By Adam Smith on May 4th, 2012 at 10:30 am.
Fool that I am, I reckoned Renaissance Heroes might be a bit like War of the Roses, being a multiplayer action game with a historical hat on. The trailer persuaded me otherwise and I duly rolled my eyes around the room like a couple of marbles before taking a big gulp of coffee as bitter as a broken heart. Then I paused, added some sugar to the coffee, popped my eyes back in and watched again. It looks a lot like Unreal Tournament, except with more pantaloons and other frippery. That’s no bad thing, not as far as I’m concerned, although it is an odd choice of setting. But I guess it means I can call it a ‘Renaissance man shoot’.
‘Number of times a man leaps from a great distance wielding a hammer’ is one of the methods I use to judge a game’s quality. Renaissance Heroes, you’re A-OK.
If the fancy takes you, why not sign up for the beta at the official website?
04/05/2012 at 10:53 gaertner says:
Looks nice :)
04/05/2012 at 10:55 Njordsk says:
WTF
04/05/2012 at 10:58 CheesyJelly says:
Seconded.
04/05/2012 at 13:31 neofit says:
QFT
04/05/2012 at 10:59 Delicious Narwhal says:
I’d play it.
04/05/2012 at 11:07 Syra says:
So basically some architecture student made all these environments for his final project and his computer sciences buddy was like LOL I LOVE SHOOTING MANS IM GONA DO IT IN THERE!!11
04/05/2012 at 11:51 marach says:
Actually is it just me or do the levels look a lot like straigt reskins of some of the old UT maps…
04/05/2012 at 12:19 Lugg says:
It’s just you.
Also, you can’t “reskin” a level. That is totally inappropriate terminology considering the process involved, bro.
04/05/2012 at 16:03 icupnimpn2 says:
you don’t “reskin” a level, duhhh, you dermoswitch it
04/05/2012 at 19:30 Syra says:
So… Swapping out normal maps and textures then?
04/05/2012 at 11:08 yago says:
Looks exactly like gotham city imposters.
04/05/2012 at 11:08 Craig Stern says:
Is there a video game award for “worst use of an historical setting”?
04/05/2012 at 11:26 diebroken says:
Don’t even think of mentioning Daikatana, it’s really not that bad…
04/05/2012 at 11:18 phylum sinter says:
Not sure i’m on board for this… potentially it may be trying to scratch the same itch as Bioshock: Infinite, or i don’t know what is going on here really. Nice looking level design perhaps. What else have these guys made?
04/05/2012 at 11:20 antoniodamala says:
looks frantic almost as quake3, and i like that.
04/05/2012 at 11:26 Jeroen D Stout says:
Ho-hum, medieval games in a renaissance setting.
04/05/2012 at 11:36 Hairball says:
Machine guns are boring. There, I said it.
04/05/2012 at 11:40 MadTinkerer says:
So it’s 100% historically accurate, then.
Just like AC3! :)
04/05/2012 at 11:50 Sergey Galyonkin says:
Wow, they still make mods for Quake 3!
04/05/2012 at 12:00 marcusfell says:
Can we expect a Leonardo Da Vinci Warfare DLC?
04/05/2012 at 12:01 stahlwerk says:
This looks like it’s already been done, ah tell you.
04/05/2012 at 12:04 volkanongun says:
renaissence LAZER!?
04/05/2012 at 12:18 Walter Heisenberg says:
It was a time of Unreal Tournament Total Conversions
04/05/2012 at 13:24 Maldomel says:
When I read Unreal Tournament, I didn’t think this will be looking that much like UT. Please tell me it’s a project from fans or former devs, and not just a rip-off with different graphics.
04/05/2012 at 13:31 S Jay says:
Too much drugs
04/05/2012 at 14:03 harvb says:
Looks a bit too much like “Unreal Tournament, the Da Vinci Years”.
04/05/2012 at 14:03 Berzee says:
I personally think this is The Best Idea!
Of course it’s still entirely possible that the shooting of Renaissance Men will be merely middling; but I appreciate the uncommon and very pretty setting. =)
04/05/2012 at 14:10 Reefpirate says:
It’s is pretty.
04/05/2012 at 15:56 Hmm-Hmm. says:
A rather interesting flavour.. but it seems a bit of a waste to use that for a tournament style fps. Maybe they have some variation in gameplay elements that adds to the enjoyment?
If not, I’d be more likely to play AC: brotherhood (which I don’t because of UbiDRM).
04/05/2012 at 16:06 El_Emmental says:
Good environment, same old (boring ?) multiplayer gameplay. What a shame.
It won’t attract the CoD/BF crowd nor the Q3A/UT fans (who now play less, have jobs/studies, and are spending more time socializing), so why not trying some different gameplay ?
04/05/2012 at 16:11 Brise Bonbons says:
F2P shooter made by a Korean company which specializes in MMOGs. What could go wrong?
It’s too bad really. The setting is neat, and I’d love to have a truly faced paced game which looks a bit better than Quake Live. But given the company’s background I’m not having much success summoning interest in this one.
04/05/2012 at 16:22 muskieratboi says:
When you use the “Random Game Genre generator” and it rolls up “Renaissance/Arcade/First Person Shooter”, you normally roll again. apparrently not for these guys..
04/05/2012 at 20:53 aurens says:
given the developer, i would assume this is going to be f2p (which makes me think pc exclusive). yet they chose to use a controller for their premiere video. not a good sign. not gonna write them off yet, however.
04/05/2012 at 20:55 niukk says:
http://cdd.me/1sw
05/05/2012 at 11:17 SuperNashwanPower says:
Generic negative opinion #147