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Posted May 13, 2007 at 09:33PM by Nicolo S. Listed in: Interviews, Games, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions Tags: Square Enix, FFVII, Different World, Gamesradar, Akitoshi Kawazu
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Nothing beats feeling good - Image 1We've got another Square Enix Party '07 interview, and the guys working on Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War speak this time. GamesRadar sat beside Executive Producer Akitoshi Kawazu, Co-producer Shingo Kosuge, and Translator Tom Slattery to get juicy info about this upcoming title.

Since the release of Final Fantasy Tactics back in 1998, several spin-offs were released and Ivalice Alliance was formed. GamesRadar asks, "Have you had to make any adjustments to the game in the remake because of this?" and Kawasu replied "No, there's nothing that particularly changed because of the Ivalice Alliance."

Series fans were filled with joy when Aeris sold them flowers in FFT, while Cloud was a hidden playable character. Are there any new secret characters in the remake? "We've added two new characters, both of whom are from other Ivalice Alliance games: Balthier from Final Fantasy XII and Russo, who is the main character in Final Fantasy Tactics A2," says Kawazu.

More on the interview after the jump!

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Posted Mar 12, 2007 at 09:06PM by Gino D. Listed in: Interviews, Games, Tomb Raider 10th Anniversary Edition Tags: Crystal Dynamics, Gamesradar, Jason Botta
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Tomb Raider Anniversary - Lara Croft goes back to her


Lara is going back to her roots with the release of Tomb Raider: Anniversary. Ten whole years have passed since the world first got introduced to the videogame character that Angelina Jolie further immortalized in the movies. But, with the previous release of Tomb Raider Legends, how good will this remake be?

GamesRadar had a little sit-down with Crystal Dynamics game designer Jason Botta. Today, they published the first part of the interview, and one of the interesting topics they talked about involves how the developers wanted to once again bring out the feeling of solitude that the original game had.

The original game had a feeling of solitude - do you think the new version has a similar feeling?

Yeah it does - that's one of the things that we really noted from the original when we started out to make this remake of sorts, was the fact that the original one had a sense of solitude of Lara in these environments. It was just her for long periods of time with no music and just sort of her exploring and then she would come upon animals in her environment that she'd take out, there'd be another period of no combat, no music, just her ambient sound effects, exploration - we really wanted to recapture that mood and it's definitely become one of the things that we stuck to when we were redesigning the game.


Come to think of it, he's right. Throughout the Tomb Raider franchise, Lara sort of got into a whole mix of things, and had to encounter automatic-rifle'd baddies in the strangest places. In the first game, I do remember walking through whole levels in silence. For some reason, the franchise had slightly veered away from the tomb raiding aspect and focused more on some urban action. Good thing they decided to bring Lara back to her "explorer roots."

You can click the "Read" link below to head on over to GamesRadar's interview.

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Posted Aug 29, 2006 at 08:08PM by Victor B. Listed in: News, Silent Hill Origins Tags: UK, Gamesradar
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Silent HillSo, the Silent Hill movie wasn't all that great, even if they did make a nice rendition of the town's insanity mode and all that.

If you watched it, then that probably means you're a fan. Even if you haven't seen it, but know a lot about it, then this should be easy.

Gamesradar has partnered with Pathe for a Silent Hill movie contest, and the prizes make it all worthwhile. The first prize winner gets a PSP, a UMD of The Silent Hill Experience and a DVD of the Silent Hill movie. Answering one question for the chance at a PSP? Sounds good to me. Three other winners will receive the DVD and UMD, though no free handhelds for you!

What do you have to do? Simply answer this question:

What does the newspaper call Silent Hill?

a) The Tainted Town
b) The Noiseless Knoll
c) The Town of Terror


Check out Gamesradar's official site for details on how to send in entries, and good luck to you guys if you join. Oh, and remember that this is the perfect time for you to be earning that PSP. Silent Hill Origins will be coming out eventually so you might as well get a PSP now through the contest if you don't have one yet.

EDIT: Whoops! Almost forgot. This is a UK promo only folks. Sorry about that. Oh, and no answer spamming or you get disqualified. Thanks to opzero for the reminder.

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