It wouldn't be so bad if that first trailer for the game hadn't seemed like such a breath of fresh air. Oh well, these are just a few still images. Let's withhold judgment until we see it in action, hmm?
First screens of Platinum's Vanquish aren't doing it for us
by Justin McElroy 
on Mar 4th 2010 9:10AM
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It wouldn't be so bad if that first trailer for the game hadn't seemed like such a breath of fresh air. Oh well, these are just a few still images. Let's withhold judgment until we see it in action, hmm?
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 1:16PM D dogg said
Not sure I'd categorize these pics as a *yawn*.
The video grabbed my interest and while these screenshots don't scream of originality, they do show great visuals, melee combat and what looks to be some great shooting action.
Not necessarily proper use of screenshots in a marketing sense compared to video but it does "look" like it'll be a high production, action-packed shooter with lots of particles and blur effects.
It's at least "on my radar" now because if it plays as good as it looks, it should be good for a rental.
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The video grabbed my interest and while these screenshots don't scream of originality, they do show great visuals, melee combat and what looks to be some great shooting action.
Not necessarily proper use of screenshots in a marketing sense compared to video but it does "look" like it'll be a high production, action-packed shooter with lots of particles and blur effects.
It's at least "on my radar" now because if it plays as good as it looks, it should be good for a rental.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:17AM CaptainProtonX said
Halo meets Dark Void meets Gears of War meets some other game.
I feel sleepy now. I need booze.
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I feel sleepy now. I need booze.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 11:39AM sircool2008 said
well unlike tribes not everyone is going have jet packs... also when did Bungie ever claim they were reinventing the wheel? they did that in 2002 and have been tweaking it ever since.
adding jet packs doesn't make it a ripoff of tribes...if it does, well then having guns in the original halo makes it a ripoff of Wolfenstein? your logic is flawed.
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adding jet packs doesn't make it a ripoff of tribes...if it does, well then having guns in the original halo makes it a ripoff of Wolfenstein? your logic is flawed.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:21AM The angry pro consumer gaming ga said
Let me get this straight, Justin says this doesn't excite him because its not a breath of fresh air, yet makes no such distinction on the Halo Reach video when it is clearly looking like "Tribes" in Halo skin.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:27AM chrisgrant said
A Tribes skin? That's a little reductionist, don't you think.
So let me check your math: JET PACKS = TRIBES. One to one?
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So let me check your math: JET PACKS = TRIBES. One to one?
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:29AM The angry pro consumer gaming ga said
So whats you're point? Still doesn't change the fact that neither this nor Reach MP seem to bring up anything new that hasn't been done before, yet all praise for anything Halo and this gets a meh from Justin.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:32AM The angry pro consumer gaming ga said
@chris, dark void had jetpacks and looked nothing like Tribes, as soon as seening the jetpacks in Reach and how it plays INSTANTLY brings up Tribes. So no its not the jetpacks its how the game now plays using the jetpacks that makes look just like Tribes.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:37AM The angry pro consumer gaming ga said
@Blight, you must be a Halo fanboy if you can't see the clear comparison between Tribes and how it is shown to be used in Reach, only at least in Tribe you could play with up to 64 people and that was over 10 years ago.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 10:05AM Fuzunga said
"Still doesn't change the fact that neither this nor Reach MP seem to bring up anything new that hasn't been done before..."
I hope you're not one of those people who plays COD and thought Modern Warfare 2 was one of the greatest things ever. I'll never understand those people. They buy the game because the multiplayer is the greatest thing ever, but don't seem to realize they've been playing the same damn thing for years. Year after year. At least Halo isn't an annual series. At least Halo Reach multiplayer looks substantially different than Halo 3. Reach isn't trying to revolutionize the genre, it's trying to revolutionize Halo, unlike COD where the guys at Activision say "Well, people are willing to buy this crap every year so let's just stick a new name on it!"
And for the last time, THOSE ARE NOT JETPACKS! They've been in Halo for the last two game. Elites had 'em. Brutes had 'em. They're jump packs. They don't grant you unlimited flight or anything like that. They'll probably just propel you either up or forward. The only new thing is that YOU get to use them now. Sometimes. In a limited fashion.
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I hope you're not one of those people who plays COD and thought Modern Warfare 2 was one of the greatest things ever. I'll never understand those people. They buy the game because the multiplayer is the greatest thing ever, but don't seem to realize they've been playing the same damn thing for years. Year after year. At least Halo isn't an annual series. At least Halo Reach multiplayer looks substantially different than Halo 3. Reach isn't trying to revolutionize the genre, it's trying to revolutionize Halo, unlike COD where the guys at Activision say "Well, people are willing to buy this crap every year so let's just stick a new name on it!"
And for the last time, THOSE ARE NOT JETPACKS! They've been in Halo for the last two game. Elites had 'em. Brutes had 'em. They're jump packs. They don't grant you unlimited flight or anything like that. They'll probably just propel you either up or forward. The only new thing is that YOU get to use them now. Sometimes. In a limited fashion.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:59AM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
OH MANZ TEH JET PAX IZ SOOO RIPPING OFF TRIBEZ!! TEHY HAVE GUNS TOO THEY R RIPPING OFF TEH WOLFENSTEIN 3D!! BUNJIE AR3 TEH NUBZ LULZ!!!!
