Drone Tactics is Atlus's turn-based strategy game for the Nintendo DS featuring armies of giant machanized insects, and it has been pushed back a couple of weeks. Now due out on April 8th, the game features highly customizeable squads of robot bugs waging war across dozens of story missions, 50 additional maps, and head to head local wireless play for those of you so inclined. In exchange for two weeks of your life, Atlus offers these new screenshots and bits of concept art to make April 8th seem even further away. Thanks a lot, Atlus!

Drone Tactics Prepares To Attack On April 8th

Giant Insect Mechs Require Two Extra Weeks Before Completed, Ready to Crush Enemies

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA - FEBRUARY 15th, 2008 - Atlus U.S.A., Inc. today provided an arsenal of screenshots and game art from Drone Tactics, the upcoming turn-based strategic warfare RPG for Nintendo DSTM. With a deeply customizable army of mechanized insects at their command, players will be able to fend off the Black Swarm by upgrading their squadrons with a broad array of weapons and power-ups, and send them into battle with explosive techniques and ability cards at their disposal. Combatants can even customize the look of their drones with different paint jobs and emblems-or design their own with the stylus.

Drone Tactics is now scheduled to swarm onto store shelves on April 8th, 2008.

For more on Drone Tactics, please visit www.atlus.com/dronetactics.

About Drone Tactics
Transported to an alien world, you find yourself in the middle of a great conflict. An army of evil Drones is on the march, threatening to obliterate the land of Cimexus. Its inhabitants now turn to you to lead them in battle against the Black Swarm. Each level offers new challenges, and taking full advantage of each Drone's unique specialties will be the difference between success and defeat!

Key Features
- Build and command your own Drone army - Wreak mechanical havoc with your squad of insect mechs, choosing from over 100 weapons, upgrades, and power-ups to optimize your forces
- Conquer dozens of campaign operations and over 50 additional maps - Take on the forces of the Black Swarm then confront the challenges that wait in the mysterious Badlands
- Battle for domination in head-to-head combat - Friends become enemies in local wireless play

Drone Tactics has been rated E10+ (Everyone 10 and older) with Mild Fantasy Violence and Mild Language by the ESRB.

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