Final Fantasy XIII trailer

BlimBlim
Friday, January 30, 2009 | 12:29 PM
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Square-Enix FINALLY released a new trailer of Final Fantasy XIII, announcing the demo to be bundled with the new version of the Advent Children movie. And what a trailer it is!
Update 2: It looks like every site out there has posted the video last night, so it should be safe to have it here too. I've captured the Xbox Marketplace trailer, with subtitles.

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Megido

Commented on 2009-01-28 22:52:12

Drsw: The visuals just aren't jaw dropping. I expect a game with this kind of development time and budget to look good and it does, but it's certainly no Gears of War (that game had seriously unbelievable graphics for it's time).

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LEBATO

Commented on 2009-01-28 23:25:00

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Meh, it's the same thing all over.

skeetskeet

Commented on 2009-01-28 23:46:58

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meh, prerendered backgrounds...

itaintrite

Commented on 2009-01-29 00:00:51

Let's get this out of the way first. Final Fantasy XIII looks frakking fantastic.

Now... the gameplay. I'd always prefer a more old-school Final Fantasy. I just find that old-school FFs tend to have more endearing characters. Too many of the futuristic-themed FFs with annoying characters already. But of course, when it's Nomura at the helm, nothing we can do about it. I'm not REALLY complaining though.

And the graphics remind me of Xenosaga :) Not Xenogears, Xenosaga :P

but it's certainly no Gears of War (that game had seriously unbelievable graphics for it's time)

Well, maybe if FFXIII had stayed PS3 exclusive, it would've looked better. Not to be fanboy-ish or anything, but I wonder if they'll have to leave out anything due to the obvious disk space constraint. Lost Odyssey was already 4-disks. And I doubt FFXIII will be any smaller.

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dirttbagg

Commented on 2009-01-29 00:52:51

already at number 13??? isnt that... u know... kinda ridiculous? lol

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Jollipop

Commented on 2009-01-29 00:54:19 In reply to Megido

Posted by Megido

Looks better than both gears IMO, open your eyes boy..

Too bad they cut alot of the battle stuff out and just showed us the bits with the most action going on, notice how they editted where the player had to make choices to make it look faster.

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ACEfromRussia

Commented on 2009-01-29 00:55:57 In reply to Jollipop

Looks awesome!

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Ishigami

Commented on 2009-01-29 00:59:51

Nice Graphics and the battle system looks alright to me.
But tbh the trailer itself sucks because of its cut and misplaced voice over. Square-Enix can do better than that.

Anyway good to see some real footage instead of CG only crap.

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jesuschrist

Commented on 2009-01-29 01:01:03 In reply to itaintrite

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Posted by itaintrite

Jesus christ, dude... how much cluess can you be?.

The game isn't even in consideration for 360, till the Japanese PS3 version is out. (see the plataforms that appear at the end of the trailer)
The US/EU PS3 versions and 360 port only begin when the "PS3" game is finished.
If the game is underwhelming is because it a ps3 game from the getgo... they should've just canned it and made it a 360 game, then it would be trully amazing.
At least it will be the better version, as all the multiplataform games on 360 are.

Phaethon360

Commented on 2009-01-29 01:01:24

Why does the visual style of this trailer remind me of Too Human?

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pythxvii

Commented on 2009-01-29 02:42:07

Am I the only one who see's the HUGE resemblance to the 3rd Matrix movie? The nviroment looks like the underground city, the ships have those blue glowy pads, and there's a things that looks sorta like a squid (though marginally)

Looks pretty good, although the lighting was less then spectacular, which is a pity cause I likes lighting =( Also, all those people shooting the guns didn't really impress me, which is surprising, cause the gameplay looks spectacular. I am really gunna be pissed if there isn't an english demo. I don't want subs or anything, but I'd like to be able to read the menu's +) I don't think the engine is really gunna steal the spotlight from anything like Gears 2 (or sadly Killzone 2, which looks miles worse then this) or Resident Evil 5 or whatever other game looks spectacular rigth about now, its not super impressive, but the game better kick some serious ass. I am a FF virgin (for the games anyway) and I really like the CG and shit they do, and the style is pretty cool (even if a bit unoriginal, I like that its not like, over the top anime style really, more a quirky style) so yeah. Kinda pissed that they can't release it based on CONSOLE rather then console AND location. I don't wanna wait =( Gameplay looks pretty awesome, much faster then a lot of stuff I've seen which should be great =)

