Too Human Preview (very good)

Gamespy

Combat in Too Human is multi-faceted, and more about developing a rhythm and strategy than mashing buttons. Attacks are simply mapped to the right analog stick, which seems simple at first but is actually rather deep. Primarily, you'll strike at ground-based targets by sliding -- you hold the stick in the direction of an enemy in range, and Baldur will slide along the ground, delivering a blow when contact is made. The trick to handling large groups is to queue up your next slide during the current one, which when done successfully leads to a ****of combat that is one part stylish movie fight scene, and one part pinball. The idea is to move around the battlefield fast enough that the enemies aren't presented with a target slow enough to hit.

Gamespy

Mixing and matching weapons and armor is important, and more than just a styIe choice, as each weapon type and piece of armor will have unique attributes that can be set up to provide tangible benefits in combat. The amount of loot and the number of different attributes that can be modified in Too Human is just staggering, and if you're the type of player who enjoys collecting rare weapons and armor, it's not hard to envision there being near-infinite replay value coming from the itemization alone.

Gamespy

Too Human is at once trying to appeal to die-hard RPG enthusiasts, as well as those who like fast-paced action games. In both of these areas, the game appears to be shaping along quite nicely.

Gamespy

looks like Too Human is going to have a love/hate relationship w/ gamers...wolverine4262

Indeed. Looking at it, I think I will be on the "love" side.

cool so its a love or hate game?

looks like Too Human is going to have a love/hate relationship w/ gamers...wolverine4262

that has been said for months

not everybody is going to get into the game.(or understand that it's not suppose be play like ninja gaiden)

You are not suppose to post positive previews of Too Human. Only the negative previews and opinions of random mods of forums count. :roll:

It does look nice, probably will get a AA. But I'll have to wait to play it because I'll have my plate full when it comes out.

cool so its a love or hate game?

LibertySaint

Aren't most? I, for one, hate the MGS series, but many people love the bejeesus out of them. I love Mass Effect, but many people hate it. I hate the Final Fantasy series, but many people love it. Too Human is just not established, so it's okay to express hate, it seems :)

I have a feeling that the best Too Human can score will be AA since it has been the cool thing to hate on the game for so long. I think most reviewers have seen so much hate towards this game for so long they will go into the game kinda jaded.Eltroz

I think we can expect a 4.5/5 or 5/5 from Gamespy, though, assuming the same guy does the review :)

Mixed critical reception confirmed.

Despite scores, I can't wait to get this game day one.BioShockOwnz

what class are you going as?

im only interested in the champion class right now

[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]Despite scores, I can't wait to get this game day one.lawlessx

what class are you going as?

im only interested in the champion class right now

I'm also really only interested in the champion class at the time being. That might all change when I sit down with the game in front of me and the controller in my hand, though. :)

Im really worry about this game....it had so much potential, but looks like it my fall flat on its face. Ill wait for reviews, and even then, Ill only get it if I have spare money...

EDIT: A demo would really help in my decision

Despite scores, I can't wait to get this game day one.BioShockOwnz

Same here. I have never let a reviewer's opinion interfere with my own. And for the most part i've been very happy that way (to be honest though, i've also been pretty lucky because most do score pretty well). So here i am hyping Too Human :D

Despite scores, I can't wait to get this game day one.BioShockOwnz

agreed, i'm looking forward to it.

Demo should be out sometime around this month. :D

Despite scores, I can't wait to get this game day one.BioShockOwnz

Same here, I probably buy it along with Tales of Vesperia :D

I have stood by this game even when it looked like garbage(E3 06)

I believed in SK then. I called it my sleeper hit. I have called it my sleeper hit for awhile now.

I am telling you when critics finally get there hands on, when we finally get our hands on

This game will get a positive buzz.

It will score AA. Silicon Knights came out of left field with Eternal Darkness.

And this time it may not be as ground breaking awesome as Eternal Darkness, but it will be amazing anyway.

Quote me

This game will get an 8.0 or an 8.5

Will get Microsoft to purchase Silicon Knights

and even Yahtzee will enjoy it.(THATS RIGHT even YAHTZEE mr super standards).

Silicon Knights isn't for sale and wouldn't let MS buy them.subrosian

This is rather...odd.

Over one hundred replies for a "This has to be the worst game I've ever played" from a highly disreputable source, over a hundred more for a preview that is from a site that, in general, no one takes seriously, and over fifty replies to a clearly fake-boy post saying it'll flop, but only thirty replies to this highly positive thread that actually uses a good source? WTF? I guess that's the nature of SW...

This is rather...odd.

