By Adam Smith on December 21st, 2012 at 9:03 am.
Atlus have released a video to promote their new title, God Mode, which doesn’t look entirely dissimilar to Serious Sam and Painkiller. They player, armed with guns rather than swords, is marching through Hades killing hordes of monsters, accompanied by a spirit guide whose running commentary made me hate the very concept of audio before the end of the minute long trailer. He does have one good line though, describing the setting of Hades as “Hell in a toga”. Is that actually a good line? How low are my standards at 8:30 on a Friday morning? I’m eating a dry slice of bread for breakfast because I was too hungry to bother with spreading or toasting, and I’m perfectly content. That’s how low.
Is anyone working on No Clip Mode? Perhaps it could be a supernatural stealth game about a phantom thief.
God Mode supports co-op and is coming to PC and consoles, probably at a budget sort of price since it sounds like it’ll be download only on the latter. Expect it early 2013.
21/12/2012 at 09:05 lordcooper says:
Are we dead yet?
21/12/2012 at 09:48 secuda says:
sorry i put in a code
“it is a good day to die”
so we cant die,
(it has been corrected.)
21/12/2012 at 10:04 callmecheez says:
@secuda – I’m embarrassed to say I remember that cheat code, and it’s ‘it is a good day to die’ (warcraft. awesome.)
21/12/2012 at 11:01 SuperNashwanPower says:
MOTHERFUCKENKIWIBASTARD
WIGANNINJA
Ahh. Amiga 500 cheat codes, you shall never leave me
21/12/2012 at 11:10 RakeShark says:
porntipsgizzardo
21/12/2012 at 11:25 Bob_Bobson says:
I loved that FLUFFYKIWIS did exactly the same thing as MOTHERFUCKENKIWIBASTARD
21/12/2012 at 12:02 SuperNashwanPower says:
All these years later. I never knew about that one :)
21/12/2012 at 13:18 noom says:
Damn that game and its immensely well hidden level shortcuts
21/12/2012 at 12:53 Randomer says:
Warcraft one and two taught me how to type. Now I have terrible typing habits. Thanks video games!
21/12/2012 at 13:47 secuda says:
Thanks mr/miss anonymous.
21/12/2012 at 13:09 Jackablade says:
“Keen4.exe -nowait” F10 G
21/12/2012 at 13:22 Faldrath says:
WC2 Origin -k
21/12/2012 at 09:07 f1x says:
idclip on that clip, doesnt look bad
21/12/2012 at 16:25 Sakkura says:
You must mean IDSPISPOPD.
21/12/2012 at 09:15 Cytrom says:
Such wasted potential…
The level design looks marvelous, but the gameplay, this terrible voice in the background, and the contrast between the world and the main protagonist just breaks the cohesion. Also, first person view would be much more appropriate.
21/12/2012 at 09:19 Askeladd says:
Consoles… I think I found the error in the design.
21/12/2012 at 14:53 CptPlanet says:
I personally love most ATLUS games and all of them are consoles games (with very few being published on PC). I don’t know if this looks good but I love their SMT series.
21/12/2012 at 15:32 rockman29 says:
Demon’s Souls is exclusive to PS3 and Dark Souls came out on consoles first. So I don’t know what you’re talking about.
21/12/2012 at 11:16 RakeShark says:
It’s really lacking any amount of speed, too. Given all that open area seen in the trailer, it seems like it’d take more than a minute to walk from one end to the other while firing that chaingun.
WALK! Don’t run, through Hell.
21/12/2012 at 09:20 honuk says:
looks more like EDF than Serious Sam
21/12/2012 at 09:26 Anthile says:
Anyone remember Will Rock?
21/12/2012 at 09:52 Nucleus says:
For some strange reason, yes. Although the most memorable thing was the licensed Twisted Sister song.
21/12/2012 at 09:29 Echo Black says:
…This game looks incredibly uninteresting
Edit: The VA reminds me more of Zigzag from Thief & The Cobbler than the Disney Hades proper
21/12/2012 at 12:55 sabrage says:
Didn’t sound a lick like Vincent Price to me.
21/12/2012 at 09:45 Azazel says:
I would definitely play Phantom Thief though.
