Hullo, I’m Jamin Smith, Community Manager and writery person over at Born Ready Games. I’m here to announce that Strike Suit Zero: Director’s Cut will be heading to PS4 later this month. If mechs, space, and blowing things to smithereens with mechs (in space) are your thing, read on.
Strike Suit Zero is a space combat game that harkens back to the days of Wing Commander, Freelancer, X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter — all the classics — but with a mech twist to the dogfighting, and a next-gen lick of paint. At the heart of our game is a ship that can transform from a traditional fighter to a lethal suit of space armor: the Strike Suit. This really changes up the core concept of dogfighting, allowing pilots to transform, turn 180 degrees, and unleash a barrage of missiles without having to go through the laborious procedure of ‘jousting’ that older space combat titles relied on.
The Strike Suit was designed by Junji Okubo (Appleseed: Ex-Machina, Steel Battalion, Infinite Space), who has a very functional approach to mechanical design. As such, the Strike Suit unfolds much like a real piece of machinery would; there are no Michael Bay-esque transformations here.
U.N.E. Frigate from BornReadyGames on Sketchfab.
Fans of Homeworld will also be pleased to hear that we’ve enlisted the services of Paul Ruskay for the Strike Suit Zero soundtrack, too. Paul has collaborated with Japanese singer-songwriter Kokia (Tales of Innocence, Gunslinger Girl: II Teatrino) in bringing the soundtrack to life, resulting in an interesting blend of East meets West — a notion that is apparent in all facets of the game’s design.
The development of the game was put under a bit of strain over Christmas when our studio was trashed by some pretty serious flooding. The river Wey here in Guildford burst its banks on Christmas Eve, and our studio (and poor neighbours Hello Games) was submerged in flood water.
Worry not, however. While lots of equipment and personal items were lost, we were able to rescue our machines in time, and successfully moved the team upstairs where development got back on track as quickly as possible. As such, Strike Suit Zero is well on track for its March launch.
We’ve furnished PlayStation.Blog with some never-before-seen concept art from Strike Suit Zero: the Grados Cruiser, Pegasus Cruiser, and concept enemy Fighters can all be seen below with notes from our Lead Artist, Dan Lodge.
Grados Cruiser
The Grados cruiser is a bit of a Born Ready art team favorite. We’d love to build this ship and see that massive fixed cannon in action one day. Check out the distinctive design of the rear hull and the engine housings.
Pegasus Cruiser
A little more streamlined than the Argama U.N.E cruiser found in Strike Suit Zero, the Pegasus was designed as a colonial frigate hunter. I think Junji really nailed the engine design on this one.
Fighters
Junji sent us a good range of proposed designs for fighters. These are some of the designs that didn’t quite make it in.
You can also check out a 3D model of the U.N.E. Frigate, which has been re-modelled and upscaled for the Director’s Cut. You can get up close and personal, and bask in the glory of those extra polys in the embed above.
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Can’t wait for some meat and potato real PS4 games… I feel like everything that’s been getting announced I’ve had on Steam for ages or they’re old PS3 remakes :(
Oh wow! This looks pretty kick butt. Do we got a confirmed frame rate fellas? :)
Whoa! That was a very good trailer..Day one buy for me.
Looks very fun to play and sexy to boot. Thank yous.
I can’t wait for this. I was so excited when it hit the PC, but my PC sadly isn’t beefy enough to run it well. Day one buy, I love games like this. :)
@1 – I’m with you on that one. Strike Suit Zero and all it’s variants/addons are frequently on sale on Steam for 90% off. I kinda get the feeling that anybody that’s wanted to play the game already has it
Next Friday is Infamous. That’s a PS4 exclusive, but after that I don’t see anything really coming out for the rest of the year until the new Arkham probably around Halloween. Just more and more PC ports and PS3 remakes. It wouldn’t be so bad if we could have MP3 and AVI/MP4/MKV support or even PSX/PS2/PSP digital compatibility. I’m sure the PS4 is more than capable of running all of that
We need something over here Sony. Even if you were just more open about the plans for the coming year with a tentative timeline
As far as a “next-gen lick of paint” did anyone else feel like Dead Nation didn’t look any different on PS4?
I always wanted to play this game, I hope PS+ will get a discount?
Yeah these are nice add on’s for the PS4 game libary but like mentioned latest games have been on other platforms long time. Nothing “new” under the sun. My PS4 is collecting dust I hope Watch Dogs will change that.
I’m a Steam addict and I’ve never seen this game. Have a library of over 200 RPGs on the service. So all of you “have this game already” folk need to keep in mind that not everyone is a multi-platform (console/ tablet/ PC/ whatever) owner. Even if they are a gaming enthusiast, its quite possible that any number of excellent games – such as this one – have slipped through the cracks. Didn’t know about Outlast or SOMA either until the PS Blog showcased them.
Games are games, and with the shrinking single-platform output, you’re going to see them on as many platforms as you can imagine. So y’all need to keep a more open mind towards software in the future.
As someone that has a Mac that can’t play most games except classic games like Freelancer. I have been keeping my eye on this and can’t wait to play this since I have been having a blast with the ZoE HD remakes. Also those design pretty damn awesome.
Looks awesome! Happy to see the space fighter get some long overdue respect. Day one buy for me!
Well said Christian399, I know I damn sure have never seen this game and I plan on getting it Day One. My PS4 has been a Vidzone player and not much else (some madden, NFS, and other games that my PS3 would have been running) so I welcome games that I can enjoy regardless if anyone else has played them or not.
man reminds me of them warhawk dog fights
I know I wont be expecting a reply back because I am about to say something negative about this game. In all honesty this game looks pants and dated.
But seriously sony I hope you reply back to me on what is happening about The Last Guardian. You probably wont do because the game is so secretive. Why cant you show just one screenshot of the game, even if its from a tree from the game? Or has the team working on the game changed the look of the griffin into a giant bunny? So secretive.
I dont have a PC so im super excited that stuff like this is coming to PS4!!!!!!! KEEP EM COMING SONY!!
This makes me wish for a Next Gen Robotech game!!!!!
Wow, this looks awesome. I remember seeing trailers for this a while back, and I’m glad to hear this will be coming to PS4. I’m also stoked to hear that this is a single player game; I’ll definitely be buying this one.
Will there be a DEMO ?
thanks
Hi there — there’s no plans for a demo at this stage, no.
Thanks!