[kupoartist]

Originally Posted by Frozen

Now, Kupo, would you mind telling me some more about that Vincent game?

To be honest, I had to look up and find this stuff out for myself. I've not been really following the newly formed FFVII franchise... perhaps not even Final Fantasy itself... for sometime.

The action of Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus takes place 3 years after the ending of FF7 (the part before the credits at least). This means it takes place a year after the advents of Advent Children. The world is still rebuilding after the disaster of Sephiroth and Meteor (and hell knows what else happens in Advent Children), but everything grinds to a halt as a new group known as the "Deep Ground Soldiers" (no idea whether that should be "SOLDIERS") emerges from... well, deep under the ground and starts soldiering and stuff.

Vincent is the main character to rise to the challenge. Primarily this is because the game is going to be "a shooter", and Vinny uses guns where Cloud used swords... we could also speculate that Cloud is MIA after Advent Children, but there is nothing concrete to go on. The exact gameplay is a mystery: it's certainly not an RPG, but just what form the shooting takes is not clear: I expect a mix of First and Third Person, with stealth elements but it's not made clear what the proportion of these elements is, so we don't know whether we'll be playing Timesplitters, Tomb Raider or Metal Gear Solid stylee.

There appear to be other playable characters: 2 unnamed but one recognised as the Cat part of Cait Sith. There's an ETA on the game of Q4 2005, so it's quite a way away...