By Jim Rossignol on August 18th, 2011 at 11:10 am.
Atlus have released a trailer (below) for ACE Team’s bonkers rolling destruction puzzle game, Rock Of Ages, which demonstrates, via a tour of gaming history, why rock beats everything. We’d argue that shotgun trumps even that, but we don’t have a video to prove it.
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18/08/2011 at 11:13 sneetch says:
Brilliant! I concur, rock truly is the master of all.
18/08/2011 at 16:23 povu says:
What about shotgun? :(
18/08/2011 at 19:08 Hodge says:
Papers don’t get a look in? Even on Sundays?
18/08/2011 at 11:15 Trillby says:
Now that is some truly first class Wacky Music. Plus the fart noises….
Consider yourself bought, Rock of Ages!
18/08/2011 at 11:16 Sian says:
The video’s great. The game doesn’t really interest me at all. It just seems a little bit… boring. It’s just rolling around. Maybe there’s more to it, but the gameplay videos so far haven’t really shown anything that pulls me in.
18/08/2011 at 11:20 Buttless Boy says:
Rolling around is half the game. The other half is setting up a defense against the OTHER giant rock. It’s kind of half bowling, half tower defense.
18/08/2011 at 11:25 Sian says:
Mm… I still don’t think this is the game for me. Anyway, there are so many games coming out soon that interest me, I can’t really afford another. ;)
18/08/2011 at 12:42 Buttless Boy says:
Fair enough. I’m mostly looking forward to it for the art-history-geek factor anyway.
18/08/2011 at 22:28 unlimitedgiants says:
I watched some of the trailers or demos or whatever they were on Steam a few weeks back. It looks pretty dumb. Marble Madness was 1000x better than this.
18/08/2011 at 11:20 Fede says:
Summer 2011 is almost over, I hope they’ll release on time :)
18/08/2011 at 12:07 PiP999 says:
My U.S. Steam page says the release date is set for August 31, 2011 at $8.99 with preorder. (I’m guessing this game might release worldwide on the same date)
18/08/2011 at 16:15 Strangineer says:
well, it is being developed in the southern hemisphere!
18/08/2011 at 11:25 Evil Otto says:
It’s a game about a rock that progresses, therefore it is the first game about progressive rock.
18/08/2011 at 12:47 Tatourmi says:
I don’t know, the rolling stones aren’t all that progressive are they?
18/08/2011 at 15:25 BAshment says:
Its also a game about a stone of doom. Therefore it is the first game about stoner doom.
18/08/2011 at 15:39 magnus says:
Stoner Doom? Duuuuude, I concur! :)
18/08/2011 at 11:38 Angel Dust says:
That was ace!
I’m so very, very sorry.
Very much looking forward to this though.
18/08/2011 at 11:55 manveruppd says:
Been looking forward to this, the delays are killing me! Soon over though! :p
18/08/2011 at 12:18 Mirqy says:
I have a video that proves shotgun beats rock, but my lawyer advises that I don’t release it.
18/08/2011 at 12:19 Bodminzer says:
Rock, Rockr, Rockgun
18/08/2011 at 12:44 Baboonanza says:
Already pre-ordered. I’m chert-ainly very excited!
18/08/2011 at 13:53 edwardoka says:
This looks really gneiss.
18/08/2011 at 15:44 Craig Stern says:
I can’t wait ’till the re-lith date!
18/08/2011 at 15:48 Eddy9000 says:
This looks like it’ll get a lot of good reviews that will add up to a solid metacritic score. A concrete aggregate you might say.
19/08/2011 at 00:16 Tams80 says:
Hopefully the metacritic score won’t metamorphasise it’s true form.
19/08/2011 at 05:41 billyphuz says:
beats the schist out of any other rock-based games I’ve played.
18/08/2011 at 12:50 MonkeyMonster says:
lovely, just lovely :D
Rock, Rocking Chair, Rocket Firing Shotgun (alla Borderlands)
18/08/2011 at 13:06 Raiyan 1.0 says:
Atlus is lovely.
18/08/2011 at 19:07 michaelar says:
Remember, the developer is Ace Team (of Zeno Clash fame); Atlus is the publisher.
18/08/2011 at 13:10 Joe Duck says:
I preordered as soon as it turned up on Steam, it is one of my most anticipated games of 2011
18/08/2011 at 14:24 eclipse mattaru says:
So I take it they weren’t working in upgrading the PC version of Zeno Clash with all the fancy crap they gave to the Xbox then =(
18/08/2011 at 15:52 Defiant Badger says:
How on earth can you tell that from that trailer?
18/08/2011 at 16:00 kuran says:
These guys’ have such a knack for off-beat art direction. I wish Zeno Clash supported the 360 joypad though.. this and Zeno just seem so suited for that.
18/08/2011 at 17:33 magnus says:
I got really stuck with Zeno Clash, gawd I feel dirty ‘cos of that.
18/08/2011 at 17:34 LintMan says:
Awesome trailer. I love the quick tour through the history of video games. I spotted look-alikes for:
- Oscilloscope PONG
- Atari Adventure
- Asteroids
- ? (Looks familiar but can’t remember the name)
- Frogger
- Moon Patrol
- Pitfall
- ? (again familiar, but not sure of name)
- one of the Mario games
- Street Fighter?
18/08/2011 at 19:07 Hodge says:
Well spotted sir!
#4 Is Midway’s Rally-X and #8 is Konami’s Gyruss.
And #7 is actually Taito’s Jungle Hunt.
Do we win prizes?
18/08/2011 at 19:09 michaelar says:
Edit: Tannhausered.
18/08/2011 at 20:21 Zwebbie says:
The first is probably Tennis for Two, a game predating Pong by 14 years and a good candidate for the title of First Video Game Ever.
18/08/2011 at 18:52 Casimir's Blake says:
The same Atlus that publishes Persona, Catherine etc. ? Does this mean they’re publishing PC games now? That would be interesting… (How about some of the earlier Shin Megami Tensei games, Atlus? Remake them into hi-res dungeon crawlers and you’ll get my money!)
18/08/2011 at 22:42 Buttless Boy says:
Yeah, I’m ecstatic at the possibilities of Atlus as a PC publisher. Especially if they’re no longer just publishing Japanese games (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Demon’s Souls and 3D Dot Game Heroes would fit perfectly on the PC, and I’d kill for a port of Steambot Chronicles.
By the way, they’re actually the developers of SMT, Persona, and Catherine; so if anyone’s gonna port that stuff to PC it’ll be them.
19/08/2011 at 00:40 Kaira- says:
It’d be really neat having Atlus on PC also. Apparently they are trying the waters a bit (having published two games on PC previously, Droplitz and Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine). And what finer way to do that than publishing three games in a short period, and quite interesting ones at that: Rock of Ages, Trine 2 and The Cursed Crusade. [source: Wikipedia]
18/08/2011 at 21:43 BathroomCitizen says:
Love Atlus. Love ACE Team.
19/08/2011 at 00:28 Bret says:
True. But it applies double in Megaman.