E3 '08 - Third Party News

[Nester the Lark]

I guess we should have a thread for third party news announcements, just to keep everything in one place.

Here's a new trailer for MadWorld. There's some Mortal Kombat-style violence and sadism here. The narrator sounds like Greg Proops of Whose Line is it Anyway fame.

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IGN confirms downloadable content for Samba de Amigo.

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Kotaku went hands-on with Castlevania Judgment. Impressions were positive, but they said the game was less like Tekken or Soul Calibur, and more like Dragon Ball Z or Naruto. (!?) On top of that, a brief interview with IGA reveals that, for some reason, he doesn't consider it a fighting game.

In other news, GameTrailers has a developer walkthrough of The Conduit that looks pretty good. The narrator mentions that the Wii is pulling off real-time special effects that are usually seen on the PS3 and 360.

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Here is gameplay footage of the Wii version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, both dual mode and single-player mode. Looks pretty cool. Look at all those characters in dual mode.

[Nester the Lark]

Here is part 2 of the developer's walkthrough for The Conduit. It's stil looking amazing.

GoNintendo has some impressions to go with it.

They also have impressions on Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia and Mega Man 9

On Castlevania:

Castlevania: Order of Eccelsia may look like the last two Castlevanias to hit the DS, but this one is definitely the most fresh. I liked Portrait of Ruin a lot, but the game didn’t really do much to further the gameplay from Dawn of Sorrow. Order of Ecclesia does a lot, and you notice it early on in the game. While I’m a Castlevania fan, I came away much more impressed than I expected to be.

On Mega Man 9:

I am was very pleased to see that the game is absolutely brutal. I don’t think that Mega Man 2 is all that challenging, but Mega Man 1 kicks my ass all the time. While Capcom may be trying to reach Mega Man 2 levels of greatness, they are definitely bringing us Mega Man 1 style difficulty. There were only two levels to check out in the demo, and in the time I had to play, I couldn’t manage to make it through either of them. Punishing is the perfect word to use. This is a big throwback to classic gaming in a great way. Until I got my hands on Mega Man 9, I had almost forgotten what old-school, NES-style abuse was like. This is the kind of stuff that will have you slamming down your Wiimote in frustration, and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

[Da Robot]

Just read about this, The Conduit will have 16 players online and WiiSpeak for voice chat.

[Da Robot]

Jul 15, 2008 13:36:35 GMT -5 Nester the Lark said:

I guess we should have a thread for third party news announcements, just to keep everything in one place.

Here's a new trailer for MadWorld. There's some Mortal Kombat-style violence and sadism here. The narrator sounds like Greg Proops of Whose Line is it Anyway fame.

It has just been confirmed, Greg Proops was doing the one of the narrators in the E3 trailer.

I hope the other narrator is John Dimaggo (spelling?) becuase that voice sure sounds like Bender from Futurama.

[TV Eye]

Jul 28, 2008 20:45:12 GMT -5 Da Robot said:

I hope the other narrator is John Dimaggo (spelling?) becuase that voice sure sounds like Bender from Futurama.

Yeah, it's him. And it's spelt "Dimaggio"