By Jim Rossignol on July 6th, 2009 at 8:05 am.
Robots, jetpacks, tanks booted out the back of dropships, lots of firepower and some extreme mechanised jumping: Section 8‘s most recent trailer has all the elements that makes an wizened PC gamer sit back in his chair, run a hand across his beard and say: “hmm, I remember Tribes.” Anyway, for those of us who haven’t been able to get on the beta, the trailer, courtesy of Destructoid, is below.
06/07/2009 at 08:10 Mwalk10 says:
Looks good, though i fear it will play too much like halo, where enemies take whole clips of assault rifle ammo to take down.
06/07/2009 at 08:48 Sartoris says:
I just love the idea of killing robots….WITH KNIVES.
06/07/2009 at 08:48 Jazmeister says:
/me is now permanently erect.
06/07/2009 at 08:52 Ninja says:
I signed up just a few seconds ago and got my beta key instantly.
06/07/2009 at 08:55 Paxeh says:
Somehow the shoulder pad emblem makes me think of Space Marines.
06/07/2009 at 09:03 clive dunn says:
Hmm, from the name i was expecting a brutal simulation of British mental health services.
Section 42 “The return to the asylum”
06/07/2009 at 09:29 toni says:
tribes, dystopia, team fortress…..they sure know where to steal. Maybe they can create a thing of their own or it’s just another lazy clone….we’ll see
06/07/2009 at 09:31 Greg Wild says:
Hmmm, I remember Tribes being sort of like this.
06/07/2009 at 09:54 Aldo says:
Hmm, from the name i was expecting a brutal simulation of British mental health services.
Section 42 “The return to the asylum”
Well, it’d be less controversial than the Section 28 game.
06/07/2009 at 10:00 cullnean says:
tribes is teh ski-king!
seriously buy the rights to power armorer off of GW make it 40kish and ill be happy, its seems the only people who can be arsed to buy the rights to 40k for shooters dont know how to make em.
slight derailing
06/07/2009 at 10:07 Muzman says:
tangential pointlessness (or is that pointless tangentiality?)
“an wizened”
I wonder if that’s a typo or part of the increasingly popular “It’s too hard, let’s just make it all ‘an’ from now on” trend.
(Personally, I am old school. The apparently widely accepted “an historic” drives me up the wall. It’s the thin edge of the wedge in all this. I don’t care which part of French South London you are from, ‘H’ is a f@#$%ing consonant, OK?! NNGNGNNNGG.
Ahhh. I’ll be alright for about a week now.)
06/07/2009 at 10:19 Inanimotion says:
“Looks good, though i fear it will play too much like halo, where enemies take whole clips of assault rifle ammo to take down.”
Either you’ve played this game, or that trailer explain aspects of gameplay in great detail to you :P
Try several clips of assault rifle ammo. Unless they’re standing still of course.
I still enjoy it though.
06/07/2009 at 10:21 Tellurian says:
I’ve seen too much Ghost in the Shell. I’m constantly waiting for Section 9 members to show up there.
Or Tachikomas.
06/07/2009 at 10:41 Metal_Circus says:
You can JUMP in this game? Woah, GOTY.
06/07/2009 at 11:13 PHoNSC says:
Aw, it’s just going to be Tribes with guns.
06/07/2009 at 11:47 Tonic says:
The ‘invert mouse’ and ‘mouse sensitivity options didn’t work a couple of days ago so the game was basically unplayable.
06/07/2009 at 11:49 Benny says:
Mmmmm Jetpacks….
06/07/2009 at 12:06 tapanister says:
So, this is Spacemarine: Assault Marine Squad? But seriously, it does look interesting.
06/07/2009 at 12:10 Owen says:
intriguering…
06/07/2009 at 12:25 Ken McKenzie says:
It says it’s called ‘Section 8′, and yet it doesn’t appear to feature Dogwelder at all.
Incredibly disappointing.
06/07/2009 at 12:55 cullnean says:
hmmm a game of french movie district 13 would be nice
06/07/2009 at 13:34 Tei says:
The Tachikomas are the awesome. I remenber the episode where are send to be destroyed.. *Sight*.
This thing looks cool. But I have see a XBox 360 logo…
06/07/2009 at 13:38 Indifference Engine says:
@Cullnean
They made one, it was call Mirrors Edge.
I kid, I kid.
06/07/2009 at 13:39 Mr. Brand says:
You had me at “robots”!
