Too Human 15 to 80 hours long - Dyack

By Robert Purchese Published 8 August, 2008

Second and third games underway.

Silicon Knights boss Denis Dyack said hitting the level 50 limit in Too Human may take anywhere between 50 to 80 hours.

"First play through is probably around 15 hours, I guess, it depends. To get to level 50, it's anywhere from 50 to 80 hours. It's a lot! There's a lot there to want to dig! And to get all the epic loot - I don't even know if it's possible to get everything in the game, it's probably not - not for a single person," Dyack told Kikizo.

The ambitious Xbox 360 role-playing game, based on Norse Mythology and set in an ancient but technologically advanced civilisation, is finally finished. And Europeans will get the game on 29th August.

Dyack, surprisingly, then said work on the two following instalments in the trilogy was already quite far in advance.

"The story was done a long time ago," he said. "The theme of the first game is discovery, the theme of the second game is revenge, and the third game, enlightenment.

"And the trilogy and the whole idea of focusing on the Norse mythology and effects on technology we think is really going to turn people's heads."

The Silicon Knights boss was also optimistic of timely turnouts for the rest of the trilogy; it is "very possible" we will see them before Microsoft replaces the Xbox 360 hardware.

If not, Dyack revealed Too Human was built to be scalable, "So even if another platform does come out, we're not very worried about it."

Head over to our hands-on first impressions of Too Human to find out more.

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Comments (34) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • thefilthandthefury #1 4 years ago

    That's quite a range.

  • Darren #2 4 years ago

    I pre-ordered this after enjoying the demo (which itself was surprising as I was was convinced it was going to be awful). I then bought gamesTM yesterday, a magazine I tend to find very trustworthy, only to find that their preview of Too Human is distinctly negative so now I'm confused about whether I should buy it or not.

    *sigh*

    I guess the reviews nearer release will paint a better picture of whether this game really is worth buying or not...

  • DB2k #3 4 years ago

    "Buy our game - you're never finish it tho, and I guess not get all the achievements"

  • Inquisitor #4 4 years ago

    Not really the length of the game though is it? Just replaying the campaign over and over to get to a certain level...then, I've not played a grind fest like this so maybe that is all they're about.
    Edited by 1 at 08/08/08 @ 15:08

  • Darren #5 4 years ago

    If not, Dyack revealed Too Human was built to be scalable, "So even if another platform does come out, we're not very worried about it."

    Not exactly a surprise when you discover that Too Human was planned for the PlayStation (1) before briefly flirting with the GameCube and then finally landing on the Xbox 360! LOL

  • t8yman #6 4 years ago

    put into context with cod4, Ive played for about 6 full days and I'm not even halfway to doing prestige right to the top. doesnt mean its got any variety, or 100 hours+ of differing gameplay. or did I seriously miss the point?

  • mcmonkeyplc #7 4 years ago

    Interesting.

  • Redeye #8 4 years ago

    Dyack = schmuck.

    Whether this'll be any good = highly questionable.

  • ZuluHero #9 4 years ago

    I see where he's coming from. I'll be interested to see if poor sales dampen his enthusiasm about those sequels though. I was anticipating this game and even though the demo wasn't awful, I don't think I’ll be biting on the 29th.

    I might pick it up when it’s cheaper and I’m in a gaming lull though.

  • Man_s #10 4 years ago

    This game will polarize opinions. You'll either love it or hate it. That has been pretty obvious throughout the previews I've seen. Still, I pre-ordered it based on previous Silicon Knights experiences and the demo, which I enjoyed very much. Hopefully people judge it after playing and not getting influenced by the convoluted development process and its' subsequent controversy.

  • neilka #11 4 years ago

    But they said there'd be more than 80 hours of gameplay! ...9 years ago.

  • MasterNameless #12 4 years ago

    @neilka

    Haha! Nice link! Although I am quite looking forward to this game, I , too, enjoyed the demo and am looking forward to a nice and huge co-op adventure to sink my teeth into...

    The 'I am first!' comment, made 8 years after the article was published, really made me laugh though! Surely that's the longest time it's taken for someone to make that idiotic 'first!' comment...

