A friend of mine shared this video with me and now I’m sharing it with you guys! This is the opening video for the Black Rock Shooter PSP game.

Ok, I have a confession to make. I have absolutely no idea what this game is about, or how the gameplay is like! So I read up on it a little and it is actually a role-playing game set in some sort of alternate universe from the OVA. It is set in an apocalyptic world and the Black Rock Shooter is trying to save the human race I guess. The main antagonist for the story will be the White Rock Shooter, who is basically BRS but dyed white and wielding some crazy weapon. The animated cutscenes are produced by ufotable, the same studio that is currently working on the upcoming Fate/zero anime!

Judging from the screenshots floating around the internet, it seems like the battles in the game is kind of like Crisis Core in the sense that you will have 1-to-1 control over the character in a possibly confined combat space. I don’t know if there will be any melee abilities, but you will be able to manually aim and shoot your cannon with the help of a star reticle. The other screenshots are pretty much from cutscenes.

It looks like this game will be available in three different editions so far. First is of course a regular edition with just the game. Second is a collector’s edition containing what looks like a White Rock Shooter nendoroid petit. Third is a collector’s edition containing a White Rock Shooter figma.

Black Rock Shooter The Game will be available in Japan on 25 August 2011 exclusively for the PlayStation Portable. NIS America will be publishing the game in North America and Europe, however no release date has been announced so far.