Comments on: Shadow Harvest

By: Pantsman

Pantsman — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:38:11 +0000

Oh my. Lone wolf super-agents? Middle-eastern warzone setting? Giant robots? Why didn’t they just call it Alloy Cog Hardened 4?

Also, the beginning bit about the US army and intelligence services “maintaining global peace and freedom” made me throw up in my mouth a little.

By: Hobbes

Hobbes — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:20:56 +0000

Hmmm, ‘Action’ Splinter Cell anyone?

oh, and @PleasingFungus, I imagine its like film trailers, where they use Music from an existing film for the trailer because the actual music isn’t finished. I believe that the score from ‘Crimson Tide’ music is fairly popular for such purposes.

By: El Stevo

El Stevo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:50:21 +0000

Why don’t they just make a grid of lasers?

By: PleasingFungus

PleasingFungus — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:09:41 +0000

Hm. Yes. That was pretty laughable. Especially the laser-wire bits.

Also, what is that music? It showed up in Geometry Wars: Galaxies – why is it here?

By: Maximum Fish

Maximum Fish — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:05:07 +0000

Fighting terrorists? Again? There was a time when i was totally numbed to the idea of gunning down green ichor-filled extraterrestrials with steaming hot plasma rifles (or red ichor-filled nazis for that matter), but now, in the onslaught of pseudo-topical games with a dash of “ripped from the headlines” cliche, i want that shit back.

By: Noc

Noc — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:25:21 +0000

Jonas: I thought Demon Stone did it pretty well. It’s probably one of the only character-swapping platformers I really liked.

But also, yeah. I’m usually against naysaying games based on thirty seconds of trailer, but this is looking pretty . . . “consoley?” Not in the sense of “Ooh, it’s dumbed down for the silly console players and doesn’t look like a PC Game,” but in the sense of “Haven’t we seen dozens of very similar games with similar production values coming out for consoles in the last several years?”

I’d even be excited about the big ‘ole stompy mech, but it’s inclusion looks less like “Mech Combat!” and more like “Vehicle Section!”

By: 18Rabbit

18Rabbit — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:47:40 +0000

“Hey guys, lets make a game where we can try and get Angelina and Brad to star in the movie adaptation!”

By: bm

bm — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:41:56 +0000

metal gear flaccid

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:04:35 +0000

nothing says “I’m boring” more than standing around with a machinegun, right? Otherwise, it really can’t be from Germany, notice how they drive their humvees into parking cars? Germans are supposed to know how to drive. Or maybe the german developer’s try to make foreign people look bad, because they can’t drive…we’ll never know (unless someone asks them that exact question)

By: TreeFrog

TreeFrog — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:56:34 +0000

With a name like that it should have been a JRPG. Japanese fantasy jingoism would have been more palatable, too.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:19:45 +0000

I do like the switching-between-characters idea, that tends to generally work out in games, but too few games let us actually switch at will (and the ones I’ve played that do this are rubbish).

By: aldo

aldo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:01:36 +0000

Hmm, I remain unconvinced until I get to see an actual shadow being harvested.