Zero Boom!

Air raid Pearl Harbor

F4F at Wake Island

F4F close-up

Protect USS Yorktown!

SBD Bomber Chase

Sunset action

P40 action at Pearl

More P40 action

I hope 2009 went out in style for you all and 2010 is looking good so far. Here at Legendo we're speeding ahead at full throttle, taming the innards of the Wii, so that's pretty much business as usual. Over and out.

Here’s a couple of new tidbits on Pearl Harbor: Red Sun Rising:

• You will be able to fly missions as American or Japanese, so the game will be playable from both perspectives.
• There will be two campaigns with 8 missions in each, including well-known battles such Wake Island, Midway and of course Pearl Harbor.
• There will be at least 8 playable aircraft -- including the P-40 Warhawk and F4F Fighter for America and the Zero and Aichi Val for Japan.
• There are currently two control schemes in the game and we are considering adding support for the Classic Controller (that’s still up in the air though). The first control scheme uses the Wii Remote horizontally; tilting it sideways and forward etc controls the plane. The second control scheme uses the Wii Remote and Nunchuk held in combination, control the plane (tilting and turning!) with the Nunchuk with the Wii Remote held vertically to shoot and to handle camera movement etc.

In other news, I was recently interviewed by Nintendo Life on the progress of the game, some shameless self-promotion after the break:

http://wiiware.nintendolife.com/news/2009/12/interviews_legendos_pearl_harbor_red_sun_rising

That’s all for 2009 and cheers to a great 2010! Have a brilliant New Year’s Eve and easy on the fireworks and champagne. See you next year!

We want to give you guys a super-fun and great-looking flight action arcade game, packing in enough content to make the upcoming WiiWare™ release feel like a retail product. Feel free to join the forum discussion over at Nintendo Life:

http://www.nintendolife.com/forums/wiiware/pearl_harbor_trilogy?start=60

Back in Hawaii, at Pearl Harbor to be more exact, we've been so busy beavering and tweaking away that you'll be amazed when we reveal some more in-game screenshots (coming real soon, we promise!).

• We now have a beautifully effective water surface, splashes with impact of gunfire and all that!
• We're working on which missions to include. Some of them are already decided such as Pearl Harbor (obviously!), Wake Island and Battle of Midway. We're trying to cram in as many as we possibly can, the 40 MB WiiWare limit is a really nice challenge!

• Anti-Aircraft defense units are now in, sky-fire coming from ground units and enemy ships.  Although it seems like an obvious thing to include, we didn't actually do so in the PC version!
• We're trying multiple control-schemes to give the player as unique and optimized experience as possible.  Controls are of paramount importance and we want to include the most natural combinations available.
• All in all, the game is shaping up nicely -- the chocks are still in place but not for long!
• Thought you might want to know that we're now aiming for a Q1 2010 release.

And last but not least, if you're looking for an interesting read on World War II, we recommend this article over at cracked.com. Have a good weekend now!