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Black FPS Preview

Posted by Zonk on from the back-in dept.

The First Person Shooter that had everyone abuzz at this year's E3 was the simply titled 'Black'. Eurogamer has a piece on the upcoming console-based action game, where it's come from, and where it's going. From the article: "But one thing Ward freely admits is that Black distills the team's best memories of their favourite movies. In fact, the last time out we got a sneak peak at the storyboarding process down at Criterion's HQ, each of the game's levels were explicitly designed to play out like your best memories of the best action sequences they could think of. Not a bad basis for an action game, you might reason."

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  1. There's a black Stormy? by hunterx11 · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is an outrage. Why do the call it a "black" FPS? Would other FPS's like to be called a "white" FPS?

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  2. Re:I thought that... by th3space · · Score: 2, Funny

    My firm belief is that the video game industry, in their small way, is trying to help American kids learn how to spell again...with bold, capitalized letters...and short, succinct words.

    See, by seeing this bright and shiny acronym, the kids will be all, "What does it mean, mom?!" And then they will strive to learn what words coalesced to create this one super-word, and so on, and so forth...

    Or, it could be that they've run out of words to trademark, and have now moved into the realm of 'alternative phrases'.

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  3. I break stuff by iridium_ionizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I break stuff in real life all the time. It's really cool!

    Car breaks down - Dose it with gasoline and send it pinballing down a cliff with flames dancing to the sweet night music of destruction. Bump my head on a my basements low doorway - let the sledgehammer rain down wood splinters and chunks of drywall until I have enough headroom. Gumball machine steals my quarter - crowbar it into flying shards of glass and hundreds of colorful bouncing gumballs.

    I'm telling you there's no limit to the number of life's problems that can be solved by breaking stuff. I already have all the particle effects, realistic physics, and CD quality audio I'll ever need.