Kadokawa Games announced Metal Max 3 for the Nintendo DS in this week’s spate of Japanese gaming magazines. The RPG, part of a series we last saw in the US with Atlus’ Metal Saga in 2006, will hit Japanese store shelves sometime this summer; no American release has been announced.

Like Metal Saga, Metal Max 3 takes place in the near future after an unspecified disaster turns the world into a giant Mad Max pastiche. The hero, which Kadokawa calls “the strongest level-1 character in the history of video games,” has just been resurrected from the dead by mad scientist Dr. Minch. His first task: Finding his lost memories. His second: Surviving, presumably.

The game is under development by Crea-Tech, with design duties handled by series director Hiroshi Miyaoka, a JRPG veteran who cut his teeth working on the first three Dragon Quest games. Gameplay will be your typical turn-based JRPG fare, with your hero hiring mercenaries and customizing vehicles like tanks and (for the first time in the series) motorcycles in order to beat bad guys and track down bounties.

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