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Tokyo Jungle lets you put roller skates on an elephant
The latest Tokyo Jungle screens, explained by Andriasang, introduce a lot about the PS3 game, like items that confer status effects on your animal (like, say, flea shampoo), and challenge missions that help you achieve higher rank and unlock more playable animals, and costumes for those animals.But it's hard to pay attention to any of that stuff when there are screenshots of an elephant wearing giant roller skates. Repeat: an elephant wearing roller skates.
Tokyo Jungle invades European PSN next year
SCEE has announced that the weird, kind of disappointing animal survival game Tokyo Jungle will migrate to Europe in 2011. Tokyo Jungle stars a collection of wild and once-domestic animals attempting to survive -- and eat -- in a post-humanity version of Tokyo. No announcements have been made regarding a North American release of this game. Concurrent with this announcement, Sony has released an English version of the TGS trailer -- which is worthwhile, since the trailer is almost all text. You'll find that after the break, and you can see more screens at the PlayStation Blog.
Tokyo Jungle preview: It's a dog eat dog world
Tokyo Jungle has an interesting concept behind it. In the aftermath of what appears to be a catastrophic, human-extinction event, you play as a variety of animals trying to survive in the ruins of Tokyo's urban jungle. In the TGS demo I played, I took control of a dog whose singular goal was to eat everything he possibly could. A number on the top left corner of the screen shows your health, which dwindles as you go without food. How does one get nourishment? Sneaking up on other animals and eating them, of course! The game is a rather simple 2D platformer, with no real need for exploration. By pressing R2, you can sniff the ground and find animals on your radar. Crouch and hide behind bushes, and you'll be able lock on and attack your prey: birds, rabbits, cats -- all on the menu. The surprisingly violent (and ferocious) animations do little to make Tokyo Jungle feel like more than a novel concept. It doesn't take long before jumping on an unsuspecting rabbit gets old. The mediocre presentation and lackluster visuals don't add much flair to the overall experience. I'm interested in seeing how the other animals play, but I definitely walked away from the demo less enchanted than I expected. Check out the trailer after the break.
Tokyo is a battleground for animals in PS3's 'Tokyo Jungle'
The latest game to be born from Sony's "PlayStation CAMP" initiative, which brought us both What Did I Do to Deserve This, My Lord!? and Patchwork Heroes, is simple to describe yet difficult to explain. Tokyo Jungle is about animals running free in the streets of Tokyo in the year 20XX, and doing their best to survive against the other creatures roaming the city. Story Mode takes players through missions, each played as a different animal, including a race horse craving competition and a pet Pomeranian craving ... food. During these missions, you'll learn what happened to make the humans leave Earth. Survival Mode allows players to pick from over 80 different animals -- like elephants, chimps (in overalls!) and porcupines -- and survive as long as possible. Tokyo Jungle will arrive in the still-populated Japan this winter. [Thanks, Copland]
