And there it is, people: The second "mystery" teaser for this year's Spike VGA award show, shown first here on Joystiq. (The first, you'll recall, was 2K Games' franchise reboot of Spec Ops). Since we don't have any insider info on the developer or the publisher behind the game, we'll simply share what we know: This is a new, unannounced game that will be revealed for the first time at the VGAs; the trailer's narration is delivered by a "well-known actor" (Tom Wilkinson?); and the reveal at the VGAs will have actual gameplay.
Share your best educated guesses in the comments below and we'll bubble the best to the top. We'll start you out: That's a Hong Kong police badge, so we're saying True Crime 3: Hong Kong.
[Update: Internet sleuth superannuation posits that this mystery title is none other than Black Lotus, the as-of-yet-unnamed Activision-published, United Front-developed action title announced earlier this year. Just about the only thing we know about the project on the record is that it's "a new action-based game set in Hong Kong" by the studio working on ModNation Racers. Do we have a winner?]
Reader Comments (41)
Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:22PM Dark Archon PSN Archonik XBL Dar said
Rockstar's Agent? Probably not, that will probably be more vintage.
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 1:06PM (Unverified) said
Posted: Nov 30th 2009 2:24PM (Unverified) said
Agent set to be in 80th, there is no way 80th is like this
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:33PM Discotheque said
Haha I thought so too. Anyways that's definitely Tom Wilkinson narrating. And I'm thinking True Crime 3 as well.
Definitely not Agent like somebody mentioned above. That game is taking place in the 70s (should be great).
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Definitely not Agent like somebody mentioned above. That game is taking place in the 70s (should be great).
Posted: Nov 30th 2009 1:01PM TheDarkWayne said
if you pause right when the badge is flipping it looks sorta like Chow Yun Fat. Sorta : /
Yeah it could be anything. Hong Kong is a great setting though, and there are so few cop games these days
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Yeah it could be anything. Hong Kong is a great setting though, and there are so few cop games these days
Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:39PM Demon G Sides said
Definitely. I was about to just come on here and post about it. Its gotta be Shenmue!
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 1:06PM aughscreennames said
What does any of that have to do with Shenmue?
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:26PM (Unverified) said
Too bad I'm going to miss the show because of Finals, sigh
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:33PM Discotheque said
Why would you even want to watch this garbage? Just you-tube the announcement trailers.
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:27PM MystileArmor said
I wouldn't mind a True Crime 3. I do hope it won't be as buggy as True Crime NYC.... seriously, when your game crashes 9 out of 10 times you're trying to enter a building, there is something wrong.
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:29PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
It's Die Hard 5: Die Even Hardier Than Hardest
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:35PM (Unverified) said
Telling you the truth, it looks like a Rockstar game for me. It looks open world enough and I guess that it will have alot of shooting. I guess that it might be Agent since it says something about and undercover cop, but the setting does not fit... Agent is set in the 70s and this looks more like 2009.
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:36PM Granger said
All I gather is that the dialogue seems to suggest prior events in an earlier game/book/film, and that we've already been introduced to the character throwing away his HKPD badge.
Seems way too serious a premise to be based on this, but... Only connection I get is Rush Hour, which featured Wilkinson. Jackie Chan was HKPD if I'm not mistaken too.
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Seems way too serious a premise to be based on this, but... Only connection I get is Rush Hour, which featured Wilkinson. Jackie Chan was HKPD if I'm not mistaken too.
Posted: Nov 30th 2009 12:52PM Granger said
http://deadtorights.com/
New game is already announced, and looks awful (it's from the fine folks who brought us Reservoir Dogs - God I hate Blitz Games!)
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New game is already announced, and looks awful (it's from the fine folks who brought us Reservoir Dogs - God I hate Blitz Games!)
Posted: Nov 30th 2009 1:18PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
Sounds like an awesome porno.
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Posted: Dec 1st 2009 4:02AM YpoCaramel said
I hope not. GTA4, especially, is a fun-but smart caricature of life in NYC. It'd be very hard to do a version of Hong Kong that is accurate and not a lame Western caricature without resorting to Cantonese.
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 4:05PM (Unverified) said
To be honest It sounded more like Anthony Hopkin to me.
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 4:26PM (Unverified) said
I have my doubts about how good this guy is at going undercover. Wouldn't it be better not just to through your highly identifiable police badge into the street where anyone could find it..
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Posted: Nov 30th 2009 4:51PM (Unverified) said
Oh good grief, shut the hell up about Shenmue!. Its giving me bursts of nostalgia again!. That would of been great though!, but they're already assuming that its "Black Lotus".
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Posted: Dec 1st 2009 3:54AM YpoCaramel said
Holy Crap! A game set in Hong Kong that actually looks like Hong Kong (late 1990's)! Not a fake big Chinatown, not a giant slum, but a city, bustling with life and variety.
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Posted: Dec 1st 2009 10:15AM Misfit Toy said
ZOMG...WURLD XCLUSIVE!
Geoff must be giddy and dancing his heart out right about now.
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Geoff must be giddy and dancing his heart out right about now.
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