Speedball 2: Evolution release date
Ice cream with delight.
Jon Hare's new iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch game Speedball 2 Evolution will be released on 24th February - a week from today.
The price is still TBC.
Speedball 2 Evolution has been developed by Vivid Games under the watchful eye of Jon Hare and Tower Studios - he who created Sensible Software.
Evolution has a new art style and a choice of touch-screen joystick controls or a new tilt-to-move approach. There's also local multiplayer via Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
Modes range from quick-play to league to tournament, plus of course the deeper and more absorbing Speedball Champions League career.
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe was a Bitmap Brothers game, and it's not the only oldie earmarked for revival on the iPhone by Jon Hare. He's got the Bitmap go-ahed to do Chaos Engine et al. if he wants, plus he's in promising talks with Codemasters to revive his old Sensible Software catalogue. He's also got new stuff on the boil - ideas he's been cultivating for the past decade.
Eurogamer combed through the world of Jon Hare earlier this month in an exclusive interview.
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graphics - the graphics look like a mess!
controls will not work very well..
Why not use the amazing original sprites, and give it a CRT post-overlay, like this:
[link url=http://dl.dropbox.com/u/86182/speedball_crt.jpg
]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/86182/speedball_...[/link]
-Would result in a MUCH prettier game!
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It's coming.
"Tower Studios and Vivid Games, in association with The Bitmap Brothers, are proud to announce the imminent release of Speedball 2 Evolution for iPhone, iPhone4, iPad, Sony Minis, Android and Samsung Bada."
http://wireless.ign.com/articles/112/112...
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/godihopenot
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Yay, thanks for bringing that to my attention
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I fear you speak the truth.
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I agree with you completely, all those "fake joystick" control schemes on ios machines just don't work.
..and Chaos Engine getting a remake for that platform instead a remake as a twin stick shooter on XBLA/PSN (which btw would be the perfect way to remake that game mr. Hare) is a sad sad affair.
I'll probably buy it, and it will probably frustrate me.
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Hate to be negative about anything Speedball 2 but its true.
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Howeverwhen this, Chaos Engine and other 16 bit classics come to the iphone, I think I will finally have a reason to go for it.
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Dunno about the redrawn graphics but as long as it plays as well as S2 I can live with them.