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 5:49 pm PT

    Maybe theyer development team will learn a lot from past projects.

  • KojiBrother

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 5:28 pm PT

    Where did Chromehounds go?

  • bolabob

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 5:24 pm PT

    hope its not $hit like murakumo

  • glitchgeeman

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 5:23 pm PT

    Cool. Shame it's on the 360 though. Never going to buy the 360. I'll just have to hope that some good mech games come out on the ps3 and Rev.

  • Strike009

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 5:23 pm PT

    if the pilot was resurrected once, he should never be able to die then (unless disintegrated) so will i better not see a traditional game over scene when you die.

  • chibi-acer

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:57 pm PT

    Not too much detail at the moment, but certainly sounds like it could be fun.

  • benifit0fadoubt

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:44 pm PT

    I luv mech games! It's just that they arn't always done right. I hope this one will break the trend!

  • WolfSkill5544

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:41 pm PT

    cool.

  • HardWood

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:34 pm PT

    great

  • Donkeljohn Site moderator

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:32 pm PT

    At least it isn't a super-deformed Gundam game.

  • timinator18

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:24 pm PT

    cool. i like mechs.

  • DarthUltima

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:18 pm PT

    Bandai making a game based on an Anime!? No way!

    /sarcasm

    Hopefully it's good.

  • blackIceJoe

    Posted Mar 17, 2006 4:18 pm PT

    cool I hope this Mech game will be fun many of these kinds are not fun.Hope this one will be good.Some of this sounds neat and it is good to see that Japan is still getting new games.

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