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CID The Dummy Preview: Meet D-Troit

Cid the Dummy is an upcoming platformer for the PSP from British developer Oxygen Games. The game features a determined crash test dummy named Cid, who is on a quest to determine the true meaning of his life. The title is coming later in 2009 for the Wii, PSP, PS2 and PC platforms. We might be slightly biased here, but the PSP looks like the perfect system for this game, if only so that we can have another platformer after we're done with Prinny. It's not just platforming that we will be doing in this game, either. CID has many different fighting styles with which to battle enemies, from unarmed combat to weapons like the Bazooka that can freeze, hit and burn.

Today, we received some new information about the game's characters, including its head badguy, D-Troit.

"Not all bad guys start off bad. Most of them start good somewhere along the line. D-Troit was Professor B.M. Werken’s friend and business partner up until a certain fateful day. But now he’s 99% pure evil, and hell-bent on global domination, or getting his revenge on the Professor, one of the two. D-Troit is still 1% good though and the little bit of good he’s got left inside him sometimes comes to the surface.

D-Troit is unpredictable; he can flick between moods like people flick between TV channels. He can be nice one minute, terrifying the next; no-one can quite work him out. Tread carefully, that’s for sure...
D-Troit likes to look after himself. He’ll only turn to matters of world domination once he’s done 50 press-ups, quaffed a cup of green tea, and gone to his Pilates class. He appears fuelled by revenge, but why?"

Mysterious stuff indeed. We will have to wait until the official launch of Cid the Dummy to find out what his nemesis is really up to.

[Source: Press Release]