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Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
The Too Human demo is now available from Xbox Live.
It offers the entire first level (about 1GB) of the vikings-in-space adventure for you to wade through, where you can batter waves of goblin robots with big mallets.
The demo should also give you your first taste of the Norse pantomime plot, where you, as Odin's son Baldur, refuse to give your humanity to the machines, and get caught in love triangles and soap opera bickering along the way.
Too Human is an action role-playing game from Silicon Knights. It features online co-operative play, plus menus upon menus of equipment tweaking to do - some of the names given to the randomly generated loot are wonderful.
Tom had a chance to bash his way through it recently. Pop over to his hands-on impressions of Too Human to see what he thought.
Too Human is due out on 29th August, exclusively on Xbox 360.
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CrunchinJelly
14/07/08 @ 08:30
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The press release is confusing, because it says 2am PDT (6pm GMT), but 2am PDT is 10am here. And 6pm GMT would be 7pm local time because of Daylight Savings. :P
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muscleblade
14/07/08 @ 08:40
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This is the most exiting demo to date imo. I just dont know how the game is and looking forward to make my own opinion.
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@TheJurial - The gameplay videos make the game look boring especially the bland level design which looks like they were wrtten with the original Xbox in mind. Nice that there's a demo though because this is one game that I certainly wouldn't have bought without playing it first. I don't think it'll be awful but I don't think it'll be amazing either. My gut instinct tells me this will be the 360's Haze...
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andywilkie35
14/07/08 @ 09:03
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god i hope this isn't shit! i haven't been too impressed with the vids so will be good to play and see
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While I don't wish to keep flogging a dead horse, loss of four player co-op and no support for local co-op really put a nail in my interest over this. I'd always seen the game as one of those 'wade your way through 101 enemies, performing the same limited set of moves over and over again' types from the start, but I can forgive and even enjoy that style of play when I have a friend or three alongside me for the frantic carnage. When its just me however, I can't see it holding my interest at all...
Still, I'm a sucker for Norse mythology, and who knows - it might polish up in its final couple of weeks to hold at a passable 6 to 7 out of 10 that'll be worth a play once it drops in price a little. I'll certainly give the demo a go anyway - not like I've got anything to loose with that! |
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3william56
14/07/08 @ 09:11
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Let's play... predict the EG review strapline.
I'm guessing: "Too Little, Too Late?" or "Looking a gift Norse in the mouth" |
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@Nick_JC1 - thanks for your input, but if it's all the same to you I'll continue to state my thoughts on things without running them past you first. For what it's worth, I wasn't 'giving my review score' - if I was, if I'd made my mind up on it already, I wouldn't even bother to download the demo and play it now, would I?
Thank fuck this place comes with an ignore poster function. 'tool' etc |
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McBradders
14/07/08 @ 09:50
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Eurogamers reading comprehension is still low level I see. Well, as someone else said, the ignore poster function here works wonders.
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Snidesworth
14/07/08 @ 10:09
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I'll be downloading this when I get home. Until then I can chuckle at internet drama.
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@ dr_faulk
well the cutscenes are a mess, the grafics have a strange way of looking bland while the engine isn`t too bad, hard to make up character models/ NPC`s etc combatwise you get this WTH is going on feel (might improve when you invest some time into it tho) and yes, the camera is all over the place it`s not like it`s superbad (heck I`ve been playing KUF: circle of doom the last couple of weeks, now that`s BAD), it`s just disappointing to see this game turn out like this ah, and Dyack is gonna get lynched on GAF
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muscleblade
14/07/08 @ 10:30
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@koji_m
Well you got me worried. How come Nick_JC1 has very different impressions i wonder? Hmm i will find out tonight whos right i guess.
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insane_cobra
14/07/08 @ 10:36
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From what I've seen on various places, some people seem to love it, while others hate it, there no middle ground. GAF absolutely detests it, of course :)
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Coughthulu
14/07/08 @ 11:02
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Two different posters, two different opinions.
