Atlus is taking a plunge into Xbox 360 publishing with three titles this summer. All of them are strategy RPGs from different brands with different settings. Spectral Force 3 takes veteran tacticians to familiar territory with swords and elves. Operation Darkness looks at World War II if it had vampires and werewolves. Zoids Assault is [...]

In Operation Darkness Hitler can repel bullets with psychic powers. Werewolves from Scotland wage war against the Blood Clan, vampires employed by the Nazi army. I’m not sure if Atlus or Success made the decision, but Operation Darkness twists history with caution. Cordelia emphasizes not all Germans are evil. In fact you even meet an [...]

Aoshi00 asked if Operation Darkness had a Japanese language option. I thought it did, but when I scrolled through the menus I couldn’t find anything. I sent over an e-mail to see to if I was missing it in the build I have and discovered Operation Darkness will not contain the original voice acting.   [...]

In the first mission Edward Kyle is an ordinary soldier who enlisted in the British Army after his girlfriend Alicia was killed by the Nazis. You only get to control him and his buddy Jude Lancelot who happens to be Alicia’s brother. Since the game is set in World War II no one runs around [...]

We’ve seen an Operation Darkness demo before, but it was region locked. Since we’re nearing towards June 24 release date, Atlus put the North American version of demo online. You can get it if you’re a gold member now. However, silver account holders have to wait a week to download the 493MB file. The Japanese [...]

The squad you control in Operation Darkness can change into werewolves and blow buildings up with rocket launchers. These attacks are spliced together in the latest trailer. As a tactician you have a choice rend your enemies with magic or pick skeletons off with guns. A rare blend in the strategy RPG genre, which piqued [...]

Looking for a strategy RPG for the Xbox 360 where werewolves rend World War II soldiers? Operation Darkness is your game and Atlus is releasing it in North America on June 24 and it will be region free.   I don’t think this has been mentioned much before, but the Japanese release includes Xbox Live [...]

This might be old news to some, but an accumulating amount of tips (thanks everyone!!) claimed the Operation Darkness demo is not available to gamers in North America. I asked a few other people living in the US with Japanese Xbox Live accounts to check this out and the result is they cannot get access [...]

We know Atlus is bringing us Operation Darkness sometime next year, but if you can’t wait to command werewolves in an alternate WWII strategy RPG log on to Xbox Live. The Japanese marketplace has a free demo with Mission 06: The Eyes of the Needle”. Don’t worry about a language barrier either, with the exception [...]

It’s near the end of the day and Atlus sent over some surprising news. Atlus is now an official Xbox 360 third party publisher and next year they are releasing two games. They picked up the rights to Spectral Force 3, an Idea Factory strategy RPG from 2006. Atlus also has the rights to Success’s [...]

Poor Success Corporation. They didn’t even have a full booth at Tokyo Game Show! If it wasn’t for Operation Darkness being stocked at Microsoft’s booth I don’t think they would have a presence.   I hopped on to one of the two Operation Darkness demo stations right in the middle of a briefing. Yes, there [...]

I’ve mentioned this a few times before, but if you didn’t hear about it Success Corp is working on an original strategy RPG for the Xbox 360. Operation Darkness blends elements of World War II with stuff from fantasy novels like werewolves. Battles have your typical grid based SRPG system with Xbox Live support for [...]

We’ve mentioned Operation Darkness a few times before and after a period of silence Famitsu posted new screenshots of the game. Operation Darkness takes the timeline of World War II and twists it by adding things like werewolves. Since there is a lack of original strategy RPGs on the Xbox 360, Operation Darkness is a [...]

After a period of silence and a delay to 2007, Success Corp released a new trailer for Operation Darkness. Unlike most strategy RPGs, which are set in a backdrop of sorcery and swords, Operation Darkness is set in a period where you have modern weapons. Maybe Operation Darkness is better explained as Final Fantasy Tactics [...]