Fuse trailer zaps out, a little late
The big and somewhat overblown reveal that Insomniac's first multiplatform game Overstrike is now renamed Fuse should've been accompanied by a trailer, but a mysterious legal rights issue kept publisher EA from releasing it on schedule. With that resolved, the trailer's now out for your viewing pleasure, with snippets of in-game footage showing off your squad's flashy technological abilities.
The big and somewhat overblown reveal that Insomniac's first multiplatform game Overstrike is now renamed Fuse should've been accompanied by a trailer, but a mysterious legal rights issue kept publisher EA from releasing it on schedule. With that resolved, the trailer's now out for your viewing pleasure, with snippets of in-game footage showing off your squad's flashy tech powers.
As our Ozzie explained in his preview, the squad-based shooter formerly known as Overstrike's four team members each have tech powered by the unstable alien substance 'fuse.' It can power a handy shield or, put in a gun, it can crystallise enemies, melt them, and suck them into black holes.
Fuse is due on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in March 2013. Compare this to Overstrike's announcement trailer and you'll see the squad's abilities have changed a fair bit since E3 2011:
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replyAlice O'Connor posted a new article, Fuse trailer zaps out, a little late.
The big and somewhat overblown reveal that Insomniac's first multiplatform game Overstrike is now renamed Fuse should've been accompanied by a trailer, but a mysterious legal rights issue kept publisher EA from releasing it on schedule. With that resolved, the trailer's now out for your viewing pleasure, with snippets of in-game footage showing off your squad's flashy technological abilities.-
That is really just a terrible trailer.
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I think it's just the music that is shitty. Or maybe you're tired of third person shooters?
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It's the entire thing. If you were forced to create a checklist of the awful cliches employed in modern game marketing, this trailer would be a good place to start.
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lol. Yeah I can see that, but I thought some of the gameplay mechanics looked interesting, I'll probably still buy this game, for at least the coop, my friends and I are running out of coop games to play.
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Amazing how many people are whining about the art style.. especially without seeing any gameplay until now. Just looking at the youtube comments for that video or comments on articles elsewhere.. seems like a lot of people have their priorities in the wrong order.
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I was pretty sold on Overstrike/Fuse. I know it was a CG animation and that the game would look different, but I loved the pretty colors, the characters that boasted very different personality, equipment, weapons and abilities and all the funny humor that surrounded the game.
This trailer showed me what the changes did to this game. The colors were lost, all the characters wear a standard grey uniform. The humor is gone judging from the serious tone of this trailer. The weapons are still there I guess...
It's like they pulled a reverse Borderlands. Borderlands was serious and brown and grey and they made it colorful with plenty of humor and that worked because it's a breath of fresh air from all the apocalyptic stuff.
Overstrike was funny, bright and colorful. It transformed into Fuse: a grey, brown and serious shooter in a sea of grey, brown and serious shooters. -
LOL nearly everything EA has published has been bland. bulletstorm, syndicate, crysis 2, dragon age, army of two, swtor, medal of honor
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did they even actually change the aesthetic? that trailer is CG after all. theres no way the game could ever look like that
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Yea grittier. maybe EA said, we need more modern warfare
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someday someone will make a DUDEBRO game ironically, not seriously
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lot of dude. not enough bro. 6/10
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I totally agree. Overstrike looked like a game from Insomniac because of the cool weapons, the animated style of the characters and the humour. Fuse at least retains interesting weapons, but other than that it just looks like a generic gritty shooter. I'm sure the developers will still manage to make a good game, but it definitely won't be a traditional Insomniac game; it will be a traditional shooter (hopefully with cool guns).
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