Do any of you remember the absurdly awesome third-person shooter, Total Overdose? If not, you'll have to take my word for it; all of the YouTube videos of the game feature music that will make your ears bleed.
Anyway, Total Overdose wasn't exactly a "good" game per se, but it did provide an insane amount of fun. After watching the embedded game mechanics documentary for 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, I'm starting to think it will be not only fun, but it will actually be a solid game too.
I tried resisting the urge to want Blood on the Sand when it was first announced, but there's simply no way I can any more. My love for over-the-top games is too powerful.
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It looks so over the top ridiculous it just has to be good right? If it was any other random video game character as the lead it wouldn't have the same effect. It would be another random mercenaries rip off.
You know, at first this game seemed like it could be enjoyable, if only for the sheer absurdity of the story. However, these mechanics actually look reasonably deep and fun.
That actually looked really enjoyable. It reminded me a lot of The Club, and hey, there's a cover system. Everyone loves a cover system. Will check out.
The question now is how it handles, iy sure does look fun but I really hope it plays right. If they nail the gameplay on this one, I'll proably have to run out and buy it even though I HATE 50 cent and the whole g unit thing.
Rucksack: Dude, if Wu-Tang replaced 50 Cent, this game would be an insta-buy. Solid Game + Ghostface/ODB co-op mode = SO FUCKING AWESOME.
Still, this game actually looks...good. All ya'll niggas complaining about not being about to run and shoot in your third person shooters, here ya go. When this game hits budget price, I'll be picking it up.
Also, yes it does remind of the Club(very underrated arcadey game there).
I think the only reason Destructoi is even giving this the time of day is it's a Euro developer... where is the usual anti-American sentiment or blind fondness for all things Japanese?
The game looks stiff, the combat doesn't seem fluid, the combat simplistic and not cohesive. In fact, core elements are all the same things that this very site complained about in Army of Two only visibly worse in terms of implementation... and yet it gets praise? Weird.
I'm not really sure what is so impressive about it. So it's a third person shooter with an over the shoulder camera and a cover system, where have I seen this before...Oh yes, in nearly every 3rd person shooter of the last 3 friggin years. Especialy the over the shoulder view is starting to annoy me. It was fun when the first few games did it, but now it's starting to get annoying now that every game has it. It's almost an unwritten law to have every modern 3rd person shooter have an over the shoulder camera.
So now we have a completely generic third person shooter with a generic over the shoulder camera, a generic cover system featuring an overhyped and overrated bunch of arti...no i can't finish that last wore with a straigth face, I mean rappers.
Thanks, But I think i'll stick to Michael Jackson's Moonwalker instead.
The last 2 fools just don't get it. The story is absolutly absurd, thats why it gets press here. If it was a different story line with random army guy types it wouldn't get nearly as much press, IMO. Also I don't think anyone is "praising" the game yet, just that the initial impressions of it seem favorable. Will it turn out that way? Who the hell knows. No one will know for sure until they get their hands on the damn thing. So as you said Michael Jackson's Moonraper, I mean Moonwalker is waiting for you.
It gets attention because its a game based on 50 Cent... that may actually be good. WHAT THE FUCK?
At this point, the fact that its a bunch of rappers running around shooting everyone makes it even more awesomely stupid. Looks like a fun game regardless of who the characters are.
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I know it'd only be a change in the character skins, but it'd just seem that much more awesomely wacky to me. Also, the music would be much better.
Maybe I'll give it a rent.
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Still, this game actually looks...good. All ya'll niggas complaining about not being about to run and shoot in your third person shooters, here ya go. When this game hits budget price, I'll be picking it up.
Also, yes it does remind of the Club(very underrated arcadey game there).
The game looks stiff, the combat doesn't seem fluid, the combat simplistic and not cohesive. In fact, core elements are all the same things that this very site complained about in Army of Two only visibly worse in terms of implementation... and yet it gets praise? Weird.
So now we have a completely generic third person shooter with a generic over the shoulder camera, a generic cover system featuring an overhyped and overrated bunch of arti...no i can't finish that last wore with a straigth face, I mean rappers.
Thanks, But I think i'll stick to Michael Jackson's Moonwalker instead.
At this point, the fact that its a bunch of rappers running around shooting everyone makes it even more awesomely stupid. Looks like a fun game regardless of who the characters are.
This'll be worth a rent, at least, from the looks of things.
but what am I saying, obviously I'm the one who "just don't get it".