Jesus Christ, The Grinder looks awesome.

I'm not a big fan of the FPS genre, but when a game brings this much to the table, it doesn't matter what genre it's in. The Grinder combines the knowingly over-the-top horror/comedy of House of the Dead: Overkill with kick-ass controls of The Conduit and the co-op survival of Left 4 Dead, with a little Monster Squad thrown in for good measure. It will be very hard for High Voltage to screw up a game with this much going for it. My only complaint about the game at the moment is that the backgrounds look a little wonky, but I'm not worried, as the game's E3 09 build was only 6 1/2 weeks into development. Crazy, right? I still can't believe how well the game looked and played considering it had only been around for two months.

Hit the jump for the full video interview, where David Pellas from High Voltage talks about the game's influences, the Left 4 Dead comparisons, and the game's chances of being brought to the PS3/360. 

Legacy Comments (will be imported soon)

covah

that's TWO MONTHS of work? Jesus christ High Voltage goes to work.

PappaDukes

My attention, you has it!

Wintersocks

daaaaammmmnnn.

And massive kudos for saying twilight is balls.

Drack48

looks better than conduit or the gladiator thing..

Kraid

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Most intriguing

If The Conduit manages to be somehow entertain me The Grinder might be a very interesting project to look foward to.

CocoJambo

They're incredibly hard working and caring of the community.

PappaDukes

I wish more game developers had High Voltages attitude. *cough*

valhum

I am very happy to see a developer really getting into the Wii and trying to make cool games.
Will be keeping and eye on this game.

Kyle MacGregor

I really love High Voltage. I'm still super stoked for the Conduit but this just does it for me way more. At only 2 months in I can't wait to see what this is going to look like next year when it ships out.

Face

Looks like it has a little more punch than the Conduit. Looking forward to hearing more about this now.

BS3 Owner

"I am going to go take a piss while you go shoot some vampires." - Mustache Man

Most random Jonathan Holmes EVAR!

Phantom Spaceman

meh

L0cky

i like the kick ass technical stuff high voltage is doing for the wii , although i dont like fps games i wish they would do some other genres after the conduit.

Cowboy TTop

Shame I don't have a Wii, cause this looks great. Nice to see High Voltage pushing out good Wii product, and I wish them much sales.

Its not hard to do this stuff on Wii, its just many that devs and pubs can't be bothered, and would rather chase the casual crowd.

Paviel

DISCLAIMER: I am a Wii owner and a Nintendo fan, and I do not have a PS3 or a 360.

That being established, I wish to ask those of you who DO have a PS3 and/or a 360: If High Voltage remade the Grinder or the Conduit for the PS3 or 360 (as David Pellas implied might happen), would you buy them?

Darren Nakamura

So, I got the L4D comparisons before, but after watching that video, not so much.

Still looking forward to The Conduit, but The Grinder needs a lot more work before I can get excited about it.

Randios187

"Why are you guys the only ones doing this on the Wii" - Freaking finally someone does this on the Wii... I bought a Wii when it first came out because I saw the possibility of some sweet games when it came to the motion controls, but nothing really awesome came out for it, 90% of the games are for 2nd graders...

Joseph Leray

What?! High Voltage only makes Wii games, but doesn't develop for the PS3? Let's fucking lynch them.

Hiltz

If The Conduit turns out to be a good, successful game, then it will put High Voltage on the map as a developer to keep an eye on.

I personally didn't care for Valve
s Left 4 Dead, but perhaps The Grinder will capture my attention. So far, it's off to a good start.

Jonathan Holmes

@ BS3 owner- Yeah, that was taken out of context pretty hard.

In the demo, you hold in a house for a fer minutes, fending off vampires. When you go upstairs, their is a fat mustached man who casually exits the bathroom and says something to you. I'm not sure what he says because we had the sound on the game off as to not interfere with the interview, but it sounded something like "I am going to go take a piss while you go shoot some vampires", then goes back into the bathroom.

It was a pretty awesome moment and I was sad that my god damn camera operating friend didn't get it on film, so I tried to reenact it for you.

So there you go.