Vanquish

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Vanquish

System(s): PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Steam

Publisher: Sega

Developer:

PlatinumGames

Little Stone Software

Supporting companies: Avant, Digital Frontier

Genre: Action

Number of players: 1

Release	Date	RRP	Code
JP	2010-10-21^[4]	¥7,600 (7,980)7,600 (7,980)^[4]	JES1-00080
JP ▼	2011-05-10
JP ▼ (Official Demo)	2010-09-02^[10]	FREEfree
US	2010-10-19^[1]	$39.9939.99	68045
US ▼	2011-05-10^[5]	$39.9939.99^[5]
US ▼ (Official Demo)	2010-08-31^[5]	FREEfree
EU (Promo)	2010		INLREV-XT211301-EU
EU ▼	2011-05-10^[8]	€24.9924.99^[8]
EU ▼ (Official Demo)	2010-09-02^[8]	FREEfree
DE	2010-10-22^[2]		INL-XT211301-GE
DE (Lenticular)	2010-10-22^[2]		INL-XT211301-GE
DE ▼	2011-05-10^[9]	€24.9924.99^[9]
DE ▼ (Official Demo)	2010-09-02^[9]	FREEfree
ES	2010-10-22^[2]
FR	2010-10-22^[2]		INL-XT211301-FR
UK	2010-10-22^[2]	£49.9949.99	INL-XT211301-UK
UK (Lenticular)	2010-10-22^[2]		INL-XT211301-UK
UK (Steelbook)	2010
UK (Limited Edition)	2010	£54.9554.95^[3]
UK ▼	2011-05-10^[6]	£29.9929.99^[6]
UK ▼ (Official Demo)	2010-09-02^[6]	FREEfree
IT	2010-10-22^[2]		INL-XT211301-IT
RU	200x
AU	2010-10-21		INL-XT211301-AU
AU (Lenticular)	2010-10-21
AU ▼	2011-05-10^[7]	$49.9549.95^[7]
AU ▼ (Official Demo)	2010-09-02^[7]	FREEfree
NZ	2010
NZ (Lenticular)	2010
CA	2010		68045
KR	2010-10-22
AS	2010-10-21
EX	2010-10-22^[2]		INL-XT211301-EX
JP	2010-10-21^[13]	¥7,600 (7,980)7,600 (7,980)^[13]	BLJM-60227
JP ▼	2012-10-11^[14]	¥3,429 (3,600)3,429 (3,600)^[14]	NPJB-00245
US	2010-10-19^[11]	$39.9939.99	BLUS-30543
US ▼	2012-11-06^[18]	$19.9919.99^[18]	NPUB-30725
EU (Promo)	20xx		BLES-00927
EU ▼	2012-11-07^[19]	€14.9914.99^[19]	NPEB-01133
DE	2010-10-22^[11]		BLES-00927 INL-B00927-GE
DE (Lenticular)	2010		BLES-00927
DE ▼	2012-11-07^[20]	€14.9914.99^[20]	NPEB-01133
ES	2010-10-22^[11]		BLES-00927 INL-B00927-SP
ES (Essentials)	201x
ES (Steelbook)	2010
FR	2010-10-22^[11]		BLES-00927 INL-B00927-FR
FR (Lenticular)	2010		BLES-00927 MIS-VORINGPS-FR
UK	2010-10-22^[11]	£49.9949.99	BLES-00927 INL-B00927-UK
UK (Limited Edition)	2010-10-22^[12]	£69.9969.99^[12]	BLES-00927 MIS-VORINGPS-UK
UK (Lenticular)	2010		BLES-00927 MIS-VORINGPS-UK
UK (Steelbook)	2010
UK ▼	2012-11-07^[21]	£11.9911.99^[21]	NPEB-01133
IT	2010-10-22^[11]		BLES-00927 INL-B00927-IT
RU	20xx		BLES-00927 INL-B00927-RU
AU	2010-10-21^[11]		BLES-00927 INL-B00927-AU
AU (Lenticular)	2010		BLES-00927 MIS-VORINGPS-AU
AU ▼	2012-11-07^[22]	$22.9522.95^[22]	NPEB-01133
NZ	201x
CA	2010
MX (Favoritos)	201x
BR (Favoritos)	201x
KR	2010-10-22^[15]	₩59,80059,800^[16]
TW	2010-10-21^[17]
AS	2010-10-20		BLAS-50233
EX	2010-10-22^[11]		BLES-00927 INL-B00927-EX
US ▼	2017-05-25^[23]	$19.9919.99^[23]	460810
EU ▼	2017-05-25^[23]	€19.9919.99^[23]	460810
DE ▼	2017-05-25^[23]	€19.9919.99^[23]	460810
UK ▼	2017-05-25^[23]	£14.9914.99^[23]	460810
AU ▼	2017-05-25^[23]		460810

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Vanquish (ヴァンキッシュ) is a Sony PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 third-person shooter game developed by PlatinumGames and published by Sega. A cover shooter with gameplay significantly inspired by the 2006 Epic Games title Gears of War, it was released worldwide in October 2010, and was later ported to Steam in 2017 courtesy of developer Little Stone Software.

Story

The story is set in the near future. Russia and the United States are vying for ownership of the world’s fast-depleting energy resources and the US has constructed a space station in order to harness energy from the sun. Russian forces capture this space station and divert its harvested solar energy into a blast wave that destroys San Francisco, aiming to force the US into a total and unconditional surrender. In response, the US tasks its armed forces with recapturing the space station before the Russians can annihilate their next target – New York.

The player takes control of Sam, a government agent kitted out with a futuristic battle suit.

