You Say You Want A Revolution? 503
rafemonkey writes "Looks like the first hard info on a revolution game has hit the internet. The game, from Ubisoft, is called Red Steel. It's a FPS where the Revo's positional controller takes the place of the mouse. And, for those of you that were worried, the graphics look nice." PointlessWasteofTime points out that it doesn't actually look like an FPS, but more of a GunCon title, in a piece called A FanBoy Intervention. Elite Bastards has a brief history of the Revolution console. From the Waste of Time article: "Look at the Red Steel screens again. Never mind that Ubisoft has a habit of publishing concept renders and claiming they're in-game screenshots, and never mind that shots like that in magazines tend to have usually been 'touched up' a bit. Just look at the screens, then look at the inset photos of the people pointing and shooting with their Rev controllers: Guys... it's just a freaking light gun game. Tell me it's not. This isn't a badass 'Halo killer.' It's next-gen Duck Hunt."
Re:Duck Hunt... (Score:2, Funny)
Brokeback Revolution? (Score:5, Funny)
obligatory... (Score:3, Funny)
After all, a revolution is not a revolution without dancing.
Look, what you have to understand is (Score:5, Funny)
After all, everyone knows that what made Halo popular was the radical and unnatural retraining that is required when you take a control scheme that was designed and perfected for a mouse and keyboard, and just jam it unceremoniously underneath two thumb-controlled joysticks and a maze of randomly positioned multicolored buttons. Unless Nintendo can replicate that kind of hand-eye coordination dissonance, they'll never get anywhere with their Halo killing, I mean console, business. My suggestion: They should duct-tape a cinderblock to the Revolution remote. Then everyone will just eat it right up!
And in other future news.... (Score:5, Funny)
Lawsuits abound involving the new Waichowski Brothers game, "Bouncing Duracell", in which children are encouraged to jump around while playing the game. A Chandeliers Manufacturers of America spokesperson was quoted as saying, "This game has caused us to rethink our product in order to prevent more wrongful death suits from falling glass. The inverted flip sequence especially has caused more innocent children to be impaled by our product than ever before."
Can we take a deep breath from the hype for a second and realize we're talking about a remote control here? I have one word for you about flipping and jumping: PowerPad.
Re:Brokeback Revolution? (Score:3, Funny)
D:
right ... (Score:4, Funny)
Cuz duck hunt allowed you to do subtle things like tilt the gun and hold it gansta style?
check it [revolutionfanboy.com]
Re:OK, so let me get this straight... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OK, so let me get this straight... (Score:3, Funny)
Hear hear.
Also: you've given me the idea for a new chain or restaraunts. Because teenagers who can't stop texting gotta eat too.
Maybe we'll need extra moist towelettes, though. No good getting bbq sauce all over your keypad.
What's with all the hate for duck hunt? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No hidef, hard sale (Score:1, Funny)
Totally agreed. It's like audio CD-s, I mean just measly 16-bit stereo 44k?
I've high def 7.1 surround ears capable of intercepting 192kHz 32-bit sound, my noise level is minus thousands of decibels, my head acts as a subwoofer mic that reads down to -100 Hz (that's like 100 hertz lower than zero, it's very sophisticated I don't think you can even begin to understand).
I won't settle for crappy quality!
Gimme DVD Audio or I'll sit with ear caps all day long and refuse to listen!
WTF (Score:4, Funny)
Re: with aliens or zombies or fascists or whatever (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Psh.. this is a lot more than duck hunt (Score:2, Funny)
Fun? FUN!? You're going to judge a game by how FUN it is and ignore things like having more realistic hair blowing in the wind or getting those textures juuuust right? Fun? Over graphics? Pah-lease. That is SO 1980s...
Next thing you know people will start going on about originality and new game concepts instead of the latest greatest 13th sequel to whatever the currently most popular FPS is.
Re:If the controller is a success... (Score:2, Funny)
*Waves the controller wildly to the right*
Turn! TURN!
Re:Fish food, get your fish food... (Score:3, Funny)
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