Tuesday, June 19, 2007

3 New Oriental Legend 2 Videos

I love a good beat em up. Though the old school genre hasn't been given much love lately in the way of releases, IGS seems to be wanting to change that with their release of Oriental Legend 2 on their new PGM2 arcade hardware. The original PGM system was created as an alternative to the NEO GEO in the late 90's, but has since grown into a rather niche corner hold of the market.

Though some of the most well known games on the system have been Cave shooters (such as Ketsui), there were also several good fighting games (Spectral VS) and beat em ups (the first Oriental Legend) to satisfy any gamers genre cravings. I haven't seen much in the way of new information on the PGM2 (picture below) when it comes to system specs, but I believe the system is supposed to be only a slightly reworked PGM, and not the introduction of a true next generation arcade machine.


The first Oriental Legend was a bit paint by numbers, but the history of the eastern folk tales that went into the game was interesting at least. I'm not expecting a revitalization of the genre because of Oriental Legend 2, but I'm expecting at least a few solid hours of great beat em up gameplay. The videos at least seem to show that the game should be able to fulfill that expectation. All of these videos were originally found on Daily Motion.








3 comments:

B. Yoo said...

Hello,
those videos have been recorded on GTI Asia Taipei Expo 2007 (May 2007).
There will be 10 characters avalaible, from original chinese book "Journey to West".
The game will be released on October 2007, and new pictures will be sent by IGS on August.

RyanDG said...

Thanks for the update. Those were great videos that you posted by the way. I'll update the post on my blog with the information about where the videos were originally recorded just as soon as I get the chance.

B. Yoo said...

Thank you but I've just uploaded those captured videos on a chinese forum. I think it may be much fair to credit "IGS-fans club":
http://bbs.myifc.org/thread-6439-1-1.html
http://bbs.myifc.org/thread-6440-1-1.html
http://bbs.myifc.org/thread-6441-1-1.html
(very slow server in france: hope it's a bit faster with you)