New Bionic Commando trailer whips it, whips it good
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.











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.
Velops @ Dec 17th 2007 3:53PM
Something about this game seems too formulaic in it's approach. I can't get excited about games that don't have surprising or unexpected features. Everything about this trailer feels competent and polished but oh so predictable.
Mr Khan @ Dec 17th 2007 4:24PM
Looks good to me
But then again, i've always favored grappling items, like the Grapple Beam or the Hookshot family of Zelda items
Plus Octopus Missiles, and the grappling tools of SWAT Kats fame
ThornedVenom @ Dec 17th 2007 4:36PM
If you can't throw PS3s ingame, then it's not worth the purchase.
dan stabbingworth @ Dec 17th 2007 4:41PM
No 2D and no Hitler-head-asploding makes me not care how cool this looks.
Mr.ESC @ Dec 17th 2007 5:32PM
The stabbing guy speaks the truth,we need hitler's head asploding...in HD!.
Mr.ESC @ Dec 17th 2007 5:36PM
Impressed cat isn't impressed.
Looks cool but also like one of those games that are only fun for 10 minutes. Well I hope it turns out to be a decent platformer or something like Devil may cry but with a gravy gun.
Jon Doe @ Dec 17th 2007 7:00PM
Hmm seems like the Wiimote would be perfect for this game.
bm @ Dec 17th 2007 7:32PM
Indeed. It seems MADE for it. And visually it barely looks any better than what Project Hammer used to look like, so it could easily work. Hell, God of War looks better.
There's nothing stopping this from being on the Wii, and IMO it should be.
ugg.tryptophan @ Dec 17th 2007 10:34PM
When did Capcom decide to get so...awesome?
Brandon @ Dec 17th 2007 10:57PM
Crooked...
Surfaces...
I get that it's a wrecked city, but is everything skewed or is that just to make the tossin' more awesome?
Huey2k2 @ Dec 18th 2007 1:25AM
You know.... I'm not normally the type to be like "ZOMG THIS WOULD BE AWESOME ON THE WII!!!!111one".
But I have to say, the way the game looks like it is designed, it would almost work better with the Wii controls.
Narf @ Dec 24th 2007 2:49PM
That game NEEDS te WIIMOTE!
¿Capcom are you blind?