Comments on: Dark Void’s GamesCom Jetpacking Footage

By: Scandalon

Scandalon — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:25:41 +0000

Sometimes, y’know, people get someone who’s like, y’know, not the greatest person to be demoing something. Especially when, y’know, they sound like, 13 years old.

Seriously, I felt sorta bad for the person giving the demo…He was so proud of the fact that they actually listened to playtesters…and that this wasn’t “a, y’know, a typical escort mission” because his buddy had a gun. It really does look like a Gears of War mod, with a couple cool animation bits.

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:27:50 +0000

“As designers, we want people to play the game the way we play it…”
No thanks. Took him forever to kill the turret gunner and it looks like the ‘tactics’ for this game will mean just jetpacking behind guards and shoot/melee.
Pity, I quite liked some of the art in the game.

By: Schwerpunk

Schwerpunk — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 06:02:53 +0000

That looked… not fun.

Looks like Mass Effect, without the meaningful choices.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:13:00 +0000

By the way Jim, in that jetpack article of yours you’ve linked to what looks like the BBC Micro version of Jet-Pac – certainly not the original ZX Spectrum one, and clearly far inferior. Fortunately the XBLA version includes the original in all it’s colour-clashing glory.

By: Caiman

Caiman — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:08:24 +0000

That looks neither dark nor voidy, which surely is the whole point of the game?! Actually it looks like it would have been quite progressive in 2005.

By: El Stevo

El Stevo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:02:57 +0000

The guy playing shot his ally in the first video. He got a good few rounds off before he realised he was shooting the wrong person.

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:46:41 +0000

Jim: I don’t think so. Tribes Next is just a repackaging of the original Tribes 2 with a working master server and no need for a cd key.

Legions is a new game, and plays more like Tribes 1 with a lot less content.

And now the GarageGames guys say they’re working on a Quake Live-esque reboot of T1 in the near future now that they’ve got the license back. I’m guessing that means they’ll stop working on Leigons if they haven’t already done so.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:35:25 +0000

That’s not looking good at all. I was hoping for something more like Far Cry 2 … with jetpacs, where preparation is just as important as the firefight itself – but now with a jetpac to help you obtain better tactical positioning (as well as serving as transport to base etc). Instead yeah, this is a run ‘n gunner … with hovermode :/

Dang, dang, dang. I just finished Prototype too, so where’s my next vaguely open-worldly high-mobility freeform combat fix?

By: Tei

Tei — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:28:12 +0000

I have criticized Third Person Shotters and this video is munition on my fight against it.
For future reference, I will save my memory of this “sniper” forced to enter melee, to kill a guy because he was unable to do anything with the pad.

By: DMJ

DMJ — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:16:20 +0000

Wow. Game that looks sort-of-interesting has interest torpedoed by awful gameplay video.

By: Jaffo

Jaffo — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:15:30 +0000

Watching the way the player’s limbs flail around in the vid reminded me of the Rocketeer. Now THAT would make a great game; rocket belts, tommy guns, Hollywood starlets, airships, mutants and nazis. You’d only have to crowbar in some zombies and you’d make everyone happy!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:43:27 +0000

That looked dull.