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Title: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: Webmalfunction on June 04, 2012, 07:25:09 PM

Sounds like this game might be focusing on motion control.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/30444

The Avengers: Battle For Earth was announced for release on Wii U during today's Ubisoft press conference.

The game features various Marvel characters from the X-Men, Captain America, Spider-Man, Iron Man, Hulk, and other series, and will also include various antagonists, such as Dr. Doom, Venom, alien invaders, and presumably more. No gameplay footage was shown in the trailer released during the Ubisoft press conference, but with a dual release on Kinect, motion control of some kind may be involved.

The game is due for release this fall.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: Disco Stu on June 04, 2012, 08:05:05 PM

Am I the only one who hates videogame teaser trailers?  Why not skip the crap I don't care about and show me what it looks like to play the actual game?

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: leahsdad on June 04, 2012, 08:30:05 PM

Quote from: Disco Stu on June 04, 2012, 08:05:05 PM

Am I the only one who hates videogame teaser trailers?  Why not skip the crap I don't care about and show me what it looks like to play the actual game?

Oh no, you are most definitely not.   This is one of the more detestable trends to have surfaced this past generation.   And though western publishers seem be the bigger culprits (Dead Island, Last of Us, etc...come to mind), Japanese publishers are complicit too (RE 6, for example...what have we seen of this game?)

I blame this sort of hollywood-ization of games.    It seems that with smartphone gaming eating away at low-budget games, the higher budget games are really higher budget, and shoot for these high production value, expensive, hollywood cinematic experiences.  It's no mistake that a lot of these devs, along with E3 itself, are in Los Angeles or the surrounding areas (Blizzard, Activision, Sony Santa Monica, etc. etc.).    And as a result of this, we're seeing the way that games are being marketed resembling more and more the way that movies are marketed, with teaser trailers, big "opening" release dates, big name voice actors, basing games on existing franchises (or "IP's").   I mean, we've got game "trilogies" now.  Oh, facepalm.   

I know a lot of people, including Nintendo fans, people on staff here, and the RFN guys want Nintendo to get with the times and adopt a lot of the practices that western publishers take.  Some of those practices, such as better online infrastructure (which I don't give a crap about), DLC (ditto), and patches (sure), it would be nice if Nintendo took up.   But the last thing I want to see is something like an epic Super Mario trilogy or even focus on LORE (what a dumb word, and a dumb concept for games) for Zelda. 

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: nickmitch on June 04, 2012, 08:35:25 PM

Let's not forget Square and the Final Fantasy series.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: broodwars on June 04, 2012, 08:37:21 PM

I really don't have high hopes for this game, as that teaser trailer looked pretty terrible.  It looked like a Marvel Ultimate Alliance game with the Avengers tacked-on.  Still, we'll see how the gameplay looks.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: leahsdad on June 05, 2012, 12:41:46 AM

Oh, and I would also add that Storm and most of the X-men are not actually Avengers.  Only Wolverine is.   Marvel Nerd Forever!

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: Ignoramus on June 05, 2012, 12:47:10 AM

Cheap cash in on a popular franchise? Sign me up!  :cool;

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: ShyGuy on June 05, 2012, 01:12:17 AM

will this have ultimate alliance style gameplay?

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: Adrock on June 05, 2012, 01:22:13 AM

Quote from: leahsdad on June 04, 2012, 08:30:05 PM

Japanese publishers are complicit too (RE 6, for example...what have we seen of this game?)

A lot. Even the reveal trailer had gameplay in it.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: Dasmos on June 05, 2012, 05:19:16 AM

Quote from: leahsdad on June 05, 2012, 12:41:46 AM

Oh, and I would also add that Storm and most of the X-men are not actually Avengers.  Only Wolverine is.   Marvel Nerd Forever!

But she was an Avenger, she just chose to side with the X-Men in AvX.

Title: Re: The Avengers: Battle for Earth Announced for Wii U
Post by: ShyGuy on June 07, 2012, 11:26:34 PM

Looking at the Kinect footage, it looks like this is a fighting game. The Kinect controls seem awful.

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2012-the-avengers/731935