After Burner: Black Falcon Preview

[wraggster]

Heres an excerpt:

MDK. Giants. Armed and Dangerous. Infected. After Burner. Which of these does not belong?

If you guessed After Burner, take a victory sip. It's the one that, you know, isn't a wacky third-person shooter. At least, not with a character on the screen. It's the classic Sega flight combat shooter franchise that became so memorable back in 1987, and now Planet Moon is bringing it to PSP with After Burner: Black Falcon.

This will be the first non-character based shooter, the first game where humor isn't a driving force, and the first established franchise game for the developer -- quite a change of pace for a company known for original games.

"Planet Moon's focus has always been in creating original IP," explains CEO and co-founder Bob Stevenson. "That said, some of the founders had a lot of fun working on classic Sega IP years before starting our own company. I actually worked on a Sega Genesis version of After Burner with Neil Young (EA) and David Perry (Shiny founder) about 14 years ago... Nick Bruty (Planet Moon's president) also worked on a number of Sega tiles including Outrun."

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[Baboon]

The original coin-up used to be quite a good blast back in the day (especially the cabinet that rotated 360 degrees).

This new version looks ok, but its no Ace Combat X beater.

[MaxSMoke]

Of those 5 games, I would say Infected doesn't belong. Mostly because those other games were fun and Infected sucked. Infected was also the only PSP exclusive.

Also, weren't all of those other games produced in the UK? I dunno about Afterburner, but MDK, Giants, and Armed and Dangerous, were all games made in the UK, right?

And since they are making the game from scratch, why call it Afterburner at all? It won't be Afterburner, just a crappy 3D knock-off that bares it's name. It's like Commodore 64 products. Sure you can get an Official Commodore 64 MP3 player, but it doesn't have anything to do with the old-skool system. It just bares the Commodore 64 logo. BFD.