First of all, apologies for the recent lack of updates. I will post a whole lot of E3 stuff very soon. I interviewed Satoru Iwata, Phil Harrison (Sony Computer Entertainment), Robbie Bach (Microsoft), Cliff Bleszinski (Epic Games), Todd Hollenshead (id Software), Peter Molyneux (Lionhead Studios), Doug Lombardi (Valve Software) and Denis Dyack (Silicon Knights) to only name a few. If I get clearance, I will post all interviews in full right here, so please stick around.
In the meantime, I would like to give you a little taster. Here are the first official Elebits screenshots, courtesy of Konami:
There you go. Also, I still owe you the Red Steel story, which I hope to be able to share with you either later today or tomorrow.
Good to read you again Andreas!
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Elebits looks like an upgraded n64-game.
ReplyDeletethe resolution is so incredibly low :(
anyway, i hope gameplay rulez...
but i'm not going to buy it in the first place. honestly, i think giving us SUCH graphics on the wii is extremely shameless.
is like making a gamecube-game with n64-graphics. i just wouldnt buy it, its like fraud.
Hey Fal, thank god you're still alive. I honestly thought you choked on one of those airport peanuts.
ReplyDeleteSo... is there a reason why you're showing us these not so great looking screenshots? They don't really make me happy...
whats the premise of the game? Is it like a lemmings meets your kitchen?
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Falafel,
ReplyDeleteI would love to read your Denis Dyak and Peter Molyneux interviews. Please try hard to get them online.
Thanks and keep up the great work.
It's official, Yoshihiro Mori (Nintendo-Japan Senior Managing Director) said "25.000 yens for the Wii"
ReplyDeleteSo hopefully 200 euros as a launch price!!!!!
11 days since your last post? You must have been really really busy. Good to have you back.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back Falaffel!
ReplyDeleteThis screenshots look very ugly. It really looks a bit like N64.
Bad Textures, low Resolution and a low Polycount
Denis Dyack and Doug Lombardi! Whoo, cool! Damn! I really wanna know, what
ReplyDeleteShinji Mikami and Yu Suzuki think about the Wii!!!!!!
also Falafelkid... I answered your mail @ avant-garbe!
zaro,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the video link, there seem to be very few videos of the game, though many editors said they really enjoyed it.
Looking at all of the physics interactions towards the end of the video reinforces my opinion that Wii has a physics processor built into Hollywood.
I'd also like to know if this is a "sandbox"-style game, ala GTA and the True Crime games. That'd be pretty cool.
hijack,
ReplyDeleteIf Elebits follows a "sandbox" style, like the GTA and True Crime games, then its pretty usual for the game to look relatively bad. The payoff is that the world is so much larger and the number of interactions with that world increase.
So, yeah, the graphics running off of early GameCube-based devkits are pretty bland. However, the physics look fun, and the world looks pretty large.
"...and the world looks pretty large."
ReplyDeletelol, all you can see is a tiny kitchen
pn18,
ReplyDeleteWatch the video posted by zaro:
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The player moves into a den an out a door into the backyard. Admittedly, its still pretty small, but the full game will probably have large neighborhoods in which a player can travel.
It's been officially announced
ReplyDeleteWii will cost under $250 in the US
Which leaves the price to be $199 or $249 tops, that sounds pretty good to me
I'm gettin one at launch =)
So, what about that Star Wars game that you had the scoop on that doesn't actually exist and has been publicly and officially denied by the Lucas people?
ReplyDeleteHi Luke.
ReplyDeleteSo, what about that Star Wars game that you had the scoop on that doesn't actually exist and has been publicly and officially denied by the Lucas people?
You are wrong. Noone has ever denied the game. At E3, I have had a frank (and off-the-record) discussion with a very senior executive at LucasArts and he told me that they will show the game at E3 2007. Don´t forget: my original informer is a very senior figure in the industry. It´s a shame the title wasn´t shown this year. But my information is 100% accurate. Remember where you heard it first, people.
Elebits looks awesome. I just saw the demo at Cubetoons.com, and I've fallen in love with the game. I've read four impressions of it, two of which adored the game and the other two loathed it with a passion. I'm definitely picking this up at launch.
ReplyDeleteThe screenshots are not representative for the game. There is also a movie that shows a demo of the game. The real game looks a lot better than on those screenshots. The physics used in the game is also an added bonus.
ReplyDeleteWell, about that Star Wars discussion... Lucasarts would be incredibly wrong if they didn't make such a game for this perfectly suited hardware.
ReplyDeleteEven the controller speaker seems to be there for the sake of a Star Wars game...
I totally believe you, Andreas, there's nothing non-sensical in your information.
Jon
god damn that game is ugly! And by the way forget about this whole "E3 demos ran on gamecube, the real thingg will be better"... Aint gonna happen
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