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The Red Star Announced For PSP

The Red Star was one of the best arcade games released for the Playstation 2, and soon PSP owners will be able to get their hands on the 2007 hit. Because it came towards the end of the PS2 life cycle, many gamers might have missed out on the Red Star, which is a creative mashup of top down shooter and beat 'em up gameplay, based upon the graphic novel of the same name by Christian Gossett. The game will be released in the summer of 2010 as a download-only title on PSN.

The Red Star is named for its vision of an alternative future in which the old Soviet Union still exists. The game brings to life the dystopian United Republics of the Red Star (URRS), a mystical and technologically advanced alternate reality resembling Soviet Russia. In this alternate reality, the world has been wracked by vicious conflict between the world's powerful nations, who use advanced technology to harness soldiers' latent mental powers.

Players can choose to play as one of the graphic novel's three most prominent characters: Maya Antares, a powerful sorceress in search of her husband lost in battle, Kyuzo, Maya's personal bodyguard as well as a powerful fighter, or Makita, a quick and agile warrior forced to abandon her life as a world-class athlete when her homeland was invaded.