Over one hundred replies for a "This has to be the worst game I've ever played" from a highly disreputable source, over a hundred more for a preview that is from a site that, in general, no one takes seriously, and over fifty replies to a clearly fake-boy post saying it'll flop, but only thirty replies to this highly positive thread that actually uses a good source? WTF? I guess that's the nature of SW...

thepwninator

That's the exact nature of SW, take negative press and run with it.

[QUOTE="lawlessx"]

[QUOTE="BioShockOwnz"]Despite scores, I can't wait to get this game day one.BioShockOwnz

what class are you going as?

im only interested in the champion class right now

I'm also really only interested in the champion class at the time being. That might all change when I sit down with the game in front of me and the controller in my hand, though. :)

Bio-engineer for me if i get it (already running a deficit my gaming budget).

Beserker for me .... gotta love the tanks!!!!

Combat in Too Human is multi-faceted, and more about developing a rhythm and strategy than mashing buttons. Attacks are simply mapped to the right analog stick, which seems simple at first but is actually rather deep. Primarily, you'll strike at ground-based targets by sliding -- you hold the stick in the direction of an enemy in range, and Baldur will slide along the ground, delivering a blow when contact is made. The trick to handling large groups is to queue up your next slide during the current one, which when done successfully leads to a ****of combat that is one part stylish movie fight scene, and one part pinball. The idea is to move around the battlefield fast enough that the enemies aren't presented with a target slow enough to hit.

Gamespy

This part of the PREVIEW (previews are generally positive overall) is hardly positive at all. It just explains the gameplay and says that combat is "rather deep". How you take that as very good I have no idea.

Mixing and matching weapons and armor is important, and more than just a styIe choice, as each weapon type and piece of armor will have unique attributes that can be set up to provide tangible benefits in combat. The amount of loot and the number of different attributes that can be modified in Too Human is just staggering, and if you're the type of player who enjoys collecting rare weapons and armor, it's not hard to envision there being near-infinite replay value coming from the itemization alone.

Gamespy

Please quote the entire sentence. "if you're the type of player who enjoys collecting rare weapons and armor" should be bolded as well. This can be said about ANY hack and slash RPG and is hardly a "very good" preview.

Too Human is at once trying to appeal to die-hard RPG enthusiasts, as well as those who like fast-paced action games. In both of these areas, the game appears to be shaping along quite nicely.

Gamespy

Once again, hardly even positive. It just says it's shaping along "quite nicely". No part of this preview really says the game is amazing.

Dropping another preview on this thread, this time from the folks at Penny Arcade. More positive than anything, though certainly not glowing.

A few quotes (I'll try to keep it brief):

Somewhere between Blade Runner and Lord of the Rings there is a powerful venue for storytelling, and they have found it.

Penny Arcade

For me, the basic combat was like a notes of a scale. It was in constructing improvised combinations that I found the game I wanted.

Penny Arcade

the reason you'll want to wrest control of that camera is that the built-in camera can be pretty dumb. Complaining about cameras is a longstanding gamer tradition, but this one has earned some scorn. It wasn't a deal breaker for me, eventually you learn how not to anger the camera gods, but Jesu Christe.

Penny Arcade

They've made a kind of cyberpunk Diablo, with a fast combat system and a deep world. It's not perfect. But it's much, much better than I expected.

Penny Arcade

Too Human .... ah Too Human, it's so terribly unfair that in a world filled with uncreative, unplayable dreck, one of the few dozen games that does something more worthwhile - that gives us something designed around being fun, for a fair dollar, is such a target for fanboyism. There's this stigma in the media where no one mainstream wants to be the one to admit that, yes, they ****ed up when they bashed this game, and yes, it's time to look at the game in front of us, instead of living in E3 2006 forever.

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In the end though, none of it matters, none of the previews, none of the hype, none of the hatred, and none of the controversy, because when the hammer falls - when the disk drops into a million fans drives simultaneously - when LIVE is lit up like Christmas with the battle cries of a hoard of fledgling cyber-gods, the angry keystrokes of a few hundred miserable beings will be inaudible over the sounds of a digital Ragnarok.

Too Human .... ah Too Human, it's so terribly unfair that in a world filled with uncreative, unplayable dreck, one of the few dozen games that does something more worthwhile - that gives us something designed around being fun, for a fair dollar, is such a target for fanboyism. There's this stigma in the media where no one mainstream wants to be the one to admit that, yes, they ****ed up when they bashed this game, and yes, it's time to look at the game in front of us, instead of living in E3 2006 forever.

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In the end though, none of it matters, none of the previews, none of the hype, none of the hatred, and none of the controversy, because when the hammer falls - when the disk drops into a million fans drives simultaneously - when LIVE is lit up like Christmas with the battle cries of a hoard of fledgling cyber-gods, the angry keystrokes of a few hundred miserable beings will be inaudible over the sounds of a digital Ragnarok.

subrosian