Hydrophobia - Reveal

Published 26 March, 2010 Duration 2:11

Hydrophobia's been turned into an Xbox Live Arcade exclusive. Looks very meaty.

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  • matrim83 #1 2 years ago

    Don Corleone?

  • YobRenoops #2 2 years ago

    Amazing stuff. This game is going to kick all arses.

  • smoothpete #3 2 years ago

    Oh for fucks sake, it's going to be a cover based shooter? I was hyped for this but that video has kinda put me off. I wanted The Poseidon Adventure and it looks like we're getting Speed 2

  • OnlyMe #4 2 years ago

    That looks amazingly nice for a XBLA title.

  • HarryPalmer #5 2 years ago

    Looks like it's got a really cool atmosphere and sci-fi setting, and for an XboxLive title it looks amazing. Probably better off releasing it this was as I'm not sure the tech is ready for all that water and it could ruin a full price title.

  • smoothpete #6 2 years ago

    Gears of Water :(

  • bodypopper #7 2 years ago

    Wet Too?

  • Dark_Stranger #8 2 years ago

    reminds me of Bioshock, water & ghosts

  • TartanSpartan7 #9 2 years ago

    I was starting to doubt this game was gonna see the light of day.

  • Bru-Man #10 2 years ago

    One of the worst VOs I've ever heard. Hope you don't have that same guy talking to/at you throughout the whole game as he will get very irritating very quickly.
    Nice tech though.

  • BigE0n #11 2 years ago

    Wow Looks Really Good for the XBLA, hope the game play matches

  • Crashmasters #12 2 years ago

    Good to see they didn't skimp on the voice-over.

  • Monkey_Puncher #13 2 years ago

    Overly wordy monologue by man with funny accent and watery, physics based game play...somebody been playing Bioshock.

    Can't say any of that looked appealing.

  • the_mtfr #14 2 years ago

    Wow... the voice acting... just wow...

    And prophecies again? Fuck off.

  • benfresh76 #15 2 years ago

    looks like a honker

  • twoism #16 2 years ago

    Hope..................endures....................with your survival

    *CRINGE*

  • Harmonica #17 2 years ago

    I'm glad someone finally made a game out of the underwater segments in Shadow Complex.

    Wait, no I'm not.

    It looks pretty though.

  • Harmonica #18 2 years ago

    Also expecting much Tomb Raider style 'swimming into walls' and camera issues, as well as the perennial favourite, 'getting shot a lot underwater'.

  • mukki #19 2 years ago

    Dang VO is horrible...
    wave/water stuff looks interesting
    main character design... doesnt

  • DaemonSpawn #20 2 years ago

    VO by professional programmers (c)

  • Alatair #21 2 years ago

    For a game with water as its main feature the actual graphical representation of the water looks fairly crap.

  • BBIAJ #22 2 years ago

    Coming from the same developer that used one of their programmer's girlfriends to do the tutorial voice over for the first Snooker game on Xbox 360, I'm not surprised that this VO sucks too...

    Still, looks lush for an XBLA release, had my eye on this since it was first revealed way back when, here's hoping it doesn't end up being something of a damp squib!

    I'll get my coat...

  • AnsemsApprentice #23 2 years ago

    Why did they put guns in it? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY! It would be so much fresher and cooler if you had only a flashlight and your wits. Hiding from enemies in the dark with their flashlights shining close to you all the time, maybe even some type of psychic ability, predicting what a guy will do next, say, calling an elevator and having to run wildy before the doors close without being seen. But oh no, they went the easy route with guns, exploding barrels and terrible russian accents.

  • Quixz #24 2 years ago

    Might as well use my MW2 DLC money on this game.

  • poom #25 2 years ago

    this looks ace

  • Sgt_Petter #26 2 years ago

    Seems like it's going to be a lot lighter on the atmosphere than I first anticipated. I was imagining some sort of survival (horror). But it looks more like a pretty ordinary third person shooter. I really hope they can do something creative with all the water, I think succeeding with that is live or die, as that (so far) looks like the only thing to define it.

  • Londongamer #27 2 years ago

    I think this looks wicked! And think that the comment about the voice over of the man being played through-out the game is daft - its a demo video man!!! Of course the voice over man isn't going to talk through-out have you never watched a vid before they have to get the story over in the space of 2 mins.

    I think that for a download game its awesome and if sold at a good price a bargain as it seems to me as good as the games in the shops which cost a small fortune!!!

    Cant wait to hear more about when its out??

  • Brummieman100 #28 2 years ago

    "Also expecting much Tomb Raider style 'swimming into walls' and camera issues, as well as the perennial favourite, 'getting shot a lot underwater'."
    Forget Tomb Raider, the water in that doesn't even come close!. They use procedural animation to get past any of the dodgy hiccups off Tomb Raider. I had a chance to play this at PAX and even had a quick chat with one the developers. He was explaining how the underwater fighting works and how proud they are of it. That it has been built up as an important part of the Game-play and there was so much more involved in it than wasn't shown in the 2 min video and playable demo! Do you really think they would design such a revolutionary water based physics engine and not compliment it with equally kick ass game-play! . Have faith – it's going to be amazing!

  • NinjaWilliams #29 2 years ago

    lol looks so ancient, wot a lot of piss! :p