Ratloop Asia has taken to the PlayStation Blog to share new information on Rocketbirds 2: Evolution, its PlayStation 4 and PS Vita sequel to PlayStation 3‘s Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken first announced more than two years ago.
Here’s a summary:
- Rescue Mode – The new co-op mode, but also playable by one person. Rescue hostages held prisoner in procedurally generated locations as customizable Budgie Commando characters with lots of guns and items to collect. Unlike the first Rocketbirds, this time you stack the hostage on your back and carry them to safety. With up to four players, a stack of Budgie Commandos can now get pretty high.
- Online – This time, it’s using a lobby and players can drop-in or drop-out at any time during an active online session.
- Mechanics – The controls, responsiveness, and mechanics have been improved from the first game. This time, it’s all about speed and skill.
- Feedback – Rocketbirds 2 has been playable at a number of major game shows after about a year and a half into development. A number of tweaks have been made based on player feedback, including adding a performance scorecard, “down-not-out” mechanics, Rent-A-Duck (for additional “feather-power” support), and a Dojo where players can go head-to-head.
- Story Mode – There is a new story, featuring the Hardboiled Chicken, a new soundtrack by New World Revolution, as well as new jokes, new enemies, new jetpack action, and full voice-over work in English and Japanese. In story mode, Hardboiled finds out iL Putzki is still alive and seeks to eliminate him once and for all. Along the way, he realizes the Trans-dimensional Space Owls are behind it all and needs to reassess who his enemies really are. There will be a lot of Easter eggs to find, and completing story mode unlocks Hardboiled as a playable character in Rescue Mode.
A release date for Rocketbirds 2: Evolution has not been announced, but it will be cross-buy and cross-save compatible on PlayStation 4 and PS Vita when it launches.
Watch a new trailer below. View a new set of screenshots at the gallery.
