Zero Punctuation: Dark Void

[Onyx Oblivion]

I'll give it a rent then.

 

[Cosplay Horatio]

I may rent it after I'm done with Fable 2 and Ghostbusters. Excellent review Yahtzee! I can't wait for the Tatsunoku vs. Capcom and/or the No More Heroes 2 review.

 

[silver wolf009]

No intrest in the game but i did enjoy that insperation counter at the bottom.

 

[Lord Doom]

The same thing that happened the Ninety Nine Nights. But if they went to someone with a ton of money to make the game, that corporation would screw the idea into oblivion.

 

[Redratson]

"But once I caught up to it and started making out with it, all its teeth fell out and gave me scurvey."

I just lol'd so fukn hard at that part and its animation XD

 

[rtidb126]

Did he just give away the ending to Dead Space in this review? I may have saved myself some money if he did.

 

[geldonyetich]

These days, that a game has an up between two downs instead of all down and no up is a reason to give it a tentative half-recommendation. Consider Dark Void in my "try it out when it hits $20" bin.

 

[RTR]

I almost thought Yahtzee would make a reference to The Crying Game, but I guess that would be more suitable for a game like, say, Brütal Legend, where the demo made it look like a hack 'em up but it was more RTS/open world than anything else. You know, something that isn't exactly what it seems...

 

[carpathic]

I laughed,
I well, I didn't cry, but still great review.

Sad that the game was a bit of a let down, but it does sound as though there were some fun parts at least!

 

[CD-R]

Dark Void didn't appeal to me anyway. Loved the Crimson Skies reference though.

Funny how people keep bringing up Crimson Skies. This game was actually made by former members of FASA Studios the guys who made Crimson Skies the High Road to Revenge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtight_Games

Crimson Skies was a great game and a great X-Box live game. But according to Wikipedia it wasn't a best seller.Which is weird because I thought it was the number one game on X Box live for awhile. It even had freed down loadable content. And this was good free DLC too. One of the things they gave you was a plane that shot lighting. FASA could have easily made a sequel and turned it into a franchise on par with Call of Duty or Halo. But instead they made Shadowrun. And not like the amazing Super NES RPG. They made it into an online only multiplayer shooter. And it was also the first game to use Games for Windows Live so I think you can imagine how that turned out.

I'm surprised Yahtzee was as nice to this game as he was. It's a real shame when a new developer tries something new and it ends up not working out. I may pick this game up when it hits the bargain bins. I think they should hand Airtight Gsmes the Crimson Skies License and let them redeem themselves.

 

[CD-R]

Why, oh why, oh why, has no-one been able to do a PROPER Jet-pack game since

No they have.

I used to play this all the time when I was a kid. It even had one of the first Giant Robot-Mech Fight thing sections in a game.

 

[supermike6]

That was a relatively positive review coming from Yahtzee. That means this game has to be something special

 

[Aperama]

Well, to be fair, the original PC/SNES game for 'The Rocketeer' did do the whole jetpack flight combat thing (after Rocket Ranger by Cinemaware, best as I know anyhow).. Oh, sure, it was portrayed as a sidescroller shooter with minigames aplenty that was, in a word, crap.. but hey, don't you think that counts?

(I.. yeah, I got it as a young, impressionable youth. I totally got by the first level! With.. cheat codes.)

 

[ethaninja]

Yeah...I wasn't too hot on Dark Void, and now I know I won't play it at all. Jetpacks sound fun though.

Aye I reckon. But still, I could always play Soldat or Tribes or hey I know, Jetpack

 

[TxMxRonin]

The only thing I can think of that's worse than the game is that Brad Pitt wants to make a movie based on it.

 

[bowen13]

Hey, home come I keep getting this Zero Punctuation advertisement video rather than the review?

 

[Kanazuchi]

"Too Human" was the worst game he reviewed? What happened to "Sonic Unleashed"?

 

[Kanazuchi]

didn't Yahtzee say he would review dante's inferno...

The game's not out until next week, unless the Bizarro World release dates came back for Australia and they're getting it before we are.

 

[Squilookle]

Funny how people keep bringing up Crimson Skies. This game was actually made by former members of FASA Studios the guys who made Crimson Skies the High Road to Revenge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtight_Games

Crimson Skies was a great game and a great X-Box live game. But according to Wikipedia it wasn't a best seller. FASA could have easily made a sequel and turned it into a franchise on par with Call of Duty or Halo. I think they should hand Airtight Gsmes the Crimson Skies License and let them redeem themselves.

While the Xbox Crimson skies: HRTR had great music, graphics, exploration etc, If you've ever played the first Crimson skies on the PC then you'd be GLAD these guys didn't make any more CS games. There was so much more to the PC game that fell by the wayside, such as airships gradually burning up and falling apart as they hit the ground or sea (and actually staying there), plane customisation, better all round plane handling, no stupid mechanical worms and the like, trinkets you collect from missions and newspaper cuttings of your deeds, instant action, bots in multiplayer, varied weapons (70 cal guns mmm) etc etc and on and on and on.

My point is that.... well, essentially I'm saying that Crimson skies on the PC is the greatest arcade flight game EVER made, and the xbox one is merely passably good by comparison.

And Yahtzee, Crimson Skies has NOTHING to do with alternate WW2, being set in 1937. You're probably thinking of turning point: fall of liberty or whatever it was called.

 

[Lancer873]

Too Human < Sonic Unleashed? Seriously??? Wow. Anyways, interesting review. Sounds pretty cool actually, but I'm probably not gonna buy it.