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March 30, 2010 - You might be current on High Voltage Software's The Grinder, but just in case, here's a quick primer. The title was announced as a Wii-exclusive online-cooperative first-person shooter similar to Left 4 Dead. Then the studio went quiet for a year. When Grinder resurfaced, it was for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 -- as a top-down action title inspired by the developer's Hunter: The Reckoning series.

Some fans suspected that the Wii version got the axe in the interim, but that's not at all the case. In fact, High Voltage wants to ship Grinder for Nintendo's console as a first-person shooter.

"The expansion of Grinder to 360 and PS3 and its subsequent change in gameplay and perspective has been somewhat misinterpreted as a universal change across all platforms," High Voltage's chief creative officer, Eric Nofsinger, explained to IGN. "We still genuinely love the Wii and would ideally like to see a publishing partner pick up both a FPS Wii version and a third-person action version specific to the 360 and PS3."

Nofsinger added that the developer has not stopped work on the Wii iteration.

"We have invested more than year into the Wii; the game is extremely fun, and frankly, we wouldn't want to see that work 'thrown away,'" said Nofsinger. "But when we decided to add the 360 and PS3 platforms it didn't seem to make much sense to jump on the rainbow chasing treadmill of trying to do the same game for such dissimilar consoles and end up short changing one or the other."

We'll keep you posted as more develops on the title. In the meanwhile, we've posted a new video of the top-down 360/PS3 versions of Grinder on our respective sister-sites.

Great news. The Conduit 2 and the Grinder staying as a FPS on Wii.

E3.

Has the world gone mad? The wii got the superior version and was not caused by nintendo?


^the internet

What about E3?

Cool, I will gladly take another L4D-style FPS. I truly hope that they learned something about making FPSes from The Conduit and make it as fun to play as L4D/L4D2.

Good! 2 FPS that will be good for me to play, I like the first Conduit, and I can't wait for the sequal and the grinder.

Ha! I was right. This makes perfect sense, the market for fps's is flooded on the HD twins but still sparse on the WII,

good if it stays that way I will definitely be picking both of these titles up. (the conduit 2, The grinder)

Well, obviously they want to make it an FPS game, but on the HD consoles and the PC, it'd get ravaged by Left 4 Dead fanboys, constantly comparing the two. However, I don't see why HVS would release it on the 360/PS3. Nothing against them, just saying: Why not come up with a completely new IP while you're at it? Leave "The Grinder" as a Wii Exclusive. Well, it's just a title, so no point in bitching about it I suppose...  (I really feel like ranting about something, though. )