• Midway's cancelled game - "Hero"
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHvw3nC2mw[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJPkOqAHbJQ[/media] [quote]Letting players customize their superheroes with powers like super strength, invisibility, searing vision, electric shock attacks, super speed and the ability to summon a screen-clearing tornado. Hero was essentially a third-person shooter with some cool mutant powers attached, gunplay mixed with mechanics we've seen in games like Sucker Punch's inFamous and Radical's Prototype. The storyline for the game, according to the walk-through, involves a natural disaster that leaves thousands dead and a city in chaos. A private military group is installed to deal with the situation, which gets worse when the dead begin rising with special powers.[/quote] It has an interesting concept. Too bad the studio has shut down.
Midway shut down? bummer
Man, I really would've liked this game.
Move objects by giving the ever-popular universal "Fuck you" to them. That will teach those damned traffic cones.
Wow they finally started getting back to making awesome games and they crash... Well I know they've been gone for a while, but I didn't know they were working on this...
Watched the first video for the sole reason that is has one of my favourite songs on it. Looks like a fairly good game.
If they actually had Sigur Ros for the music I would fucking buy that shit.
Infamous on crack
[QUOTE=General J;27474319]Infamous on crack[/QUOTE] Reminded me more of prototype.
Reminded me of psi ops
Looks like it would have been interesting. And they used Sigur Rós in the trailer, so you know it had to have been good.
multiplayer, damn were missing out
Shame it got canceled. With a bit of polish it would be a great game. Especially if it had coop.
The end of trailer 2 looked like fallout 3. Awesome.
Looks like a cross between the "sandbox" games Spiderman, Infamous, and Prototype.
Looks very awesome, especially that you can use bigger powers instead of a little lightning bold (Like the huge water wave and power storm) :smith: why...
This world is running out of justice. [editline]17th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=General J;27474319]Infamous on crack[/QUOTE] Looks more like Bioshock just went "Fuck it, let's go crazy!", went to the future and met inFamous, with both becoming best friends.
Wow, that looked pretty cool. Shame they shut down :smith:
Maybe Prototype actually was a prototype? For this game.
After reading a bit about this, it seems that the game isn't actually dead. A company called "Phosphor games" , which seems to be made up of many ex-midway staff is working on a game supposedly called "Awakened", which seems to be pretty much the same thing as Hero. [url]http://www.phosphorgames.com/index.php?&page=games[/url] I think the "unannounced" game there is Awakened, considering that the picture of it looks extremely similar to something from one of those trailers. [editline]17th January 2011[/editline] In fact, those videos appear to be actually of Awakened, not Hero.
That looks fucking awesome. Shame it was canceled.
[QUOTE=simkas;27477142]After reading a bit about this, it seems that the game isn't actually dead. A company called "Phosphor games" , which seems to be made up of many ex-midway staff is working on a game supposedly called "Awakened", which seems to be pretty much the same thing as Hero. [url]http://www.phosphorgames.com/index.php?&page=games[/url] I think the "unannounced" game there is Awakened, considering that the picture of it looks extremely similar to something from one of those trailers. [editline]17th January 2011[/editline] In fact, those videos appear to be actually of Awakened, not Hero.[/QUOTE] Amazing. I just hope the gameplay gets better, it looked quite clunky in the videos.
[QUOTE=Dronaroid;27477295]Amazing. I just hope the gameplay gets better, it looked quite clunky in the videos.[/QUOTE] Considering that we're most likely looking at a very very early beta, it probably will.
[QUOTE=simkas;27477312]Considering that we're most likely looking at a very very early beta, it probably will.[/QUOTE] Let's hope for the best.
[QUOTE=simkas;27477312]Considering that we're most likely looking at a very very early beta, it probably will.[/QUOTE] Hopefully. The concept seemed really nice and like they'd created an interesting setting for it and probably story to go along with that, but the shooting part seemed pretty crap - jerky and floaty like you'd expect from a game where it's tagged onto the main thing as an extra feature. Hopefully it'll improve though - and not be a console exclusive. Seems like the sort of thing I'd enjoy even if it was utterly crap like with Darkest of Days. [editline]17th January 2011[/editline] My thoughts are pretty much what the weird cartoon black guy said at the end of the video, I hadn't watched the end before saying the above. Setting and atmosphere seems great but the gameplay less so.
It looks great. It's like Infamous with the combat and stealth system from MGS4.
I would buy that game
Why was this cancelled? It's pure gold.
That looked pretty fucking sweet. I'll definitely be buying it if it's released.
That second vid with the chick teleporting over the trains was pretty slick. We should find out who has the rights to this.
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