Star Ocean 4 becomes Star Ocean: The Last Hope, heads to 360 in 2009

Good news for Xbox 360 RPG fans. It was earlier announced that the fourth installation of the popular Star Ocean video game series would be heading to the Xbox 360. Learn more about it after the jump!

Xbox 360 RPG fans have a lot to be thankful for today, as a slew of upcoming RPG releases were announced for the console at Microsoft‘s Xbox 360 RPG Premiere event. One of these is the latest installment of the space opera videogame series known as Star Ocean, with its fourth title finally getting a name and a release date.

This fourth title in Tri-Ace‘s Star Ocean series will be called Star Ocean: The Last Hope. From the looks of the trailer, which you can find below, the game will actually look at the time relatively close to the end of planet earth, wherein starfaring voyagers head off to space to search for other hospitable planets to inhabit. We suppose that these voyagers (and the associated technologies, of course) being the aforementioned last hope of the planet.

As for a release date, you can expect Star Ocean: The Last Hope to make its debut on the Xbox 360 in 2009. No word on exclusivity though, so we may see this getting released on the PS3 as well at a later date.