Ghost in the Shell: STAND ALONE COMPLEX early details revealed, Launches 2014
Nexon recently acquired the rights to the popular Manga/Anime series Ghost in the Shell. Not one to waste time, the publisher has announced their first title using the license. What genre you may ask? FPS. The FPS, which has a tentative name of 'Ghost in the Shell: STAND ALONE COMPLEX' is being touted as a game featuring "fierce hacking battles between cyborgs fighting over strategic resources". Nexon says the game will also incorporate cyberization and various other concepts that are present in the original work along with "new" diverse content such as a cooperative battle mode, which I am not sure could actually be called "new" except in reference to a game we still know really nothing about.
To be perfectly honest, "fierce battles over strategic resources" sounds like another term for the common FPS domination mode and cyberization, while cool sounding, makes me think of nothing more then the standard customization features present in practically every new FPS these days. I mean look how similar the words even are! Whether or not this is just a lot of early PR spin remains to be seen. We literally have over a year before release so it's unfair to judge the game based on a small PR blip. Keep in mind Nexon is just the publisher. The game is being developed by NeoPle, the developers most famous for Dungeon Fighter Online.
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i love Ghost in the Shell !!!!!!!!! Count me 100% for the game !
for this game i am kinda holding back cause its nexon but then again i got hope cause NeoPle is mentioned in the article i do believe "annoucing" this game that soon is really bad but oh well we will see how this game ends up i just hope fans of this anime(which i dont watch)arent dissapointed in the end gl to all ghost in the shell fans and patience :P
All those people complaining about Nexon or Anime please for the Love of God Shut Up!
All I can hope that Neople can make this game as good as its anime counterpart, because GITS is an awesome anime.
I can imagine a few better implementations: A PSO type game (which they already kind of have with DragonNest) where you form a squad and do epic instanced missions all the time.
A persistent world mmo with various classes (full prosthetics, part-prosthetics, full human each with their own set of skills) but having it action based similar to Tera or Fallout.
They could have an FPS akin to Counterstrike (Section 9 vs Hackers) but with special abilities like invisibility, taking over someone elses body, etc.
Make it full PVP, like APB or Planetside, where really your main objective is to take out the opposing force but add in other objectives like territory control (maybe having Sector 9 vs the Resistance) or specific missions that bring the two forces against each other.
I'm out then. I mean FPS are good for a short-while... but then it has no meaning after that.
Just look at their Combat Arms game, it's slowly dying away...
Would've been better if it was an MMORPG (and a good one I mean)
Maybe it could combine FPS and MMORPG!
So like, going around with guns, travelling the world, and defeating enemies!
We need more GOOD ANIMES.