Today in Joystiq: March 25, 2008

by Ross Miller { Mar 25th 2008 at 11:59PM }

Joystiq reader emummy decided to recreate GI Joe vs. Cobra in Rock Band. You can catch GI Joe after the break. Check out the highlights for today:

Joystiquery
The best of WoW Insider: Patch 2.4 special
Massively Week in Review: March 18-24, 2008
Metareview -- Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (PSP)

News
You can't have these Metal Gear Solid 4 wireless headphones
PS3 firmware 2.20 available now
Eye of Judgment expansion delayed for the US
Cheaters branded on Xbox Live, Gamerscores reset
Friendly reminder: Halo 3 Heroic maps free today
WiiWare Japanese launch info round-up
GT5 Prologue North American release gets exclusive music
Call of Duty 4 DLC in the works for PC
World of Warcraft 2.4 patch arrives
Netflix surveys customers about service on Xbox 360
WiiWare Final Fantasy to charge for downloadable races
Guitar Hero: Aerosmith adds Mott the Hoople, The Kinks, Joan Jett
Europe gets the shard with Warhawk 'Broken Mirror' expansion in April
Last Halo 3 Legendary Map is Blackout, remake of H2's Lockout
Wonder Boy, Fantasy Zone coming to North American VC
We'd buy that for a dollar: 50 Cent sequel in latest EGM
Ubisoft shares boosted by 'Tom Clancy' purchase
Darwinia rated by ESRB for Xbox 360
NCSoft licenses Unreal Engine 3 for two MMOs
Darwinia+ confirmed for Xbox Live this Fall
Raiden Fighters Aces demo on Japanese Xbox Live
Alleged GTA IV multiplayer screens show dudes, guns, vehicles ... explosions
New details, 'over 200 endings' for Fallout 3
Brothers in ads: Gearbox signs in-game ad deal with Double Fusion

Culture & Community
Mii wedding invitation is 'silly and lame,' also 'kind of cute'
Final Fantasy vs. Dead or Alive: Round 2
Win $10K for texting in Gamestop's GTA IV contest
Weighted Companion Cube mid-Portal in Toronto

Tags: dailyrecap, g.i. joe, G.i.Joe, gi-joe

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

RagnarokSam @ Mar 26th 2008 12:04AM

one of many things you can't do on the Wii version.

Morisato @ Mar 26th 2008 12:38AM

Jesus is goth!

Nelly @ Mar 26th 2008 2:28AM

I expected better packaging... Something like how Japan has their bundle. This is too cheap looking just like the Daxter and Vader set..

TheQuagster @ Mar 26th 2008 6:49AM

I made my singer Darkman. It looks awesome with a burnt face. And just to get starpower, I yell WESTLAKE!!!

baby sea tuna @ Mar 26th 2008 8:29AM

Sweet! That's even awesomer than the Kratos I made.

Incidentally, famous Rock Band characters are WAAAAAY more fun to make than famous Miis. I think I'll need to come up with some more sooner than later.

THE WICKER MAN (BWF) (GT: Dalek Prime) @ Mar 26th 2008 10:44AM

My band Dalek Prime is composed of several Doctors (Who) Capt. Jack and Gwen from torchwood. I only wish I could create a dalek emperor... Im working on the Ramones next. This reminds me of the N64 wrestling games and the create a character madness we all felt then. I had Agent Dale Cooper and Laura Palmer as a tag team, The Method Man and Ol Dirty Bastarad as Big Baby Jesus as another. Not to mention loads of comic book characters.

ZeroCorpse @ Mar 26th 2008 12:32PM

I play as myself in Oblivion. My character looks just like me. It freaks people out, too-- They ask, "How did you get your face in the game?" and I show them the modeling tools, and they're stunned I had the patience to do that.

I'm an artist. I can sculpt, and I guess I just have a 'feel' for making faces out of shapeless things-- Even if they're digital shapeless things. I have Oblivion characters that look like people I knew 20 years ago, just because I wanted to see if I could make their avatar from memory.

In wrestling games I never played as the WWE characters. I always made my own roster.

And you should have seen my house full of porn stars (including a convincing-but-skinny Ron Jeremy) in The Sims 2..!

My point? We gamers like customization. If some company would figure this out, and make a wrestling game with a good engine and NO LICENSED CHARACTERS, but a top-notch character creation system, we'd be hooked.

`Same goes for just about any genre. Don't license popular characters or celebrities for the game! Give US the tools to make whomever we want, and put that licensing money into the gameplay and production.