Gameplay

Missions

	Act 1, Mission 1: Landing

	Act 1, Mission 2: Breach

	Act 1, Mission 3: Giant

	Act 1, Mission 4: Rescue

	Act 1, Mission 5: Trust

	Act 1, Mission 6: Darkness

	Act 1, Mission 7: Seismic

	Act 1, Mission 8: Hostile

	Act 2, Mission 1: River

	Act 2, Mission 2: Rapids

	Act 2, Mission 3: Nightmare

	Act 2, Mission 4: Struggle

	Act 2, Mission 5: Assault

	Act 2, Mission 6: Stronghold

	Act 3, Mission 1: Forward

	Act 3, Mission 2: Attack

	Act 3, Mission 3: Vertigo

	Act 3, Mission 4: Dragon

	Act 3, Mission 5: Despair

	Act 3, Mission 6: Infiltrate

	Act 3, Mission 7: Phantoms

	Act 4, Mission 1: Silence

	Act 4, Mission 2: Brink

	Act 4, Mission 3: Manuever

	Act 4, Mission 4: Slave

	Act 4, Mission 5: Emancipation

	Act 5, Mission 1: Denouement

	Act 5, Mission 2: Soldier

	Act 5, Mission 3: Deception

Achievements

Main article: Vanquish/Achievements.

History

Development

The game was created by the team previously responsible for Resident Evil 4, including lead director Shinji Mikami^[24]; his first game under the Platinum Games brand. The game was in development since 2007; in January 2010, a full motion video trailer was released.

Mikami has stated that the game was developed with the PlayStation 3 as its lead platform, commenting that it was a "great success".

In the course of developing Vanquish, Shinji Mikami said that the game's graphics were inspired by the Casshern anime series.

Vanquish builds on the codebase seen in Bayonetta.

Legacy

The game was ported to PC and sold on Steam in 2017.

Versions

On consoles, Vanqish runs with an internal screen resolution of 1024x720. It aims for 30FPS, but in busy sections tends to fluctuate between 20-30FPS, rarely hitting its performance target.

On PC, the frame rate is unlocked and support for higher resolutions was added. While textures and polygons are broadly the same throughout, improved texture filtering means more of the detail is visible at any one time. A basic ambient occlusion rendering technique was added, and motion blur uses more samples to create a smoother effect. Shadows are also improved, and the game no longer makes level of detail adjustments to the polygons depending on the distance away from the camera.

As cutscenes are pre-rendered, they are capped at 30FPS and will likely display at a lower resolution than in-game graphics. On PC, these videos play at a slightly higher resolution than on console. Videos make up 16GB of the required 18GB install.

Version history

Main article: Vanquish/Changelog.

Version	Date	Ref
0000010000030000000000000000001.03	201706092017-06-09	^[25]
000005000000000000000000000000Update 5	201706062017-06-06	^[25]
0000010000020000000000000000001.02	201706022017-06-02	^[25]
000003000000000000000000000000Update 3	201705302017-05-30	^[25]
000002000000000000000000000000Update 2	201705292017-05-29	^[25]
000001000000000000000000000000Update 1	201705282017-05-28	^[25]

Comparisons

Main article: Vanquish/Comparisons.

Downloadable content

Title and description	Links	Releases
Tri-Weapon Pack	PlayStation 3: JP, US, UK, AU, KR, TW Xbox 360: JP, US, UK, AU, KR	US 2010-11-16^[26] $1.991.99^[26] UK 2010-11-17^[27] £1.691.69^[27] EU 2010-11-17^[27] €1.991.99^[28] DE 2010-11-17^[27] €1.991.99^[29] AU 2010-11-17^[27] $2.952.95^[30] JP 2010-11-18^[31] KR 2010-11-18^[32] ₩2,3002,300^[32] TW 2010-11-18^[33] NT$6060^[33] US 2010-11-16^[34] 160MSP160^[34] UK 2010-11-16^[34] 160MSP160^[35] EU 2010-11-16^[34] 160MSP160^[36] DE 2010-11-16^[34] 160MSP160^[37] AU 2010-11-16^[34] 160MSP160^[38] JP 2010-11-18^[39] 160MSP160^[39] KR 2010-11-16^[40]
Weapons trailer	Xbox 360: US, UK, AU	US 2010-12-14^[34] FREEfree UK 2010-12-14^[34] FREEfree EU 2010-12-14^[34] FREEfree DE 2010-12-14^[34] FREEfree AU 2010-12-14^[34] FREEfree
Battle Suit trailer	Xbox 360: US, UK, AU	US 2010-11-17^[34] FREEfree UK 2010-11-17^[34] FREEfree EU 2010-11-17^[34] FREEfree DE 2010-11-17^[34] FREEfree AU 2010-11-17^[34] FREEfree
Story Trailer	Xbox 360: US	US 2010-09-17^[34] FREEfree
Game Play Trailer 2	Xbox 360: JP, US, UK, AU, KR	US 2010-08-06^[34] FREEfree UK 2010-08-06^[34] FREEfree EU 2010-08-06^[34] FREEfree AU 2010-08-06^[34] FREEfree JP 2010-08-26^[39] FREEfree KR 2010-08-06^[40] FREEfree
E3 Trailer (HD)	Xbox 360: JP, US	US 2010-06-16^[34] FREEfree JP 2010-06-16^[39] FREEfree
TGS 2010 Trailer	Xbox 360: JP	JP 2010-09-30^[39] FREEfree
E3 Trailer	Xbox 360: JP, UK, AU, KR	UK 2010-07-06^[34] FREEfree EU 2010-07-06^[34] FREEfree DE 2010-07-06^[34] FREEfree AU 2010-07-06^[34] FREEfree JP 2010-07-06^[39] FREEfree KR 2010-07-06^[40] FREEfree