Project X Zone 2: announcement trailer
Characters from Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Soul Calibur and more collide in Project X Zone 2 for 3DS. Here's the first trailer...
First appearing in Japan back in 2012, Project X Zone was a tactical RPG with a twist: its characters were culled from some of the country's biggest video game series, including Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Mega Man X, and Dead Rising.
Three years later, and here comes the sequel, which once again brings together some famous videogame faces for the Nintendo 3DS - these include Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine from Resident Evil, Dante and Virgil from Devil May Cry and Jim Kazama and Kazuya Mishima from Tekken.
One of the fun things about the original Project X Zone was that it also brought back some more obscure characters as player-assisting Solo Units - Arthur from Ghosts 'N Goblins made a welcome appearance, for example, along with Opa-Opa from Sega's cute-em-up Fantasy Zone and the fast-shooting protagonist from Space Harrier.
The announcement trailer below doesn't give much away - the overwhelming majority of it is devoted to throwing glowing lines of text across the screen - but what it tells us is exciting enough: Project X Zone 2 releases simultaneously in Japan and the west in the autumn.
More news on Project X Zone 2 as it comes in.