Sony brought Afrika to Taiwan recently to a media event and lets journalists check out what the game is about, I hope this means that the game will at least has a Chinese version. GNN did a little coverage of the showcase and has more details about the game.

As reported in the previous issue of Weekly Famitsu, the main theme of the game is Safari and you will be a photo journalist visiting Africa. At the start of the game, you choose to either be a male or female journalist and your assignments will be taking photos and research the lifestyle of these animals. Assignments will come from the headquarter via emails send to your camp, after investigating the map of the location and getting your equipments ready, your AI driver/tour guide is waiting for you in a Jeep. So for those who are looking forward to hitting the animals with the Jeep, you are out of luck. You can take photos from the Jeep or get down to be closer with the animals.

Source: GNN

GNN says they found the zebras, gazelles and giraffes earlier in the game extremely life-like, like watching National Geographic channel. However, getting too close to these animals will either scare them away or being attacked by the fiercer types. Taking photos with your cameras is just like real life, you can adjust settings like focus and aperture. Different cameras will also produce photos of different qualities and if you shakes a lot on you SIXAXIS controller, you can only get a blurry shot. SIXAXIS is also being used to adjust the angles of the photo.

Once you are done taking photos, you can send them to the headquarter, who will rates the photos based on their composition, rarity and clarity. Good shots will earn you money to buy better cameras, obviously Sony is not going to miss the chance to promote their range of DSLR.

The game looks incredible so far and like GNN mentioned in their article, you’re not rush to get anything done in the game but encouraged to observe and discover more, a good departure from all the shooters and fighting games. However, I’m still on the fence for this due to the heavy Japanese text in the encyclopedia section, a Chinese or English Asia Version will make the decision for me.

Posted in News on Thursday, June 12th, 2008 at 4:37 pm |
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