Kojima and co. announced that a new sequel project is being studied for a potential new Zone of The Enders game. It’s currently not announced as a “green lit” project but some artwork was shown in the event. Details & images after the jump.
Via NeoGAF:
– Enders Project is the next sequel in the Zone of the Enders series.
– Currently it is only a concept they are developing. Kojima says he is extremely busy with his own projects, so a new producer has been assigned to this project. Ryosuke Toriyama (Busou Shinki series) is the Konami producer who is tasked with Enders Project right now, and he is the creative producer.
– The other person working on developing the concept is Yoji Shinkawa, the mecha designer and illustrator for the series.
– So far they have designed the main Orbital Frame, and created a detailed concept scale model for it. The model design has also been converted into CG, and they have successfully rendered it on their internal Fox Engine.
– Nothing else has been decided at this time, but they are exploring all possible avenues to proceed with development of this project. Kojima says that they will be retaining the aspects which make ZoE what it is, including the anime taste mecha action, as well as story concepts like the Metatron. The difference this time is that they are going for a more fantasy style art design, instead of a futuristic one.
– Kojima Productions really, really wants to make a ZoE sequel. Did I mention they REALLY want to make one? Because they do. They really, really do!
Keep in mind this project doesn’t seem to be the Ogre project they’re working on.
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Can’t freaking wait! My E3 is already being made, lol.
Don’t get too excited yet they didn’t green-light the project yet and no platform announced for it. One can only hope it ends up becoming ZOE3.
Kojima said he has a few surprises this E3(since he wasn’t at E3 last year). I am guessing this was one of them. It isn’t green lit but with this much material, they might as well green lit it. Unless they wanna disappoint millions of fans who were waiting for part 3 since 2003 (9 years ago)