Namco announced today that it's bringing the PS2 exclusive Katamari Damacy to the U.S. market.
"Eccentric, quirky, weird, goofy, wild, outrageous, addictive, intriguing, charismatic and captivating -- they all apply," said Rod Nakamoto, Executive Vice President of Research and Development for Namco Hometek Inc. "There are many words to describe Katamari Damacy -- and the most important one is FUN."
Katamari Damacy features a single-player story mode and a two-player battle mode in which you take on the role of Prince of the Cosmos, whose father - the great King - managed to inadvertently knock the stars out of the sky.

As the prince, your duty is to clean up the King's mess and re-create the starry skies by rolling around the cleverly designed locations to collect objects and build up their "katamari" -- a Japanese word for clump or large mass. It's not the quality or the actual number of objects gathered that is most critical to the player's success, but instead the sheer size of the player's "katamari" that is most important.

Katamari Damacy is scheduled for a September 2004 release, only available on PS2