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For those of you fans who were around when David and I were doing weekly Podcasts you might remember me raving about a 360 title named Too Human. The game is Silicon Knights’(creators of Gamecube Lovecraftian title Eternal Darkness newest title. The game follows the Cyber-god Baldur, who is indeed the Norse god Baldr(god of peace amongst other things), who fights along side his brothers and father to stop a horde of giant Robots who aim to kill all of the humans. The game is very much tied to Norse Mythology, both in story, characters, and art style, but the big difference is the cyber-punk flair of sorts.
But I digress, the reason why I’m making this article is because since that Podcast the development’s fallen to the shadows, or as Denis Dyack puts it, the Ice Bucket. At last year’s E3 Silicon Knights rushed to get a playable version of the game out to spur hype, and that’s exactly what it was, rushed. The game suffered from frame rate issues, an underdeveloped Camera system, and intentionally brain dead enemy AI. The game slipped from the spotlight that it got from a then recent issue of EGM. I bring you to 2007, where the game’s starting to show promise again.
Videos pop up of the refined game, interviews start again, and the Silicon Knights Blog comes back to life. Videos of a now refined camera control system appear, along with fast and fluid videos of Too Human’s Baldur fighting the robotic menace. The beautiful scenery that was shown in the February EGM issue once again shows itself. There’s no release date for the game as of right now, but the game shows much promise so far. I congratulate Silicon Knights and Mr. Dyack on hanging in there to bring us gamers another beautiful story driven title. I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
A little more Too Human for those interested
Today Capcom held their annual Gamer day in San Francisco. As usual they took the time to announce several titles for the upcoming year, along with other big announcements. Amongst the announcements was Lost Planet going to the PC, a Harvey Birdman game for the PSP, and the official announcement of the third Gyakuten Saiban game(AKA Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney) being released in america under the title Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney- Trials and Tribulation.
Much more was announced, but I gotta say these Attorney games are what really caught my attention. I loved the original Phoenix Wright, along with the sequel, and Harvey Birdman’s just beyond awesome. I just hope that Harvey Birdman ends up being a more adult Phoenix Wright instead of some boring Platformer or something of that nature.
A few more big announcements from Gamer Day 2007.
We now have two developer interviews about the upcoming massively multiplayer online game Age of Conan. Check the two videos out in The Pipeline under Developer Interviews.
Age of Conan will release on the 30th of October, 2007. The game is consistently listed as one of the most anticipated PC games of 2007, and won ‘Best MMO of E3’ awards from IGN, GameSpot, GameSpy and Yahoo. ‘Age of Conan’ is a key title in Microsoft’s Games for Windows line-up, as well as being a showcase DirectX 10 title for nVidia.
Okay, this may just be a rumor for right now, but according to the gaming rumor site Rumor Reporter we’ll be seeing a big Sega announcement later today concerning certain Sega related titles for the Wii. The article says that DK: Bongo Blast won’t be the only Wii game you’ll be shaking to. Now think about it, Sega, motion controlled titles, Bongo Blast(a partial rhythm based game), SHAKING. This points to one classic Sega title, SAMBA DE AMIGO!
It’s times like this that I remember why I bought a Wii. First Sega brings back NiGHTS Into Dreams, then rumors say that they’ll be bringing back one of the best peripheral based rhythm games. If they keep this up Sega will no longer have to release crappy Sonic titles.
Please let this be true and give me a reason to keep my Wii.
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