News: R-Gear to be officially released

August 25, 2009, 03:21 AM

by Recap, via Postback's forum -
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r-gear_01.pngShocking news, indeed, even though you won't find anybody else noticing. This week's Famitsu, besides featuring the next-Darius-episode-after-a-whole-decade-is-being-made-for-a-portable-system tragicomedy, is also unveiling (for the Japanese public, actually -- a couple of screens emerged some days ago in the Western side of the world) the HD remake that Raystorm will be getting soon in the form of both, XBLA and PSN titles. The most interesting part though is that it seems to come with the announcement of R-Gear as an extra in Raystorm HD, which is no other that the actual sequel Rayforce was going to get before Taito decided that you needed polygons to sell a game.

There's not much hope that we can enjoy a proper version of this prototype given the HD systems' inability to display low-res graphics, but it's still a wonderful addendum we couldn't expect from these days' Taito, isn't it?

All the best!

Update: Seems it's not the game, but the players' ships from R-Gear what has been added for this iteration. Though, hey, you never know. Thanks to Aries no Kobayan for the clarifying picture!