06/07/2009 at 13:40 Bhazor says:
It looks like yet another fun death match game. I just wish they’d bring more of this power and jumpy freedom to single player campaign games. Prototype shows how fun it is to made to feel like an invincible unstoppable atomic git and it would be great to see a shooter do the same.
Proposition 8 would have made a fun game too.
It’s already an hilarious trailer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp76ly2_NoI&feature=channel_page
Oh no! Its the big gay storm! Those gays think children should be told that homosexuals won’t go to hell!
06/07/2009 at 13:46 Duckmeister says:
Hey guys! How do you like Tribes 5?
06/07/2009 at 16:39 Serenegoose says:
Took me a second to remember the guys from ghost in the shell were ‘section 9′. I was wondering where the hell Batou was. Problematically, the first few seconds of the movie make me think ‘gods, how awesome would it be if this was a suitably epic singleplayer game!’ But that’s just because the prospect of seeing vasty capital ship scale and infantryman scale gets me all hot under the collar, and well… multiplayer games tend to only go as far as infantry, armour, and aircraft. not 3 mile long DEATHSHIPS. A pity.
06/07/2009 at 16:42 OutOfExile says:
I got into the Beta but I can’t log in no matter what I try. Anyone else having this problem?
06/07/2009 at 18:23 Jordan says:
OutOfExile – You need to use your Gamespy login/password.
A little birdie (*cough*) tells me that this game is pretty awesome. I was a pretty big fan of Quake Wars, but there was a lot lacking from its personality and variety.
The dynamic objectives thrown into the mix in Section 8 are a lot of fun, and I see a lot of promise in this game!
Also – the dropship mechanic owns my soul.
06/07/2009 at 18:34 OutOfExile says:
@Jordan
I’ve tried my nickname and my login but it still doesn’t work.
06/07/2009 at 18:54 mandrill says:
The drop sequence looks like something from I imagined from reading Starship Troopers (which beared no resemblance to the film btw) This endeared the game to me immediately.
OT: ‘an historic’ and ‘an hotel’ are as old school as it gets afaik as the h in both words is meant to be silent.
06/07/2009 at 19:08 Erlam says:
I apparently ‘Do not meet the criteria’ for this game’s beta.
06/07/2009 at 19:23 suibhne says:
Which is odd, because I got a beta key immediately without being asked for credentials of any criteria whatsoever. I’m pretty sure all FP knows of me is name and email address.
06/07/2009 at 20:25 NovaPolice says:
Same here, free FP account and I got in. I think that might be them releasing keys in groups.
This looks average in some places, but the re-entry in first person and the air control mechanics make it look worth at least a download. I loved dropping down from a transport without a parachute in Planetside, and this kinda reminds me of that.
06/07/2009 at 22:11 Z says:
I, too, am deeply disappointed by the lack of dogwelding and defenestration. Section 8 this is not.
07/07/2009 at 01:06 Psychopomp says:
Still can’t play the beta, due to not being able to connect to servers; although, the devs have said they’ve got a patch on the way.
07/07/2009 at 03:26 Derek K. says:
See, to me, that’s Planetside, updated to modern graphics, and made co-op rather than mmofps.
I mean, that drop ship is all but a Galaxy, and I’m certainly used to doing airdrops from a Galaxy….
Honestly, watching that made me want to play Planetside, since Section 8 doesn’t think I’m cool enough to play.
07/07/2009 at 15:13 Antsy says:
Hmmm, I remember Tribes coming on 2 discs. One of which was a quite enjoyable Mech type game.
Derek K, I’m with you. Piling out of a Galaxy over a base for the first time is one of my all time favourite gaming moments.
Planetside, or that style of game, is more and more conspicuous in its absence from the modern gaming scene.
07/07/2009 at 15:21 ReturnToNull says:
Yeah. People wanting Planetside out of this are going to be sorely disappointed.
07/07/2009 at 21:02 Lafinass says:
Does anyone else find comedy in “CLOSED BETA – Now open to all users!” and “You do not meet the screening criteria for participating in the Closed Beta.” being on the same page?
10/07/2009 at 22:05 Some Guy says:
looks a lot like the Mobile Infantery in starship trooper so far as shot from ships in space and mech suits.
04/08/2009 at 15:05 Cunzy1 1 says:
I like the way they’ve deliberately put every single FPS future wary cliche into that trailer.