Fifth Phantom Saga
By: Justin Pinter

Last year at E3, Sega presented a new title for the PS3 that looks to combine guns and ghosts into one game.

The demo that Sega showed had a character walking around corridors with a summoned armored Phantom who floated around on screen and carried out various commands. The Phantom seemed to be capable of anything from destroying things in your path to grabing boxes magnetically. Then while all of this goes on, your character can hide and take cover to preserve ammo and let his summoned ghost do the rest.

So the basics behind the game are that you summon ghosts and you can direct them where you want them. You can use the Phantoms to solve puzzles and use them to kill any enemies that seem to be a threat. In the demo sequence that was shown, even in gunfights, the player only had to unload once.

Visually the game still looks rough. Although it was gameplay footage shown and not pre-rendered concepts. Sega still has their work cut out for them. The corridors were simple square rooms but were showing fantastic textures, something similar to that seen from the Unreal 3 engines. The character Phantom and first-person arm also showed advanced modeling and normal mapping that were impressive.

So, from the looks of things, Fifth Phantom Saga looks to be a creative and innovative game that will bring some new spice to the FPS genre.