When we see that a developer we're not familiar with is making a game for the "Wii, PS2, PSP and DS," our shovelware alarms usually start to go off around Joystiq HQ. But when we saw this morning that developer Twelve Interactive was using motion capture for their game Martial Arts: Capoeira, we were ... well, not excited exactly. Can one be skeptically intrigued? Even if the game does end up sucking, it's nice to know that they're putting in the effort of hiring actual capoeira artists.
Capoeira, as we all know without checking Wikipedia, is a Brazillian martial art blending fighting and dance. After watching the video of the mo-cap session we've placed after the jump, it looks more like fighting with cartwheels. But come to think of it, that still sounds better than Pit Fighter. Consider us cautiously, sort of interested.
Oh, neat. I was actually signed up to take a class on this about 8 years ago, but I didn't know if I would be moving. Turns out I did end up moving down south for college at the last second and had to cancel my classes. ...at least I'm pretty sure it was this. I can't remember the name now, to be honest, but it twas a Brazillian slave dance martial arts thing.
That said, I will more than likely ignore this game.
It could work, if the skill system is extremely developed. It can be something more realistic, as you'd have the same tools as the opponent, and therefore it'd really be just a "game of skill" (sort of like Counterstrike and I'm not implying that other fighting games didn't require any).
Gameplay diversity would suffer, but it's doable. I mean, it works for boxing games, right?
some of the guys posted up info on the game in the forums on SRK, and they seemed like pretty competent developers who knew how to handle balance in a fighting game. Hope it works out for the best, I know it isn't the best selling of genres to work in.
i remember playing this game back in 2001, as a capoerista, this game is awesome. i cant wait till it comes out for consoles! its nice to have more than eddie,Pupa Salgueiro,Soiree, christie,elena,bob wilson, and richard.
For the few of us who saw The Rock's movie "The Rundown" a few years back, this was the fighting style of the jungle guerrillas that he had so much trouble with. Lots of movement and action.
I love this fighting style. It's one of the most stylish forms of martial arts and one of the hardest to master...The Capoeira guy from The Protector is one of the best Capoeira fighters in the world (even though the movie sucked) http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Protector-Capoeira-vs-Muay-Thai
That is untrue what you said about the guy in the protector. His name is Lateff Crowder. He is not even a capoeira master. He is very good at what he does....but being the best in world, he is not (Yet)! There are many Capoeira fighters that are masters, that would show him a few kicks or take downs if you know what I mean. He is good though....
Haha! That fighting style was heavily referenced in the "Death Note: Another Note, The LABB Murder Cases" book which I just finished. Maybe it's more than a coincidence...
Personally, I practice and love Capoeira, so I'm both excited and curious to see where this game goes. I'm not sure if they are going to have different styles of Capoeira or what they plan to do to mix things up, but I'm happy to see Capoeira get some publicity, finally. =)
I used to practice Capoeira, and I have to say I'm at least interested in the outcome. That said, I wonder:
*Will one of the stages be an actual "roda"? *Will there be a berimbau playing and depending on the speed of music will the characters play faster? *Will the characters be divided into angola and regional capoeira? *Will it suck? *Will it blend? (had to do it)
kuuma... you havent played this before... this takes some thought eddy + christie+mokujin/Tetsujin/combot in some cases
Button mash=win 4 n00bl3ts
gets ya thinkin, hey in addition to the life bar they should have a stamina bar in fighting games that pride themselves on having accurate depictions of martial arts. like tekken and virtua fighter.. so you wouldnt be able to pull off crazy super combos or you would but youd get more and more tired. force some strategy out of players
I have done capoeira for a few years now and I can definitely say it's got way more depth to it then most people see. U cab name a 100 people who all do capoeira completely differently, it would defintiely take the influence of people who actually know the art to get somthing like this to work. Anyone hwo has tried the style, can tell you it's extremly hard. Anyone who hasn't assumes it can't be used technically to fight. On your brithday usually you have to fight everyone in the class, if you are in a large calss it never turns out well. If this game is done well it could be great. People hated Eddy Gordo in the tekken 3 because you could button mash and beat the crap out of people...but when they "fixed it", the capoeiristas were easy to beat. They do a moving spinning kick then immediately run back to stand in front of the person...no one, in any martial art moves out of danger then back into danger to make sure the fighting stays linear. By nature that is what capoeira is, but people became whiny and pissy which is what happens when whiny pissy people get their asses whooped by somthing new.