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:59AM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
But seriously, I posted this yesterday:
I fail to see where the jetpack is considered central to Halo: Reach's gameplay in the video, which makes me wonder why some people here are comparing it to Tribes.
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I fail to see where the jetpack is considered central to Halo: Reach's gameplay in the video, which makes me wonder why some people here are comparing it to Tribes.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 11:29AM The angry pro consumer gaming ga said
@funzunga, I don't think MW2 is the best infact the best part of MW2 is spec op though it would have been better with 4 people instead of just 2. Also IW never claimed that MW2 MP was going revolutionary or doing something "risky", if Bungie considers copying Tribes as "risky" then they really haven't done much to deserve all this praise.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 11:43AM MarkezJM said
Yeah, I don't get all the frothing at the mouth by commenters saying Reach is Tribes now. It looks exactly like Halo 3, but with jetpacks. So is Halo 3 exactly like Tribes but without jetpacks? I don't understand how that single element makes a leap to 'ripping off Tribes' or essentially being the same game.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 11:49AM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
Angry, just how are they "copying" Tribes? In the entire 1 minute and 34 seconds of the Reach video, there are maybe 3-4 instances where the jetpack is being used. The MAJORITY of the video clearly shows multiplayer being played WITHOUT the jetpack. So please, tell me how the hell you came up with this brilliant conclusion as to why Bungie is ripping off Tribes.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 11:54AM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
Starsiege Tribes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4xzGdesz8&feature=related
Now someone, PLEASE enlighten me as to how the above video is anywhere NEAR what we saw in the Halo: Reach video.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4xzGdesz8&feature=related
Now someone, PLEASE enlighten me as to how the above video is anywhere NEAR what we saw in the Halo: Reach video.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 11:57AM Johnnynumber5 is powered by cell said
He's saying the jet pack is what makes it a rip off of tribes. I can't say I agree or disagree with either of you. The reach video felt like section 8 which batman always reminds me is a tribes rip off not a halo ripoff, using that logic I would lean towards Reach being heavily inspired by tribes . . . perhaps?
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 2:25PM The angry pro consumer gaming ga said
@ Captain: Im not saying that all off Reach Mp is a ripoff, I was complaining that Justin said this was not a "breath of fresh air". Just yesterday he said nothing about the Reach video when it clearly is nothing new other than the jetpacks which has been done by Tribes and didn't make a snide remark. In all fairness I am more interested in the SP since they seem to be heading in a direction I feel is better and should have been done since the beginning.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 2:49PM liquidsoap89 said
@ captain
Cuz the players float? That has to be it!
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Cuz the players float? That has to be it!
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 3:09PM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
Actually angry, you pretty much said it was copying Tribes twice. And, for the record the Reach video showed off a cubic shit load of BRAND NEW features, weapons, gameplay, etc. Some of which was CLEARLY and quite LITERALLY spelled out for you. IGN was so nice to give us a nice little video highlighting some of the new sexy we can look forward to...
http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid25017
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http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid25017
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:25AM (Unverified) said
The trailer was a breath of fresh air? It looked just as generic as these screenshots!
I love Shinji Mikami so hopefully he can prove me wrong on this one.
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I love Shinji Mikami so hopefully he can prove me wrong on this one.
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 10:07AM (Unverified) said
"It wouldn't be so bad if that first trailer for the game hadn't seemed like such a breath of fresh air."
What's to re-read?
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What's to re-read?
Posted: Mar 4th 2010 11:03AM Captain Planet Planeteer Power said
That's because the NAACP got on the gaming industry for portraying the color brown in a negative light.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:36AM (Unverified) said
ehh, we definately need to see more. who knows possibly a average boring mediocre shooter, possibly a sleeper hit
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:36AM Jerk Face said
It doesn't look like anything groundbreaking but, being a dude who loves shooters, I am still interested. If it plays well and it looks nice and the story is interesting, it can still be a good game - even if it doesn't reinvent the wheel. Story and setting can go a long way in a game like this to make it unique, even if the gameplay itself looks pretty standard.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 10:16AM xGeneral DEATHxDEETH82 said
Amen to that...if we all went by the "Same genre = Ripoff" formula then gamers would've stopped enjoying themselves decades ago. Gameplay-wise, I didn't consider the first Halo (or the subsequent ones) to be all that innovative, but the story kept me going through all the sequels...and no, even the story wasn't that original, but the characters were engaging.
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 10:33AM sonicspike41 said
Speaking of the original Halo, perhaps it's a bit more fair to say, "It didn't reinvent the wheel, it just made it rounder."
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Posted: Mar 4th 2010 9:39AM koehler83 said
At the very least the screens look like they could be a PS3 game. They don't glaringly look like an Xbox game in the same way Bayonetta did/does. Maybe we'll see some semblance of parity on both systems this time. That's really my biggest concern. That and having no interest in these types of games at all.
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