Photo-based RPG announced for DSi

Konami has just announced their latest title for the DSi, entitled Foto Showdown. The game is a photo-based RPG where players snap photos and incorporate them into the game. What it does is use advanced color recognition technology to spawn monsters based on the dominant colors in the photos. Players then pit the monsters against opponents in the game in a turn-based fashion. There are 100 levels in the game, and advancing through the levels gets the player more weapons, add-ons, medicine, and so on to use.

“With Foto Showdown, Konami continues to bring innovative games to the market that allows consumers the opportunity to play a more active role in how the game progresses and develops,” said David Daniels, Marketing Director for Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. “The built-in camera of Nintendo DSi lends itself perfectly to the gameplay, encouraging creative photography, where the photos have lasting effects on the total experience limited only by the users imagination.”

There are up to 152 different monsters you can collect with and play with in the game and with all of the levels. The game is set to release in Q1 of 2010 so be looking for it soon on store shelves.