Kerbal Space Program will be released in early 2016 for Wii U, Xbox One & PS4. Kerbal Space Program is a fun and engaging, lighthearted yet deep, rocketship simulation game developed by Mexican developer Monkey Squad (now known simply as “Squad”), a marketing company based in Mexico City that took a wild chance on one employee’s crazy videogame idea… And the rest, as they say, is history! The PC version of Kerbal Space Program was a wild success on Steam. Now the game comes to consoles.
Check out this trailer for Kerbal Space Program on the Wii U.
The Wii U version will be unique among the simply prettier Xbox One & PS4 versions, as the Wii U version will actually include support for the Wii U GamePad, allowing you to see the perspective from INSIDE your ship on the GamePad screen while you are flying, as well as the regular view on the TV screen!
The Wii U version also includes Touchscreen-based controls (such as for your flight-planning), as well as support for controlling your ship via motion controls via the Wii U gyro (simply move the Wii U GamePad to move your ship!)
Nintendo gives you the details on Kerbal Space Program for Wii U in this short explanation video (skip to 40:30 in the video).
KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM SYNOPSIS
In “KSP” you must build a space-worthy craft, capable of flying its crew out into space without killing them. At your disposal is a collection of parts, which must be assembled to create a functional ship. Each part has its own function and will affect the way a ship flies (or doesn’t). So strap yourself in, and get ready to try some Rocket Science!
In Kerbal Space Program you must build a space-worthy craft, capable of flying its crew out into space without killing them. So strap yourself in, and get ready to try some Rocket Science!
The game offers three gameplay modes: Sandbox, in which you are free to build anything you can think of; Science Mode, which lets you perform Scientific experiments to advance the knowledge of Kerbalkind and further the available technology; and Career Mode, in which you must manage every aspect of your Space Program, including administration strategies, Crew Management, Reputation, as well as taking up Contracts to earn Funds and upgrade your Space Center Facilities (or repair them).
Add to this the ability to capture asteroids (a feature done in collaboration with NASA), Mining for resources out across the furthest reaches of the Solar System and Constructing Bases & Space Stations in and around other worlds… All this adds up to the award-winning game that has taken the space sim genre by storm.
Here’s an interview with one of the indie developers making the game; talking about it and the Wii U version specifically.
Key Kerbal Space Program Console Features:
* The Vehicle Assembly Building and the Space Plane Hangar allows players to build spacecraft out of any imaginable combination of parts.
* Fully-fledged, Physics-based Space Flight Simulation ensures everything will fly (and crash) as it should.
* Take your Kerbal crew out of the ship and do Extra Vehicular Activities.
* Fly out to Moons and other Planets.
* Procedural Terrain delivers detailed terrain at a vast scale. The Kerbal Planet is 600km in radius!
* Ship systems. Keep an eye out for engine temperatures and fuel levels, and try not to explode.
* Build ships with multiple stages, and jettison parts away as they burn out.
* Full control over the ship’s setup allows for complex ships and advanced functionality.
* Dock spacecraft together to build Space Stations, Massive Starships, or even surface bases on other worlds!
* Manage your crewmembers, hire them, and send them out into space and make them into heroes.
* Research and Develop new technologies to advance your Space Program.
* Take on Missions to attract interest in your Space Program.
* Discover new worlds and expand the scientific knowledge of Kerbalkind.
Here’s the Kerbal Space Program image gallery.
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* Extract valuable resources from all over the solar system.
* Control your ship from the inside with the Wii U Gamepad (Wii U-Exclusive)
* Flight planning on the fly with touchscreen controls! (Wii U-Exclusive)
* Steer your ship with gyro motion controls! (Wii U-Exclusive)
* And a whole lot more!
Check out this Kerbal Space Program PC Version Let’s Play.
I’ve never played a simulation game before, of any kind.
But Kerbal Space Program is one of the very few that actually looks very intriguing to me.
The cute little Kerbal’s definitely go a long way in making the game more accessible to the layman.
It’s great to see a game like this come to consoles, especially the Wii U, where simulation games are not seen very often.
It’ll be interesting to see if any kind of Mod support or DLC will be released for the console versions… And whether or not they continue to update the console versions to keep pace with the PC version. Nowadays that seems to typically be the case, so hopefully so.
Are you happy to see Kerbal Space Program on Wii U, Xbox One & PS4 in early 2016?