Namco unveils Point Blank DS
Nothing beats going to the arcade, grabbing a brightly colored lightgun and getting hypnotized by flashes of white as you pull the trigger and blast away zombies, dinosaurs, aliens and hilariously inept criminals who have a habit of leaning precariously over balconies. Namco's take on this genre was split evenly between their serious Time Crisis franchise and their more lighthearted Point Blank series, well known for its freakish egghead characters.
With our fancy-shmancy new TVs refusing to cooperate with the GunCon, it comes as nice surprise that Namco is releasing a compilation of the entire Point Blank series on the DS. Apparently, tapping the screen with a stylus is similar to firing at it with a fake gun. 1up reports that the game will feature 4 difficulty levels to account for the added ease of playing on a touch screen, 40 levels and 5 modes of play--Arcade, Versus, Practice, Brain Massage (it monitors your performance and provides feedback) and Games Museum (features stages that borrow visual themes from other Namco games).
Of course, the next step Namco should take is to port this game back to the arcades, complete with touch screen and an enormous stylus.
