Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[The War of the Worlds review: House of 1,000 corpses]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/the-war-of-the-worlds-review/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/the-war-of-the-worlds-review/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/10/28/the-war-of-the-worlds-review/#comments If developer Other Ocean understood one thing about adapting H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds to video game form, it was the feeling of humanity's powerlessness that the original book created. Set in '50s London as it's being attacked by Martians, War of the Worlds: The Game sees protagonist Arthur Clark making his way past the invading army to find his family -- though that's a lot easier said than done. We are talking about Martians here.

Unfortunately, that adherence to the book's sense of near-constant defeat is the most frustrating thing about The War of the Worlds: Arthur is such a vulnerable little meat bag that just about everything kills him.

Gallery: War of the Worlds (XBLA)

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And if you're wondering why Other Ocean sounds familiar to you, then you may have enjoyed some of the studio's most recent works: Dark Void Zero, Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection or the PSN port of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>microsoftother-oceanq4q4-2011release-datewar-of-the-worldsxblaxboxThu, 13 Oct 2011 23:45:00 EST<![CDATA[War of the Worlds screens class up the joint]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/20/war-of-the-worlds-screens-class-up-the-joint/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/20/war-of-the-worlds-screens-class-up-the-joint/http://www.joystiq.com/2011/06/20/war-of-the-worlds-screens-class-up-the-joint/#comments We were pretty eager to take a look at War of the Worlds, this fall's XBLA and PSN release from Paramount based on H.G. Wells' classic novel. For starters, we love Other Ocean's DSiWare action platformer Dark Void Zero, but there's also our affection for rotoscoping and Patrick Stewart narration to consider.

What we ended up seeing at E3 was frankly a little underwhelming. The presentation, moody and bleak, was top-flight but it seemed shallow from a gameplay perspective. The thrust of the 2D game is almost exclusively evasion, with the hero -- a British survivor of the Martian attack -- running from spotlights and lasers, ducking into ravines and tunnels to avoid detection. We saw this basic beat repeated some four or five times in a 20-minute demo, which left the game feeling droningly one-note. Other Ocean hinted that the hero we saw would eventually find a way to "turn the tables" on the Martians, so we're hopeful that'll help flesh things out a bit.

What there's no debate about is the sartorial acumen of the game's protagonist. A turtleneck and a blazer? As if Duke Nukem needed yet another reason to be embarrassed, now the poor guy has to be self-conscious about his tank top.

Gallery: War of the Worlds (6/13/11)

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War of the Worlds will feature rotoscoped graphics and gameplay in the vein of "classic cinematic platformers such as Flashback, Out of This World and Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee." The game is expected to launch this summer and will be shown at E3 next week.

The name Other Ocean may not be instantly familiar to some readers, though there's a good chance you've played one of their games. Over the last few years, the studio has created the Bulletstorm promotional parody title Duty Calls, Dark Void Zero and the XBLA version of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. Other Ocean is also developing the Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection for Warner Bros.

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