So here we have some assets from Electronic Arts upcoming G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, based on the upcoming film of the same name. (Which is based on a beloved childhood cartoon of mine, but that's another story.)
You see that image up there? The file name was "bat_attacks_snake_eyes.jpg," and maybe it's me, but I don't see any God damned bat. Anywhere. I was excited, most definitely, when the idea of Snake-Eyes battling a bat was presented to me. Instead, he's fighting a robot, and getting zapped by electricity. While those two things normally would be pretty sweet -- Snake-Eyes, robots, and electricity all rule -- the lack of a bat is upsetting.
Our own Samit Sarkar got his eyes on G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra not too long ago, but refuses to tell me anything about it. At one point, he said it remind him of Contra, but when I threateningly told him he'd better not be f**king with me, he back-pedaled. So I don't know what the game is actually like, but I have an appointment to check it out at GDC in the next few weeks. There'd better be a damned bat in the game somewhere.
Hit the jump for an actual picture of a bat. That's how you do it, EA. Stop messing with me.
[Image source: National Geographic who apparently know a thing or two about bats. And I'm sure snakes, eyes, and robots, too.]
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4:00 PM on 03.12.2009
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But the real tragedy is that THIS is a fucking B.A.T.:
I believe the sentence, "(Which is based on a beloved childhood cartoon of mine, but that's another story.)" is an indicator of the author's familiarity with the subject matter.
Graphics look like crap so far and I'm expecting the gameplay to be only slightly better than that of the Iron Man game. It gets that because it doesn't have the crap-tastic job of creating a messed up method of moving along the y-axis.