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What's the game about?

Pretty people doing pretty things, prettily. Beyond that, we're not really sure yet. Versus XIII was announced simultaneously with Final Fantasy XIII more than three years ago, but until now we've seen shockingly little of the game. A CG trailer of a moody guy wielding psychic weapons, some beautiful operatic music, a guy in a dopey asymmetrical suit talking to a lady on a skyscraper's observatory deck, and nothing more. Somehow it all ties into FFXIII, and every trailer has been carefully prefaced with the promise that it's a fantasy based in reality, but that's really all Square Enix has shown of the game until now.

What's new for TGS?

Previous Versus XIII trailers have been exquisitely gorgeous CG trailers full of meticulously crafted violence and porcelain-skinned warriors; this latest trailer couldn't be more different. It doesn't contain a single second of prerendered CG, and its presentation quality is abysmal; the entirety of the clip is a real-time game engine demo filmed off the screen of a dev kit by a handheld video camera. The contrast to what has come before is actually sort of hilarious, but clearly Square was eager to show a proof that they have a functioning game engine, of sorts.

What's our take?

Old-timers probably remember the very first ever Final Fantasy X demo from that Square Enix event in which the entire PS2 Final Fantasy lineup was announced in one go. That demo consisted of little more than a dark-haired Tidus running through a real-time game world doing nothing of consequence. This is more or less the spiritual successor of that FFX demo: The hero of Versus runs through mostly empty city streets before heading out into open plains, where a number of monsters snapped at and pursued him. There was no combat to speak of, as the hero simply ran and never attacked, but at least this points toward Versus XIII being some sort of action game -- possibly in the Crisis Core vein. Beyond that, we can't even begin to speculate? but we will be surprised if Versus XIII manages to show up on retailer shelves before 2011. At the very least, one would certainly hope that we'll have something a little more concrete to offer in the way of details at next year's TGS.

It's obvious that the game is still in an early stage and everyone is busy working on FFXIII, so can't 1UP wait before judging the game like this.

Any intelligent person will know it's WAY too early to judge now.

nope, if they did that MS checks would stop coming

Well, considering this will probably have a late 2010/2011 release...it's too early to judge.

What the hell?

how is it that early in development when its been in production for over 3 years?!!

This is very disappointing, but atleast we know it exists!

Yeah, this game should have been announced in this year's TGS, no even that is too early.

The day FFXIII releases in japan would have been better, through a hidden trailer in the game KH style.

Fixed.

It still exists, that is all everyone should take from this. The moment FFXIII is released worldwide, is the moment FFversusXIII goes into full development. I expect an Holiday 2010 release unless they wait until after XIV then they push it to 2011

when they say abysmal. does that means bad?.