From now on, when you talk about the best combat system in an action-beat em up game, you have to forget about God of War, Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry and every other game; that’s because Bayonetta actually has the most responsive, enjoyable, varied and frantic battle system around and I will explain why after the jump.
 
 

The flexibility of the system and how it gives the player the ability to perform attack moves in various ways is absolutely magical. You can go from light attacks to heavy ones to gun attacks seamlessly without breaking the combo. Unlike most of all action beat em up games, nearly every move in Bayonetta can be jump canceled, but Bayonetta does one better: in many cases, the jump comes out without canceling the attack. The ability to evade and attack simultaneously means that your offensive momentum doesn’t have to stop for anything.
 

Almost every move can be charged. Also, you can go from a light attack to charged attack easily just by holding a button, which actually adds a lot of strategy to the whole system. You will be asking yourself: Should I start the combo with heavy attacks, then finish the combo with lightning fast moves? Or should I start it with gun attacks and move on to fast moves and finish it with super charged move? The options and flexibility in Bayonetta combat feels limitless.
 

Bayonetta also has the richest list of moves in an action-beat em up game thus far. The list of moves go on and on. Every now and then, you will discover a new move that helps you in your battles against the game’s enemies. The game also has some very well animated finishing moves (Torture Moves) that can be triggered whenever the purple meter is filled. Another strategic element in the combat is “Witch Time”, which activates when the player makes a well-timed dodge to an attack. This temporarily slows time to allow Bayonetta to inflict massive amounts of counter damage before the enemies can react. Using enemies weapons also adds an extra layer to the combat and make the whole game more varied and dynamic.
 
 

Ninja Gaiden 2 (or Sigma 2) comes close but doesn’t has the flexibility of Bayonetta, God of War 3 (yes, I have played the demo) is a button masher when compared to Bayonetta, and Devil May Cry 4 lacks the variety of moves found in Bayonetta. Kamiya has raised the bar, redefined the genre and made every other action game feels old and repetitive. Give the demo a try, you will not be disappointed. If you still want to overlook the game, it’s your loss.
 

The original AfterBurner was ported to consoles and was featured in Yu Suzuki epic, Shenmue 2. AfterBurner Climax was released in 2006 in the arcades. The game introduced two new flyable aircraft to the series: the F/A-18E Super Hornet and F-15E Strike Eagle. The iconic F-14 Tomcat from previous games has been replaced with the F-14D Super Tomcat. The game was licensed from and was developed with assistance from Boeing and Northrop Grumman.
 

Sega of America announced in a Word document on its official website by accident details of a meeting with Sony CEA, which took place on 06.08.09.

 
Check the list of points which had been discussed in the meeting:
 

Motion controller for the PS3:
 

* Appears in the spring of 2010 in the USA, in March 2010 in Japan.
 

* 4 million to 5 million units will be sold worldwide.
 

* Sega is offering some of its gaming brands for the controller may be Virtua Tennis.
 

- Bayonetta (PS3, Xbox 360):
 

* For the U.S., with a collector’s edition action figure is expected.
 

* Maybe a demo will be released at Christmas.
 

* The game itself will be released on 05.01.10 in the U.S.
 

- PS2 Emulator for PS3:
 

* Sony CEA wants all of his PS2 games on PSN offer (GTA Vice City, Sonic, etc.)
 

- London Olympics:
 

* The perfect way for the integration of the motion controller.
 

- Dreamcast Digital titles:
 

* Sega Sony wants to provide a list of DC games, of which Sony then chooses what they want to have. exclusive.
 

* If the exclusivity is long enough time, Sony will support the marketing Sega.

- Yakuza:
 

* Yakuza games could be released on the PSN. (prices between USD 9.99 and USD 39.99)
 

* Menus should probably be localized, at least with subtitles.
 

What about these plans and projects will actually be implemented remains to be seen. But the idea of releasing Dreamcast games on PSN is really exciting. Maybe Shenmue 1 & 2 on PSN, we have to wait and see.
 

The Dreamcast was a real hit maker at its time and its failure was never due to software issues, some companies and game makers are still making success until the current consoles generation as a result of a hit first released on the Dreamcast and even without a DVD drive SEGA managed to bring us a deal of “never stop having fun” at that time, The talk about why and how the Dreamcast failed can never end and honestly its not the reason why I wrote this article.

Gaming industry & media never parts and where is media there will be always rumors and lately one of them can really brings someone’s attention claiming that EA is considering a huge risk by entering the hardware Industry from the widest door.

 
Building a powerful list of first class studios, And Strengthen their existed studios both helped EA to be just like a Home to the largest number of studios and development teams in the gaming world, All these studios never stopped investing efforts nearly in every gaming genre, undoubtedly EA made a huge success creating a respectful list of developers and no more than quick check for the list of studios below will make any experienced gamer realize that if not EA no other company can really enter the consoles war and have a high possibility of  being successful even if they depends solely on their own studios.

