Posted Apr 20, 2007 at 10:31PM by Ian C. Listed in: Rumors Tags: Ninja Theory
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The Heavenly Sword official website is now up and running, it even offers a few videos and an area that allows registered site visitors to download fan packs that should contain artwork from the game. The bad part? Well, all that goodness seems to be reserved for UK visitors. Below are two screenshots of what the UK site for Ninja Theory's Heavenly Sword looks like:

UK site - Image 1 UK site - Image 2 


And below is the North American page:

US page - Image 1 


See the difference? Of course, it could be that the folks responsible for the US page have something up they're sleeves and they're still preparing to release said creativity upon the Internetz, but that's just probably us being nice.



UPDATE: It seems that other folks went past what yours truly did and instead of just mining the European pages for information, since the US page is oh so amazingly blank, they went a step further and checked out the META tags for the Heavenly Sword Site using the view-source function of your browser of choice. What turned up? Well, check this screenshot out:

Heavenly Sword - Image 1 


This has apparently fueled rumors about not only a possible PSP version of Heavenly Sword, but also an anime for it as well. What got people in that rumormongering mood? Methinks it's the fact that back then we all thought that a God of War for the PSP was unlikely and look at what he have now. Moreover, Dante's Devil May Cry anime is starting to make its rounds around the intertubes. People are in the mood to hope.

The big thing going against the likelihood of this rumor is that it's very, very, very likely that those tags are just put there by opportunistic Internet Search optimization folks, seeing that Heavenly Sword does have an eastern feel to it, hence the anime tag, and it's for the PlayStation 3, a member of the PlayStation brand that the PSP is part of.

Reason for us to be hopeful. Nope not enough reason yet. But if the rumor is true - that there will be an Anime and a PSP version for Heavenly Sword, then we wouldn't be surprised if it is. Again, look at God of War.

Regardless of rumor Heavenly Sword is turning out to be one heck of a title to watch out for. Especially given the story details found in the Story section of the site.


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   by STop claiming first (Unregistered) - 2007-04-20
 » Haiz

Can the people over here stop claiming to always be first... It is so pointless........ Stop all this nonsense!


   Re: Laurel (Unregistered) - 2007-04-20
 » Idiot.

Making the focus of your post "pointless first" crap is just as meaningless as a "first" post itself. Idiot.

Talk about THE SUBJECT AT HAND, guys.

Anyway. Heavenly Sword on PS3? Let alone PSP... I wonder when that would be. Not in our immediate future, with high quality games like those. I'm, of course, also judging based on past experiences with the game.

   Re: xche78x (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » hahaha

hey mr stop claiming first, you cant wait to be on first post you forgot to what you were supposed to say and instead made something similar to being pointless.
i like heavenly sword to appear on psp, but i guess the rumor mentioned above is a little bit bland, it will not come to psp this way because they also mention ps1 and ps2 there. and heavenly sword on psp may just look like another rehash like the prince of persia series which are great on big brother consoles but ugly on psp.
   by BurnZ (Unregistered) - 2007-04-20
 » ...

Ppfftt... keywords don't mean anything. See how it says PlayStation and PlayStation 2? That doesn't mean they are going to make versions of the game for them. It also lists hair twice, oooooo. >.>


   Re: CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS - 2007-04-21
 » Good Point

It does say that too.

   Re: Tarkus (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » yes

i agree.

   Re: lololz (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » omg!

they're making one for the ps1 and ps2!?
   by TimPV3 (Unregistered) - 2007-04-20
 » *****

Yet another retarded post at QJ.net. Those are keywords to make the site come up in a search engine, and have nothing to do with a PSP version. It also says computer, does that mean it'll have a PC port as well?

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   by Sony PlayStation 3 (Unregistered) - 2007-04-20
 » The Official Website Timing Out

At the moment, I cannot access to the official website of Heavenly Sword. It will give me an error message about timing out or the server is busy.

   by adasd (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » yeah sure

the PSP could have a game like heavenly sword but it would look like ***** if made in the same way as the PS3 game since the fun of the game is beating up thousands of dudes it needs something like the Cell processor to handle all that in a good way or it would look like any Dynasty Warriors crap

   by mick (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » dudes

research before you post, what the guys have said is true. i am a web designer and meta keywords are used for search engines like yahoo and msn, so if someone searches psp it may appear in the results.

definitely no cryptic clue.

   by mick (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » btw

there are animated episodes coming, if you register on the site you will get artwork from the episodes and will get an email when the first episode is available.

   by holohgram (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » whoat?

There is tag for PS2, Playstation 2 too!

:O THEY ARE MAKING IT FOR PS2!!!!!!!!


NOT!


   Re: potat4o - 2007-04-22
 » .

That's what I was thinking
   by comedy - 2007-04-21
 » first!

hehehe... i like it when people do the late first posts....

yeah, this is a bit of a non-event imo, i mean come on why would they bother making a ps2 or psp version? i do remember seeing a snippet of heavenly sword on that show 'heroes' a while back, to be honest it looks like it's basically a god of war clone... that's not too bad but it isn't really original... oh well, it'll be fun to play

   by Devise (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » ...

LOL hard @ this article.

Using Meta Tags as a source of credible information is just ridiculous.

   by Ortiz (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » Uhh..

That's just a tag to attract visitors from search engines. What a bunch of crap, people come up with some crazy news in order to get more hits, eh? :P

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   by sex (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » sex

sex*****

   by Dodo - 2007-04-21
 » ...

LMFAO you guys at QJ can be f-ing retard at times. Meta tags are simply way to get more search results, thus more visitors. They also have Playstation 2 meta tag there, does that mean there will be HS on PS2 also? Very unlikely.

F-ing wise up for f's suck!

   by AZ0 (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » Unbelievable.

I knew QJ bloggers were stupid. But the fact that they know nothing about basic HTML is absolutely astounding. Not surprising at all. And even without knowing about meta tag keywords, here's a hint. LOOK AT EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE LIST!

Oh look, PS2. It must be coming to PS2 as well. Oh look. COMPUTER. It must be coming to PC as well. Brilliant article but for the love of god QJ, know what you are talking about for once.

   by MGSnake727 (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » PSPhacks

what ever happened to the good old psphacks?, that at least didn't let people know they had no idea what they were talking about.

   by Ublender (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » There will be anime

It says this when you register in order to get "exclusive downloads"

"You will be notified when the first Heavenly Sword episode animated episode is released."

   by Pentaton (Unregistered) - 2007-04-21
 » ...

guys be quiet, not everyone is a computer geek, or coder
so what ever information they have it's good for the rest of us.

if they make the game for every system, that's great, if not, that's cool as well.

can't wait for this game



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