Nintendo News | Tecmo Turns Revolution Offline

More details are quickly pouring forth from the latest issue of Famitsu magazine, the one heralded by gamers over the past few weeks thanks to the promise of exclusive Revolution information. Following the news of Konami's Elebits, IGN Revolution is reporting that there is an interview with Tecmo's Keisuke Kikuchi within the hallowed pages. Kikuchi is the producer of the previously confirmed Skatto Golf Pangya Revolution, which was revealed during February of this year. The game is renowned throughout Korea in the PC world for its online action, so many presumed this would naturally be carried over to the Revolution.

Unfortunately, though, Kikuchi-san (who previously worked on Gallop Racer and the Fatal Frame titles) has said that whilst there is good news in that Tecmo will approach the Revolution version of Pangya as if it was a brand new game, not a port, the game will NOT have online gameplay. However, he hopes to include downloadable content in some form.

Tecmo's aim is to create a completely new standard in golfing for the home console, focusing on three main areas - the enjoyment of moving the freehand controller during play; creating a firmly more-defined world than in the PC game; and making the game in such a way that players will return to play for a short while each day for a long time into the future. He specifically highlights how gamers will surely be enamoured by being able to actually move their body whilst playing, making them feel much more immersed in the golfing environment than normal. But there will also be a fully button-based control scheme to compliment the Revolutionary system for extreme precision. Multiple character, each one with strong storylines and stacks of extras are just some of the inclusions in what sounds like a worthy competitor to the Tiger Woods series from Electronic Arts.

Skatto Golf Pangya Revolution is down as a launch title for the Revolution in Japan this year and has been confirmed as being on show at E3 in May.

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