5th Cell Leaves Cuteness Behind for Gritty Source Engine Shooter

[Jezzascmezza]

That's hilarious that they go from complete innovation with Scribblenauts, to complete genericness with an apocalyptic, dark third person shooter.

 

[mr_rubino]

In one of the 5th Cell games mentioned in this article, all the cute creatures die horribly at the end of it. Well except for one, but he gets to live the rest of his life knowing they sacrificed themselves for him, if he indeed believes they ever truly existed after it happened.

 

[repeating integers]

This looks quite cool. I'm already liking the art style. Too bad I don't have a DS.

I do agree that "variants" is a silly name, though.

 

[mr_rubino]

@Ironic Pirate: Maybe they're mutants who named themselves? I mean, what group assured of the veracity of their cause would deliberately pick an evil-sounding name?

They should have called themselves the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

This better come to PC. I mean, there is no reason at all to not make the easiest port EVER. All they will have to do is add mouse support and hit compile! It's Source for God's sake!

-edit-

Wait, God didn't make war, man did... WHAT? The very first war ever (according to the Bible) was waged between Lucifer and God. How did they screw that up?

At least one of those names doesn't appear in the Bible where you think it does, so I couldn't tell you.

 

[herpaderphurr]

But... but Scribblenauts :<

Why can't they just keep making original and awesome games like that?

 

[k-ossuburb]

I was waiting for him to say: "God didn't create God; man did."

Honestly, it sounds silly enough as it is anyway. If you'd like to hear it from my point of view then replace the word "God" with the word "Teapot"; it makes the same amount of sense.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Gears of War combined with Mass Effect?

So, Mass Effect 2?

They're going to make Mass Effect 2?!

I'll play it. 5th Cell certainly intrigues me with everything they do after SNauts.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Did he say, "Man didn't create Hell, Bavarians did?"

Fucking Bavarians. Them and their... beer! And... fucking... bratwursts... and shit! Fuck those assholes!

I was gonna say. xD

I wonder if they consulted a map or anything first. If that name sticks I'll be greatly amused.

 

[MorteSphere]

I thought he said "Bavarians", at which point I squealed with glee in the hopes of an alt-history shooter based in Southern Germany. My hopes were squashed, however, by reading "Variants" in the article. :[

 

[Treblaine]

-Source engine
-Requires aiming
-Not Microsoft published

Here's hoping it comes to PC as well. XBLA is oh-kay, but you got to know it'll be better on PC.

Unless it's a 2.5D shooter, like shadow complex, though Abuse was amazing on PC.

 

[Jacob.pederson]

Not to complain about awesome new games or anything . . . but what's with using source on 360? It doesn't exactly run the greatest or wow you with its stunning visual effects on that particular platform. I could see the reasoning if this were a Steam game, which was then ported to the 360, but done this way it seems a little backwards.