What took them so bloody long ?
.hack brings the online RPG experience offline
Part one of this anime adventure submerges players in a simulated RPG in order to save a friend from a mysterious coma.
Just when we thought Driv3r, kill.switch and WRC3: The Official Game of the FIA World Rally Championship were the most unwieldy game titles we\'d be writing about, along comes .hack//INFECTION Part 1.
Set in 2007, .hack is a futuristic, manga-styled RPG from Atari and Bandai. You play Kite, a 14 year old boy who must dive into the nefarious videogame \'The World\' in order to bring his friend Orca from her coma. \'The World\' is home to a new type of malevolent AI that is blurring the boundaries between the game and the real worlds, attacking and corrupting all who play.
The PlayStation 2 game is actually a part of a wider multimedia phenomenon called Project .hack. This links the game with an animated TV series - .hack//SIGN - which serves as a prequel to the game, and .hack//LIMINALITY, a DVD-only animated series that will be bundled with each episode of the game and show what\'s happening in the real world while Kite is in \'The World\'.
The production team on Project .hack includes anime experts who\'ve worked on the gorgeous Ghost in the Shell movie and the seminal Neon Genesis Evangelion, but \'worked\' could mean anything including making the tea and mopping the brow of stressed animators.
.hack - the game - will be released in four parts with the first arriving here in March and the rest landing throughout 2004. We\'ll let you know if the game is as intriguing as all the multimedia content surrounding it as soon as we get our hands on a playable version; in the meantime, check out the project\'s website here and hack into the screens.
Well at least it looks like we will get all 4 parts
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