Atlus To Bring First Titles to Xbox 360

November 16, 2007 5:08 PM

For fans of Japanese RPGs and other quirky games like the Trauma Center series, Tokyo-based game developer and publisher Atlus is a well-known name. But none of the company's works have seen a release on Microsoft's Xbox 360 platform in the states.

That will change next year, as the North American publishing arm Atlus U.S.A. has become an official third-party publisher for Xbox 360, the company announced today. The first two titles coming to the platform will arrive in 2008: Operation Darkness from an unannounced developer and Spectral Force 3: Innocent Rage from Idea Factory.

Operation Darkness is a strategy RPG set in an alternate World War II-era reality, where magic-using soldiers must be utilized to overthrow Hitler's own sorcerous squadrons. Spectral Force 3 is the first in the series of tactical RPGs to come stateside and pits players as a mercenary able to recruit up to 40 characters in the mystical world of Neverland.

Carlos Bergfeld

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Damodred

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November 16, 2007 5:16 PM

This is really cool. Atlus can be counted on to provide really quirky and unique titles. Even if they're sometimes rough and uneven, it's nice to see a publisher taking risks as a business model.

Their stuff also often disappears from store shelves and becomes a cult classic. Hopefully with XBLA there'll be less of the disappearance, and more of the cult classic thing :)
- Vincent Grayson
  
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  November 16, 2007 5:24 PM
  
  It's not like they're releasing arcade titles, these are full games (albeit ones developed by other companies)
  - Damodred
    
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    November 16, 2007 7:12 PM
    
    Hah, -10 to reading comprehension. Somehow I was thinking of XBLA and their smaller stuff. Nevermind :P Still, good that they're not PS3 exclusive!
- nurikabe
  
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  November 16, 2007 8:24 PM
  
  Operation Darkness is pretty solid (provided they fix the awful camera), so I'm happy to see it come over.
  
  From what I've heard, Idea Factory games (Spectral Force 3) tend to be pretty bad though...