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Nintendo Shares Details on Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. 3DS Game

Nintendo streamed a video on Thursday of the E3 developer event in which they announced its new strategy game for Nintendo 3DS Code Name: S.T.E.A.M. Producer Hitoshi Yamagami of Nintendo and translator Rob Tunstall of Nintendo of America appeared at the event with members of the development team at Intelligent Systems (Fire Emblem franchise): art director Takako Sasaki and creative director Paul Patrashcu. The video previews gameplay footage, character designs, and monster designs.

The game stars members of a steam-based fighting force, S.T.E.A.M. ("Strike Team Eliminating the Alien Menace"), created by Abraham Lincoln to defend the Earth against a space invasion. The game will take place in London, and will feature alien creatures that satirize creatures from Lovecraftian lore.

The game itself is a campaign that is divided in to missions, each which has several maps. The game also includes elements from shooters to "enhance both movement and attacking," but will be a turn-based strategy game. The fighters in the game run on steam by using boilers, and the fighters have to use a limited amount of steam to perform attacks. As players progress through the game, the boilers, weapons, and characters available will increase.

The characters each have specific main weapons, but players can equip a sub-weapon for each character. Each character also has a special ability that is unique and they can use it only once per map.

The character design itself is inspired by silver age American comic books, specifically by artists like Jack Kirby and Bruce Timm.