Sega has just unveiled the trailer for Shinobi 3DS:

The game looks great on the trailer; altough it’s a shame Sega decided to show the action inside a 3DS screen, which looks very small to me.
I expected the look of the game to be more realistic, more like in the Shadow Dancer (Shinobi 2) game, than the 3D cartoon look of this game; which looks half way between the old 8-bit game and a modern one.

Sega expects to launch Shinobi for 3DS on November 11, 2011.

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It’s been a long time since I wrote in this blog. We’ve seen this summmer the 3DS droped its price about $100 in order to boost sales (and it worked).

Sadly, yo date, there are only 5 great games for the 3DS. Take a look at Metacritic and judge yourself:

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Okay, we expected this to be a killer game for the 3DS, and indeed it is.
Why? Altough it’s a remake of an old N64 game; the graphics have been remade, it has a great storyline, and fully uses the 3D capabilities of the 3DS.
The bad side is that it wasn’t a launch tile.

Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition
Another remake of a classic game, this time from Capcom. This game sells like hot cakes betwen people aged 24-36. Why? because they played the coin-op version of Street Fighter II and brings then great memories. And the 3D effect ? yeah, it looks great; but I find it more appealing to play all characters of Street Fighter II.

Dead or Alive: Dimensions
Not a remake this time; but a sequel of a classic franchise. Like it or no, boobs sells. Period.

Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars
I feel strange seeing a turn-based strategy game in the top 5; but a lot of people enjoyed it because it came bundled with the 3Ds. I expected to see a Resident Evil game here; but Camcom flopped.

Ridge Racer 3D
I get it: nobody loves racing games; but a 3D racing game on a 3D console *should* be on the top 5 games, right ? this game should have been #1 (or #2) if it had online play.

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Here we have, at least, the official launch trailer of Resident Evil: The mercenaries 3D by capcom.

Also, capcom unity has released two videos from Resident Evil: The Mercenaries with a live game stream.

Here’s the first one. The man playing at the console is the product manager of Resident Evil: The mercenaries 3D:

And the second live play video:

I find the gameplay at the end of the video#2 more interesting than the first minutes: the scenario looks less linear, and the enemies are much different.

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Finally we’ve got some information about the killer Super Mario game for the 3DS.

As we all expected, this is a 3D game; but also a 2D / 2.5D game. We have some classic platform game levels that could have been in 2D ; but Nintendo decided that it was better to make use of the 3D capabilities of the console: the result are levels “with depth”.

Somehow you find yourself moving Mario in and out of the screen, mostly following corridor-style paths from left to right; and suddenly you find yourself into a game which is a mixture of 3D, 2.5D.

The goal of Super Mario 3Ds is reaching the end of the level: you don’t have a whole, big world, to explore in each level (which would be fine for me probably we can do it in a future Super Mario Galaxy). 

Also, the levels are short: good for casual gamers, phone game users.

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