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[Kleegamefan]

Has anyone got this yet?

I am checking it out as I type...

There is a 25 min demo of Oddworld Stranger for the XBOX...this is a VERY cool looking game.... scene complexity is pretty impressive.....up there with Fable, I would say....textures are very good and lighting and shadowing is decent....framerate is smooth...I would say 30fps at least (possibly 60 but don't quote me on it)

Very Spagetti-westerish feel to the game and the main character has obviously been influenced by Clint Eastwood....

Right now I am looking at the main town and I am loving the western vibe of this game...dialogue seems to be the best part of this game....it is *HILARIOUS*...I laughed out loud a couple of times so far...NPCs have long, drawn out Texas drawl in their voices....luvin the atmospheric sounds (wind blowing, wolves howling in the distance) and so far the music is limited to some slow western guitar riffs...awesome presentation...

More to follow if you want me to continue..

 

[olimario]

Awesome.
What else do they show on the DVD?

 

[Kleegamefan]

SPECIAL FEATURES

Oddworld Stranger

Star Wars:KOTOR2

Resident Evil 4

Darkwatch

Area 51



TRIVIA CONTEST

Blablablabla



TRAILERS

Backyard Wresling 2

Time Crisis: Crisis Zone

Funmation (What is this??)

King Arthur

NFL Street 2

Project Snowblind

Shadowhearts Covenant

The Punisher

Full Sail(bullshit ad)


SHOWREEL

Same Oddworld demo listed before


BONUS MATERIALS

GT4

Oddworld Stranger intro video

EVO2K4 championship(SF3 video/w Diago and Justing wang)

Tokyo Game Show Video Diary

Strangerhood

Red vs Blue

Mega 64

DVD ROM

 

[jett]

Isn't there music from a video game cover band called "Game Over" too?

 

[Minotauro]

Hm, when I bought the magazine, I just threw the disc into the drawer I throw random discs. That Stranger feature sounds pretty cool though.

 

[Kleegamefan]

Went into the Bounty Store and there is a great amount of detail here…very nice look…RICH, RICH textures in this game….transitions from main town to inside the store is lickety split….1-2sec MAX!!!

Very kewl effect by the double swinging doors…kinda a high-dynamic range lighting effect…bloom lighting I believe its called…..Lorne Lanning is doing the demo and he has gone back and forth between the town and there really is no loading to speak of between the 2 environments…very nice..

At this point the game is very real-time RPG-ish ala Wind Waker and you can change between 1st and 3rd person perspective…character has no weapons now so you only see his fists when attacking…3rd person camera is a smooth Mario-64-like camera but like that game I could see how it could hang up in a few places…hopefully there will be some option for manual control too..

Noticing much more detail in the town now and it does indeed rival Fable for scene complexity, IMO…this is an impressive looking game..

There are anywhere from six to a dozen NPCs on screen at once with no slowdown so far….game engine seems pretty polished sofar…again, the comedy is great in this game…if you smack people they will say stuff like “What da heeellll yer doin partner” and other Yosemite Sam-esque quotes

My Favorite bit so far is that if you keep on smacking NPCs they will actually trip over each other to get away from you and hurt themselves in the process

After that they all run indoors and one NPC says to the main character ” Look, we got nuthin to do but we’d rather be outside, so you just take your medication and be nice, alright” then after a few secs he says “OK now look…we commin’ out now and getting’ back to work, so no more roughhousin’ and being a PECKERHEAD OK?...here we come :lol

This game is genuinely funny…

More impressions coming up if you want them….

 

[Kleegamefan]

OK, seems like RPG section is just the secondary part of the game...the primary part of the game is more action-orientated and OH JESUS the dialoge is FUCKIN GREAT in this game....

You guys need to see this game...there isn't a quick and easy way I could encode the DVD and upload it to the net could I??

You HAVE to see this game....

The action part is much faster and Stranger has a crossbow that he can equip with "live critters" that you hunt and then place on your gun...I am not making this up :lol


More to come

 

[Redbeard]

Sounds like the same presentation that Blim has at xboxyde. It's fantastic.

 

[Blimblim]

Wait, Oddworld is playable or it's a video ?

