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Rockstar's Family-Friendly Shocker
kleptonin writes "IGN is running an article about a new game being developed by Rockstar San Diego. Unlike their previous releases, the game will feature no guns, no violence, and no swearing. The game, Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis, will be exclusive to the Xbox 360, and will cost $39.99." Chris Morris, over at the CNN Game Over column, has some commentary on Grand Theft Ping Pong.
Seriously though, do we need (another) electric ping pong? Forest Gump and the Chinese players aside, I thought ping-pong was lazy enough already.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.-TJ
Wow, could you sell out a little more? Did Take Two eat your lunch or what? When the Big Wigs at a company start hyping a game instead of the designer, you know your in trouble.
The COO and the President. Sure Mr. Houser's title is also Executive Producer, but that is pretty far from designer. What are these guys going to do that's so innovative? Implement a virtua tennis control scheme? Oh, wait - can I get tons of Bling for winning matches against the hardest hitters in the 'hood? Yo, does it have dope tracks that I can get my table on to? Can I play against Forrest Gump?
Seriously, this is pathetic.
Rockstar is one of the game developers out there that is at the height of whoring a franchise. It's the big developers like this that continue re-releasing the same game over and over that is leading to the stagnating gaming industry. As far as I'm concerned, they should have stopped after GTA3. Nintendo on the other hand, has it's franchise characters (Mario and such) but each time they release a game they make it a different one. Every Mario release might fall under the platformer genre, but they all play/look different. Transfering the franchise characters to other genres is also a positive. Kart, Smash Brothers, Tennis, and Strikers are all very different games with similar characters. This makes for good brand awareness while giving the diversity in gameplay that I wish more people would demand. So I give props to Rockstar on this one, but please don't make anymore GTAs... it's as tired and played out as WW2 based FPS games.
Wouldnt you like to be a pepper too?
One word: Dork
God it must suck to be a 360 owner.
I guess this is the type of garbage one would get excited about if the big game for you system is Geometry Wars.