Tomonobu Itagaki has taken the wrapping off his next video game project. THQ and Vahalla have announced Devil’s Third, a super-violent new third-person shooter for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Devil s Third looks to build on the work Itagaki started with Ninja Gaiden by adding another component: shooting.
The ex-Team Ninja staffers are creating a breakthrough for the shooting genre, according to Itagaki. Valhalla’s vision is to craft a shooter with a direct feeling of your opponent s demise.
“In looking at real combat, close combat has a more visceral bloody feel to it. I want to get more of that close combat feel in [Devil’s Third],” Itagaki said to in a recent interview. “It’s not taking a hack and slash game and tacking on some ranged weapon combat. We feel we have a lot to learn as we make this, but we also feel confident in our experience and the fundamental elements of head-to-head competition in [our previous] games.”
THQ Executive Vice President Danny Bilson recalls the first time he witnessed the game’s multiplayer mode. “We green-lit the same day,” Bilson said. “Within 10 minutes of meeting Itagaki-san, I wanted to work with him. There was no hesitation at all. It was all about, how do we make a deal and how soon do we make a deal?”
Bilson hopes to make Devil’s Third a part of THQ s transmedia initiative. “As we expose some of the fiction, it all becomes clear,” Bilson says. “[The title Devil’s Third] absolutely came out of the game, there’s a character in the game that has a relationship to the music, said Bilson, referring to classical’s music’s Diabolus in Muisca , the dissonance of tritones.
Itagaki was clear that he had not forgotten his fans. “A lot of fans probably wanted me to continue making fighting games. So, sorry about that to anyone who’s disappointed,” he said. “For people who are fans of Ninja Gaiden, this is going to be a different type of game. Quite different. Even though the genre is new, it’s the same core group making it. Think of the main elements animation, maneuverability, speed, violence, beautiful women all the core game elements, it’s all the same group of guys.”
Source: Kotaku