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Looks pretty good, although the lighting was less then spectacular, which is a pity cause I likes lighting =( Also, all those people shooting the guns didn't really impress me, which is surprising, cause the gameplay looks spectacular. I am really gunna be pissed if there isn't an english demo. I don't want subs or anything, but I'd like to be able to read the menu's +) I don't think the engine is really gunna steal the spotlight from anything like Gears 2 (or sadly Killzone 2, which looks miles worse then this) or Resident Evil 5 or whatever other game looks spectacular rigth about now, its not super impressive, but the game better kick some serious ass. I am a FF virgin (for the games anyway) and I really like the CG and shit they do, and the style is pretty cool (even if a bit unoriginal, I like that its not like, over the top anime style really, more a quirky style) so yeah. Kinda pissed that they can't release it based on CONSOLE rather then console AND location. I don't wanna wait =( Gameplay looks pretty awesome, much faster then a lot of stuff I've seen which should be great =)

broman

Commented on 2009-01-29 03:02:47

Think we'll be able to burn the demo on a disc and install it to PS3 that way, or am I gonna be forced to import? I know you can burn 360 demos but not sure about PS3

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Jollipop

Commented on 2009-01-29 04:37:05 In reply to broman

Posted by broman

Think we'll be able to burn the demo on a disc and install it to PS3 that way, or am I gonna be forced to import? I know you can burn 360 demos but not sure about PS3

Its very unlikely.

The demo only comes with FFVI AC complete as far as i know and paying £50 for a demo (cause im not that interested in the film) is a bit expensive if you ask me.

SE are stupid if they don't release the demo on PSN.

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gilzones

Commented on 2009-01-29 04:42:11

I can't wait to explore those world. It will be long wait though, sad.

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toelessfoot

Commented on 2009-01-29 05:49:07 In reply to itaintrite

Posted by itaintrite

Holy denial batman

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NiteX

Commented on 2009-01-29 05:53:32

Thanks for the amazing HD trailer!

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Zuhri

Commented on 2009-01-29 06:36:51

Cool trailer, finally some in-game. I've given up on this game for a while now. Meh, whatever... It's still awesome.

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entecillo

Commented on 2009-01-29 07:34:12

Just cool. Turn action based battle sistem. Rocks!

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chaupin

Commented on 2009-01-29 08:26:48

good to see it ~

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waynevil

Commented on 2009-01-29 10:27:17

awesome

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broman

Commented on 2009-01-29 11:31:51

lol @ DMCA request. Square really wants all that attention on themselves and their site, huh? I really don't like those guys - if pigtails girl wasn't so damn cute I wouldn't even have to worry about this game.

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Nit3m4re

Commented on 2009-01-29 11:46:31

I just watched it over on their website, looked awesome, cannot wait for it more now especially since they've shown gameplay this time =D

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Nit3m4re

Commented on 2009-01-29 11:48:14 In reply to Jollipop

Posted by Jollipop

They know you'll most likely buy it one way or another when it comes out and this is one way they can make money from the demo, people will bite for sure. Look at Crackdown for Halo 3's beta...

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mt_sabao

Commented on 2009-01-29 12:02:17

Why are "meh" comments bouleted, but not "awesome"?! They both add the same to the topic, nothing, but express the overall impression of someone, one negative, other positive. Why is positive ok, and not negative?

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jmd749

Commented on 2009-01-29 12:32:07 In reply to mt_sabao

Posted by mt_sabao

good point. i remember getting banned by blim for a week just for saying meh to a grid video. total bullocks if you ask me.
but i guess it's the fanboy bullshit that make them do it, a ps3 fanboy would type meh for a 360 exclusive and vice versa without good reason, but then again grid was multiplatform.

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