Is this game going to get this year's "Marmite Award", mayhaps? Anyway. 6 hours till I try it. Please be good, please be good, please be good... |
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Ok, i'll try to be as objective as possible here :
Lads, this has to be one one the most dissapointing games ever.I'm all for gameplay> graphics but the whole look of the game is extremely dissapointing - considering it's been in production for this long. The framerate is all over the place (especially in cutscenes) and it features some of the worst looking character models ever-ever i tell you- i'm not exaggerating when i say that they're Gamecube quality (geometry and detail -wise). What's also striking is the horrendous animation guys, yes, it's as bad as you've seen in videos, frankly, it's so bad to the point that can (almost) make you laugh - try to juggle an enemy in the air with a melee weapon and immediately shoot your guns while descending - it's some of the worst animation i've ever witnessed, you'll understand when you'll see it... The whole game really feels like it was put up by an amateur develepment studio, it feels so...amateur-ish ! The music on the other hand is absolutely beautiful and epic, quality stuff guys i tell you. Now for the gameplay : I think it's going to be a love-hate situation,for me it's pretty neat and it works. The whole analog stick thing works as expected (mostly) and it can be pretty fun chopping/shooting/juggling enemies. Enemies swarm you all the time and the game gives a proper feel of "urgency" when surrounded by them - something that's going to be/feel even better when playing with a buddy on co-op. I can understand though why they've dropped the 4 player co-op, the whole game engine would've imploded,it's not that it's so bad, but you can clearly see the engine struggling when there are more than 10-15 enemies on screen - imagine it now playing it with 3 other guys over the internet...so,yeah, "2 player co -op feels better" my ass mr Dennis... The camera it's pretty bad but i've wouldn't be the most objective person to describe it since i play Ninja Gaiden 2 and i am used to" bad" cameras,so... I don't know, i even found KUF:circle of Doom to be somewhat fun, but this (too human)... Maybe the final product will be better,what can i say? (highly unlikely though)... |
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muscleblade
14/07/08 @ 11:44
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@klem578
Wow! Looks like this is going to be MS answer to Haze. Cant wait to give it a go tonight though. |
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brockenheimer
14/07/08 @ 11:48
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Nick_JC1, I hope you will come back here and hold your hands up if this doesn't get over 85 on metacritic. That sounds extremely hopeful to me...
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@muscleblade : mate, jokes aside, it's pretty disappointing seeing great dev.studios like Free radical and Silicon knights producing "bad" products like these, you know?
Silicon knights is renowned for their story telling and it might be the same thing with too human,thing is, you also have to have something that looks good (post- 2005 graphics) and plays well...
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christourlord
14/07/08 @ 11:56
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I'm surprised how much attention this game is still getting.
It was always obviously going to be mediocre at best. Just let it fall by the wayside, where it belongs. |
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muscleblade
14/07/08 @ 11:59
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@klem578
I agree. Silicon Knights and Free radical are actually among my favourite developers. I actually got very sad when they announced that Haze would be PS3 exclusive as i had sold my PS3 just prior to the announcement. And Eternal Darkness is one of my all time favourites. |
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muscleblade
14/07/08 @ 12:00
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"I'm surprised how much attention this game is still getting. "
christourlord has never played Eternal Darkness i presume. |
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christourlord
14/07/08 @ 12:01
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@muscleblade: Yes, I did. Great game.
This has always looked dodgy though. I don't care what games the developer has previously worked on. |
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insane_cobra
14/07/08 @ 12:08
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@klem578
So you're basically saying that people who thought the character models looked good and the game animated well, compared to other games in the genre, might actually like it?
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muscleblade
14/07/08 @ 12:19
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@Darren
After the negative reviews i knew i wasnt missing out. MGS4 is the only game on the PS3 that might interest me but i hate overly long cutscenes so i dont think i am missing out not owning a PS3 regarding that game either. |
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@insane_cobra : Everything i posted was (of course) my personal opinion, i can't talk for everybody.
There are going to be people that are going to like it and people that don't. For me , it looks worse than KUF: circle of Doom for example (much worse) and and it also plays more iffy,so... To each their own of course... |
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@muscleblade - MGS4 was awesome: one of , if not THE best games of this year IMO and I'm saying that as someone who didn't particularly find MGS2 or MGS3 all that amazing. Yeah, there are a lot of cutscenes but they're very well done and the whole game is just a joy to play from start to finish. Then you'll want to play through it again 'cos it's that good! :)
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muscleblade
14/07/08 @ 12:55
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@Darren
I generally like your very unbiased and fair comments. So i might borrow it from my nabour if i find the time to play it. Im going to miss achievements adding to my gamerscore when playing since i become so used to gettig them by now. Still one should never decide to play a game or not because of achievements thats just ridiculous imo. |
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I really love self-pwnage.
"Ok, i'll try to be as objective as possible here : Lads, this has to be one one the most dissapointing games ever" What is wrong with these two sentences? ;) And to the demo: i really am impressed, and want to know the list of the games you all play, if you say that THIS is the most disappointing game ever. Come on, say the names, which are, like infinitely better than this. |
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@ Oldern
did you just say that you were really impressed? it isn't complete poo like some people would like you to believe, but impressed, isn't that a bit much? all in all it was just a very underwhelming experience for me... I'll give it a go again tonight, I might start to like it, but it's not the awesome AAA stuff we were promised
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