Hydrophobia trailer floods our hearts and minds

by Griffin McElroy on Jun 15th 2010 12:00AM

Dark Energy Digital fired off a new trailer for its exceptionally moist episodic action title Hydrophobia earlier today. As always, the water which protagonist Kate is forced to traverse looks wonderful (in a deadly kind of way). We're perplexed, however, by all the fire featured in said video. We're no scientists, but shouldn't that turn the aforementioned water into, well, steam?

Tags: dark-energy-digital, e3-2010, Hydrophobia, microsoft, xbla, xbox

Reader Comments (21)

Maybe BP covered the water in oil, and that is what is burning?

@KeithAsante

Maybe we can use Kinect to towel off oil covered dolphins also caught on the cruise ship. Too soon?

Is it wrong that this gets me WET?

@Fraul Pench
HA!
WET!!
Because you know the water and its wet, hence making you wet! HA! Classic!

http://instantcrickets.com

First, everyone wanted to do water. Then, it was fire. Now, it's fire water. Hegel's dialectic process in video games right there.

@Cerpin Taxt

Totally off topic, but your avatar is stupendous.

@Cerpin Taxt

Also off topic

Mars Volta fan?

ah. this is killing me.

Why couldn't they show more games like this at the MS conference instead of so much kinect.

XBLA is such a good service and it was just a footnote.

@(Unverified) :: Because Kinect will make them more money, and it is new so they need to make as many people excited about it as they can.

This game seems to have aged graphically since the first time I saw it. I guess announcing it how ever many years ago it was announced hasn't helped.

I know, i know..

I can still be disappointed.

off the subject. how can i get verified?

does it need my voice as the passport?

Is it just me, or does that water look more like clear colored oil than water. It just does not look and behave like real water does.

Maybe the game takes place on a low gravity planet or something and water behaves differently there.

meh

I remember being excited about this game before, but now all I can think is how last gen and mediocre it looks. Even the water doesn't look great, or even realistic. Hmm..