Beautiful Katamari

Beautiful Katamari gets a huge graphical boost, but it's sticking with the award-winning, simple formula that made the game a worldwide success.

Check out 15 new screens for Beautiful Katamari.
Rolling onto the Xbox 360
  • Beautiful Katamari has the same colorful and simple style as the rest of the series.
  • Gets a huge improvement in terms of resolution and draw distance
  • Online features include downloadable content, 4-player multiplayer, and active leaderboards

The core idea behind the Katamari Damacy series is like a metaphor for its success. Like a perpetually growing Katamari ball of accomplishment, the Japanese-style game rolled from a relatively low-budget gameplay idea into a massive global hit. It's surprising that something so small became so big, but thankfully the gaming audience still appreciates simple creativity. And that's why the fundamental idea of picking up objects with a sticky ball is staying exactly the same, as Katamari rolls into the new console generation.

Sticking with Simplicity

Why dilute simplicity? To development, complicating the unique and straightforward experience of Katamari for the sake of making it new or next-gen is completely unnecessary. Instead, the core mechanics and retro look and feel of the series will remain unchanged. Beautiful Katamari, instead, is getting a huge technology boost on the Xbox 360, and so far it's looking exactly that: beautiful.

The King of All Cosmos' bumbling idiocy precedes him. He gets a little carried away, of course, and the Prince is once again called in to save the day and the fate of the universe, natch.

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Read about the first official announcement for Beautiful Katamari for Xbox 360 and PS3.

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