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E3 09: The Grinder is the Wii's Left 4 Dead photo

After I played Gladiator A.D., I checked out High Voltage’s upcoming Wii-exclusive FPS (built on the same stuff The Conduit is packing) The Grinder. Like we said earlier, it’s a game heavily influenced by Left 4 Dead in the sense that you’re fighting against hordes of creepy crawlies (zombies, vampires, werewolves, oh my!) controlled by High Voltage’s version of an AI director.

But there’s a not-so-subtle twist. Unlike Left 4 Dead, your protagonist isn’t a well-equipped victim. He’s a professional monster hunter and the monsters know it. (They’ll actually flee from you if they feel threatened; very cool stuff in action)

My time with the game was woefully short (and so was the demo), so I can’t comment on much in way of the game’s controls, however, it felt very much like The Conduit -- very smooth, practically 1:1 movement.

One of the things that struck me, again, was the game’s style. It’s got a very southwester almost cowboy kind of feel. The level I played was full of sand, rusted cars, red canyons, and dilapidated shacks -- a very western but modern feel at the same time. It was refreshing to see a game without the so much sci-fi lights and sounds.

The demo ended with me killing over 150 enemies on-screen in one massive bumrush. Needless to say, I’m excited.





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pedrovay2003's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:15
pedrovay2003
Wow, I'm more excited than ever for this now.
Tubatic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:17
Tubatic
Nifty. Was this using the motion plus?
TheCleaningGuy's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:18
TheCleaningGuy
Cowboy Left 4 Dead on the Wii.
Sign me the fuck up.
Dan CiTi's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:19
Dan CiTi
Looks impressive, I hope sales for their games are good enought to keep these guys going. It is nice to see more third parties do something serious on the Wii.
Scroll's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:23
Scroll
Woh no, lets see them complete a good game first before they attempt to be the Valve of Wii games.
Scroll's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:24
Scroll
now*
anchorman84's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:31
anchorman84
how was the frame rate holding up with the 150 monsters on screen? The alleged massive number of enemies onscreen they promised has really piqued my curiosity.
ProperlyParanoid's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:31
ProperlyParanoid
Nice! I'm excited.
PEICanada7's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:32
PEICanada7
Looks totally awesome! I seen the entire walk-through of the E3 demo on IGN, and it looks great. Its not coming out till late 2010, so it has plenty of time to get even batter from now till then.
pascuz46's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:32
pascuz46
Sony should get there own L4D game. They should try and get the Killing Floor devs to put that game on PS3.
GoldenGamerXero's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 14:43
GoldenGamerXero
Usually I hate the idea of "borrowing" ideas from current video games (If it's from a old game I don't care but not this generation) but High Voltage have forced me to make an exception with their confession that they are taking ideas from other game series and trying to improve upon them on a different console. That deserves some praise for not creating "Peft 4 Dead" and trying to pass it off as 100% new content.
KaliKot's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:05
KaliKot
Is there more vampires on screen at the same time than zombies in Dead Rising wii?
Maurice Tan's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:20
Maurice Tan
This sounds fun! Wish the Wii had online :)
Rockvillian's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:23
Rockvillian
Now THIS I'll pay "full game price" for.

hint hint Valve.
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:26
Holyetheline
This is pretty awesome. I can't wait to play it some day.
ejamer's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:27
ejamer
I don't know how to feel about this. Some of the games that HVS is pimping look hot... but their track record so far doesn't impress me at all.

Here's hoping these titles end up playing as good as the concepts sound.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:43
Kyousuke Nanbu
Looks very nice.
PEICanada7's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:47
PEICanada7
"I don't know how to feel about this. Some of the games that HVS is pimping look hot... but their track record so far doesn't impress me at all."

Did Cliffy B doing Jazz Jack Rabbit in the past effect people's enjoyment of Gears of War? You can't judge people's worth today, by what they had to work on in the past. They worked on crappy license games to pay the bills, its as simple as that. Its that money that they got from those license game that's funding these new IP's today, so be glad they did what they did in the past for that reason alone.
gatorsax2010's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:48
gatorsax2010
I'm much more excited about this than I am The Conduit. Hope it's as good as it sounds!
Dimly's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:50
Dimly
I don't see a frying pan.
Excel-2011's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 15:55
Excel-2011
But does it have four-player griefing potential up the hole?
Cowboy TTop's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 16:17
Cowboy TTop
High Voltage are rising stars, and their sticking out Wii development is commendable. What hardcore gamers have to do is buy their product, only then will you get more. Selling you Wii does those that do try (HV etc) no favours.

Don't forget, we still have Ghostbusters to come yet from HV and both version of that look great.
manasteel88's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 16:18
manasteel88
the enemies running in fear thing sounds like what the grunts did in the original halo.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 16:20
Chronic Logic
I don't really care, but how smart are the enemy AI? From what you said, the enemy actually flee and avoid getting killed. Anything else? I'm not talking about dynamic enemy placement like the "AI director" in L4D did, I mean actual enemy AI.
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 16:53
Brian Szabelski
So it takes the best from a bunch of games and mixes it all together? I'm sold.
falsoman's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 17:25
falsoman
@ Professor Pew: This game has online 4 player coop with voice chat the whole game.
DaedHead8's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 18:25
DaedHead8
I'm with gatorsax, this looks to be much more interesting than The Conduit.
dspdsp's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/03/2009 19:15
dspdsp
on a bad note, the graphics are TERRIBLE
Kyle MacGregor's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/04/2009 02:56
Kyle MacGregor
I recall seeing a Vampire film with Bon Jovi a while back where it was set in Mexico and the Southwest US. This reminds me vaguely of that.

I haven't had a chance to play Left 4 Dead as of yet (sadly), but if High Voltage is going to bring something similar and tailor made for my console I'd be glad to wait for this game. It's still got a year of development under its belt and it already looks great.
ronnande's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/04/2009 06:50
ronnande
@dspdsp. Try harder...
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