  • Zander #13 4 years ago

    I thought the demo was a bit pants. The combat seemed boring and the story bland. I was looking forward to this (as most of us were) but now feel a little disappointed. Oh well, maybe Gears2 will make up for it!

  • paulf #14 4 years ago

    15 hours of unskippable cutscenes and waiting for that damn angel to float die when you die ...

  • ThePissartist #15 4 years ago

    Translation: 15 hours

  • iancognito #16 4 years ago

    @ Zander

    +1

    Then -2 maybe
    Edited by 1 at 08/08/08 @ 16:12

  • nickthegun #17 4 years ago

    Shorter than Mass Effect is quite an achievement.

  • trav #18 4 years ago

    I'm in the not bothered camp for Too Human. The demo hardly set my world alight and I doubt I will be rushing out to buy this.

    Like most will more than likely wait until it comes down in price and when there isn't much else to play. See as its coming at the start of the busiest season of the year I don't see that happening for a while.

  • TheDudesRug #19 4 years ago

    Aside from the obvious structural borrowings from WoW, I thought the demo was very weak. I really, really want this to be good - come on final, you can do it!

  • JediMasterMalik #20 4 years ago

    Oh Dyack, when will you learn.

  • penhalion #21 4 years ago

    I'll be getting this as I actually liked the story and the combat will most likely keep me going until the end. Don't expect to replay this at all but, I did replay the demo several times so who knows.

  • Pirotic #22 4 years ago

    At Gauntanamo they'll be forcing them to unlock all the achievements.

  • ParanoidZombie #23 4 years ago

    I loved the demo... And no, my real name is not Dennis Dyack.

  • Fairlane #24 4 years ago

    preordered

  • Xerx3s #25 4 years ago

    Still playing diablo 2. Beat that in gameplay hours.

  • Les #26 4 years ago

    "I then bought gamesTM yesterday, a magazine I tend to find very trustworthy"

    You're kidding right?! I can't ever take them serious anymore after the ridiculous Patapon review. I wish there'd be a games magazine (or website) with smart but not self-indulgent writers that were not all pixel-loving, hype-sustaining hardcore gamers... These days I have to subtract the review scores from the max. score to get something that comes close to my perceived quality of a game...

  • Les #27 4 years ago

    ""The story was done a long time ago," he said. "The theme of the first game is discovery, the theme of the second game is revenge, and the third game, enlightenment."

    Bit of a strange sequence... Revenge and enlightenment seem to contradict each other quite a bit. Bet enlightenment will only surface in the final cutscene. Playing an enlightened hero gets old pretty fast...

  • rotmm #28 4 years ago

    @Les,

    Unfortunately, your score of 7 for Lair and 1 for Oblivion makes your opinion on games even harder to take seriously.

    Which pretty much cancels out your criticism of Games(tm).

    Shame really.

  • RedSparrows #29 4 years ago

    I pre-ordered this after enjoying the demo (which itself was surprising as I was was convinced it was going to be awful). I then bought gamesTM yesterday, a magazine I tend to find very trustworthy, only to find that their preview of Too Human is distinctly negative so now I'm confused about whether I should buy it or not.

    *sigh*

    I guess the reviews nearer release will paint a better picture of whether this game really is worth buying or not...

    ---

    You enjoyed playing the demo, but a negative preview puts you off?

    Considering the game will be demo x 1000, with bigger and better things later on (like...any demo/game, except the utter rubbish ones, which this isn't), I'm not sure why you're placing so little faith in your own judgement.

  • PedroTheLion #30 4 years ago

    Dyack is the new David Icke

  • timberwolf #31 4 years ago

    hang on... does he mean ms is going to replace the 360 like within two years? or does he mean his games will take a heck of a long time to be released?

  • m0thr4 #32 4 years ago

    hang on... does he mean ms is going to replace the 360 like within two years? or does he mean his games will take a heck of a long time to be released?

    It's taken 9+ years to make this game... which do you think he means?

  • muscleblade #33 4 years ago

    I rather it was 6 hours and maybe about 20 hours leveling up to 50. 80 hours is way to much for a game that is destined to get boring pretty fast.

  • Sevens #34 4 years ago

    Should've been 25 - 1xx hours.

    "Not really the length of the game though is it? Just replaying the campaign over and over to get to a certain level..." Precisely.