21/12/2012 at 10:03 Groove says:
Those standards are too damn low Adam.
21/12/2012 at 10:51 felisc says:
Indeed. He could at least slice a banana and smear peanut butter on that bread.
21/12/2012 at 11:49 Vorphalack says:
Too much effort. He should pulverise the banana with his fist and press the bread slice into the peanut butter jar.
21/12/2012 at 12:17 SuperNashwanPower says:
A down-and-out once got on my bus when I was younger. He had a bag of bananas, and in that way that only the finest piss-artist can, drunkenly went round the whole bus going DOYOUWANNABANANA? DOYOUWANNABANANA? DOYOUWANNABANANA? To everyone. He was sort intimidatingly friendly. No one wanted his bananas.
Eventually the driver got annoyed with him and asked him to get off, to which he replied it was his stop anyway and started towards the door. Just as we thought it was over, the drunk did a Columbo, and turned to the driver. A pause. DOYOUWANNABANANA? The driver closed the doors in his face. One-nil to the driver? I think not.
Not to be defeated in his fruit-based altruism, and displaying a dexterity unwarranted by his inebriation, the drunk deftly caught the yellow delicacy in between the safety flaps which separated the closing doors. Then he stumbled off. The driver looked at the suspended foodstuff for what seemed like an age, gave the inimitable British ‘tut’, and then drove 300 yards down the street. With a banana sticking out of his bus.
The mild look of persecution on the old lady’s face at the next stop when a tropical fruit inexplicably fell at her feet was priceless.
True story.
21/12/2012 at 12:59 Velko says:
*applause*
21/12/2012 at 15:30 j6m says:
*standing ovation*
21/12/2012 at 16:53 The white guar says:
This is why I read RPS
22/12/2012 at 13:30 Shadowcat says:
I too read RPS solely for the comments recounting the vehicular adventures of banana-wielding drunkards. Most days, the site is a crushing disappointment.
21/12/2012 at 10:09 ran93r says:
Did they run Christopher Biggins through a filter for the announcer voice?
The action looks fun though.
21/12/2012 at 10:53 Bracknellexile says:
It sounded more like some terrible Fly-esque merging of Stewie and David Walliams to me.
21/12/2012 at 11:03 SuperNashwanPower says:
Its like the casting director couldnt find a narrator, took his kids to a christmas pantomime for a break and said “EUREKA! THATS THE GUY!” when the Ugly Sister started monologuing
21/12/2012 at 10:27 gravity_spoon says:
Adam at least you’re not eating cardboard that passes around as sandwich these days or drinking tea which is actually packaged drain water from last season’s rain.
21/12/2012 at 11:04 SuperNashwanPower says:
Hoi. That’ll set you back £5.30 eat-in up here in Aberdeen >:|
21/12/2012 at 11:04 Gap Gen says:
Like, the whole of hell in one very big toga, kinda like a huge sulphury circus tent? Cool.
21/12/2012 at 11:58 DarkFenix says:
Looks like Painkiller meets Serious Sam with the fun removed.
21/12/2012 at 12:10 Artista says:
Looks like we play as the bad guys from Rage.
21/12/2012 at 12:15 int says:
God mode cheat in this game would make you mortal, yes?
21/12/2012 at 12:34 Khalan says:
Sounds a bit like Pops from the Regular Show (my kids used to watch it!)
Want to hear bad material sound good? Look up George Takei reading 50 Shades of Grey. Oh myyyy…..
21/12/2012 at 14:06 b0rsuk says:
Combat looks anemic. Lots of projectiles and flashy effects which don’t have much impact on player or enemies.
21/12/2012 at 14:26 Moraven says:
Looks fun in a Alien Swarm/Smash TV co op way.
21/12/2012 at 21:43 baziz says:
Is the guide voiced by Hedonism bot? http://i.imgur.com/ksOgp.jpg
22/12/2012 at 00:12 mewse says:
The voice actor seems to be giving his performance modeled on Valentine Dyall’s portrayal of Gargravarr, in the old Hitchhiker’s Guide audio drama. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Gargravarr
Which itself was kind of a Great Gildersleeves performance, only dialed up to 11.
22/12/2012 at 04:30 waaaaaaaals says:
I’d rather play IDKFA.