Michigan PAL PS2 Release.

[Family Fry]

A lotta people may know about this game, it sounded well cool on japanese release and i wanted it but somehow i held back from buying it for some reason....
Well now its getting a PAL release from what seem like a very cool wee publishing house called 505 Game Street http://www.505gamestreet.it
These publisher have already released Bujingai, XII Stag and also coming soon Hard Luck Return of the Heroes.
Just thought i would let people know as there was a bit of interest on Michigan when it came out on import, hopefully we will get to play and see this soon.

[chopemon]

i was quite intrigued by this game and am looking forward to the PAL launch which i thought wouldn't happen

hurrah and huzzah

[Bleeders]

It's different. Played through the Japanese version and it made a refreshing change to play a game that puts you in somewhat different perspective.

http://ntsc-uk.domino.org/showthread.php?t=28733&highlight=Michigan

[Ben-K]

**** sticks! That I did not expect!

This was on my list of games to get my PS2 chipped for, and I was inches away from ordering it yesterday.

Another on the list was Bujingai, which was released last week by none other than 505Gamestreet. I'm mightily impressed with them....although I have a suspicion they're going through Consolevania episodes to choose which games to buy up.....

Thanks for posting that, it's just made my day!

[superkully]

Doesn't the artwork for Energy Airforce look a lot like that for Ace Combat?

Intrigued by Panzer Front Aus.B too.

Hopefully these will all be budget titles.

[Bleeders]

Yeah, if some of these do emerge as budget releases, I'll be very interested.

[Ben-K]

By the looks of the website, anything released under the Simply 20 imprint will be budget (assumably at ?20).

I bought Bujingai last week and it was ?29.99, which I assume will be the standard price point for all the 505Gamestreet titles.

[Rushy]

Not to dampen the post, but this this news was announced last year. Infact I think I even made the post about it.

Anyways it is indeed absolutely superb news, and I've had my copy on pre-order since January from Play.com

But there still doesn't appear to be a firm release date apart from Q3/Q4

And btw its been renamed to "REPORT FROM HELL" for the UK release.

[Ben-K]

Did this even get a US release? If they're doing their own localisation, I hope it's not done on the cheap.

A Japanese language option with subs would be nice.......and try and avoid cockney accents at all costs!!!!

[Bleeders]

Report From Hell?!?!?

Awful name, why not leave it as Michigan, since the actual game is set in er, Michigan.

[hankwangford]

According to the box art - Michigan: Report from Hell, is the title - which isn't so bad. Pointless tagline but at least it'll advertise exactly what to expect for the casuals.

[chopemon]

Report From Hell?!?!?

Awful name, why not leave it as Michigan, since the actual game is set in er, Michigan.

i thought that was the odd thing, isn't it set in chicago but called michigan

or have i got that wrong?

[Baseley09]

Soccer Life looks like one for me.

[hankwangford]

Chicago is in Michigan.

[ElAlcesDiablo]

No, Chicago is in Illinois. But I thought the game was set in a city called Michigan...? I haven't played it though, so I don't know for sure.
In any case, this is good news, just hope they don't do a Siren. Possibly wouldn't spoil this one so much though.