Eitherway this game looks amazing and I look forward to fragging someone online in the near future. (Please no friend codes.)

PS. I think that Wii will gain respect as a hardcore console. Believe it!

Looser will continue to say this is the reason why they can not compete while winners will tell you this is the reason why we are fixing or changing the way we make things

at what point would another 3rd party AAA bomb stop becoming an “excuse” (by which you seem to infer developers making an irrational or unsupported choice not to develop hardcore games) and start becoming an accurate reflection of the wii-audience’s preference for casual games?

As an artist, designer I’m liking what they have here. It’s not too out there but it works for me as a FPS because it shows progress on the Wii.

You have a graphics engine which can do great normal maps on the in game characters right now.

Then you have a control system that should rival Metroid prime and a simple online multiplayer. That is all I need good controls and opponents.

Crysis and UT3 where boring because they only pushed graphics and fail to understand why FPS fan love to play the games they play. Great graphics are cool but good level design and control is all we really needed.

If this game does end up a flopping things will operate just like other games that should have been flops. People will play it and love it. You know Res evil 4 Wii-make was suppose to be a flop too! It will develop a following if the controls are good and graphics will be updated in the next version watch!

Now, with that out of the way, onto my concerns.

We’ve heard a lot about this game, and we’ve seen some of it, and it does look rather pretty. My problem is that we have seen very little of the actual game play. As anyone here can (and probably will) tell you, graphics don’t make a game. While I have my hopes up for this game, I would really like to see some extended (i.e. longer that 5 second clips) gameplay footage before I formally state any opinions. Still, here’s wishing High Voltage and Sega the best of luck. (Mainly because I want to see a good FPS on the Wii and partly because if this bombs, publishers can use this as an excuse not to make the so-called “core” games for the Wii.)

And to those saying that the wii has abandoned the hardcore and this game will prove it, well I think Mad World will likely have the honor of proving if the audience craves more hardcore. So we just need to wait till the end of the month.

Understandable, in many ways but what this represents is something else. Artistically this game demonstrates nothing positively mind blowing to write home about. Yeah it has a nice varied set of alien thingy’s crawling around some more or less interesting locales. We’ve seen the alien tech thing before. Certainly it’s difficult to argue that this game has so far developed an artistic atmosphere more compelling and splendid than RE4. But then we are comparing the might of Capcom to the out-of-nowhere’ness of High Voltage so it’s somewhat to be expected.

No, what makes this game graphically superior to RE4 (and btw, I hold that Art is King) is that this game is throwing around shading effects typical of PC titles out the Wazoo, and RE4 simply doesn’t. It’s no good without corresponding talent in the art department (though I wouldn’t suggest this game is devoid in that area either – it certainly looks nicely done, and colourful rather than the drabness our HD cousins have come to expect), but the graphical impressiveness of this game is in the technology, and the potential it holds. It demonstrates in real terms that 3rd parties can – and should- be using normal maps, detail maps, depth of field, gloss mapping, lighting bloom etc. on the Wii to enhance their art, just as they do on the less popular systems.

Art style wise the game reminds me a lot of Perfect Dark for the N64 (the Xbox 360 had a drastically different art style).

I’ll probably end up renting this game, just to say I played it. 16 player multiplayer without paying $50 a year for an online service is a huge plus for this game.