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.
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And massive kudos for saying twilight is balls.
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If The Conduit manages to be somehow entertain me The Grinder might be a very interesting project to look foward to.
Will be keeping and eye on this game.
Most random Jonathan Holmes EVAR!
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.
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?
Still looking forward to The Conduit, but The Grinder needs a lot more work before I can get excited about it.
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.
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.