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Can You Handle 'THEY'?

Posted by Zonk on from the oh-games dept.

In a refreshing turn, over at Newsweek's LevelUp blog N'Gai has some suitably chastising commentary on the newly-announced FPS entitled simply THEY. This overly-simplistic name is accompanied by a nearly informationless press release, and reinforces the idea that whatever THEY is, it's not worth looking into. "Generally, the role of a press release is to inform. But having read the THEY press release, all we've taken away from it is hyperbole and buzzwords, assembled Mad Libs-style for maximum unintended hilarity. What is THEY? Apparently, THEY is a 'next generation mystery first person shooter for PC and next generation consoles.' Who are THEY, you ask? ''THEY' are huge--'THEY' are different--'THEY' are hostile!' How good will THEY be? It's 'so mysterious, so stunning and so amazing--that 'THEY' might become one of the most anticipated world premiere titles from this year's Games Convention!'"

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  1. Nothing to see here by quarrel · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is there much point in posting a /. article, trying to inform your fellow geeks, that there is something they've never heard of, and it looks like it isn't worth paying any attention to?

    I already know there is lots of useless crap in the world that I'm not interested in. Tell me about things that ARE interesting.

    --Q

  2. Vaporware by sykopomp · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Please label this as vaporware. 'THEY' sound more like they're trying to sell me a Phantom than actually trying to make a good game. Expected Release Date: Holiday Season 09/0ALWAYS BET ON DUKE

  3. 1-18-08 by Trikenstein · · Score: 2, Insightful

    slash Cloverfield seems to be doing it's job of causing interest.
    Maybe They (Newsweek) just don't *get it*.