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If this video doesn’t sell you on Vanquish, it isn’t likely anything else will.

Enemy animator on Vanquish, Takaaki Yamaguchi, blogs about the importance of treating Vanquish as an action game, rather than a shooter.

Vanquish features quite the star-studded line-up of composers, including Masafumi Takada of God Hand fame and Masakazu Sugimori, responsible for the incredible Ace Attorney soundtrack.

Sega put together a Vanquish limited edition with a 7” statue of Sam looking out of a windowed box

Along with the announcement, Vanquish community manager, Julian Mehlfeld, issues a challenge to players.

Adjustments have been made to ensure that players find no noticeable differences between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of the game, according to PlatinumGames.

Boosting, the ability that makes Sam rapidly slide towards or away from laser shooting robots, is one mechanic that makes Vanquish stand out from third person shooters.

Following in the footsteps of Bayonetta, Platinum Games created a casual automatic level of difficulty for Vanquish.

Game designer, Shinji Mikami, reveals Vanquish was originally an “open battlefield” game and that the enemies were white instead of red in colour. What led to the change?

Final Fantasy XII’s self proclaimed “leading man” shares something in common with Vanquish, Sega’s hi-speed third person shooter.

Bayonetta, the PlayStation 3 version, is 50% cheaper at Amazon today. Sega’s climax action game is today’s video game deal of the day.

Within one month, Vanquish will be released around the world.

Sam Gideon can arm himself a laser cannon if you pre-order Vanquish in Japan.