The Grand Adventure Starts Now
Hear that? It's the sound of a new One Piece game hitting stores.
Published: August 30, 2006
Namco Bandai Games has a friggin' lock on pumping out licensed animated TV shows-turned games. Zatch Bell, Samurai Champloo, Naruto, Eureka Seven, One Piece -- the publisher is loaded with properties, and it's the latter entry on that list that's seeing a new release as of today.
One Piece: Grand Adventure is a departure from the previous One Piece entries, instead opting the go the route of a themed 3D fighting game, not unlike the Naruto releases thus far. Forsaking the mini-game craze of former OP releases might seem a little crazy, but what we want to know is if the elements present in this excellent fighting game are sure to please both fans of the genre and fans of the animated series. Naruo Uchida, Namco Bandai Games' VP of Product Development, you wanna handle this one?
"Elements present in this excellent fighting game are sure to please both fans of the genre and fans of the anime series. We are also very pleased to say that GameCube owners will also be able to experience the fast-paced action and exciting mini-games that One Piece: Grand Adventure has to offer."
See, and now you know. Would you like to know more? Like, say, what the game is about?
See, there's this area called Grand Line, high seas riddled with sea monsters of the so-big-men-fear-to-tread variety and weather patterns clearly sculpted by Indra on a bender. Clearly there is no better place to have a series of skirmishes with random wacky characters (24 playable ones and 50 supporters), some of which can employ the Accel-Heat System for special moves taken from the TV series.
Oh, and you know how we told you about the series abandoning the mini-games? Yeah, we lied, they're in there too in the game's Adventure Mode that lets you explore the high seas across 20 maps of indeterminate size. On top of all this, there's-- y'know what? Screw it, the new tariler on the OPGA game page will do a far better job of explaining things than we could. But the game is in stores now, so if you can't wait for our inevitable review, feel free to grab it at your earliest convenience.
One Piece: Grand Adventure is a departure from the previous One Piece entries, instead opting the go the route of a themed 3D fighting game, not unlike the Naruto releases thus far. Forsaking the mini-game craze of former OP releases might seem a little crazy, but what we want to know is if the elements present in this excellent fighting game are sure to please both fans of the genre and fans of the animated series. Naruo Uchida, Namco Bandai Games' VP of Product Development, you wanna handle this one?
"Elements present in this excellent fighting game are sure to please both fans of the genre and fans of the anime series. We are also very pleased to say that GameCube owners will also be able to experience the fast-paced action and exciting mini-games that One Piece: Grand Adventure has to offer."
See, and now you know. Would you like to know more? Like, say, what the game is about?
See, there's this area called Grand Line, high seas riddled with sea monsters of the so-big-men-fear-to-tread variety and weather patterns clearly sculpted by Indra on a bender. Clearly there is no better place to have a series of skirmishes with random wacky characters (24 playable ones and 50 supporters), some of which can employ the Accel-Heat System for special moves taken from the TV series.
Oh, and you know how we told you about the series abandoning the mini-games? Yeah, we lied, they're in there too in the game's Adventure Mode that lets you explore the high seas across 20 maps of indeterminate size. On top of all this, there's-- y'know what? Screw it, the new tariler on the OPGA game page will do a far better job of explaining things than we could. But the game is in stores now, so if you can't wait for our inevitable review, feel free to grab it at your earliest convenience.
