KickBeat





Games >> KICKBEAT™

 

KICKBEAT™

PLATFORM:
PS VITA

OFFICIAL WEBSITE:
WWW.KICKBEAT.COM

 

 

 

  Developer Zen Studios
Publisher Zen Studios
Distributor Sony Computer Entertainement
   
Platform PlayStation©Vita
   
Release date TBD 2012
Genre Rhythm game
Mode Single player, Multiplayer
   
Media/distribution Download

Key Features

 

• KickBeat offers players several innovative ways to interact with music!

 

• Beat-matching mechanics with a Zen Studios original take on an acrobatic style of martial arts, turning every song into a raucous battle.

 

• KickBeat features a music analyzer that allows players to create new tracks from their own music libraries.

 

• A hard hitting soundtrack featuring licensed tracks from a diverse lineup of artists from well known bands such as Pendulum and Marilyn Manson, to indie pioneers Celldweller and Blue Stahli, to hidden talents like electronic music producer Voicians and Taiwanese rapper Shen Yi.

 

• The first music game with fully 3D interactive characters!

 

• Beautiful art style with animated cut scenes and an immersive story

 

• Online multiplayer! Battle against other players in toe-to-toe fighting action. Collect orbs to power up and unleash powerful attacks against your opponent!

 

• Compete with friends and post your scores to world-wide leaderboards

 

 

Story Overview and Main Characters

 

• Because we’ve put all this effort into making characters a central focus of the game, we needed to give these characters a human touch. Otherwise, they’re just animated props. Our story revolves around a love-struck and unlikely hero drawn into a battle for control of the world’s music. It’s light-hearted fare, but we’ve done a bunch of hand-drawn and fully voiced sequences that really bring the characters to life.

 

• Lee (male) and Mei (female) are the story protagonists.

 

• Master Fu is the leader of an ancient, secretive sect of monks called the Order of the Melodic Fist, who have been the guardians of Sphere of Music for centuries.

 

• Lee is the unlikeliest of hero’s, but he is chosen to fight to reclaim the music that has been stolen by Radio Earth, led by Mr. Halisi, owner of Entertainment Earth and leader of those who would use music for power and control.

 

 

Quote from Neil Sorens, Zen Studios Creative Director
“Several years ago, we asked ourselves, ‘What would happen if we took a beat-matching game, replaced the abstract cues like bars, arrows, and button icons with kung fu fight scenes, and set it all to some incredibly intense music?’” said Neil Sorens, Creative Director for Zen Studios. “We spent three years turning that idea into in Kickbeat, and anyone looking for something fresh and exciting and the music genre is in for a treat.”

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

COMING SOON!

 

 

 

 

To download KickBeat™ assets including trailers and screenshots, please visit the KickBeat press site.

 

To download Zen Pinball™ (Zen Pinball 2™, Zen Pinball™ iOS, Zen Pinball™ 3D, Zen Pinball THD™ assets including trailers and screenshots, please visit the Zen Pinball press site.

 

To download Pinball FX2™ assets including trailers and screenshots, please visit the
Pinball FX2™ press site.

 

To download Marvel Pinball®,  Marvel Pinball®: Vengeance and Virtue, Marvel Pinball®: Avengers Chroniclese assets including trailers and screenshots, please visit the Marvel Pinball press site.

 

 

 

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27 Responses to KickBeat

  1. Brian says:
    October 27, 2012 at 4:52 pm

    Looks Fantastic, cant wait to see this on my Vita. Oh yeah Zen Pinball 2 on Vita is absolutely amazing.

    Reply
  2. ChazzH69 says:
    November 2, 2012 at 8:43 am

    Any update on the date for this as I hoped it would of been soon. Is it still going to be out in 2012?

    Reply
  3. al says:
    December 26, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    hi

    any news about release date? how much u think its gonna cost? RELEASE IT ALREADY!!!!

    Reply
  4. Miguel says:
    January 15, 2013 at 2:59 pm

    Hey,

    I’m really looking forward to this game!

    Any news on a time period for release, if not an actual date?

    I WANT TO PLLLLAAAAAYYYYYY! ;)

    Regards from a fan of your work (Also love Zen Pinball 2, although I suck at it).

    Reply
  5. LoAlexandria says:
    February 12, 2013 at 4:01 pm

    Wow, I’m so looking forward since I first seen its announcement. Big fan of the music game genre, so I can’t miss that.

    1. Please make it happen and give away a platinum trophy for the game + don’t make it an easy set of trophies to get 100% in :)

    Is there any way to get an early access to this game? I’ld really like to test and write stuff about it :)

    Reply
  6. resetme says:
    March 3, 2013 at 9:56 pm

    Is this game canceled?

    I love rhythm games and i was hoping to get this in 2012, what happened? any news?

    Reply
  7. Zen freak says:
    March 19, 2013 at 1:20 pm

    Hi.

    Can we expect any news about this game soon (PRETTY PLEASE)?

    Spring is almost upon us… please don’t tell me it’ll be out in THE END of Spring?

    Sorry about that :D

    Just can’t wait any longer!

    Thanks

    Reply
  8. JohnnyBlaze#1280 says:
    March 22, 2013 at 12:19 pm

    So, today is March 22nd, Spring’s here!

    Is it out yet? Is it out yet? Is it out yet?

    No? When, then? :D

    Reply
  9. Jorge Canossa says:
    April 1, 2013 at 5:43 pm

    hi … when we see this game on vita ??? Is coming this spring or not ??? we have to wait at the end of the year ??

    Reply
    • BarbieBobomb says:
      April 2, 2013 at 12:15 am

      Should be ready this spring/summer :) We will post as soon as we have more news!

      Reply
      • JohnnyBlaze#1280 says:
        April 9, 2013 at 10:32 pm

        So now it’s “spring/summer”… sorry to say it’s getting kind of frustrating, waiting for the game…

        Still, I’m confident I’ll love it.

        Reply
  10. Hypnopatia says:
    April 18, 2013 at 4:51 pm

    This game gonna be amazing ! :)
    Cant wait for the release!

    Reply
  11. Emmanuel says:
    April 20, 2013 at 4:47 am

    so it’s april 19th… and i barley use my vita due to the lack of quality games out there and i was just wondering,is this game going to be released before the formation of this country or after? (4th of july) since all I see is “it’ll be out as soon” and irritating phrases like that

    Reply
  12. JohnnyBlaze#1280 says:
    May 15, 2013 at 2:27 pm

    Hi, team!

    Another month gone by… Any word on this game?

    How’s it coming along?

    Anything at all?!

    We’re dying, here… Enthusiasm is being lost and other games are being announced, begging for our money (looking at Dragon’s Crown)…

    Sorry, no disrespect meant, just saying how I feel.

    Reply
  13. Hassan says:
    May 20, 2013 at 1:14 pm

    Based on past comments, the game is still in the works which mean more waiting for my vita :C Im just gonna ask but can you release like a some current screenshots or a trailer or short gameplay. Im dying for some more info on this (to be) awesome game. Please?

    Reply

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