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Jump Force Game Trailer Reveals City Hunter's Ryo, Fist of the North Star's Kenshiro

Bandai Namco Entertainment debuted a new trailer for its Jump Force crossover game on Thursday. The video reveals City Hunter's Ryo and Fist of the North Star's Kenshiro as playable characters, and Paris as a setting for the game. The video also announces that the game will launch in the Americas and Europe on February 15.

Those who pre-order the game will get a new Dragon Ball lobby vehicle and three costumes. The game's collector's edition in Europe will feature a diorama, three art boards, and a steelbook case.

Other confirmed playable characters in the game include:

• Naruto and Sasuke (Naruto)
• Goku, Frieza, and Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)
• Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, Blackbeard, and Sabo (One Piece),
• Ichigo, Rukia, and Aizen (Bleach)
• Gon, Hisoka, Killua, and Kurapika (Hunter X Hunter)
• Yūgi Mutō (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Yūsuke Urameshi and Younger Toguro (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Pegasus Seiya, Dragon Shiryū (Saint Seiya)

Light and Ryuk from Death Note will also appear in the game. Dragon Ball's Akira Toriyama designed some original characters for the game, and Polygon reported last month that players will be able to create their own avatar characters in the game. The game's season pass will allow players to access nine additional characters.

Bandai Namco Entertainment describes the game:

Universes collide as legendary manga heroes and villains are transported to our reality. Massive battles fill epic locales as good and evil clashes, while humankind hangs in the balance.

The game's producer Kōji Nakajima noted in an interview at E3 that the game will contain characters that will have their first video game appearance. The game will also draw primarily from Weekly Shonen Jump franchises that are based on "heroes" with "superpowers;" Nakajima downplayed the possibility of the appearance of franchises such as The Prince of Tennis and Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma.

Spike Chunsoft previously worked on the J-Stars Victory VS+ game. Like Jump Force, that game is also a crossover featuring characters from Weekly Shonen Jump characters. That game shipped in Japan for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2014, and in the West for the same platforms as well as the PS4 in 2015. Spike Chunsoft also developed the One Piece: Burning Blood game, which shipped in 2016.

Sources: Press email, Bandai Namco Europe's YouTube channel