Nibris 'Raid's the DS @ Gaming Target

Written by John Scalzo on June 13, 2006

News: Raid Over the River announced for Nintendo's portable.

Nibris has earned a fair bit of press in the last few months with their grand pronouncements regarding the Wii title Sadness and their delightfully quirky mangling of the English language in their press releases.

So today, they decided to spread the love to the DS with the first details of Raid Over the River.

Raid Over the River will be a top down shooter that is "going to change the current image of a vertical shooter as a meaningless, arcade game which only
tests the speed of player's fingers." See, big pronouncements everywhere.

The game is said to have a rich storyline that will span 3000 years and six dimensions. Players will have to battle it out with a variety of vehicles (including a dragon) in Ancient Greece, World War II Europe, Cold War Soviet Russia, Present Day United States, Germany in 2018 and in Japan in an "unspecified future".

Both single and multiplayer players modes are planned including a co-op mode and several competetive modes.

Nibris has also provided a feature list, which again, is in that wonderful English they use:

6 campaigns, each with several missions, providing at least 10 hours of constant playing

6 different vehicles to be driven in 6 different time dimensions

Very extensive weaponry

Fuel and ammunition management requiring strategic approach to missions, defending transhipment bases

Cooperation and synchronisation of actions with other units

Extensive, full of action, multi-thread scenario putting the player in an intrigue spanning hundreds of dimensions

Cartoon comic interludes between missions presenting the story taking place in the game

Set of dodging and special attacks taking advantage of special features of NDS

Hidden missions, vehicles, bonuses enabled in the course of playing

Extensive multiplayer mode allowing to enjoy the game longer

Finally, the first three screens have been uploaded for your approval.

Raid Over the River is scheduled for release in the first half of 2007, but Nibris has yet to secure a publisher. Although, it looks like it's shaping up to be a nice little shooter, so they shouldn't have much trouble.

Let's hope they can pull it off. Fractured English will only get you so much attention. A solid game works much better.