{"id":30297,"date":"2013-07-08T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=30297"},"modified":"2022-02-06T11:11:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T17:11:02","slug":"tales-of-xillia-2-playstation-3-video-game-news-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=30297","title":{"rendered":"TALES OF XILLIA 2 – Playstation 3 – VIDEO GAME NEWS & UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Leading video game developer and publisher NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. announced this week-end, during a special event at the Japan Expo in Paris that\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA\u2122 2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will be coming to Europe and Australasia exclusively for the PlayStation\u00ae3 computer entertainment system in 2014.\u00a0 Building on the foundation of 2013\u2019s\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA\u2122<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0gameplay and world,\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA 2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will bring together brand new characters in this epic multiple dimensions spanning Japanese role-playing game experience.<\/p>\n

TALES OF XILLIA 2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0focuses on the events a year after the climactic end ofTALES OF XILLIA<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Players assume the role of Ludger Kresnik, a young man with a zest of cooking who lives with his older brother and his cat, named Rollo.\u00a0 On his way to his first day at work for a local cafeteria he runs into a young girl named Elle Marta and the two soon become involved in an accident that will change both of their lives forever.<\/p>\n

TALES OF XILLIA 2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0focuses its story theme around the concept of \u201cchoice\u201d, which is also expressed heavily in the game\u2019s overall gameplay mechanics.\u00a0 Throughout Ludger\u2019s journey the player will be able to decide how he reacts to various characters and situations.\u00a0 These choices can cause the story to branch out into different paths depending on the player\u2019s decisions.<\/p>\n

Choice also extends to the battle system for\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA 2<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0by enhancing the\u00a0TALES OF<\/em>\u00a0series\u2019 trademark gameplay.\u00a0 Players will be able to initiate \u201cWeapon Swap\u201d in real-time during battles while controlling Ludger, allowing him to switch between three main weapons: dual blades, a sledgehammer and dual pistols, allowing for fast and strategic movements as he rushes across the battlefield.\u00a0 Building on the base from\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s battle system, the new Cross Dual Raid Linear Motion Battle System will let players link to any selectable character in battle to serve as a support character and perform linked artes against targeted enemies.\u00a0 Different party members have different support characteristics and linked artes, allowing players to strategically decide which characters are linked to whom as various battle situations arise.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are extremely happy to bring another piece of the beloved Tales of franchise in Europe and Australasia\u201d said Olivier Comte, Senior Vice-President at NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe. \u201cTALES OF XILLIA\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>players will be able to fall back into this deep storyline in 2014 with\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA 2<\/em><\/strong>, as we will introduce brand new characters and let them experience new gameplay features but also improvements of the first opus battle system\u201d<\/p>\n

Players who have a save game file from both\u00a0TALES OF GRACES\u2122 f<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and the upcoming\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>will be able to enjoy exclusive bonus items forTALES OF XILLIA 2<\/em><\/strong>.
\nTALES OF XILLIA<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0will be available exclusively for the PlayStation\u00ae3 system on August 9th<\/sup>, 2013 in Europe and Australasia.<\/p>\n

TALES OF XILLIA 2\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>will be available across Europe and Australasia in 2014.
\nFor more information on the\u00a0\u00a0Tales of<\/em>\u00a0series, please visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.namcobandaigames.eu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leading video game developer and publisher NAMCO BANDAI Games Europe S.A.S. announced this week-end, during a special event at the Japan Expo in Paris that\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA\u2122 2\u00a0will be coming to Europe and Australasia exclusively for the PlayStation\u00ae3 computer entertainment system in 2014.\u00a0 Building on the foundation of 2013\u2019s\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA\u2122\u00a0gameplay and world,\u00a0TALES OF XILLIA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[532,2727,2590],"class_list":["post-30297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-news","tag-update","tag-video-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30297"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}