So what happens when you combine B-movie disaster flick elements and turn it into a romantic adventure game? You get Agetec's Raw Danger, a campy, ugly little gem that provides some entertaining moments amongst old-school concepts and mildly underwhelming disaster effects. Still, it's not bad for its starting gate price.
Having acquired the rights to the previously Irem-developed survival action adventure series Disaster Report late last year, Granzella has announced that it will be re-releasing the first two PS2 entires in the series on the Japanese PlayStation Store on February 18.
The games will retail as PlayStation Classics on the service, meaning they’ll be emulated versions of the original games, rather than retouched ports. Both games will retail for 1000 yen.
I really wished some of these made it overseas. I played the one on PSP and really enjoyed it!
Granzella will re-release the existing Disaster Report games. Disaster Report and its sequel called Raw Danger in the West will join Japan’s line of PS2 Classics. Disaster Report 3, a Japan-only PSP sequel, will be distributed on PSN.
Granzella have a PS4 (for 2015) and a Vita game in the works and are uploading older titles to PSN in the near future. For anyone interested.
Raw Danger was one of the most unique experiences on the PS2. I would love to try Disaster Report. Please come to the US and Canada.
Sam Bishop of IGN writes:
"It's a shame that despite listening to fan outcries about the game, Irem either didn't have the programming chops or the resources to really update the actual look and feel of the game to something that feels like a PS2 title. It's still an experience that absolutely should be had by everyone, but some just won't be able to get past the strictly amateur hour-level presentation."
