WiiWare robot fighter Overturn to arrive Monday, Aug. 3

by JC Fletcher { Jul 30th 2009 at 12:16PM }

Studio Zan just let us know that Overturn, the WiiWare combat game released last year in Japan, should be available on the North American Wii Shop this Monday, August 3, at a cost of 800 Wii Points. Unlike the European version, it seems that Studio Zan is "publishing" the North American release on its own.

Overturn features both offline multiplayer for 2 players, and online modes for up to four, in which players will take control of customizable mechs and, well, beat the hell out of one another using weapons earned in previous battles. If you'd like, you can even use a Balance Board to control your robot's movement.

Gallery: Overturn

Tags: mecha, overturn, studio-zan, wiiware

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Nook @ Jul 30th 2009 12:32PM

4 player online!!!!! w00t!!!! Come on, seriously? I think 4 player is great for LeapFrog systems - sad for a major player in the gaming industry.

This sounds alot like custom robo, kinda.

TwEE @ Jul 30th 2009 2:50PM

Idiot much?

bongoes @ Jul 30th 2009 4:20PM

Don't look like Custom Robo. I want a new Custom Robo.

Nook @ Jul 30th 2009 6:12PM

How am I an idiot? Please elaborate.

4 player online is a joke IMO, why even bother? I mean it was cool back in 2005 on the DS, are we playing this on the DS? No.

It may not look like Custom Robo, the premise is the same - fighting robots, upgrades. Yadda yadda.

SoshiKitai @ Jul 30th 2009 11:14PM

....if you compare it to Custom Robo, you might as well compare it to Armored Core. Fighting robots, upgrades, yadda yadda.

Custom Robo was fast-paced and frantic with the tactics you could place that depended on your weapons and sub-weapons. Armored Core was almost the same, except the weapons were more "realistic" as they were often "shoot forward", "shoot in an arc", and "homing"... Custom Robo, with its more cartoony-sense of weapons had shots that not only went into arcs, but did round bursts in two different arcs, had scatter shots that would bounce off walls, had attacks that would pull robos closer in, dragon-shaped blasts, raining missiles, etc...
So no... it doesn't look like Custom Robo.
It could be closer to something like Armored Core or a basic form of Virtual On.
...it would be a tint of Steambot if they develop the characters enough while having a more bi-pedal feel for every robot.

4 player online is good. Having more than 4 players in a bot battle gets... uncreative.
Bots eventually start running into random missiles and shots. And people get tired of that franticness - FAST. They prefer smaller humanoid characters when it goes beyond 4 players. Bot games are usually too clunky to have fun beyond 4 players.
If the stages were HUGE and the bots were a tad bit slower (if they're fast), then more than 4 players would definitely match.