 

[Minotauro]

Wait, Oddworld is playable or it's a video ?

Yes, I'm confused about this as well. I thought EGM didn't release playable demos...

 

[Kleegamefan]

http://www.xboxyde.com/leech_1046_fr.html

Its a big file, about 56MB and its a long video (25min) but its worth it...

So he just hunted a TALKING SQUIRREL and equipped it on his longbow…get this, squirrel will actually taunt and talk shit to the enemy you are shooting!!! :lol OMGTEHGOTY2005

Sniper rifle has blur-effect from Halo and NPCs seem to be pretty intelligent because you can spy on them via the sniper rifle and eavesdrop their conversations

Cant say enough about the graphics in the action part with lush vegetation and HUGE environments…cotton particles floating around and dozens of secondary critters everywhere…

Animation on Stranger is very smooth and this is an agile character….he’s almost Sly-cooperish smooth and agile but not quite…

Stranger is a bounty hunter so when you come across your bounty you whip out a capture gun and then suck them up ghostbusters style (cue sucking sound followed up by finger-in-cheek popping sound)

This game seems to have a variety of gameplay styles which sofar include First Person Shooting, Stealth, 3rd person action, Spy and action RPG elements.

This game probably won’t be a big commercial success but I see it being a high profile game @ GAF….no doubt in my mind…

EDIT: just learned the squirrel is called the "CHIPPUNK" cause he talks so much shit and pisses off enemys

 

[Blimblim]

Yes, I'm confused about this as well. I thought EGM didn't release playable demos...

Yeah. Playable or not, I'd appreciate of someone could send me this (try finding EGM in France...)

 

[Redbeard]

Very kewl effect by the double swinging doors…kinda a high-dynamic range lighting effect…bloom lighting I believe its called…..Lorne Lanning is doing the demo and he has gone back and forth between the town and there really is loading to speak of between the 2 environments…very nice.

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[Kleegamefan]

This is a video of Lorne Lanning presenting and playing the game..

 

[Minotauro]

There it is. I'm not sure how I missed it. Maybe my mind subconsiously scans over the two words "Lorne" and "Lanning" grouped together.

 

[Blimblim]

Actually the 25 minutes video is there :
http://www.xboxyde.com/leech_1047_en.html (medium quality)
http://www.xboxyde.com/leech_1048_en.html (high quality)
The live ammo one :
http://www.xboxyde.com/leech_1046_en.html

 

[Kleegamefan]

One kewl detail....Radar has enemy vision cones ala MGS complete with color-coding so you know the mental state of your enemys (confused, mad, relaxed)....very kewl details in this game...

 

[BojTrek]

klee sounds like I did playing the first demo for Oddworld on PS1... I loved that game and really enjoyed part 2... Munch was not bad IMO... I love the Oddworld look and characters...

 

[thorns]

wow, thanks for the videos blim.. looks awesome!

 

[Minotauro]

I just got finished watching the Stranger feature on the EGM DVD and, wow, that was amazing! Before watching it, I really didn't care that much about this game but now it's by far my most anticipated game of 2005.

 

[bitwise]

wow.

 

[Gek54]

What is the GT4 bonus material?

 

[DopeyFish]

WOW... it does look good

 

[shpankey]

Yeah, there is also a feature video of Stranger on the latest OXM if anyone has it. I remarked about it in the OXM thread a few days ago on GAF about how amazing this game looks!!! The feature video on OXM is amazing and everyone should check it out. If you read my impressions about it in that OXM thread I basically sounded just like Klee does now in this thread, I was flabergasted at how amazing it looked.

Definately at the top of a short list of 2005 GotY candidates for sure. This game is gonna be amazing. Hard to believe Microsoft didn't keep it. I mean I know it's still an Xbox exclusive because the devs said it was only possible on the Xbox hardware, but when MS dropped the publishing rights to it back then they didn't know that.

 

[op_ivy]

EDIT: just learned the squirrel is called the "CHIPPUNK" cause he talks so much shit and pisses off enemys

:lol yeah, stranger will rock. i love how you can upgrade the live ammo as well. the chippunk + megaphone = cartman cool