Gizmodo
Nokia tells us that Reset Generation—their new "flagship" title for the N-Gage—will appeal to those who grew up playing videogames. The multiplayer puzzle-adventure is supposed to tickle you by using parodies of characters like Mario, Link, and even Master Chief, resulting in what they call "the world's first videogame about videogames." We are going to call it "yet another game that couldn't use the real thing so they decided to do humorous knockoffs." Although who knows, if it's crazy enough, it may work.
You can choose your hero from a swath of "legendary champions," whose ranks include a manic hedgehog, a space invader, a plumber, a bomb man, a Level 50 Elf, and some kind of Master Chief, among others. Every hero comes with a princess, and the object of the game is to rescue other players' princesses before they can rescue yours. You accomplish this task by building combo roads to other heroes' castles, firing cannons to defend your own abode from your opponents' roads, and using your special power to finally get the girl!
Nokia promises that the game will appeal to all audiences, from casual gamers—how these are going to get who the heck is Bomber Man, we don't know—to hardcore nerds. We hope so. The N-Gage platform has traversed a rocky road since its inception, and if there's any princess in need of rescuing by a wildly popular and successful hero, that's probably it.
The game is being developed by RedLynx, will feature a soundtrack by chiptune band 8 Bit Weapon and a price tag of $10 to $14 for the full N-Gage version of the game (the PC version will be free). Look forward to a Summer 2008 release.
Comments
...Is that friggin Jungle Zelda?
Awesome.
~Y
Is that a Sonic, Donkey Kong,and Pokemon hybrid?
Jungle Zelda? I though it was Xander from Drawn Together!.
What the hell is in picture 11?
At least the gameplay doesn't seem like a ripoff (as far s I can tell with my incredibly limited sight). Anyone care to enlighten me so that I may properly poo-poo upon this piece of programming (and possibly pursue further progress in alliteration).
Picture 11 is meant to be a Sonic parody: the colors, rings, and spikes tip one off.
@RavingRabbid:
That's picture 9 (at least for me, maybe Giz is messed up)
This is the picture I'm referring to:
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They should have licensed Code Monkeys characters cheap and made a game around that, would have been awesome for a low rez screen.
@radeon21: Looks like a cross between a monkey and a Japanese school girl.
@Mecharine:
maybe its noodle from gorillaz?
@roflwaffles:
I suspect the cube she/it is holding is the key to her/its identity.
Holy fucking shit. I think I'm going to throw up.
the second asterixs and obelix PS2 game did this....
I still play Atomic Bomberman from time to time...
@Balmut:
"The Simpsons" game that came out last October was a videogame about riffing on other videogames, too.
Two definitions of "parody" from the American Heritage Dictionary:
1.a. literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect or ridicule.
2. Something so bad as to be equivalent to intentional mockery; a travesty: The trial was a parody of justice.
Which definition fits here?
Well this game doesn't intend riffing on video game characters, it merely refers to the most known and loved characters. That's what this game is supposed to be, a sortof euphoric view on the past 20 years of games, hence the name Reset Generation, the people who played NES ect. and when things got bad they could simply reset the system. The game will be highly based apon the comunity effort. There will be a Reset arcade where users can submit there own versions of games and characters, also all the sounds voices (full voiced CS's) and characters will be royalty free (i think). So this game looks promising if you ask me.
I don't think people should judge the quality of the game simply cause it mentions N-Gage in it.
Flagship title for the n-Gage? Didn't this thing come out like 5 years ago?
@DJTripleRRR: How long you been working for Nokia?
@astroglide: ... Both?
To be honest, I don't know what to think about this.
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Begin the clone wars have.
Something with "generation" in it's title is destined to fail.
@kaneshadow:
Hahaha, exactly what I was going to say.
This is to video games as Meet the Spartans is to movies.
A big "fack you, hahahaha, you actually paid money for this."
Nokia missed the opportunity to turn the original, awful N-Gage gaming devices (modern gaming with portrait-oriented screens? seriously?) into a standard feature of N-Series devices years ago. Too little, too late. Let it die already...
But I guess they have billions to waste on it, and Anssi Vanjoki is not the type of person to admit mistakes.
While cartoon elf boobs are always a good thing, the blonde Mario clone and the ape-like, shoeless, ring-shackled Sonic the fauxhog present fail, of biblical proportions.
DUde that's bomberman, somebody sue their ass!
@radeon21: gotta be ripping off Pokemon...
that Sonic deserves a lawsuit. he should have at least done a comb-over to tell them apart...
@ceriphim: Haha I would love to work for Nokia. I'm not though :P. Just read up about this stuff before I judge :O
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