Konami Shows Off Coded Arms
New screens for the PSP FPS.
With worldwide availability of both the PSP and Nintendo DS now just weeks away, publishers are getting more generous with releasing information on their games for the new platforms. Konami is currently working on several handheld games, but one of the biggest is Coded Arms for PSP.
First-person shooters (FPSs) are not the first genre you think of when pondering portable gaming, but the power of the PSP means that this is about to change. And Coded Arms is one of the first FPSs headed for the PSP.
The game gets around the lack of a second direction pad by using the face buttons in its place, thereby allowing for quasi-normal FPS controls. The game itself is an alien-infested cavalcade of blasting that spreads the word that portable FPSs are here to stay.
Coded Arms will be in shops later this year.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo Games
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