Wow....Overstrike has changed alot in one year

[GONNAFISTYA]

It's now marketed as a totally different game...with a Pixar/The Incredibles vibe with humour in Overstrike only to become a gory military sci-fi title with Fuse.

Overstrike – E3 2011 teaser

Fuse – September 2012 trailer

[seremtan]

oh wow that's fucking lame

overstrike looks fun, but fuse does indeed look like a generic console fodder shitfest

[Tsakali]

so are we still making fun of EA? i thought it was taboo right about now.
Also, recently EA wanted to buy Valve for like a billion, but Gabe told them to fuck off

[Silicone_Milk]

EA really thought they had a chance of buying up Valve?

[Psyche911]

so are we still making fun of EA? i thought it was taboo right about now.
Also, recently EA wanted to buy Valve for like a billion, but Gabe told them to fuck off

No they didn't. It was just conjecture, and the line was that it would cost "over a billion" and some idiot reported that as an offer. Gabe never commented on that either.

Edit, link:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/1773 ... FObw41lStN

[Tsakali]

oh

[GONNAFISTYA]

At any rate they took a game I wanted to play and apparently turned it into a game I don't want to play.

[Tsakali]

"They took a game I wanted to play and apparently turned it into a game I don't want to play."

GONNAFISTYA
14/9/2012

[losCHUNK]

Well that sucks :/

[fKd]

it really does, overstrike looked cool (i laughed for real) fuse looks shit. :/

[Pext]

oh man... fuse looks totally gay.

[obsidian]

The first trailer looks heavily CGI based, the second shows some gameplay but is cut for all the Michael Bay fireballs, I suspect neither are indicative of what the game is actually like. I suppose all you can say about this is EA's marketing mentality and how it sucks hairy balls, but I don't think either can be used to determine the quality of the actual game.

[Eraser]

Guess which game was released last week? Overstri.... I mean Fuse!

Metacratic score of 63

Some reviewer quotes:

Fuse seems like it took the template for a co-op shooter and forgot to take the time to modify that template to give the game a soul. Much like the title of the game, Fuse is generic and easily forgotten.

Insomniac has definitely proven that they can make a rock-solid, third-person shooter, but all of the testosterone that was injected into the weaponry may have neutered the overall experience.

Repetitive and rather poor, FUSE is a failed experiment by Insomniac, which produces a TPS like many others.

Like four boring cover-shooters layered together. Inventive firearms aside, there’s a crippling lack of ideas: the weapon interplay is mild fun, but it can’t elevate the bland whole.

There’s nothing remarkable about it – it feels like a game we’ve seen a hundred times before.

Insomniac’s initial plan has devolved into a conglomerative representation of the military-shooter market’s complete saturation, a blueprint of a lack of imagination.

Bland and generic is what the verdict appears to be.

[scared?]

cod ghosts morons...morons...

[Don Carlos]

Yeah it only just broke into the UK top 40 (37)