Right, here goes. This is a bit of a mouthful so step away from the monitor, squint slightly and try to pronounce the title of this game: El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Phew!
This game was recently debuted in Japan but now it’s being announced for PS3 and Xbox360 in North American and EU territories. A 3rd person action fantasy game based on an ancient mythology and featuring various monstrous enemies and mammoth weapons is perhaps a description which could be applied to many games recently (Dante, Kratos, Bayonetta and that bloke from Darksiders are sharpening a shank as we speak). The twist in the tale for El Shaddai is that it is based on a book of the Old Testament – the Book of Enoch.
The premise is that Enoch must defeat the Fallen Angels in order to save humankind from the great flood which was ordered back when God used to be vengeful and have a bit of character about him. You know, before he went all “love thy neighbour” and tambourine-rattling when he had kids.
I’m going to be quiet now before I risk upsetting religionists again. Here are some screens.
Charmed_Fanatic
Looks odd from the piccys, will need more info to judge first
BigCheese
How confusing… What’s the 3rd screenshot showing?? Some random guy with a jacket doesn’t seem to fit the Book of Enoch…
bajere
the 1st pic has a set of levis in them.lol
bunimomike
The 3rd shot is God himself. Wearing his Sunday best.
bajere
Soooo is this a soul calibure sort of game? i know you said action adventure, but the screens look like a crack adicts nightmare!?! i dont really fancy running about in that lot for hours on end
td_rules
G-G-G-GODLIKE!!!
cc_star
Looks like Virtua Fighter running on a 1970’s Atari
YOURMUMANDME
Wow that looks beautiful !
Is KDY a location, seemingly an angel was cast from heaven into the river Forth as a demon ! So there’s a snippet of useless info for you.
bunimomike
I wonder, if in years to come, we’ll see people clutching this title to their chest and shouting on street corners.
YOURMUMANDME
“Big Issue !”
Roynaldo
Looks awful. I hope the game makes up for it.
H3O
More mythology. Seems popular nowadays.
Harinero
The screenshots look like they were made with Adobe Illustrator. :P
Still, Metatron is such an awesome name…
cc_star
nope, I’m confusing it with Megatron, somethings gonna have to change and as I didn’t like Galvatron I vote this changes
Who’s with me?
T-82
I love the art style, reminds me of REZ.
T-82
Can’t wait to see it in motion.
jikomanzoku
ahhhhh REZ :D if only there was a REZ II in development.