Wallpapers Wednesday : Valkyria Chronicles
Wallpapers from the PS3 game Valkyria Chronicles aka Valkyrie of the Battlefield : Gallian Chronicles, which looks more like an interactive anime film than a game thanks to the unique rendering techniques used by its CANVAS graphics engine.
While most of the content for the Japanese site for this SEGA game is already accessible (not that it would make any difference to visitors who can’t read Japanese since Google Translate can do nothing for Flash-based sites), the wallpapers section is still under construction with only 3 out of the total 20 wallpapers being downloadable at this time.
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What really interests me about Valkyria Chronicles aren’t the beautifully designed characters nor the refeshingly different anime graphics but the world in which Valkyria Chronicles is based.
Valkyria Chronicles takes place in a fictional pre-WWII Europe where the tiny nation of Gallia (somwhere in The Netherlands) is wedged between the forces of the Atlantic Federation and the East European Imperial Alliance (a pre-war NATO and Warsaw Pact if you will). Most of this information is stuff that I gleaned from watching the various Japanese trailers posted at Gametrailers so there may be some inaccuracies here and there.
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The game retains that WWII feel familiar to most gamers except for the seemingly outdated East European infantry who still wear 15th century sallets rather than WWII helmets and are armed with cumbersome giant pikes. The infantry later actually reveal the true function of these pikes as early model RPGs by employing them in an offensive anti-tank role - you weren’t half expecting the infantry to form up into square formations to await a charge by tanks, do you? 
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Since the main characters fight with or alongside the blue tanks, I assume they belong to the Atlantic Federation. Curiously, these tanks look very much like a turreted version of the late production model of the German Sturmgeschutz III Ausf G with its distinctively contoured Saukopf gun mantlet/shield (check out thisTamiya model of this exact StuG III version which I used as a reference.)
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The brown tank of the East European Imperial Alliance (above) appears to be a more sensible version of the monster Soviet T-35 multi-turreted tank with a boxy turret reminiscent of the KV-2.
Download the wallpapers from the official Valkyria Chronicles site or check out the trailers @ Gametrailers.com.
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Funny to see those dutch city names used on the map of the atlantic federation. I have been to most of those places but as far as i remember they were in slghtly different locations
Never knew of the game… The style looks fantastic!
I will like to see how it plays…
isn’t this typical square design? or is it just me
Could i make a request on your next random monday
could u discuss classic super robot
such as Voltes V, Godsigma or Shin Getter robo or anything
Great Post btw!
@Onno, do you happen to know if there was an old walled city in Holland like in the video - I remember seeing one picture of it a while ago but couldn’t find that picture in time for this post
@Deitrix : Check out the cinematic intro which was posted at Gametrailers yesterday - it’s beautifully rendered CG stuff.
@Dian : No you may not make a request
Seriously I’m not that good at giant robots - I know a bit of BattleTech, Gundam and Transformers but not the rest. I’m been recently trawling through deviantART these few days and possibly writing about some of the interesting artists that I encounter 
I dont recognize the walled city. Looks more like Disney World to me. But I’d like the see that picture if you find it.
Yeah, I’ll look for it if I ever recall where I last seen it. The city in the video might be a fictional one anyway.
It looks pretty cool, but not my play style… I do enjoy the looks tho’..!!
Unfortunately for me, it’s my type of game except that I don’t have a PS3. Damn!