The Red Star Coming to PSP [Go]/iPhone

[Guild McCommunist]

New York, NY - XS Games today announced the early Spring 2010 release of The Red Star for iPhone and PSPgo. Previously released on PlayStation 2 and met with widespread acclaim, The Red Star is an ingenious mashup of top down shooter and beat 'em up gameplay, based upon the graphic novel of the same name by Christian Gossett.

"The Red Star is a proudly old school combination of classic action genres, much in the spirit of Contra and Streets of Rage," said Steve Grossman, Chief Executive Officer of XS Games. "PSPgo and iPhone are the perfect platforms for this game in terms of controls, visuals, and price."

The Red Star brings to life the dystopian United Republics of the Red Star (URRS), a mystical and technologically advanced alternate reality resembling Soviet Russia. In this alternate reality, the world has been wracked by vicious conflict between the world's powerful nations, who use advanced technology to harness soldiers' latent mental powers. Players can choose to play as one of the graphic novel's three most prominent characters: Maya Antares, a powerful sorceress in search of her husband lost in battle, Kyuzo, Maya's personal bodyguard as well as a powerful fighter, or Makita, a quick and agile warrior forced to abandon her life as a world-class athlete when her homeland was invaded.

Compared to PlayStation 2, the iPhone and PSPgo versions offer fresh visual polish and improved controls. The Red Star is the perfect "pick up and play" action game for when on the go.

For more information, please visit http://www.redstar-us.com/.

About XS Games
XS Games is a New York based publisher of entertainment software with a quality portfolio of multiplatform games for the leading consoles and handheld systems. XS Games has publishing operations across North America and Europe (France, Germany, Spain, UK) and Australia.

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This is one of the PS2 games I've wanted to buy so fucking badly but it's pretty hard to get a copy of it at a good price. It's a little known beamup/shmup that looks really fucking cool. When you can use a hammer and sickle as a weapon, you can count Guild McCommunist in!

EDIT: To clarify, it'll be a downloadable game for the PSP and odds are will be on all PSP systems, not just the Go.

 

[DeltaBurnt]

Unless it's going to be a PSP Mini it's obviously going to be available for the PSP. That's funny because most of the time I see it as, "hmmm this is on the PSP will be on the PSP Go?". Oh, poor poor PSP Go.

 

[cosmiccow]

The game was also great on the old Xbox. We need more of those simple fun games

 

[psycoblaster]

"PSPgo and iPhone are the perfect platforms for this game in terms of controls, visuals, and price."

I call BS

 

[GenesisX]

Gameplay

 

[shakirmoledina]

i thought i contribute screenshots for the old game for everyones sake
this game is almost perfect for the iphone if u ask me

Spoiler

 

[T-hug]

This is a great old school feel game. I finished it on the first XBOX as it was released by scene but I don't think it ever made it retail.