By John Walker on February 26th, 2010 at 10:08 am.
Kieron already thought of describing Joe Danger as Trials 2 meets Trackmania, and therefore I must be more original. It’s a cross between Bergman’s Nattvardsgästerna and a puma. Too original. It’s a cartoony platform bike riding bounce fest that looks awesome fun. It’s in this year’s IGF running for the grand prize, and we should have an interview with creators Hello Games just as soon as they hurry up and reply. Meanwhile, there’s a new trailer that shows off why this is bulging with potential, as well as doing that clever thing with the quotes in the background that I always like.
26/02/2010 at 10:12 LewieP says:
It’s a really good sign when a trailer for a game is just a bunch of footage of it being played, and it still looks great.
26/02/2010 at 15:10 LionsPhil says:
“It’s a really good sign when a trailer for a game is just a bunch of footage of it being played, and it still looks great.”
+5, This
26/02/2010 at 10:14 Okami says:
I think it looks like Excite Bike meets Little Big Planet!
Do I get to be a games journalist now?
26/02/2010 at 10:23 John Walker says:
It’s obviously California Games on the Atari Lynx crossed with The Incredible Machine.
26/02/2010 at 10:28 Gnarl says:
Sonic vs. Mario Kart.
26/02/2010 at 13:25 robrob says:
Trials 2 meets Trackmania!
26/02/2010 at 16:01 jsutcliffe says:
Daredevil Dennis meets 2010.
27/02/2010 at 17:35 geldonyetich says:
The Excitebike resemblance definitely went through my head as well. It’s a heavily, heavily advanced version of the 1984 game, but it looks like the core gameplay is very similar: side view, five lanes of varying obstacles on a dirt track.
27/02/2010 at 17:52 Krondonian says:
Diddy Kong Racing, sans a dimension and primates.
26/02/2010 at 10:16 Ian says:
I didn’t want this.
Now I do.
The power of the trailer compels me.
26/02/2010 at 14:39 Monchberter says:
I want this, with TF2 characters…
26/02/2010 at 10:21 Warth0g says:
Oooh I like to look of that.. always room in my heart for cartoony pick up and play silliness. Just hope it’s priced right..
26/02/2010 at 10:31 HermitUK says:
Had a go on this back at Eurogamer last year. It was both awesome, and tough as nails when the devs went; “Right, hard mode time!”
26/02/2010 at 10:38 AndrewC says:
Is retro funk cheese music on sort-of comedy themed games as big a cliche as metal in action games? I mean, it’s friendly and nice, which is always a plus, but give me something different PR type people! Why are we always placed in the kids section of a 60′s Vegas hotel?
How about early 70′s soft rock full of awesome slow hand guitar solos and men with high pitched voices for that true Evel Keneivel feel?
Or Mexican trad band dance music, for that hot-desert, southern states feel? Double the speed to make it extra awesome!
Music! Important! Nerd rage!
Anyways, I like this, I like the slickness of it and I really like how you can click a million cars into existence without any lag – that looks very satisfying.
Also can Joe be a lady with long blonde hair? Ta!
26/02/2010 at 22:11 KillahMate says:
Actually I for one quite like the soundtrack. It’s not quite the same as all the other ones.
27/02/2010 at 00:15 Stu says:
See, I thought it was going to be generic cheese funk as well, right up until the Alan Hawkshaw-esque Hammond solo came crashing in about halfway through. More of that would be a Good Thing in my book.
26/02/2010 at 10:38 Brumisator says:
Joe Danger, (not affiliated with Rick Dangerous).
Looks like what exitebike revival should have been.
26/02/2010 at 10:46 kwyjibo says:
Is this even coming to PC?
26/02/2010 at 10:53 LewieP says:
The only platform details we currently have is that all of the buttons are playstation buttons.
26/02/2010 at 10:57 Kieron Gillen says:
kwyjibo: They’re playing it close to their chests. They appear to have it running on all formats. I’ve played it on the PC. I suspect it’ll come to the PC eventually, even if it debuts on the consoles first.
KG
26/02/2010 at 11:07 alseT says:
If they delay the PC release the way Jonathan Blow did, they lose a sale from me.
26/02/2010 at 11:10 Heliocentric says:
Eh… Braid had something exciting, this doesn’t to me. It will likely come out at a stupid high price point and I’ll buy it on sale 2 years from now for pennies.
I’ll admit, it being delayed to kiss up with consoles just means a smaller slice of a small pie for them. I can see why they sold out though.
26/02/2010 at 11:29 AndrewC says:
I absolutely do not get the idea of how selling on console first is ‘selling out’, unless one has the assumption that the consoles are, by definition ‘bad’. Which is silly.
But I sympathise with the price point. If it was released at steam-sale price right away i get the feeling the impulse buys will be huge. But I wouldn’t buy it for £15.
God, what must it be like to sell things, and have to embrace the irrational decision making of consumers?
26/02/2010 at 17:17 Wulf says:
I don’t mind things having their initial début on a console, not at all, but I do hope they bring it out for the PC. I’m not a huge fan of consoles, this I will admit, I do like certain console entries, like PAIN, LittleBigPlanet, and Flower for the PS3 (I loved all of those, equally), and Ace Attorney Investigations on the DS, but in the case of the not handheld consoles, I don’t quite enjoy it so much.
