New Bionic Commando trailer whips it, whips it good

by Ross Miller { Dec 17th 2007 at 2:10PM }

In the immortal words of Devo, when a problem comes along, you must whip it. The latest trailer from Capcom's upcoming Bionic Commando remake answers the question we've all been wondering since the last footage showed us we could swing: will we be able to toss bad guys? Or toss massive objects at bad guys? Or toss bad guys at other bad guys? Or brush our teeth with a bionic arm? Answers: yes, yes, yes, and why would you ask such a random question?

What we're not sure from the trailer, however, is how easy or difficult it is to initiate smash and throw action, or if we'll even want to shoot guns at all, given our much superior projectiles. Let's hope Capcom finds a way to make other forms of combat entertaining and meaningful without designing a level where we can't smash anything, forcing us to trudge through corridors without swinging around like a manly Spider-Man.

Tags: bionic-commando, capcom

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

samfish @ Dec 17th 2007 2:14PM

Fun Fact: My mom used to be the bank accountant for Devo.

That's about as close to knowing a celebrity as I've ever got.
...although I met Cindy Crawford at a mall once, too.

Fernando Rocker @ Dec 17th 2007 2:20PM

I met Kate Beckinsale outside a restaurant... damn, she is extremely pretty.

samfox @ Dec 17th 2007 2:23PM

Who cares!

xFenixKnightx @ Dec 17th 2007 2:31PM

Samfish...Samfox? Hmmmm...Samknight it is!!

Im with ya Samfox, who gives a crap.....back to gaming please.

Carlos @ Dec 17th 2007 2:35PM

having anything to do with Devo is fucking awesome!

Booxatron @ Dec 17th 2007 3:55PM

Damn...coolest famous person I ever met was Weird Al Yankovic...it was back when he had the moustache and enormous glasses, so yes, he was cool. I've never met Devo but I have met (very briefly) the members of POLYSICS, which is very similar, only way more Japanese. Good music.

xFenixKnightx @ Dec 17th 2007 2:16PM

Looks ok, need to see a different level.

Axela @ Dec 17th 2007 2:30PM

Forget the game, just make this multiplayer and I'm in.

Mr.ESC @ Dec 17th 2007 5:38PM

I hope you mean Co-op multiplayer otherwise yuck.

B1gC72 @ Dec 17th 2007 2:31PM

the physics and graphics look pretty good. i would be interested in seeing my footage though.

B1gC72 @ Dec 17th 2007 2:31PM

the physics and graphics look pretty good. i would be interested in seeing my footage though.

B1gC72 @ Dec 17th 2007 2:32PM

dammit. and by "my" i meant "more". and sorry for the double post.

Mike @ Dec 17th 2007 2:33PM

Once again, publishers and developers focus millions and millions of dollars to create an amazing virtual world, and forget that what they should be creating is an amazing *game*. The gameplay of the original Bionic Commando was simplicity itself. This does not look simple. This looks a mess gameplay-wise. When trying to recapture a classic, why don't more companies focus on the original strengths and just spice it up a little bit with 3-d objects and great animation.

Not every game works well over-the-shoulder (Sonic the Hedgehog for an example)

Leobebes @ Dec 17th 2007 2:36PM

Isn't part of satisfaction in gaming nowadays to get ahead of the learning curve and enjoy a deep form of gameplay that adds to the replay value? I seriously cannot for the life of me play old 2D games anymore. They seem very tedious to me now. The rewards aren't there anymore.

samfish @ Dec 17th 2007 2:37PM

You can have an amazing game and still have it be complex. It's just a matter of how intuitive that complexity is.
I can think of a number of games with complex controls and still have, in my opinion, awesome gameplay.

Mike B @ Dec 17th 2007 2:44PM

I'm not anti-complexity, just anti-unneccessary-3d-remakes. I always think of the awful Castlevania game on N64, of exactly what's wrong with the concept. The new Prince of Persia games seem to go a good job of melding some simple plane-based gameplay (ie 2d) and complex controls into an immersive 3d world. If this game locks you into a plan when it comes to interacting with the world, then great. I don't think this game would work well with a lot of wandering and careful aiming.

Seishino @ Dec 17th 2007 3:05PM

This reminds me a bit of Wild 9. In that Shiny game, you couldn't directly attack enemies, but you could grab objects and smash enemies with them, or you could grab the enemies and smash them a couple of times or feed them to one of the convieniently located grinders all around the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2MIeQ7Rgco

Unfortunately, the game felt a lot like cleaning up your room. Grab enemy, put enemy in grinder. Grab next enemy. Smash enemy into floor. Repeat. It sounds like it should be a lot of sadistic fun, but in practice it took a single step process and drew it out into two or three.

Here's hoping that Bionic Commando focuses more on the exploration portion of swinging and less on grabbing enemies and putting them away.

Kanadwen @ Dec 17th 2007 3:44PM

Heh, I remember that on the Playstation Demo Disc!

snowbdr440 @ Dec 17th 2007 3:30PM

looks pretty good. I like the environments and the fact that you can toss people around would be fun. Anyone looking to play this should try an old Midway game called Psi-Ops. You could manipulate objects using telepathic powers - like pick up things, throw people, jump into their bodies, etc. It was a very cool game that get widespread distribution. You can probably find it used for $10-$20.

Anticrawl @ Dec 17th 2007 3:52PM

This video reminds me of how much gamevideos.com sickens me. Seriously would it be so difficult to use a different website for embedded videos rather than making your readers suffer through the garbage that is gamevideos embeded players.

I'll be back later, gotta go give the owner of gamevideos.com his daily sodomizing with a serving spoon so that he might understand the pain he causes gamers everyday with his shitty streaming players. Hopefully it won't take many more years.