Legendary Comments by Rob Fahey

Beyond all expectations, this is actually starting to sound like a purchase!

Isn't this by the same people that did that alternative history Nazis invade New York thing... can't remember the name?

Nitpicking: Golems originate from Jewish folklore, not Greek.

Looks surprisingly awesome.

werewolf in moody blue lighting - cool as fuck, love the eye glow.
werewolf in regular lighting - meh

Mmm, that does sound a lot better than Turning Point.

Still, I don't know if I can spare the cash right next to Fallout 3 and Fable 2.

So what does this have to do with Halo then?

Durham's a lovely place and tearing up the cathedral could be interesting.

By the way, it's apparently a completely different team from the one that did Turning Point. It certainly looks a lot better.

Yeah, it's nothing to do with the Team that did Turning Point.

+ they've been working on this for about a centuary and Turning Point was a rush job, although i wasn't aware it was possible to make a game as bad as turning point ever?!

"interesting multiplayer feature will be the ability to turn on Beasts on the levels"

sad to say i did a double take on this line, with a WTF look on my face

/tells self will stop watching porn

That sounds interesting!

yawn another console made fps.

There's nothing wrong with a bit of old-school run and gun FPS action - sometimes I think developers are too scared to stick to genre fundamentals with all these huge budget games trying to be all things to all people.

Plus, any game with a 40 storey tall enemy gets me interested.

what a load of arse....unpretentious aka generic as it can possibly be

it depends what mood you're in i suppose but i'd suggest Rob's of an extremely sunny disposition here

watch the 20 minute play of the game at Giant Bomb with Mike Wilson in tow, the game looks deathly dull and pretty much as redundant as they come

the opening intro will send you to sleep, if you get past that good on ya....

imo despite the prev i very much doubt EG will be giving it more than a 6, build em up, knock em down, a la fleet street..

Check out the Giant Bomb videopreview. Brad (who playtested) was bored to death. Looks shit, tbh.

I haven't seen the Giant Bomb preview, but if they played the first 20 minutes, I can understand being underwhelmed - it's basically a tutorial and then a run through a long interactive cutscene. The whole thing picks up once you start building a decent arsenal and fighting lots of enemies at once in huge areas - the early sections are really just scene-setting.

I wouldn't say I've got an excessively sunny disposition over this one (I hauled myself across rush-hour London with a grotty head-cold to see it - sunny I was not! :) ), rather that I don't see the problem with simply taking traditional FPS play and doing it really well. It's probably not a 9 or 10 out of ten kind of game, unless multiplayer is really stunning, but from what I played (about two and a half hours of the game), it's one of those 7 or 8 out of ten games that you develop a real fondness for while acknowledging that it's not doing anything particularly special.

@Shinji:
I dont know for how long Brad played, but it looked like they cut the video to show different locations of the game, and not just the first 20min. (I could be wrong, didnt really pay attention)
Anyway, like you say, it has the potential to turn out to be a 7-8, but from what I saw in the preview the game just looked exceptionally flawed and unpolished and most of all uninspired(quite unlike what you wrote in your preview, Shinji.)

here's a link:
http://www.giantbomb.com/gamecock-demos-...

Well, they probably should have released this during the summer drought, because this fall is packed with games that are looking much better than this. Meaning that the multiplayer lobbies will be very empty when left4dead, gears2, resistance2, cod5 and co are released.

this looks good for me tbh. generic but you know.. polished. Which i would enjoy right now (had my launch day console not died on my today) but its going to have a lot of competition from great titles around that time frame - which could mean I might get it when it is TEH SOOPER CHEAPZ so good for me. Bad for them. If its all that they should prob hold it off until mid January when there is literally nothing to play.

if it makes shooting things with a shotgun fun that's all good, but it doesn't seem to be taking the Serious Sam / Will Rock route to me, more the blacksite / Jericho route where it's not very sunny and a bit less like fun..perhaps the Giant Bomb thing doesn't show it in a good light...in watching video alone terms (not a great way to judge sure) this doesn't really look as good as something like Mercs 2 which rolled in with the big 5

Legendary game based on Unreal engine. Word play FTW.

Almost good old fashioned FPSing, except a) on a console and b) with only 2 guns

Sounds fantastic - As long as it plays as good as it sound this will be a definite purchase.

I know this is a FPS, a genre STILL totally killed by my precious COD4 (I love you IW but you're a bunch of bastards for that!), but I really do like the sound (and setting) of this one and really like what I've seen so far.

This, Gears 2 and Dead Space will make a fun monster buttkicking autumn :)

GUNS GUNS GUNS, KILL KILL KILL, BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD,!!!!!!!!!!!!

*cough* er, sorry I'm a 360 owner ;)

Sounds quite like Painkiller. I predict EG giving the game a 7.

This always looked fun.

Durham? Awesome! Hope they'll blow up the cathedral and castle which I graduated in and lived in respectively. That pic of a cathedral looks nowt like Durham cathedral tho, which is bloody huge.

Other than that I hope they put the students' union in as a big bunker. Oh wait, it already is.

Dropped the "The Box" subtitle, then.
Probably got a copyright warning from Sharon Stone's lawyers.

If its anything like painkiller im game....Ive got more cerebral FPS to play in HL2 and Bioshock etc. Multiplayer doesnt bother me either (Frontlines takes care of that)

So in summary - Balls out FPS with no thrills but lots of blood spills.....and a 40 story golem = WIN!

This game is looking better each Interveiw