 
EA list of studios :-
 
- Visceral Games (formerly EA Redwood Shores)
- EA Los Angeles (formerly Westwood Studios)
- EA Montreal
- BioWare
- EA Digital Illusions CE
- Pandemic Studios
- EA Black Box
- Maxis
- EA Phenomic
- Criterion Games
- Mythic Entertainment
- EA Sports
- EA Tiburon (Florida)
- EA Canada (Vancouver)
- EA Sports Big (San Francisco)
- EA-NC (North Carolina)
- EA Casual Entertainment
- The Sims
 
 

One of the main evidence that EA is planning for something big is the well organized network that they built lately gathering all the gamers of their own games in a huge EA Network providing a unique & customizable Avatar for every player and accumulative points that could be earned from any of EA’s games and then using them to customize your avatar, After all EA will be more than happy if you registered your copy of the game on their official website.
 

Why not? If you ask me, I consider EA as one of the top 3 video games providers in this generation of consoles and one of the most successful ever, they managed to do nearly everything to keep the pace with the current generation consoles and they proved their worthiness to gain customers trust.
 

Now lets be honest, Check the list below and I’m sure that every one of us have at least one or two “Must own” games from them, Ok what does that actually means? Consider them as EA’s console exclusive will you buy the console to play your favorite games? Ok I know that not all of you will say “Yea sure I’ll get it!!” but come on, I’m sure that so many gamers will probably go for it, If EA managed to combine reasonable price with a high quality console I’m sure they’ll have a great success.
 
EA list of Games :-

- Pinball Construction Set (1983) by Bill Budge^[66]
- Archon (1983) and Archon II: Adept (1984)
- M.U.L.E. (1983) by Dani Bunten and Ozark Softscape
- One on One: Dr. J vs. Larry Bird (1983) by Eric Hammond
- Music Construction Set (1984) by Will Harvey
- The Seven Cities of Gold (1984) by Dani Bunten and Ozark Softscape.
- The Bard’s Tale (1985) by Interplay Productions
- Mail Order Monsters (1985) by Paul Reiche III, Evan Robinson and Nicky Robinson
- Racing Destruction Set (1985) by Rick Koenig
- Starflight (1986) by Binary Systems
- Skate or Die! (1987), EA’s first internally-developed title
- Lakers versus Celtics (1989)
- Populous (1989) by Bullfrog which EA acquired in 1995
- Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf (1992) by EA’s High Score Production group
- FIFA series (1993—)
- Need for Speed series (1994) (first installment was made by EA in collaboration with Road & Track)
- Ultima Online (1997) by Origin Systems
- Command & Conquer series (titles from 1999–present) by Westwood Studios (earlier titles released by Virgin Interactive)
- Dungeon Keeper series by Bullfrog Productions
- SimCity series (titles from 1999—) by Maxis (earlier titles released by other publishers)
- Medal of Honor series (1999-2008)
- SSX series (2000-2008)
- James Bond series (1999-2005)
- The Sims series (2000—) by EA’s Maxis studio
- Burnout series (2001–present)
- Battlefield series (2002–present) by Digital Illusions CE
- Madden NFL series (1989–present)
- NCAA Football series (1993–present)
- Crysis series (2007–—) by Crytek
- Rock Band series (2007—) by Harmonix
- Mass Effect (2007) by BioWare
- EA Skate (2007)
- Spore (2008) by EA’s Maxis studio
- Dead Space (2008)
- Mirror’s Edge (2008)

Sega started the production of Yakuza 4, this is an evidence that Sega isn’t interested in bringing Yakuza 3 to the state. Also the upcoming huge number of excellent video games in 2009/2010 will make Sega think a million times before they make such a risk like this.

Even if I’m very confident in my reasons, I still hope that I’m wrong. Let us know if you think that Sega will release Yakuza 3 or its sequel other than in Japan.

Although I had finished the game multiple times without understanding the full story of the game (as I mentioned before I played the JP version), I had started to look forward to the US version to experience the game in its full potential. Though the voice acting in the US version was bad, I had enjoyed the game more because of my understanding of the story.
 

I know that shenmue have a lot of annoyances and criticism like the drought of free battles, and the lack of fast forwarding time in the game. But the game was unique and epic at that time. So I had started to anticipate the sequel to see what Yu Suzuki (the creator of shenmue ) can do to improve the sequel.
 

Sega announced that they will halt the production of the Dreamcast, and Shenmue 2 will be released in Japan and Europe for the Dreamcast and the US version will be released exclusively on Microsoft new console at that time, Xbox. Shenmue 1 had sold over one million copies on the Dreamcast and the sequel was not as successful as the first one.
 

So you may ask your self why am telling you a history lesson about Shenmue and Sega? How Shenmue 3 will not work on current generation of consoles? Continue reading to find your answers.
 
The first reason is the development cost of Shenmue was 70 million dollars as it was mentioned by Yu Suzuki, and if he wants to make the game on Xbox 360, Playstation 3 or the Wii it will cost more than that, and it will be a very risky decision for Sega.
 
The second reason is the poor sales of the sequel on Xbox, which is a big sign that the game will not sell well if Sega considered releasing part 3 on current generation of consoles.

 
The third and final reason is new generation of gamers will not play Shenmue 3, why? Because they haven’t played the prequels and the only audience that will play part 3 is Sega fanatics who had bought the Dreamcast.
 
So these are my reasons for why Shenmue 3 will not work on current generation of consoles, but I have more questions for you folks to discuss, will you buy Shenmue 3 if Sega considered releasing it on Dreamcast with the same engine? Or how about releasing Shenmue and its sequel on Xbox live or PSN in an attempt of reviving the franchise before Sega and Yu Suzuki considers making part 3?
 

Check real life shenmue video below