EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: lollipopchainsaw
Up until now we’ve been getting extended looks at the characters of Lollipop Chainsaw, an arcade-looking zombie destruction action game emerging from a partnership between Kadokawa Games and Grasshopper Manufacture (Shadows of the Damned, No More Heroes).
A brand new trailer for the cheerleader-starring title, however, showcases a massive amount of in-game action focussing on specific chainsaw attacks, combos and special weapons.
Sparkle Hunting? Chainsaw Blasters? Blood replaced with pink glitter? Oh Lollipop Chainsaw, you so crazy:
The latest word out of Japanese videogame magazine Famitsu is that the next development collaboration between Grasshopper Manufacture (No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned) and Kadokawa Games (Lollipop Chainsaw) will result in the creation of a game known as ‘Killer is Dead,’ and no, it’s not a sequel to Killer 7.
When gamers speak passionately about their favourite titles from yesteryear you’ll often hear them mention how memorable a game’s soundtrack was. There’s no denying that many titles wouldn’t be half as good without the iconic music and gifted composers who helped define them. Would Final Fantasy VII and Silent Hill 2 have made such an impression on gamers’ psyches without Nobuo Uematsu or Akira Yamaoka composing the score? Somehow I doubt it.
“They’re loud, they’re evil, they’re the Bosses of Zombie Rock.” And they’ll also make your ears bleed!
Get up close and personal with the Bosses of Zombie Rock in this new trailer for Lollipop Chainsaw.
Quality voice acting can greatly enhance one’s enjoyment of a game and make particular lines from a script far more memorable than they would have been if they were simply represented as text.
Just yesterday we found out that Lollipop Chainsaw, the imaginative new title from Suda51, would be carving up consoles in June.
Today we can drink in some new screenshots from the game, showing off Juliet’s acrobatic chainsawing skills in action as she takes on hordes of undead high schoolers at San Romero High. You can also get a glimpse of the zombie rock lords that Juliet will have to face in new over-the-top boss battles.
Lollipop Chainsaw director Goichi Suda (a.k.a. Suda51) has a knack for breathing new life into well-worn genres. The common thread linking his recent games is a mixture of memorable characters, irreverent humour and exaggerated violence.
It’s time to meet another creepy and crazed character from the just as bizarre world of Lollipop Chainsaw, which is handy because this fellow is also the person responsible for kicking off events in the game by turning a school of students and faculty members into shambling zombies.
Warner Bros. Interactive has gone and revealed the rainbow- and chainsaw-featuring box art for the publisher’s upcoming Lollipop Chainsaw… which also features the game’s ‘femme brutale’ schoolgirl protagonist, Juliet Starling, w/ human head purse.
Watch out for that zombie in the locker, Juliet!
Is Juliet just an average, everyday girl who happens to have been caught up in a zombie apocalypse, forced to defend herself against hordes of the undead? Or is Juliet a vicious killer who likes nothing better than to take a chainsaw to the outstretched arms of encroaching shamblers?
Or, as the player of Lollipop Chainsaw and the person controlling Juliet, are you in fact the psycho killer?
Whatever the case may be, it still doesn’t explain what’s happening in this screenshot:
If you sit down and think about it, it’s surprising the number of zombie games that will be competing for your brains in the coming months. Quite scary really, perhaps Bryan is onto something and we had better take notice and start preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse.
Some of these are downloadable titles, some are full releases and others are downloadable content, but they all have something in common: zombies! Let’s take a look at what titles featuring zombies may be scaring gamers on the gamescom floor.
Continue reading El33tonline’s editorial, Gamescom 2011 Predictions: Zombie titles we may see shuffling across the gamescom floors.
Warner Bros. today announced a partnership with Kadokawa Games that will see the two teaming up to bring Suda 51’s Lollipop Chainsaw to western territories in 2012.
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