14 DAY TRIAL // Shinji Mikami, legendary game designer and the head of Platinum Games, has revealed the difficulty settings for his upcoming cover-based third person shooter entitled Vanquish. They are Casual Automatic, Casual, Normal, Hard and God Hard. Mikami also wrote in blog post on the official site of the game that he was surprised how good was playing the game in Casual Automatic mode.
He gave a few details about this. writing that, “Vanquish has four difficulty settings to choose from. One that is surprisingly fun is Casual Automatic mode. Before we started work on it, I can’t say that I had high hopes; however, once we got it up and running, I was pleasantly surprised to see that I was wrong. Once you get your target on the enemy, the rest is easy as pie. I’m sure saying it that way makes it sound totally uninteresting, but when you actually give it a shot, the tempo it gives the game play will make you jump up and say, ‘Woohoo!’”
He continued to comment that, “Yet, I still have to say my recommended difficulty is normal. It takes some time to get used to aiming and firing at enemies on your own, but we’ve fine-tuned the aiming controls, so you should be fine. I have a feeling you will be finding yourself in some very pitched battles. Finally, we have GOD HARD mode. I think our fans will get where this one is going. This mode is only for the chosen few (you can’t select it on your first play through). If you are a bit of a masochist, I think you will have a good time. It is something for our fans to look forward to.”
Vanquish is Bayonetta's creators' take-on the contemporary third person action game. While it has an advanced cover system, the main way Mikami and his team want to stand out from the very large crowd they are getting into is speed. It seems that Vanquish will force the player to make lightning fast decisions, to slide from cover to cover faster than in any other title currently available. Vanquish is set to be released on the 19th of October on the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.