| greenmedic88 said: I don't see how HVS can crank out two quality titles on a relatively short development pipeline and still expect them to remain "quality" titles. I was under the impression that HVS was a smaller studio. Currently, I'd have to say that PR seems to be the one of their greatest strengths and focuses as a company, which is not a good thing IMO. More work on game design and a stronger art department would do volumes for their future products. Best advice: wait until after you've played the game this time before you start hyping it. |
HVS is a smaller studio but you must remember they are re-using their graphics/physics/AI engines from the Conduit. If you watch the existing screens it looks like the Conduit with more enemies. Infact the hand looks almost identical and the only different is instead of shooting at Aliens your shooting at Vampires and Warewolves.
Will HVS wow me? I don't think so. Will I go out and buy Grinder? Possibly. I liked The Conduit it was a great game and with WiiSpeak its almost the same kind of experiance Halo offers. But at best Grinder will still fall short of Halo. Then again in Grinder the enemies don't have guns and the game appears to be trying to emulate games like LeftForDead!
Also look at the existing images. The enemies are generic. You make one Vampire and just duplicate him 100x. Also the game will probubly air on the short side (Like Conduit) so they do not have to waste resources building more levels. Lastly I think HVS is trying to capitalize on its ability to launch two titles nearby one another. To build up a better reputation.
Though as you said HVS is good at one thing. Hyping the heck out of everything they develope. Though I've got to say that backfires when you fail to deliver!
-JC7
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