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Last Flight teaser trailer comes in for landing
Bloober Team's extremely gradual rollout of media for Last Flight continues... In October, Bloober Team sent out screenshots; today, there's a teaser trailer, which shows what would appear to be real environments from the game -- we hope. Even at this glacial pace, we're pleased to see progress toward a release of Last Flight, the now-episodic WiiWare action game about a plane full of vampires and the food critic who loves kills them. Being trapped on a plane with a bunch of monsters is a great setup for a horror game, and killing vampires with a bunch of random weapons is a great setup for a game. %Gallery-75104%
Last Flight devs announce 'Gender Wars: The Battle,' an iPad strategy game
Remember back in late January when the world was all abuzz with iPad news and, more specifically, we named a handful of game genres we'd like to see on the upcoming tablet? If our spidey sense is functioning correctly, the recent announce of "Gender Wars: The Battle" -- a "turn-based tactic game" (read: RTS) -- seems to indicate Last Flight devs Bloober Team are avid Joystiq readers (obviously BT got its ideas from our post -- don't be so foolish!). The game (as described by lead designer Peter Bielatowicz) is intended to be "easy to pick up and play" with what sounds like paired down tactical commands for "casual players." Producer Piotr Babieno explains the iPad development focus by saying, "We believe that tactic games will be one of [the] best and most successful games on [the] iPad platform." He also notes that the game will be released at a "very low price" to entice players to get hooked on the "series" and prepare them for future "Gender Wars" titles. And no, neither Beilatowicz or Babieno explain why it's called Gender Wars, but we'll hopefully find out when the game releases this March alongside Apple's new device.
Last Flight resurfaces as an episodic game
Remember Last Flight, the WiiWare vampires-on-a-plane game from Nibris expats Bloober Team? Sebastian from Any Given Gamer did, noticing a Tweet from executive producer Marcin Kawa that sort of indirectly referred to the game. He guessed that it meant news about Last Flight would be on the way, and he was right!Bloober Team sent out some screenshots today! The last time we saw the game was over a year ago and just as concept art, so we're thrilled to see actual screens of food critic Larry Adelman taking out some vampires. In a fact sheet, Bloober Team outlined the game's motion-based slashing: each hand is mapped to either the Wiimote or Nunchuk, and moving the controller swings the weapon. The game is being divided into four episodes, to make it "as accessible and affordable as possible." According to Bloober Team, the game is comparable to a boxed Wii release, but the bite-sized purchases remove a barrier to entry for people not sure about buying a game from a new team. Perhaps the most surprising news: Eurogamer says that the game will be out this year!%Gallery-75104%
Hopefully not the last update on Last Flight
Click for more eye candy Bloober Team may have split from the Notorious N.I.B.R.I.S., but their methods seem disturbingly similar to their progenitor. They have yet to actually release any games, and after months, and some cases years, of teasing, we have nothing to go on but concept art and occasional doctored screenshots. Their most complete games have made it to the "DS homebrew program" stage. We really want Bloober Team to not be Nibris.So it is with mixed feelings that we present this concept art of Last Flight. We can laugh at the continued non-development of Nibris's Sadness, because it sounds like a pretentious, overambitious game and we'd probably laugh at it if it came out anyway. But Last Flight, the WiiWare game about fighting vampires on an airplane, is something that we would actually like to play within our lifetime. We're glad to see Bloober Team releasing something about this game, but we're a bit worried that it's concept art.%Gallery-32188%[Via press release]
Last Flight: Vampires on a plane on your Wii
We're going to go ahead and fire a pre-emptive strike: ignore the mention of Nibris in the source article linked to this post. Ignore it completely. Nibris has nothing to do with this completely awesome WiiWare title that has been announced, which means it may have some chance of actually existing.That said ... have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a completely badass, whip-carrying food critic who is also totally capable of killing vampires with whatever happens to be lying around? Enter Last Flight, which is that very game, except it's also on a plane. The cel-shaded game sounds awesome, but we'll have to wait an entire year to find out just how awesome -- it's not slated for release until Q1 of next year.For now, however, we can jump around excitedly over what we do know. Our hero, Larry Adelman, is up against an army of undead, and he's got a whip dipped in holy water ... but that won't curb the threat. No, he's got to stake them. The problem? He's only got four stakes, and when those are gone, he has to use whatever is at hand to make more. Time to get creative, troops! But don't worry. You've got a year to bend your brain toward the extermination of the undead menace.
