STACK #153 Jul 2017

GAMES FEATURE

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NAMCO

Words Alesha Kolbe and Paul Jones Fight club

N amco Bandai had the jump on most publishers at E3 – the majority of its titles are actually releasing in 2017. With the sheer quantity of games announced at E3 slated for 2018 (and beyond), it was refreshing to be able to head into a booth and know that most of what we played would be coming out later this year, especially with such a strong line-up of games on offer. Namco’s E3 booth was impressive this year. Spearheaded by a giant Ni No Kuni II: Revenant

Ni No Kuni II - Revenant Kingdom

once I got my bearings, took to roaring around the beautiful scenery. PC2 genuinely looks incredible – and there’s a great roster of cars in the line-up, too (including my own personal go kart). Can’t wait for this one. Fans (myself included) have been waiting a while for a fair dinkum 2D fighting game for the Dragon Ball series, and now our prayers have been answered with Namco dropping Dragon Ball FighterZ . Playable on the booth were six characters from the DBZ universe – I leant in favour of Majin Buu and Frieza

out back for media to try out anything and everything – complete with reputably lousy

Kingdom throne photo op, there was also a shiny Project CARS 2 McLaren 720s on display (probably where I spent the most time, if I’m

American covfefe. I jumped right in with Project CARS 2 , and was warned from the get- go that the code we were playing

had very ‘realistic’ (in other words, unforgiving) handling on the driving – basically, that was their way of saying they didn’t expect me to last very long. I took it in my stride, and

honest), and a forest-y setup for Dragon Ball FighterZ – which (unsurprisingly) always had the longest lines. Fortunately, there was a separate area

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