Online multi-player for Freedom Wars, the PS Vita multi-player action game, is still as of yet unavailable, but vague wording in the promotional material is getting some Japanese gamers angry before it's even out.
In Freedom Wars, you are a prisoner living in a dystopian future where simply existing is a crime worth a million-year sentence. The game is basically another mission-based multiplayer hunting game, a la Monster Hunter, but it's got enough originality going for it that it still managed to catch my heart despite some…
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Freedom Wars, announced for Japan last year, is coming to North America at some point in 2014. Sony announced the news on their YouTube channel alongside this new trailer (above) for the upcoming Vita game, which lets you team up with other players to take down monsters and shoot your way through prison colonies.…
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Freedom Wars is the upcoming hunting game for the PS Vita where you play a prisoner working off a million year sentence. In the game, players work together along with android companions called "Accessories." Apparently these Accessories can talk and I want to hear what they have to say.
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I've been quite curious about Freedom Wars ever since I completely misjudged what sort of game it would be. So when I discovered that Sony had a playable demo booth set up at this year's Jump Festa, I had to try it out.
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My good friend Martin has a saying whenever we talk about upcoming movies: "Trailers lie." Rarely will what we see in a trailer accurately encapsulate what the actual finished movie or game will be like. A trailer is designed specifically to garner interest, and not necessarily to truthfully describe what it's…
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As promised: more about Sony's recently teased Panopticon, or, as it likes to call itself now, Freedom Wars. And although the trailer up top doesn't tell us much more of the dystopian monster-infested London we've seen before, we now know that Freedom Wars is a multiplayer action game coming to the PS Vita in 2014.
