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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!'"

3 of 100 comments (clear)

  1. From the makers of... by Senjutsu · · Score: 5, Funny

    gabbo Gabbo GABBO

  2. Features? by Paktu · · Score: 5, Funny

    From the feature list: unique weapon system that makes you "love" your weapons what the fuck does that mean?

  3. 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