New Vanquish trailer shoots, explodes, flips and then explodes again

by Griffin McElroy on Jun 5th 2010 9:30PM

Based on what we know of the studio's previous offerings, we imagine that somewhere at Platinum Games HQ, there's a keyboard with just five buttons, labeled "Explosion," "Laser," "Ninja Flip," "Giant Robot" and "Overly Dramatic Dialogue." In the case of the most recent trailer for Vanquish, we're pretty sure some Platinum designer, made weary from a long day of toil, fell asleep on said keyboard, filling the trailer with dangerous amounts of these five crucial elements.

You can check out the first look at Vanquish's preposterously fast-paced gunplay just past the jump, though your poor little eyes might have a hard time keeping track of everything. We suggest not questioning where all these bullets are coming from -- just turn your brain off for 101 seconds, and enjoy.

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Tags: microsoft, platinum-games, playstation, ps3, Sega, Vanquish, xbox, Xbox-360

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YES FIRST HAHA ANYONE BENEATH ME IS BENEATH ME

It looks like you replied to someone but nobody is above you:O

"ANYONE WHO IS BENEATH ME IS BENEATH ME!"

Yeah, and people die when they are killed. Thanks, Captain Obvious.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CaptainObvious

needs moar butt chin. other than that, looks intense. can't wait.

Pretty sure this trailer made Vanquish look much more badass than your comment ever will be.

Whoa!

That actually looks pretty cool. Reminds me a bit of Dark Void though - the kind of game that is SUPER fun for the first hour or so, but after that gets kind of boring.

I'll definitely keep an eye on this one.

yeah it and with the developers past amazing games this one should be a must buy

@tekboy
Yeah....

Uh, I have no idea what you just said.

i mean that platinum games has a history of good games and that this one should be a must buy

Yessss! I knew Mikami could do it. That dude literally can’t make a bad game. This game is going to be awesome and probably a little campy and a little cheesy, but the fast pacing and the over the top craziness that is depicted in the trailer has me jonesing. Did you guys see that cannon spike at around 30 seconds in? Damn. Just when I was starting to get rid of my Street Fighter addiction. Oh well, time to pwn some fools with Cammy online. :)

looks as insane/epic as i'd expect a platinum games game to be

Looks like Japanese games are making a bit of a comeback. I'm stoked, hope you don't have to beat it on "lame" before you can play through it with any real challenge.

More like "westernized" than "comeback" because of all the shooting there is.

To be fair, Platinum is ex-clover guys. Who were ex-capcom.
Basically this whole team is ex-capcom, and Capcom has always been sort of their own 'thing'.

@Ballistic H Why on earth did i get downvoted for that one?
And call it westernized all you want but what I see is bullet-hell in high speed third person action game form.. sounds pretty frikken Japanese to me.

Looks ok.. but the dialogue is pretty bad.

"We have approximately 8 hours to stop that from happening. We will........ stop that from happening."

That line was fine. He had good delivery.

"In an unprecedented attack on America"
*cue fat guy with a baseball cap falling down. LMFAO :P

Okay so I wasn't the only one that was like "Wtf are you trying to stop?! What is "THAT"?"

I think "Stop that from happening" was only recorded once and then played back a second time.

Well, the "we will be victorious" bit was bad. The president's not gonna say "victorious", normally people don't say that either (unless they say "emerge victorious", or "come out victorious", anything to precede it that's not "will be").

I'm laughing so hard that dialogue semantics are being discussed in a FPS post...

Excuse me, TPS.

I say "we will be victorious" all the time. Making dinner, scratching my balls, brushing my teeth, wherever. Let the president be victorious!

My post BTW was a reply to Griffin's mention of "Overly Dramatic Dialogue". I had to agree.

VS13 was obviously the mo-cap model for the fat man with the baseball cap... an everyday American...

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
-Modern Warfare 2

lol that dosent make sense

My biggest problem with that part of dialogue was that Steve Blum was voicing it. Blum's voice does not fit a hulking, old soldier. And plus I just hate Blum's voice and how common it is in video games.

Steve Blum... please take a vacation for a few years! You've done your part. Now take a break!

If you hope to be taken seriously, never EVER end your game's trailer with the line "this is gonna be fun."

