White Knight Chronicles gets town-building, Q1 release for US

White Knight Chronicles gets town-building, Q1 release for US

White Knight Chronicles is targeting a Q1 2010 release date in the US and Europe -- over a year after its Japanese release last Christmas. The reason the game is taking so long to get to the West is because Level-5 is working on extra content, which will be included on the disc. This content will be patched in to the Japanese version for free at around the same time.

Smaller features that are going to be added to the western release of the game include an autorun feature and improvements to the targeting system. The extra online missions that have been released since the Japanese launch -- roughly two a month -- will also be on the disc. Level-5 is also adding a system that was key to their Dark Cloud series, Georama, which will allow you to create your own town during the online portion of the game. Exactly how it'll work or how it will affect gameplay is unclear.

Level-5 is looking in to getting Japanese voices into the western version of the game for Japanophiles, and is still "working on" voice chat, but White Knight chronicles will definitely support cross-region play for the US and Europe when it launches.

That sounds pretty cool, as long as it's not DLCified.

Loved georama system in DC2

Sounds great! I loved that aspect in Dark Cloud 2.

As long as we get more free content, I'm fine with it.

The fact that this now has a 2010 release date blows though.

WHAT Q1!

anyway town building sounds cool!

I thought that sony announced it for 2009, looks like there lineup is starting to shrink.. still the best console lineup the ps3 has had yet though

I never played Dark Cloud, but it looked amazing from the videos i saw.

WKC seems to be having the same effect on me

@leo-J

yup as I'm PS3 owner allt he multiplats like AC2, MW2 count in this great lineup.

we have 2 big exclusives though, uncharted 2 & my favorite R&C:ACIT

Then the Final Fantasy launches Spring 2010....ZOMG (coming from the #1 Fan of FF13)

I think releasing it in Q1 2010 instead of holiday 2009 will help the game's sales. Nice that Level 5 is putting extra content in the game. The 29/40 review in Famitsu must have scared them a lot.