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Chris Leigh
09 Jul, 2005

New Heavenly Sword screens emerge

PS3 News | Ninja Theory's PS3 martial arts fighter is looking jolly slick.
Of all the PlayStation 3 software exhibited at E3 back in May, one title that did get threatened with being overlooked in the Killzone hoo-hah was Heavenly Sword. A beautiful-looking martial arts fighter (think Onimusha crossed with Devil May Cry) with a mythical Far East setting, the title has already been confirmed as a PS3 exclusive.

The game adopts the visceral action and visual style of martial arts action movies, and comes with a much-vaunted (by developers Ninja Theory and Sony, anyway) free-style combat system. This means players can freely switch between multiple sword types and a wide range of weapons on-the-fly, which does sound rather neat, we'll admit.

The storyline follows a girl with only a few days left to live, who decides (as you would) to embark on one final act of redemption against a king and his invading army. Perhaps best of all though, we've been informed that enemies will attack in battalions numbering several hundreds at once, pushing real-time AI to levels not yet seen. We've heard these kind of promises before of course, but we'll remain happily open-minded for now.

No release date has been set, or even casually referred to in the vaguest possible fashion.

Related Heavenly Sword Content

Heavenly Sword Review
02 Oct, 2007 No, it's not the Goddess of War.
Interview with Heavenly Sword's Nina Kristensen
28 Sep, 2007 We have a chat with the Chief Development Ninja.
Heavenly Sword demo coming Thursday
24 Jul, 2007 How heavenly.
4 Comments
7 years ago
Isn't this just screengrabs from the video shown at E3?
7 years ago
Five of them are from E3, five are new.*




*According to the press release in front of us.
7 years ago
Err...wasn't it said that the PS3 video card wouldn't be finished until later in the year (November?)? If it's true, these shots are still pre-rended...
7 years ago
Good to see the 'scantily-clad female' archetype is carrying over to the next generation. Just wouldn't be the same otherwise. Now Rumble Roses for the next gen icon_razz.gif ...

As you can tell, I'm a very deep person... IN THE PANTS.

...wtf
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Australian Release Date:
  20/09/2007 (Confirmed)
Standard Retail Price:
  $109.95 AU
Publisher:
  Sony Computer Entertainment
Genre:
  Action Adventure
Year Made:
  2007
Players:
  1

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