@GuardianLegend
It's impossible to have too much Steven Blum. Especially not after "You scared the dick off me!"

If the gameplay technique of Vanquish is even more developed than Bayonetta, this game will kick asses. I just hope to not see a cinematic every 2 minutes like in Bayonetta.

Well, I'm already sold.

So glad they decided to keep it single-player only. Should be incredible!

Yeah, a "sweet jesus" trailer (whatever that means). Looks fast paced, has good set pieces (as much as I hate to use those words when talking about a video game).

I didn't feel too great about the game at first, but now I'm so sold.

Didn't know they decided to keep it single player. I guess that's the good thing about Japanese making video games (because I generally don't play any, since I don't like most JRPGs, and I don't care for anthropomorphic robots, just my quirk), they actually have more integrity, and they care. Companies nowadays are always "oh we need to add multiplayer to that. Multiplayer!" That's especially rare to have a FPS without multi. Bold.

The Japanese are beating us at our own game! Quick, someone make a JRPG only more awesome!

They did, it's called "Mass Effect 2".

You can even make a relationship in it!

Nah, Mass Effect 2 is too much of a TPS... Dragon Age Origins is a better example.

No no no. Those are both way too Western in design. Not that I can think of a JRPG-style game not made in Japan at the moment.

Secret of Evermore? That was one. Also - weird.

Trying to beat Japan in gaming will always end badly. I say we all just bow down to our overlords once and for all.

A semi-linear narrative driven entirely by pre-made characters with total emphasis on their background and development and the overall story of the world they're in. While you make it through this world with your party of chosen pre-defined characters (you can pick which ones you leave behind in the flying ship and which ones go with you) you can also start building inter-personal character relationships.

Am I talking about Final Fantasy 7 or am I talking about Mass Effect 2?

Just modernize the combat from turn based to real time third person and viola. The original style of WRPG would be more something like NWN2: Storm of Zehir or the Fallouts.

Well, the line doesn't really make sense without whatever preceded it.

Stop WHAT from happening?

"Bleeding heart alien hippies are delivering food and medicine to starving third world orphans; we've got approximately 8 hours to stop that from happening. We WILL stop that from happening!"

Well, I'm not on board for that one...

"Gwen Stefani is releasing a new studio album; we've got approximately 8 hours to stop that from happening. We WILL stop that from happening!"

Okay, that I'm on board for.

"Howie Mandel is receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award; we've got approx. 8 hours to stop that from happening. We WILL stop that from happening!"

Oh, let him have his moment.

"ShooShooShooMF is going to keep going with this gag until he kills it; we've got approximately 8 hours to stop that from happening. We WILL stop that from happening!"

Um, okay I'll stop. Sorry. :(

I forgive you. :P

Turns out "on board" is one word, and then when I first watched the video I was like "Eh, the graphics aren't that good..." and then I realized I was watching it in SD.

Something's wrong with my brain. It aint' functioning properly.

If a third Gwen Stefani album releases the world'll blow up like it's the frakking Death Star.

Thanks Grey Ryuk, but it's not you I'm worried about, it's the army of futuristic super soldiers hell bent on destroying me within the next 8 hours...

Just hope that they learn from Bayonetta's porting disaster, and don't make a bad port of the 360 version.

If I recall, the PS3 is the lead platform for this one, so...

We'll see how that turns out.

Here we go.

http://www.playstationuniversity.com/vanquish-devs-explain-why-ps3-is-lead-platform-3207/

I know I'm probably alone in this opinion, but I don't mind that the Bayonetta port wasn't quite as good as the 360 version. I only have a PS3, but I enjoyed the game immensely nonetheless, and I'm just happy to have had a chance to play it. I'm glad that Platinum put all their effort into making a very good game without worrying about silly things like console parity. They're different systems after all, even a game they share is allowed to be at least a little different on each one.

Didn't the developers for Ghostbusters say the same thing about the PS3 port? http://talkplaystation.com/ps3-is-lead-platform-for-ghostbusters/
We all know how that turned out:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/17/ghostbusters-on-ps3-lags-behind-360-version-developer-explains/
I think they should just stop dicking us around and just release it for one sytem like they should've for Bayonetta. If you don't know how to properly port your games to other systems, then don't give your customers such bullshit. That's something Activision would do.

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