Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios made an look at The Recreation Awards to indicate off two new titles: One a brand new title, and one older. The primary trailer is for a brand new entry within the legendary preventing recreation franchise, Virtua Fighter, which Sega plans to debate in additional element in an upcoming direct occasion. The second is for a wholly new IP — an historic action-adventure recreation presently known as Mission Century.
Justin Scarpone, Sega’s world head of transmedia, teased the existence of a brand new Virtua Fighter earlier this yr in an interview with VGC. It’s one in every of many older franchises the corporate is reviving, together with Loopy Taxi and Jet Set Radio. On the time, all Scarpone stated was that “another Virtua Fighter” was in improvement. The trailer offers a manner little in regards to the new recreation, not even at title, although it does present one fighter who seems to be franchise stalwart Sarah Bryant.
RGG Studios is finest identified for its Like a Dragon sequence (previously known as Yakuza), and so they have made historic adventures earlier than — Like a Dragon: Ishin! was set throughout the Bakumatsu interval, for instance. Mission Century is about in 1915 Japan, and seems to be separate from any of the present characters and tales within the sequence to date.