Waiting for Heavenly Sword 2? Don't hold your breath
- Posted March 19th, 2008 at 14:40 EDT by
- 21 Comments
With the recent murmurs out of Chicago that a survey was conducted about what people would like to see in regards to Heavenly Sword 2 sending PlayStation fans into anticipation, it has all been short-lived. Ninja Theory has officially confirmed that they are not working on a Heavenly Sword sequel whatsoever and that their next IP will be a multiplatform title.
With Heavenly Sword being the property of Sony, it would only make sense for this new project to have very little to do with it, considering it will find its way to the 360 as well. Alongside the developing of the new game in question, Ninja Theory is heavily considering releasing a CGI movie utilizing the game's engine in order to design it.
Nina Kristensen, co-founder and chief developer at Ninja Theory had this to offer up, "We're certainly targeting a triple-A blockbuster, with two and a half years in production – a big game that builds on our core strengths of story-telling, cinematics and combat. But we're actually looking at something in addition to that – we're considering opportunities in creating a CGI movie using the game engine alongside the game itself.
"The game's certainly the most important thing, and we haven't decided for sure to do this, but it's something we're looking at. It's an interesting idea," she added.
All of this does sound promising if the studio is able to deliver a game with a much longer storyline while maintaining the same cinematic experience that they've already shown they're capable of. They already have a publisher signed on for the game, so everything is already in the works. As much as we're disappointed to not be rewarded with a sequel to Heaven Sword just yet, we still anxiously await the full announcement of this next title in the Ninja Theory library of games.
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Fiddlesworth
- 10:43am EDT - March 19th, 2008
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Never know.. it could be PS3 and PSP. :p They're already got some very solid PS3 tech to work on top of at least, let's just hope they make the most of the Cell+RSX's combined muscle and Blu-ray's capacity.
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Undying_Darkness
- 10:54am EDT - March 19th, 2008
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ill be buying it, i already know that, heavenly sword was amazing!
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TekkenLord
- 11:33am EDT - March 19th, 2008
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aww man i was really looking forward to HS 2. but hope this new title they make is as action packed as HS. please don't make a FPS.
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Mattchewie
- 11:51am EDT - March 19th, 2008
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Couldn't Sony just get insomniac to make the sequel if NT isn't interested? I mean since HS is a sony property and all.
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SamTheSkater
- 1:39pm EDT - March 19th, 2008
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i totally agree with French here. that might happen. i wanna see a heavenly sword 2.
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chomperbull
- 2:32pm EDT - March 19th, 2008
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atleast its going 2 be a ps3 title ported 2 the cra#box
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AclayPS3
- 3:48pm EDT - March 19th, 2008
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I really don't think that Ninja Theory made the right decision to not develop Heavenly Sword 2 right away, I'm really dissapointed. If they plan to have 2 and a half years of development on their next game, that would mean that it wouldn't come out until 2010 at least... oh well.
I guess Heavenly Sword 2 will be on the PS4 or something because the sequel to Heavenly Sword would take around 2 additional years and by the time Ninja Theory releases their Multiplatform game in 2010, we'll be talking about next-gen consoles.
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IRONMAIDEN
- 3:52pm EDT - March 19th, 2008
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they can go ahead and cancel it for all i care. theres so many other hach and slash titles out
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Alpha2
- 4:21pm EDT - March 19th, 2008
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it'll be a true multiplatform title, they didnt make a huge amount on HS because people kept calling it "short" which effected sales. concidering how much they spent on HS it makes sense. I just hope that it means they'll use the money they make on a multiplat title to make a new exclusive HS game.
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InfernoReaper
- 2:07pm EDT - March 20th, 2008
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As long as the PS3 version doesn't get dumbed down like with most other developers, I will have hope for this one.
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evilmonkey501
- 8:51pm EDT - June 2nd, 2008
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@ everyone!!!! this game went Platinum...1 million copies!..they WILL make a sequel....after God Of War 3 maybe?...www.psu.com/Heavenly-Sword-surpasses-one-million-mark-News--a0003783-p0.php
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