Vektor Tank 3D+ Announced For 3DS

You just know that Vektor Tank 3D+ is going to look so much better in motion in 3D than it does in these screenshots!

Vienna, Austria – Wednesday, July 7th 2010

New Platform

Bplus shifts its main development focus away from WiiWare™ and on to a new platform – the Nintendo 3DS™. The new handheld offers fantastic opportunities to create fresh ideas with new ways of presentation, leading to games that offer completely new experiences. With Nintendo 3DS the virtual worlds come even closer to the player.

Bernd Geiblinger, CEO and Art Director of Bplus, comments: “WiiWare was just the beginning – it was a fantastic way to get a foothold in the industry and it offered lots of opportunities to learn things and gather experience. Now, with new partners and a strong financial background, we gear up and fully set our focus on development of Nintendo 3DS retail games.”

Finally, Bplus is proud to announce Vektor Tank 3D+ exclusively for Nintendo 3DS. Being completely redesigned for the unique abilities of the new handheld system, Vektor Tank 3D+ will captivate players with its unique style, its novel approach to a classic genre and its innovative 3D+ control concept. Three all-new screenshots illustrate the evolution Vektor Tank has gone through since it was first announced.

There are a few more screenshots of Vektor Tank 3D+ after the break as well as more about the game in the press release.

About the game:Vektor Tank 3D+ is a Nintendo 3DS™ war action game for people of any age. It is focused on being enjoyable without the need for graphic violence. War is only in your head – in the future, war is not anymore fought on the battlefield but in a strictly virtual environment. No humans are really hurt, no buildings are really destroyed but in the cyber world no polygon will be left standing.

But what happens when an evil force infiltrates the system with a virus that threatens the very structure of the virtual world? What if real world piece is suddenly on the razor’s edge?

Then it is time for one very special weapon – The Vektor Tank.

New way of control: 3D+

Thanks to the completely new developed 3D+ control interface, your Nintendo 3DS becomes a virtual camcorder right in your hand. With the new handheld’s advanced cameras and motion sensors, the game recognises every single of your movements and maps them directly onto the camera in the game. Watch around the virtual reality and aim for enemies and targets. Your Nintendo 3DS is your window into the cyber world.

Unique art style:

Vektor Tank 3D+ is presented in a funky, retro-inspired vector look reminiscent of classics such as the original StarFox, Stunt Race FX, Vortex, Virtua Racing or Virtua Fighter. The flat shaded look with super-smooth antialiased edges offers a crisp and clear 3D experience.

Vektor Tank 3D+ is planned for a release in Q2 2011.