The evolution of Heavenly Sword: originally intended for the Xbox 360?

I played the demo for that game, and it was teh sucks. Every attack was really weak. It had cool platforming parts, like when you're running down this huge rope, but combat was a bummer.

interesting stuff. Good report :)

Does anyone else get the feeling that if it had released on the original Xbox as intended, it would have just been another game that was critically acclaimed yet sold horribly and was forgotten a console generation later like Otogi and Gunvalkyrie? That's the feeling I get from the early videos.

The wait is definitely going to pay off for Ninja Theory.

She got a lot hotter as the videos progressed...

Sony stole Heavenly Sword. :U

So what's the diff between this game and that new CONAN game that's coming out except in this your play as a bint?

Just looks like another button-mashing, 3D, scrolling beat-em-up to me with fancy camera angles and purty graphics.

...ignore me, I'm jaded.

welp, good job MS. while the gameplay doesn't look shocking, it does look like it'll be a good positive for sony's end. and hell, i really wanna play it.

hmm...didnt this make it to every news site a few months ago? i remember watching that vid

i really like the combo system in this game. this is a great title for sony and most people will enjoy it. there are some that seem like its not their cup of tea but most people ive showed the demo to were all amazed by it. the games got awesome visuals, an exciting fighting system and amazing cutscenes and interaction between the characters so who wouldnt want this game to be a part of their next gen library?

Wow, with that shit for a possible game, no wonder Microsoft gave it the boot.
If Sony had been offered that shitty product, they probably would have turned it down too.
WAIT!!!
I forgot that The Ps2 was a third party Prostitute last console generation!
They would have accepted it, and just proved to even more people that Sony is the Pamela Anderson of Video games.
Looks good on the outside, and you hear alot of cool stories about it, but after you mess with it, you end up with HERPES.

@synce
I also like owning both consoles, because then I can use the Ps3 for a display stand.
Heavenly Sword looks great, but Man 360 would have been way to go too bad the shit couldn't have looked good back when it mattered for micro-squish.

Played the demo and after getting used to the combat style I really enjoyed it. Is it similar to God of War, sure, but there are so many differences that they really shouldn't be compared outside of the fact that they are both action games of similar settings, and the fact that the main character has blades on chains. Ooooo yea that makes them the same right there I'l tell ya.

Nuriko has different stances, speed (default), ranged, and power. Each having different effects and damage range, and it really adds great diversity to the gameplay rather than just holding block down to block pretty much any attack in god of war. You have to be in the proper stance to block your enemies attacks in heavenly sword, and sometimes you have to switch stances when an enemy is attacking you mid combo to block them all. Also, the air combos as you launch an enemy upwards are also different and well done, only thing I would change is shaking the sixaxis to get Nuriko to jump up and go for an air combo.

Overall it looks great so far, and if you like games like this it doesn't look like it will disappoint.