Comments on: Hell’s Highway: Tank Footage

By: Necros

Necros — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:07:49 +0000

Optimaximal, it’s in the final game but you can turn it off if you don’t want it, same with many other things.
Also the facial animations look a lot better in the latest, “Baptism of Fire” video.

By: hungSolo

hungSolo — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:13:49 +0000

I played the first game over a weekend and quite enjoyed it, but it has to be said that the dialogue has never been a strong point of the series. They aim for Band of Brothers (which itself relied pretty heavily on movie archetypes despite being based on the lives of real people) but come up with something much less compelling.

Still, if they get the shooty bits right, it’ll be better than a lot of the chaff out there. Myself, I’d like to see Valve turn their attention to squad-based tactics in a single-player game. The squad members in the HL2 games aren’t much more than bullet sponges. (EDIT: Wait a minute — there’s a single-player aspect to Left 4 Dead, no? Duh. Still not quite the same kettle of fish, though.)

By: Dracko

Dracko — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:00:24 +0000

Cigol is blatantly unfamiliar with military tactics.

I wish people would stop complaining about WWII too. That would be a nice change of pace.

By: datter

datter — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:56:09 +0000

If I see one more nazi I’ll be forced to take drastic measures. WWII needs to be over.

By: Trousers

Trousers — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:11:03 +0000

MAN you guys are hard to impress.

I’d say it looks like it’s well worth a play through at the very least.

By: ShineDog

ShineDog — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:58:52 +0000

You say it looks pretty awful, but the minute I saw the legs spinning away from their owners, I thought it looked pretty awesome.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:04:21 +0000

Not impressed myself. Facial animations look terrible, and the rest looks pretty generic. Haven’t played the previous games though.

By: Lh'owon

Lh'owon — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:20:57 +0000

Huh, I thought people were just being snotty but I must say, that doesn’t look great.
- Crap facial animation, so why feature that in the trailer?
- Soldier’s bazooka passes through wall as he turns (again, why in trailer?)
- Tank mowing down a gun crew from point blank range. Hint: crew would have run by now.
- Ludicrous scene with tank running over soldiers who run straight into it. This really isn’t excusable in a game that claims to be tactical.
- Lots of slow-mo explosions that somehow don’t look as great as in the previous trailers.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:17:02 +0000

I have to agree. I’m tired of being the tank driver/gunner/machine gunner/loader/leader. It feels so artificial — especially when I’m killing a few hundred people with absolutely no self-preservation.

By: born2expire

born2expire — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 23:07:09 +0000

Why do games have to genre-mash?

The tanks where the worst part of the first 2 games, i wish FPS games would leave out the tank/driving/flying levels.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:26:26 +0000

Wow, that was a pretty awful video. I’m not sure I’d want that representing my game.

What exactly makes this not another WW2 shooter? I’m actually asking this, because that video sure as hell doesn’t tell me.

By: TychoCelchuuu

TychoCelchuuu — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:55:13 +0000

It’s not like you HAD to flank in Brothers in Arms. If you felt like it you could spend all day taking pot shots at a guy hiding behind a brick wall and you’d eventually get lucky and hit him. In reality though if someone is hiding behind a wall your chances of hitting him are nil, which is what the “Find, fix, flank, and finish” thing is all about. Gearbox didn’t make it up or anything. Those are real military tactics, and unless you have some way to shoot through cover or flush the enemy out, the flank is your only option.

As for Hell’s Highway… well, my excitement level started at a 9 or 10 on the Excite-o-meter (c) and dropped to about a 4 when I watched the video, but it’s up to a 7 thanks to Jim and Kieron’s one sentence comments. You mean that much to me, guys. I’m still worried about Germans sailing ragdolledly through the air in slow motion like some kind of Truck Dismount character, and that tank trailer still looks godawful (seriously point the ‘88 at the tank you idiots, no wonder you lost the war) but if RPS says it’s not dumbed down…

We’ll see, I guess. I seem to recall them promising a demo.