Only 4 days to go until the game comes out in NA and a week for Europe! IGN will be doing a live-stream of XIII-2 and will go live at 11:00am – 1:00pm Pacific time. They will be playing through the first hours of the game so obviously there will be spoilers. Fans can ask their questions to IGN’s official Twitter account and there will be a give-away of XIII-2 goodies such as posters, a Lightning figurine, and a Collector’s Edition of the game. Expect a review as well afterwards.
S-E promised activities in XIII-2 to break up the endless battles and cutscenes, and it looks as though they’ve delivered in this all new trailer.
XIII heroine Lightning, already confirmed to be a Coliseum battle through DLC, has been confirmed to be a playable character in XIII-2 also through the purchase of DLC. Not only will she join your party at some point in XIII-2, she’ll have her own secret episode. Along with this news, it’s been announced that other Final Fantasy bosses will make their own appearances much like Omega Weapon.
It was also announced that Square-Enix has plans to expand the XIII and XIII-2 story in other media, with novels promised featuring Sazh, his son Dahj and the mysterious and exuberant Chocolina.
Source: Nova Crystallis
A full, high quality version of the artwork that we have seen on the cover of Final Fantasy XIII-2′s Scenario Ultimania came out today. Hopefully we’ll be seeing more artworks to be released in the following days to feed our excitement as the game will be released for the rest of the world next week.
Due to the upcoming release of Final Fantasy XIII-2 in North America, you should naturally be seeing some new commercials advertising the game. Below is the most recent one and, after watching it, tell us what you think in the forums!
We’ll be sure to keep you updated with any new advertisements for the game in the coming weeks.
Thanks to Ramenzilla for finding the commercial.
Square Enix has released a brand new trailer for Final Fantasy XIII-2 that showcases one of the most important elements of the game: time travel. Players will be able to use time gates to travel to new areas within different time periods. Check it out below and tell us what you think in the forums!
Source: Novacrystallis
Thanks to Ffamran mied Bunansa for finding and posting the video.
In a recent interview with Famtisu Magazine, Nomura has spoken about Final Fantasy Versus XIII while basically saying nothing. He also confirmed that the development of Square-Enix’s remake of the excellent Final Fantasy X in HD is underway.
The graphics have evolved beyond the fairly impressive trailer shown last year and have improved considerably. A few scenes which do not require much ‘player control’ have been remade in CG to wow audiences with Square’s famous prerendered CG prowess, including the scene where Noctis meets Stella for the first time. Square decided to drop the amount of CG in the latest iteration of the series, Final Fantasy XIII-2, so it’s nice to hear the tradition will continue with Versus.
Said trailer was not previously running on Playstation 3 hardware, however the next time we get a glimpse of Versus it will be running on an actual PS3, giving a better idea of how the game will actually look.
Finally, the event known as the Square Enix 1st Production Department Premier which was held last year will not take place again, which isn’t much of a surprise considering Versus is the only Fabula Nova Crystallis game at the moment.
While we’re all hoping for a full blown public display and perhaps even a release date for Final Fantasy Versus XIII, we can only sit and wait as these announcements have no specific event or date attached. Let’s hope when they actually do show something it will live up to our increasingly heightening expectations.
The promised Final Fantasy XIII-2 demo has been released on the US Playstation Store and Xbox Live Marketplace for Gold Members. The demo is the final build of the Atlas demo which has been playable at various gameshows around the world. It includes full monster taming mechanics and even gives you access to the Crystarium system.
The full game will be available in the US in exactly three weeks, leaving us in Europe a few days extra to anxiously wait. If you’ve got a US PSN account or an Xbox Live Gold account, you can grab the 1.7GB demo right now.
Scans of Final Fantasy XIII-2′s Ultimanias’ covers have emerged on the net today! Have a good look at them right below.
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Get your controllers charged and ready, people! Siliconera has just confirmed that Final Fantasy XIII-2, along with a multitude of other titles, will have a playable demo before the game’s launch.
As of this moment, no details concerning the content of the demo have been released, but we’ll be sure to keep you posted, as always!
Thanks to forum member Meowster for finding the information.
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Japan: December 17th 2009
NA: March 9th 2010
Europe: March 9th 2010 Japan: December 15th 2011 NA: January 31st 2012 Europe: February 3rd 2012 Japan: TBA NA: TBA Europe: TBA Japan: October 13th 2011 NA: TBA Europe: TBA
