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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven Game Adds Pillar Men as Playable Characters

This year's 16th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine will announce on Monday that Bandai Namco Games' upcoming JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven PS3/PS4 fighting game will include the Pillar Men characters Cars, ACDC, and Wham. The game includes the ability to perform their special moves, including Wham's Holy Sandstorm and ACDC's boiling blood attacks. Kazuhiko Inoue, Keiji Fujiwara, and Akio Ohtsuka reprise their roles as Cars, ACDC, and Wham from the 2012 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure TV anime adaptation.

Bandai Namco Games also streamed gameplay videos for the game on January, which explained the game's mechanics.

A release date is not set for the full game, although a demo is now available in Japan.

Hiroshi Matsuyama returns as director at CyberConnect2, Kenei Nakasha is designing the game, and Chikayo Fukuda is composing the music. Joseph Joestar, Jotaro Kujo, Josuke Higashikata, Noriaki Kakyoin, Caesar Zeppeli, Jonathan Joestar, Robert E.O. Speedwagon, and Will A. Zeppeli appear in the game. New characters include Diego Brando (voiced by Takehito Koyasu) from Part VII: Steel Ball Run and Rudol von Stroheim (voiced by Atsushi Imaruoka) from Part II: Battle Tendency.

The PlayStation 3 fighting game, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle, was released in Japan in 2013 and later released in the United States last April. CyberConnect2 developed the game for Namco Bandai Games, with Hiroshi Matsuyama directing. The fighting game features characters from all eight parts of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.