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Epic Fantasy Warrior Quest XVIII: Metropolis of the Antisocial Gems
The title of the eighteenth game in the award-winning Epic Fantasy Warrior Quest videogame franchise was announced in March of 2007. It was originally announced as cross-platform on the XBox 360 and PS3, touted to sport hyper-realistic graphics a la EFWQ XVI, and reportedly would include online deathmatch play, though how this would work was anyone's guess.
Including the programmer's, apparently. On December 14th, 2007, it was announced that Metropolis of the Antisocial Gems would no longer be released for the HD consoles, but on the scrappy next-gen dark horse, Nintendo's Wii.
"This is a play to lower costs and exploit the franchise by appealing to casual gamers. We do feel that the HD consoles should be exploited as well, and so we will be porting EFWQ XVI, previously a
PlayStation exclusive, to the XBox 360 in the United States. However, the cost of HD development is simply too high, and actually I'm not sure the artists we replaced after the recent employee purge (thanks again for those dividends, by the way) are really up to the task. Anyhow, the Wii is effectively controlling the console market right now and we felt it best to strike while the iron was hot."
--Anonymous PR flunkie, reading the board's statement at the most recent Cube-phonics shareholder meeting
This announcement is believed to have fueled the fire created when it was announced in February of 2007 that EFWQ XVII: Guardians of the Sky Comet would be released exclusively to handheld platforms in the summer of 2008, and that it would deviate from the series' main gameplay by being an "action/RPG" hybrid with focus on multiplayer adventuring and a less linear story.
Presently, Metropolis of the Antisocial Gems is scheduled for a "holiday season" 2008 release. What little is known about the game is that the main character is a female, which is only the second time in the series that a female protagonist has been featured in the main series, since EFWQ IX. Early promotional materials indicate that the story is about a dystopian city ruled over by a totalitarian council of sentient gems and that an important male character has been focused on in a trailer fighting his way through an army of warriors using nine levitating wands at once.
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