Screenshots: American McGee's Grimm ... and first trailer!

by James Ransom-Wiley { Feb 19th 2008 at 7:45PM }

Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum! GameTap rolled out the first in-game shots of American McGee's Grimm today, along with a trailer (posted after the break), revealing the twisted tales' "vile," and still nameless ~~protagonist~~, er, rather, 'antagonist.' The images and video suggest some kind of dual-world shenanigans -- from "cheery to eerie" -- but details are vague. Grimm will unfold over 24-weekly episodes, which are currently exclusive to GameTap, beginning in July.

Gallery: Grimm

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

bigsofty @ Feb 19th 2008 8:05PM

A McGee games, design wise, suck ass, its a name on a box I avoid if I can... and I can! :p

Prufrock @ Feb 19th 2008 9:01PM

Have you played American McGee's Alice?

Delgado @ Feb 19th 2008 8:13PM

Although I don't have high expectations, I appreciate games with some kind of artistic flair. Now that we have progressed to near photo realistic graphics I hope more games follow the path of some of the independent and "artistic" devs.

mtcantor @ Feb 19th 2008 8:18PM

American McGee is going to make you his bitch!!!!

gLitterbug @ Feb 19th 2008 10:01PM

oh lord I lol'd

I do hope it ends better than this though.

PuniPuniSakura @ Feb 19th 2008 8:23PM

woah, this looks cool.. looks like i'm going to have to cave and get Gametap.. admittedly, BDLA wasn't great, but Scrapland and Alice were very fun

Prufrock @ Feb 19th 2008 8:58PM

Scapland and Bad Day L.A. were both mediocre, though neither were designed by McGee. He was only the producer on the titles, hence "American McGee Presents" rather than "American McGee's".

Lijik @ Feb 19th 2008 8:58PM

My thoughts exactly. Shame no one seems to remember Scrapland when they think of American McGee games.

Prufrock @ Feb 19th 2008 9:02PM

Shame no one remembers Alice, you mean. Alice was a much better game than Scrapland.

PuniPuniSakura @ Feb 19th 2008 10:01PM

prufrock: that says a lot actually.. though i'll admit i liked Scrapland, mediocre-terrible missions slightly (but not fully) outweighed by the silly fun of the exploration and character swapping.. who can argue with a mayor character who can put enemies to sleep?

still, explains a lot with the bad missions and the entirety of BDLA ^^ thanks for the info

Arno @ Feb 19th 2008 8:27PM

His name annoys me.

Geist @ Feb 20th 2008 12:47AM

Heh, it's like anti-Okami. Neat. I wonder what the mechanics are like.

Saki @ Feb 20th 2008 7:07AM

Games with titles like "Some Moron's Game" annoy me. Even if the game is good, that's just shameless.

Cesaria @ Feb 19th 2008 8:47PM

Looks trippy, but more importantly, pretty tits...based off the screens.

David Herbert @ Feb 19th 2008 9:19PM

This reminds me of Rez, that X-box original game that had you killing all those creatures similar to the tubtubies.

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mtcantor @ Feb 19th 2008 10:03PM

You are thinking of Razes Hell yes?

Rez would be the on-rails shooter featuring the Trance Vibrator.

Geist @ Feb 20th 2008 12:52AM

Heheheh, I would think you mean Raz's Hell, too. Finding similarities between this and Rez is quite amusing. It's like pointing out similarities between a puddle of water and a brick.

upz @ Feb 19th 2008 9:12PM

That initial screenshot had me thinking someone had made American McGee's Katamari.

Mr.ESC @ Feb 20th 2008 2:28AM

That was exactly what I was thinking.

Shiba @ Feb 20th 2008 11:01AM

Another game I won't be playing to avoid that shitty gametap service. It's not worth installing/subscribing to that garbage. No game is.

Bring it to Steam or something. (Wouldn't that be awesome if Valve bought out Gametap, switched all the games to Steam and nuked this shit?)

ThornedVenom (Ludwig Defense Force) @ Feb 20th 2008 12:25AM

McGee's Alice style was awesome!

I'm really not digging the visuals on this one. Not because it's cartoonish, but because it's not aesthetic.

Mr.ESC @ Feb 20th 2008 2:31AM

Am I the only one that expected a little more of Pain,blood,torture,gore,blood,violence,blood,disturbing images and blood (did I metioned blood?) ?

It looks good but it doesn't looks anything like Alice.

The only bad thing for me is that this is on Gametap.I wish it was on xbox live or in retail as well.

ALH @ Feb 20th 2008 6:10AM

Seeing Ken Wong deliver a talk about this game and its visual design process at Animex brouight this game to my attention, The morphing meshes from good to evil are pretty sweet. This trailer kind of adds to the anticitpation, so pretty!

Wether the game itself is any good is another thing- but apparently the first chapter is going to be free. Shame my crappy PC probably wont be able to run it :(.