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Where is Wii's Disaster: Day of Crisis?

Posted by John Constantine

The hardcore, the core gamer, the fanboy. Whatever you want to call them, it’s hard to ignore their bitterness toward Nintendo these days. I’m the first to admit that I’m one of them, but my frustration with the current king of the console hill doesn’t stem from their burgeoning commitment to the soccer mom set. It’s not even the lackluster treatment some of their core franchises (read: Zelda) have seen in the past two years. I’m angry at Nintendo because, when they first revealed the Wii and its initial line-up of games at E3 2006, they showed off two brand spanking new games, games devoid of Mario, Wario, Link, or any of the three thousand Pokemon, and neither of them have seen the light of day since. Project H.A.M.M.E.R., a fairly silly looking brawler, was actually playable at the time, but Nintendo announced that it was “on hold” as of summer 2007. Their other new IP, developed by fan-favorite studio Monolith Soft, was Disaster: Day of Crisis.

Day of Crisis has itself a fairly novel premise: you play as a chiseled special agent confronting not just nuclear-armed terrorists (not so interesting), but also the fallout from numerous natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, and erupting volcanoes. From the very brief footage shown in the past, Day of Crisis looked like an action take on the Playstation 2’s bizarre Disaster Report games. Conceptually, it’s a good fit for a system with proven shooter controls and a great opportunity for motion controlled events (holding your balance during a quake, dodging falling debris, etc.) But, despite being shown here and there in 2007, Disaster: Day of Crisis has never been playable. As of April, the game had a July release date in Japan but Monolith Soft announced shortly thereafter that it had been “delayed indefinitely”.

So, Nintendo. Where the hell is this game you said you had two years ago?

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Posted Jul 09 2008, 02:00 PM

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