'Rogue Planet' Resurfaces – Published by Gameloft and Release Date Announced
posted November 3rd, 2009 4:00 PM EST by Eli Hodapp in Strategy, Upcoming Games, iPhone games, iPod touch games
Agharta Studios' Rogue Planet was the surprise of WWDC this year for me. I had a last minute meeting with CEO Aurelien Kerbeci where he pulled his iPhone out of his pocket and proceeded to blow me away with a game that was so far above and beyond my expectations that I was nearly speechless.
During this meeting, Kebeci mentioned that the game was still in development, but at the time only had two weeks to go before submitting their game to Apple for approval. We posted this in our exclusive preview, the forums caught wind, and then Rogue Planet vanished without a trace. Emails to Agharta Studios were met with cryptic responses about a mysterious "big name" publisher and a September release date.
Needless to say, we were left scratching out heads, and nothing came of Rogue Planet aside from forum members randomly bumping the thread asking if anyone had any new information every once in a while. That is, until today, when the following video appeared on Gameloft's YouTube channel:
As you can see from the trailer, Rogue Planet is a turn based strategy game with the same amazing art style seen in Agharta's other game,1112 [$4.99 / Free]. We posted other details in our preview along with a gameplay video, but it has been so long since we last saw the game that it's hard to say how much of it is still the same from what was shown at WWDC.
Per the video, Rogue Planet is going to be released on the 24th, and assuming they can stick with that date I have a pretty good idea of what I will be spending my Thanksgiving holiday weekend playing. Needless to say, as soon as we get more information about this game we will post it, and hopefully will have a better preview very soon.
Agharta Studios' partnership with Gameloft as a publisher is a very interesting one. While Gameloft seems to have dabbled in publishing other titles in the past, for the most part has done much of their iPhone game development in house.
YES! Finally! Have been waiting months for this!
must…. have… now…!!
Please somebody freeze me till it's out!
This looks good and will likely be a day one purchase for me. The cutscenes and snippets of gameplay remind me of Advance Wars: Days of Ruin for the DS. That's a good thing.
I was starting to think this game was all a hoax. Definitely one to look forward to.
I wish it was Hex based :-/
Looks AWESOME… as cprloe said, like an iPhone Advance Wars. I'm in.
It looks pretty, but too bad it seems to incorporate the Japanese SRPG type of mechanics, vs. the more compelling western-style of tactical combat, a la "Rebelstar: Tactical Command".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpBip7RRrwg
From Julian Gollop, father of the X-Com family.
Line-of-sight, and destructible cover…. Ahhh!!!
Hell yeah – iPhone Rebelstar or Lazersquad would be AWESOME :B
The Gollop games are much better than all that Final Fantasy Tactics-style shiz
i'll wait for a demo, these are usually not my cup of tea.
Nice! This game looks really pretty! Though, not my type of game. But if I was into these type of games I'd go for it.
Man, I would have enjoyed the hell out of this alot more if it were an X-Com knock off, but I'll certainly take another highly polished Advanced Wars knockoff (I don't mean this to be derogatory of the games mentioned, but I can't very well call them both turn based strategy games). I liked Mecho Wars, but it wasn't up to AWs level. This seems interesting, and having Gameloft attached will certainly help get a few extra sales based off the name alone.
LOL at 1:02 Karl says: "You wouldn't like me when I'm angy!"
typooooo
He had beef on his mind (angus).
November 24th? That's a million years away. I want it now.
Oh well.
Looking forward to it. Frankly I'm surprised we haven't seen more Advance Wars style games on the iPhone, or even the real deal from Intelligent Systems.
Why are you surprised you haven't seen the "real deal from Intelligent Systems"?
Intelligent Systems is a Nintendo 1st party dev studio. Nintendo doesn't support non-Nintendo hardware with Nintendo developed and/or published software. Won't happen.
Maybe they are trying to slowly sneak in 1112 for Gameloft financial backing and publishing so that episodes don't take a year apiece.
That'd be great – I've played thru Fade (the WinMo predecessor of 1112) on Windows Mobile and just loved it. And 1112, while pretty similar to Fade in the game logics, is SOO much better-looking.
Makes Advance Wars look like a poor man's game! I hope the gameplay is as impressive as the production values.
No one who has actually played Advance Wars would say that. Best turn-based combat game ever.
Looks like a Gameloft game I might actually buy. (Considering it's not actually made by Gameloft). Really nice graphics and design. And though it does take it's root's from Advance Wars, it doesn't try to be blatant copy (*cough*Sandstorm:ModernWarfare,HeroOfSparta,Gangstar*cough*).
This looks awesome.
Wow, this really does look good. Love turn based strategy. I've definitely gotta try this. Can't wait.
Thank GOD. Been waiting for this for months.