PLAYSTATION 3 FORUMS: PS3 News and discussion

Koei has taken the first wraps off Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 3 in this week’s spate of Japanese game magazines. The new title, which doesn’t have a firm release date yet, is being developed for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and will feature online gameplay on both consoles.

Like with the previous games in the series, DW: Gundam is a one-versus-ten-million action game that features giant robots from the Gundam anime shows, as opposed to the usual ancient Chinese generals seen in the main Dynasty Warriors series. Besides the new online play, the biggest new feature in DW:G3 is the visuals — Koei producer Hisashi Koinuma and his team are going for a cel-shaded graphic look this time around.

“We deliberately tried to change up the visual style this time,” Koinuma told Famitsu magazine in an interview. [Co-producer Yoshitaka] Goto suggested that cel anime-style graphics would be the way to go this time, and that’s something nobody’s ever attempted in a Gundam game up to now, so it piqued my interest.”