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PlayStation China Hero Project - Seven new PS4 games announced.

ZhugeEX

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PlayStation China held a press conference in Beijing today to announce seven new games.
It's part of the China Hero Project which is an initiative to fund and publish Chinese developed games for PS4 in China and Globally.

It was confirmed that Immortal Legacy and Hardcore Mecha are planned for a 2019 release. Project Boundary will get a beta soon. Lost Soul Aside will get new info later in the year.

The new games announced were-

Evotinction, a third-person "hack and stealth" game



RAN: Lost Islands, a cold-weapon survival game



Convallaria, a online game containing player-versus-enemy and player-versus-player elements



AI-LIMIT, an action RPG



F.I.S.T. (working title), a dieselpunk metroidvania game

https://gematsu.com/2019/03/dieselpunk-metroidvania-fist-announced-for-ps4

In Nightmare, a horror adventure game

https://gematsu.com/2019/03/horror-adventure-game-in-nightmare-announced-for-ps4

ANNO Mutantionem a cyberpunk action RPG

https://gematsu.com/2019/03/anno-mutantionem-joins-playstation-china-hero-project-lineup

Thanks to Gematsu for the videos and articles-

https://gematsu.com/
 

Bundy

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They all look nice. AI-LIMIT and RAN: Lost Islands is good stuff for me :)
 
cyrribrae

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Are these releasing ONLY in China? Or developed in China for a primarily Chinese audience, but with international release? Interesting to see a Japanese company dive in with China. The sociopolitical implications interest me more than the games TBH haha

Edit: I reread the first sentence. My bad. In China and globally. Interesting...
 
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ZhugeEX

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cyrribrae said:
Are these releasing ONLY in China? Or developed in China for a primarily Chinese audience, but with international release? Interesting to see a Japanese company dive in with China. The sociopolitical implications interest me more than the games TBH haha
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It's in the OP.....
 
modiz

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Convallaria, AI Limit, and the 2D games looked good to me. i didnt really care for the other games however.
 
Inuhanyou

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interesting...dont really know what to expect from chinese made games...anyone can give me any details? i dont think i've ever played a chinese game before outside of Alice Madness returns(does that count?)
 
Dewin

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This looks promising. Sure, it'll have a few misses but i can see the potential.
 
Strings

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I really like the look of FIST. The combat animations blend surprisingly well with the artstyle, and the boss has a neat design.
 
noyram23

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These looks interesting and much more enticing than the usual western AAA we get, the jank does it for me
 
kenta

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I'm having massive deja vu right now. Could have sworn there was another PlayStation thing in China a few years ago where they announced a bunch of games — am I crazy? Did those release?
 
gigaslash

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Really don't know what I'm more excited about, the "cold weapons" game, all the "player-versus-enemy and player-versus-player elements" or the discard Nier Automata.

That being said, apart from weird pitches and silly naming, some of these games look pretty promising. Nothing mind blowing, but a pretty intriguing showing.
 
Strings

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kenta said:
I'm having massive deja vu right now. Could have sworn there was another PlayStation thing in China a few years ago where they announced a bunch of games — am I crazy? Did those release?
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This is their second one of these. Those games are still in development / some are this year, while others are undetermined.
 
nelsonroyale

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Good stuff. Seems like chinese games are coming leaps and bounds graphically which is great. AI Limit in particular looked impressive
 

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Wow, these look better than I expected. They might even get 2% of the China to buy PS4s now.

Anno Mutantionem and F.I.S.T look particularly good.
 
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erlim

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China is a complete unknown to me. I'm still hazy on the legality of game development and general creative culture in an authoritarian state. It's even weirder to me that these games are being out on console and not PC which I would imagine is the preference for Chinese gamers. Really peculiar from the West looking to the East.
 

Kismet

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They all look like those Ps2 60-70 score Metacritic games.

I usually love those games.
 

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Holy shit it's 682.
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Love the art style, but is that even legal?
 
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Clov

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Wow, some of these games look pretty great! Really liking the look of AI-LIMIT. Hopefully I can play some of them soon.
 

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China seems the new eastern europe for Sony to produce AA, it can be good opportunities for locals studios. Behind the copy-past industry, a lot of weird but sometimes well-crafted games are already on mobile stores and Steam (there was a thread was about it recently).
 
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