Thursday, November 4, 2010

3D Rockman Announced For New SoftBank Phone

Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank unveiled a spiffy new smartphone tonight by the name of "GALAPAGOS". Sporting a high definition 3D display, the phone will feature a wide variety of 3D media without the need for glasses, much like the Nintendo 3DS.

Capcom will be a major supporter of the device and plans to roll out quite a few titles. According to various Japanese news outlets, "Rockman 3D" was announced as one of the initial titles for the phone, available as pre-installed software.

Unfortunately, the game is not quite as neat as its title suggests: it's nothing more than a port of Rockman 1 with the option to display the game in stereoscopic 3D, emulating the illusion of depth. Pictured above, you can see a screenshot of the game running on Galapagos, sans the 3D effect. Much like the Mega Man 2 iPhone port, gameplay will be carried out via the touch screen, however some models of the phone will apparently support a slide-out keypad -- an implication that an alternate control scheme is possible.

Rockman 3D launches with the phone in mid-December, exclusive to Japan.

Update: Added/omitted minor details; larger screenshot added.

8 comments:

  1. Cool enough for me!

    Too bad I'm not Japanese.

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  2. Meh, it just sounds like the Mega Man 1 equivalent of the 3DS Mega Man 2 port. I'm not very impressed.

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  3. Only Rockman 1!? Normally, you would expect the second game.....

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  4. So, it's like how the 3DS is getting MegaMan 2, except that 3DS is more world wide.

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  5. I bet Roll won't be playable like she was in that last phone version of Rockman. :(

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  6. Yep, so Protodude isn't American.

    Wonder why I thought you were. O_o

    Sorry, useless comment. XD

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  7. Ewwww.... touchscreen controls.

    Seriously, can we be done with those now?

    I still don't know how iPhone games still sell.

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