BIONIC COMMANDO!

http://bioniccommando.com/img/site/screenshots/gs_12_l.jpg

and voiced by Mike Patton, of all people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Patton

http://cache.idolator.com/assets/resources/2007/10/bionic.jpg

I'm with everyone who said this looks like shit.

bizarre, was only playing this randomly on MAME last night.

with the power of ram state saves, I HAVE BEATEN BIONIC COMMANDO. which i seriously doubt anyone had ever done before, in history.

the video trailer looked pretty cool, but the writing is like Are You Base-level bad.

Wait, Mike Patton?

the writing is like Are You Base-level bad.

heh. the only saving grace of shit like this is when the japanese language tracks are available, and you can turn subtitles on. It makes the horrid WTFness go down SOOOOO much better. Wretched voice acting and dialogue is english is intolerable, but subtitled dialogue can have a certain level of batshit incoherency and still remain acceptable. this is how i was able to make it thru Onimusha 1 & 3(for PC, where you copy/paste out the japanese dialogue mp3s in place of hte english ones).

Then again, maybe watching too much subbed anime has lowered that threshold.

Wait, Mike Patton?

Yeah apparently he has a 'unique' vocal style. Check out that wikipedia link above. It says he also did a voice in Portal (the anger sphere? dont recall it) and The Darkness.

Mike's been doing free jazz/experimental for years; I just didn't know he was doing voiceover work. So odd.

Mike is the growly voice of the red-eyed CPU orb in the boss battle.

I'm looking forward to the remake a lot more...
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/29800.html

with the power of ram state saves, I HAVE BEATEN BIONIC COMMANDO. which i seriously doubt anyone had ever done before, in history.

I beat this on the NES when I was 12, and it was probably my life's greatest achievement up to that point. That, or blowing up Mother Brain.

I agree with any and all comments regarding both the seeming shittiness of the new version and the apparent awesomeness of the remake. The 2D remake might be my most anticipated game of '08. The original Bionic Commando is probably my favorite game of all time.

does anyone know if the remake is in unreal 3 engine? or is it an in-house engine?

i wish the remake was coming out for DS.

Two-Player Cooperative Swing Action

Am I the only one who found this hilarious?

This does look pretty cool.

via Kotaku - OUCH!

"Bionic Commando Rearmed on PC will have high-res textures. Bionic Commando Rearmed on PS3 will have high-res textures. Bionic Commando Rearmed on Xbox Live Arcade? Not-so-high-res textures. BC producer Ben Judd has said that, thanks to Xbox Live Arcade's file-size restrictons, which limit games offered on the service to 150MB, the XBLA version's textures won't be of the same quality as those found on the PS3 and PC."

haha, pc wins agane

I wonder if it'll be on steam? or how does capcom sell their smaller pc games (maybe this is the first?)? Did you see the footage on the 1up show of the VR puzzle missions (which looked pretty cool)?

The remake was (still is?) scheduled for a July release. No solid release date to be found though.

I reeeeeeally wanna play this.

mid-August now. two weeks from today, perhaps?

I'm still excited.

Comes out tomorrow on XBLA and Thursday for PS3.

Super positive review up at IGN: http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/897/897976p1.html

SO PSYCHED!

I was just going to post this! Really looking forward to Thursday.

It's a little bit of a shame though that the multiplayer stuff isn't online...

I played this a bit before work. Seems good thus far. The new-fangled 3-D topographical map thing is pretty ugly, and either the trucks are faster or the copter is slower, but neither's a big deal.

I'm waiting for Dtoid's Chad C. to review it, I really trust his reviews on this kinda game and he didn't really like the preview builds at all.

Did you play the original? It was my favorite game when I was 11.

The game's a blast. If you enjoyed the original game, I don't see how you can dislike this.

Total steal for 10 bucks.

Will - it seems like the kind of game you might like. Try out the demo. It's pretty challenging stuff - sort of reminds me of N+ actually. All those challenge rooms too. Anybody know what you have to do to unlock 'em?

There are challenge rooms at each of the friendly bases. Once you "activate" them or whatever they're accessible through the main menu.

Co-op is fun. Not sold on the other multiplayer modes though. Maybe once I get more used to the controls?

You're all insane. I never played the original, but I tried this last night and it was AWFUL. Action game where you can't jump: interesting idea. Action game where you can't jump and people shoot at your legs: oh fuck off.

Hey, at least you start off with a health bar in this one. And the ability to save.

I've always thought the original BC's difficulty was overstated. Yeah, it's tough, but rarely in a cheap way, like Mega Man or Ninja Gaiden. And once you get past the first stage you can basically get continues at will in the overhead levels.

Last night I was too busy playing REAL LIFE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS! AMAZING! but tongiht i will try to pop on xblive and check it out.

really really excited for next week's galaga legions though. the pacman ce guys do my other fave 80s arcade game! yay!

You rarely get people shooting at your legs. When you do, you've always got that arm to deflect incoming bullets or something above you to pull yourself up on. Anyway, that's BIONIC COMMANDO.

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Plus there's always a few seconds between shots from the enemies, so it's pretty easy to avoid a round, drop down / pull up, and fire off a couple shots before they unload again.

The hard parts come from spikes and those areas where you have one tiny square to latch onto. These two are very often combined, of course.

GOD this game is hard. even the tutorial was hard!!

http://wa4.images.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/snow_infernus/bionic_arm_pics/bionic_2.jpg?v=268650

I'd never played the original game so I picked up the GBA port. So far it seems much harder than the remake that came out last year. I'm having a really hard time just on the first level because so many fucking more enemies just keep spawning in. From the above comments, am I right to think you have to beat this game on one go too (unlike the remake which saves after you finish a level)?

by original, I meant original NES game, not the arcade

I believe so - I was always pretty bad at that game, and never got past a couple of levels. I still liked it despite that, though! I'd hope the remake was more forgiving (unlike say Mega Man 9 which is just as hard if not worse than any of the old ones) with modern features like the level saving.

rearmed doesn't seem to be available anymore?

I actually... quite like the demo for the new one

anyone else w/me?

Have they made it available for non-Gold subscribers yet?

I hated the demo, but then again I was horrible at it.

Just read on Joystiq that they've patched the demo and you can now create a private local server to screw around and learn the controls in. Why they didn't just release.a SP demo in the first place is beyond me. Was anyone really looking forward to this for the multiplayer?

So um this is pretty good you guys

(still not gonna play the MP though)

...okay, the "radiation" in this game is bullshit. It's still enjoyable, but whoever thought the player should be punished for exploring needs to be fired. From a cannon. Into the sun. It's still enjoyable, and the levels are gradually opening up, or seem to be, but the blatantly artificial constraints are terrible.

Also, I never thought I would say this, but Mike Patton needs to shut up. The first time I shot an enemy and heard him bray "NAILED YA!" it was so incongruous it was a bit funny, but it's not endearing. And while I'm bitching, the title character's resemblance to a roided-up Sam Rockwell (plus whiteboy dreads) is downright uncanny.

But I still like it! I just wish I hadn't paid full price for it, forgot to cancel my preorder after all the negative feedback from the demo.

wow, two "it's still enjoyable"s. Why do I get the feeling I'm trying to convince myself I like this more than I actually do? NAH

Finally gave the demo a shot... DO NOT WANT

Still plugging away at this, though TF2's taking most of my spare time lately, and while the levels continue to get better and less obviously restricting, the guns continue to suck and Patton gets worse somehow. Either he has no idea how actual human beings talk, which I doubt, or he got shitty direction.

Is the demo still multiplayer only? I hear the story mode is solid.

Release month US sales = 27,000
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24040