AN ASTRO TRIPPER APPROACHES

Though we Yanks will have to wait a few months longer, PomPom have announced ahead of Sony that they’ll be making their European PlayStation Network debut next week with Astro Tripper. PomPom’s the team behind the excellent early-XBLA arena shooter Mutant Storm Reloaded and its later scrolling followup Mutant Storm Empire.

Astro Tripper, as RockPaperShotgun pointed out in October, is actually a remake of their earlier Mac game Space Tripper, which they describe as more Defender to Mutant Storm‘s twin-stick Robotron-esque play, and looks as though it retains all the dynamism of that shifting flat-field perspective that’s become their hallmark.

As with their earlier games, a PC version should also be due shortly, which might tide us in the U.S. over until 2009.

Astro Tripper [PomPom Games]