I’m thinking that this might be due to my sight disability though, and the massive televisions involved, I should really look into hooking my consoles up to my laptop. I suspect I’d have much more fun with them then. I had more fun with the PC version of Burnout Paradise and a pad in front of my laptop than I did with it on the PS3, but I digress.
The point of this ramble is that I don’t begrudge developers anything, but they’d get so much more praise from me for a PC release, I just innately prefer computers as a gaming device, I started off with home computers, I like the keyboard and mouse/trackball/weird-spatial-moving-device-thing/what-have-you, and consoles feel foreign in comparison.
So here’s hoping for a PC release, failing that, a PS3 release. I’m hoping I won’t have to drag my 360 out of mothballs.
26/02/2010 at 10:51 Tore says:
While I’m utterly impressed with an englishman bothering to write the letter “ä”, I still feel obliged to tell you that his name was Bergman, not Bergmen.
26/02/2010 at 11:03 John Walker says:
Yes it is. That I checked first makes it more annoying that I still typed it incorrectly.
26/02/2010 at 10:54 Tzarkahn says:
Looks fun.
26/02/2010 at 11:28 Skurmedel says:
Concur.
26/02/2010 at 10:59 Monchberter says:
This needs a PC release, split screen plus online multiplayer and full Steam integration. It’d be great fun
26/02/2010 at 11:10 Gareth says:
Love the kinetic type in the trailer. Has a great overall feel to it, a very defined style. Will keep it on my radar for sure now =)
26/02/2010 at 11:35 Dinger says:
The shark tank was awesome. All they needed was the lion from the Simpsons.
26/02/2010 at 12:17 Diogo Ribeiro says:
“this is bulging with potential”
Man, that is so gonna be the slogan on my business card.
26/02/2010 at 17:28 Wulf says:
I was always partial to bursting with potential, but bulging is good, too.
26/02/2010 at 12:20 Gareth says:
And a guest appearance from the one, the only, Captain Lance Murdock Murdock Murdock!
26/02/2010 at 12:27 Dreamhacker says:
Mmm… Nattvardsgästerna.
26/02/2010 at 12:44 Lambchops says:
I’ve been looking forward to this one for a while.
It looks like it could be to Trials what Mario Kart is to racing games for me (ie something bright and fun which I’m actually vaguely competent at!).
26/02/2010 at 14:33 Monchberter says:
Where’s Jimmy Gibbs Jr, or his ‘infected’ self?
/L4D2 fandom
26/02/2010 at 14:38 Monchberter says:
Also, the art style is such that i could see a TF2 Kart Racer in this engine. Or even better, Heavies on trials bikes!
:)
26/02/2010 at 14:40 Gareth says:
I like it =) Got a heavy in my head going “Ratatatatatatata” in time to the strokes of an engine, heh.
26/02/2010 at 15:13 LionsPhil says:
Fortress Kart: Valve’s next stealth-hit project?
Spy needs a moped. A gadget moped.
26/02/2010 at 15:25 LionsPhil says:
Ah, it’s been very much thought of by fanboys on the Internets. Someone has even illustrated this concept.
I am disappointed by the use of generic karts, though. What about the Sniper’s (dinky) campervan? The Engineer’s (dinky) truck?
26/02/2010 at 15:46 Urthman says:
Totally had me the moment the editor just causally drops 372 cars on the track to jump over. What a fun trailer!
26/02/2010 at 16:23 westyfield says:
Oh my, that in-game level design feature looks like a lot of fun!
Will be keeping a beady eye on this one, oh yes…
26/02/2010 at 17:01 Anthony says:
Yeah, same here, it actually looks a lot better than I expected.
26/02/2010 at 17:05 Wulf says:
Ah, this trailer makes me feel happy just by watching it. It’s sort of like the PAIN trailers for the PS3, it’s just this silly, gleeful little thing that’s going to pass most by, I expect, but I’ll end up loving it, because I’m prone to loving gleeful, absurd little things. It’s just my wont. And speaking of one’s wont, I want this now. …that was terrible, wasn’t it? Sorry. I’m just wheely excited about it. What can I say?
27/02/2010 at 18:35 Jeeva says:
Goshdarn, annoyed now for missing the talk by some of the guys doing this the other day. =(
Sounds delightful! (And looks very nice, to boot)
28/02/2010 at 10:03 MedO says:
This reminds me mostly of Kikstart II. Which is a very good thing :)
28/02/2010 at 17:21 Hodge says:
It too reminded me of Kikstart, as well as BMX Kidz.
I am so very old.
01/03/2010 at 09:37 mcnubbins says:
THIS IS THE SEXIEST GAME I HAVE EVER SEEN!
01/03/2010 at 12:55 Smeghammer says:
Yeah, definitely excitebike, definitely trackmania in so much that you can alter the tracks, otherwise, not much similarity..
I’ve been following this one for a while, but still no clues as to a solid release date?
05/03/2010 at 15:24 jsutcliffe says:
Bumtacularly, it looks like Hello Games are going PS3-exclusive with this. The PS3 is the only gaming device I do not have. I feel like they are targeting me unfairly!
http://www.destructoid.com/hello-game-s-joe-danger-confirmed-as-psn-title-165909.phtml?no_cache=1&comment_saved=1#comment-1748266