If, one day, 99.9% of humans turned into zombies, what would you do? Deadman’s Cross is a game that depicts such a world.
Hello, my name is Shinichi Tatsuke and I’m a producer at Square Enix. I’d like to introduce Deadman’s Cross, a game that launches today on PlayStation Vita. This zombie card battle RPG recorded 4.7 million downloads worldwide last year. And now, it’s coming to Vita as an enhanced, free-to-play game.
The setting is America in the year 2030. The government suddenly declares martial law in which everyone is restricted from going outside. You break the law and cautiously step outside — what you see is a world overrun with strange creatures called “Deadmen.”
The game is split into two sections: shooting and card battles. In the shooting section, you’ll shoot down Deadman, one after another, as they come after you. You fire away at the Deadmen that emerge in various areas like the town, graveyard, casino, aircraft carrier, and baseball field. In this world, even animals and plants turn into Deadmen. Furthermore, historical figures like Napoleon and Lincoln also appear in-game as Deadmen. You can actually capture the Deadmen you defeat.
What are you going to do… collecting zombies?
Well, the people of this world are into this particular recreation. Even in these desperate times, a TV network looking for business concocted a program that sets Deadmen against one another to fight… and it’s become a huge hit!
People can enter the captured Deadmen into this program to compete. You, too, will soon capture a Deadman, join the fight, and aim for the top spot. These are card-based battles, but the rules are easy to comprehend unlike TCGs — anyone can easily pick up the game.
Other than the battle element, the game comes with an enriching story which tends to be rare for free-to-play games. The girl who lost a companion, the head of the circus troupe who is looking for an animal, the hacker who is trying to uncover the mystery to reviving the Deadmen, and more — the array of unique characters is definitely something to look out for.
The music is by Naoshi Mizuta, a composer on the Final Fantasy series. All the tracks are very stylish and have a fresh feel to them. I personally really like it.
I’ve basically explained everything in one breath, but this should be a new type of game that you have never experienced before in a free-to-play title, nor in a typical console game. I recommend this to all of you who want to continuously defeat zombies, who want to enjoy a variety of zombie illustrations, and who want to experience a zombie story.
Why not enjoy this hopeless world together? We’d love for you to download the game and give it a try.
WOW Definitely will download this Thanks!
Holy moly! Now this game looks good! BUT… are there pay-to-win microtransactions in it?
No offense SE, but is a free to play card game port the best you can throw at the Vita crowd? I’m sure the game is very nice, but how about throwing some actual Vita content our way?
You guys are basically the antithesis of Atlus right now. Atlus gives the fans what they want and the loves get reciprocated – P5 trailer stole that week even though you put out a FF15 trailer the same day. SE pretends to listen and then does things like FF7 on PS4 or Type-0 not on Vita. Or how about Dissidia 3… only in Japanese arcades? Come on Square, talk to me again. I used to be such a big fan but you’ve stopped giving me a reason to stick around.
I hope this is a precursor to some of the other SE games on andriod/iOS being released on vita. the final fantasy games, the DQ games, secret of mana, etc.
Well then, thank you for this one.
I downloaded this on my phone, was kinda neat! Free with in-app purchases.
This looks like fun! With it being free to play, I can’t help but give it a try!
Well this came out of nowhere. Pretty fun game, definitely will download.
While you’re at porting smartphone games to Vita, Square-enix, where are our Chaos Rings games? Games are already been translated, shouldn’t take you this long.
I like this on my phone, so now I can delete it from phone and play on Vita
Hope you enjoy the game on the Vita as well! You can also transfer over your save from the phone to the Vita so if you want to continue your game, that is another option as well.