One Piece: Unlimited Adventure has been sailing all over Japanese Wiis since May while North American fans of the anime are left wondering if the game will ever land in our shores. Well wonder no more Wii owners as Namco Bandai has just announced that Captain Monkey D. Luffy and his crew (the Straw Hat Pirates) are now on course to invade North America.

According to Namco Bandai, One Piece: Unlimited Adventure should hit your local video games stores first quarter of 2008. Developed by Ganbarion, this Wii game follows the story of anime hit One Piece featuring the wacky characters Luffy, Sanji, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, and Chopper.

Aside from having a great storyline, one of the main reasons One Piece was widely popular is the weird powers each character possesses - main character Luffy for example, has a gooey-like body allowing him to have Reed Richards-like elasticity. Namco Bandai Games America executive VP and COO Makoto Iwai commenting on their decision to bring this Wii game outside Japan:

We are thrilled to bring this one-of-a-kind television series into the hands of gamers on the Nintendo Wii. One Piece: Unlimited Adventure is the perfect blend of action and charm that will engage new gamers and series fans alike.

As usual, Nintendo's motion-sensing wonder Wii will take full use of the said technology. Expect to have the opportunity to control your favorite characters either in brawl or adventure mode by wielding the Wiimote and Nunchuck.

The happy Straw Hat crew is dropping in once again, and while the game just got released in Japan (with great sales to boot!), let's go back to the beginning. To be more accurate, let's take a look at the Intro sequence of One Piece: Unlimited Adventure. Here, we see cinematic cutscenes from the game, equally interjected here and there with gameplay footage of some of the characters you'd be able to control.

Namco Bandai and Ganbarion's One Piece title for the Wii is sure making its rounds in Japan. And the more footage we see of the game in action, the more hoping we become of its Western release. Checking various other sites online though, we've noticed that North America would be getting the game sometime in August, while the Europe release is still clouded in a TBA funk. Unfortunately, we have no official confirmation of this from neither publisher nor developer. Meanwhile, the Intro:

You've seen the Straw Hat crew on screens, trailers, and TV spots. Now, it's time to see them in action. We've got two new gameplay videos for the Wii's One Piece: Unlimited Adventure and they look fun to say the least.

One Piece: Unlimited Adventure from Ganbarion and Namco Bandai features the adventures of the Straw Hat pirates, led by the captain Monkey D. Luffy (if you didn't already know that, you may have been living under a rock for some time). Anyway, the trailers feature combat: one for the versus mode and one for the adventure mode (presumably). The first one has the different members of the crew going up against each other in versus mode and we see a couple of unique special attacks.

The second one has some of the crew (Sanji, Zoro, Nami, Usopp, and Chopper) going up against Smoker and his Marines. Aside from the funky camera angles from time to time, One Piece: Unlimited Adventure looks good. The videos might just tide fans over until tentative release date (June this year).

We'll quit the prattle now so you can watch the videos. Enjoy!

The Straw Hats vs Smoker and the Marines after the jump!

When it comes to video game title One Piece: Unlimited Adventure, the screenshots are simply getting better and better every batch. We've already showed you tons of others before but since there are rumors that this title is going to be brought to North America this summer, we thought another batch of screenies wouldn't hurt.

This Wii game was actually developed by Ganbarion and Namco Bandai. It follows the story of the Straw Hat Pirates, their leader Monkey D. Luffy, and their adventures in general. In this latest batch, we see the merry band fighting off various enemies known as the Baroque.

It is said that One Piece: Unlimited Adventure will entail time travel so several of the game's characters will have flashbacks about their tragic past. It became available in Japan just today.

More screenshots and character art after the jump!

Care for another dose of One Piece: Unlimited Adventure for the Wii? Well, hold on to your hats (preferrably yellow straw hats) and check out another batch of screens.

One Piece: Unlimited Adventure is the action adventure title from Namco Bandai and Ganbarion. This centers on a pirate named Luffy and his merry band - which of course, you probably already know. Anyway, the screenshots show some combat and locations in the upcoming game. We see Luffy fighting Red-Hair Shanks and Rob Lucci. We also see some action from Franky and Spandam.

With One Piece: Unlimited Adventure's release just a few winks away in Japan (April 26), we are still waiting for announcements for a North America and Europe release. We'll keep our eyes peeled, check out the screenshots for now.

Check out the rest of the screens after the jump!

With its Japanese release date coming, it isn't a suprise that more screenshots of Ganbarion's One Piece: Unlimited Adventure for the Wii are surfacing. Now, going over WorthPlaying, we have uncovered 13 screens of the game, which is set to conquer Japanese store shelves this coming April 26.

Check out Straw Hat Luffy trying to catch an insect, just like what Nami was doing in the previous screens we have dished out to you. It's a good thing that we could see more of the game's insect catching mini-game. Anyhow, there have been speculations and backfence talks that the One Piece: Unlimited Adventure is also coming to U.S. gamers this summer. Although we have no word about them as of now, trust us when we tell you that as long as more details come our way, you guys will be the first to know. For now, click on the screens and check out what the game has to offer.

More screens after the jump!

We managed to scour YouTube for the latest trailer/commercial (uploaded by Vespene a couple of days ago) for One Piece: Unlimited Adventure and whisked it away for your your viewing pleasure below. Check it out! "Wan Peas: An-Rimmitedu Aduvencha!" (gawd, I love the Japanese!)

To make this trip even more worth you time, we'll chuck in a couple of screenshots for the upcoming Bandai title for the Wii that surfaced straight right out of the inner bowels of the Ganbarion labs. Some of them look like screen-caps of the above trailer at first glance, but if you look closely (make sure to click the thumbs for the enlarged version!) some of the other pics are of gameplay, while one of them being (what seems to be) a web-ad for One Piece: Unlimited Adventure, which notches the game with an April 26 release in Japan.

 

You can check out the rest of the pics behind the Full Article link below!

Today we have another batch of new One Piece: Unlimited Adventure screenshots courtesy of French video games news site Jeux France. Check 'em out below. Oh, and note the one where Nami's trying to catch a butterfly. It's been a pretty long time since we set eyes on the game's insect-catching mini-game of sorts.

There are some rumors that Ganbarion's One Piece: Unlimited Adventure may be heading for the U.S. this summer, but we have yet to receive confirmations of that. This title will hit Japan on April 26. If you're looking to import a copy of One Piece: Unlimited Adventure, you should mark down that date on your calendar.

Checking out One Piece: Unlimited Adventure's developer's official website Ganbarion, we have uncovered this eight new screens for the Wii game which is slated for an April 26 Japan release, although backfence talks abound that the Straw Hat crew is indeed making its way to North America possibly summer of this year. Oh well, we will see what happens in the near future.

For now, focus your eyes on these screens we have for y'all. If this isn't enough for you, you could also check out our various reports about the game's scans and trailers. Here's to hoping that One Piece: Unlimited Adventure would indeed be blessed with a North American and even a European specific release date.

More screens after the jump!

For the past couple of weeks, we've only seen Japanese scans of One Piece: Unlimited Adventure. Finally, we're treated to a meaty slice of all the action. You can see a couple of gameplay elements in this video, as well as various cutscenes in the game. Part hack-and-slash, part-platformer-puzzler, part-action, part-RPG... All neatly packaged in, well, One Piece.

As far as we can tell, at least they got the same quirkiness factor well-adapted in the game. The peculiar antics of Monkey D. Luffy and the gang are well-captured in this clip. And look, there's a fishing mini-game included in it too!