Sturmwind: First Trailer For New Dreamcast Euroshmup
December 23, 2010 6:00 AM | Eric Caoili
Munich-based publisher Redspotgames released the first trailer for Sturmwind, its new horizontal-scrolling (though there are some vertical portions!) shoot'em up headed to the Sega Dreamcast next spring.
I hadn't seen much from the game's developer, Duranik (Native), prior to Sturmwind's announcement, but what it's put together here looks amazing! The bosses, giant enemies, and backgrounds the studio's pulled off with its hybrid 2D/3D game engine would look great even on a current generation console, in my opinion.
Sturmwind is expected to feature three difficulty modes, 16 stages, more than 20 bosses, "hundreds of different enemies", an award trophy system, and more. You can preorder a copy of the Dreamcast game from Redspotgames now for €34.95 (US$ 46.00 / 29.50 GBP), with no payment required before its release.
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You know, I was pretty excited for this game... but I'm not sure I like the way the ship/player shoots... then again I guess it would be hard to shoot in the vertical sections if you didn't shoot at weird angles. Hrmmm...
Ujn Hunter | December 23, 2010 10:37 AM
In addition to putting together the Native demo for the Jaguar, Duranik has actually released a couple of games: Alpine Games for the Atari Lynx and a Arkanoid clone for the Atari ST. They also tried to get Native II onto the failed NUON platform but VM Labs foolishly shot that down.
Alpine Games is simply amazing - they managed to push the Lynx well beyond what one could think and the game is fun on top of that. If they maintain that sort of quality in Strumwind (which is looks like they have) then I'm sold on this. It's too bad they can't release a port of this for the Atomiswave system so I could throw it into an arcade cabinet.
Adam | December 24, 2010 11:22 AM
I hope this is good. I love that the Dreamcast is getting love. Then again, I was so excited about Last Hope and did my best to like it, but I just found it pretty disappointing (sorry Last Hope team).
But if Adam says this team's previous games are good, then I will trust his word and have faith. If this game stinks, though, Adam is totally banned from the Internet forever for getting my hopes up!
Mister Raroo | December 24, 2010 4:00 PM
I've only found one video of Alpine Games running on the Lynx and it doesn't do the game any justice. Perhaps I'll have to do a video of it myself.
I have faith in Duranik to make a good game. At least enough to keep me on the internet. :P
Adam | December 28, 2010 11:59 AM