Activision and High Moon announcing Deadpool project at SDCC

[venom892]

While its just a color swap, I absolutely love the X-force suit, so I might just preorder.

 

[Jick]

It seems June 25 is the launch date.
Too bad. I'll be busy with The Last of Us, so I'll get this one later.

 

[TX85]

Yeah it'll be The Last of Us for me too,I'm looking forward to this But I can wait a few more months or something(more games I want first)!!

I'm getting sick of the marketing style,Acting like it's Deadpool himself doing the marketing and the game was cool/fun&funny at first But it's getting dumb and just too much!!

 

[psylockolussus]

 

[TX85]

Nice!

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Sweet. Knew Sinister would show up

 

[Alchemyst]

Hopefully we get some gameplay trailers soon, I wanna pick this up day one, i got faith in High Moon Studios, just dont want Slactivision ****in it up

 

[Spider-Vader]

I'm sort of worried that this game will launch at 50 bucks. That's usually not a good sign, but I'll be optimistic & say that it's Activision not having a ton of confidence since DP is a cult character

 

[Jick]

What are you talking about?

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I'm sort of worried that this game will launch at 50 bucks. That's usually not a good sign, but I'll be optimistic & say that it's Activision not having a ton of confidence since DP is a cult character

Could be, but honestly i dont know what ppl are expecting. This isnt going to be an Arkham Asylum quality game, High Moons Transformers wasnt. They did what they had to do, they used the license effectively. I think theyll do the same here. Im expecting a fun, if not by the numbers, hack n slash ft Deadpool, which is all i need.

 

[Pepsiguy2]

any news on sys reqs or alt costumes?

 

[ProjectPat2280]

any news on sys reqs or alt costumes?

No sys requirements yet, but im sure it wont be too demanding. As for alts, theyve revealed a few(xforce, rapper pool) but they can only be used in these like challenge maps it appears.

 

[Samwise Gamgee]

LOL @ "Psylocke: One hot piece of mutant super heroine. Seriously, what an incredible assssss....et to the X-Men."

This game looks fun. The gamestop pre-order thing mentions challenge maps. I don't expect this to have a lot in common w/ the Arkham games but I'm wondering, at least in the area of challenge maps, if this is similar. If so, I hope some of the guest characters, like Psylocke, are playable.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I'm interested in the game, but will definitely wait for reviews and maybe even a price drop.

 

[Nathan]

 

[venom892]

The Marauders should be fun boss battles.To my knowledge, Deadpool has never had any dealings with them or Sinister so this should be interesting.

 

[Havok83]

The Marauders should be fun boss battles.To my knowledge, Deadpool has never had any dealings with them or Sinister so this should be interesting.

They fought in the pages of Cable and Deadpool

Spoiler

 

[Nathan]

Visceral and Funny: Hands-on with Deadpool

Earlier in the year, the team at High Moon Studios told me that the goal for Deadpool was to really embrace their crazy subject matter. Thanks to multiple voices inside assassin-for-hire Wade Wilson‘s crazy head, over-the-top cartoony violence, and the ability (if not requirement!) to break the fourth wall into tiny little bits, Deadpool gave the developers the freedom to make a superhero game that wouldn’t be like every other superhero game out there. The goal, I was told, was to deliver something “visceral and funny.”

The hands-on session I received checked both boxes.

Unlike so many other comic-based games, this one’s rated M, and not just for Marvel: Expect blood, boobies, and foul language with a capital F — plus a fair amount of potty humor. The good news: It’s not gratuitous so much as juvenile and silly. Wade displays all the restraint and taste of a hyperactive 13-year-old, so this game is seriously not going to be serious at all.

The trademark self-awareness means Deadpool knows he’s in a game, so he can get away with instructing the player to, say, use the teleporter to dodge rockets in a direct way we’ve all heard in tutorial levels. The difference is that here, you don’t roll your eyes; it’s funny and knowing and it fits, instead of being insulting and awkward. But the door swings both ways: If you do poorly or take too long to move on with the action, expect Wade to berate you for it, because he knows you are the player.

The game opens with Deadpool in his apartment, awaiting approval of his game from High Moon Studios; he kills time by calling his own voice actor, Nolan North, on the phone. “People tell us we sound alike,” says Deadpool. I was able to take the controls myself to explore and interact with Wade’s disgusting apartment. I checked the internet; I ate some pizza. I, um, blew up a female doll. “If this game had a shame meter,” said the more reserved of Deadpool’s two inner voices, “it’d be full right now.” When I went to inspect the doll, the same voice cautiously asked, “Um, we’re not gonna put our penis in that, are we?”

There was plenty more to explore, but I finally answered the ringing doorbell to find a package from High Moon Studios. It was the game’s script. Deadpool proceeded to edit it with crayons and stormed off for his first mission.

On the Xbox 360 build I tried, combat controls felt straightforward – X for light attacks, Y for heavy, B for teleport, right trigger for guns – but any of those can be linked together for crazy combos. The team calls this on-the-fly mixing “gun-fu” and it can lead to some pretty insane carnage. In one sneak attack, Deadpool slides between the enemy’s legs, then opens fire with twin SMGs. Blood splatters, limbs detach…it was ridiculous in a good way. In another segment, Deadpool backflips over an enemy, lops off his head, and cuts off both arms for an encore. Remember: Deadpool kills people for a living, even if he cracks jokes while he does it.

The more bad guys you take out, the more Deadpool Coins you earn, and the more weapons and skills you can buy and upgrade. There’s also quite a bit of jumping, double-jumping, and wall-jumping, which I often find frustrating, but I was thrilled to find I could tap B after an unsuccessful attempt to teleport back to the starting platform, instead of walking all the way back. Thanks, Deadpool!

In addition to combat in a sewer, inside and outside a skyscraper, and behind the gatling gun of a helicopter, I got to see a story segment with Cable on Genosha, which included arena combat against an enemy three times Wade’s size. Cable’s not the only guest star; we know from online announcements that Domino, Psylocke, Mister Sinister, and a sexy version of Death will make appearances in the game. I can also confirm that Arclight, Vertigo, and Blockbuster will appear in the game as well.

The biggest impression I was left with was simply this: This is a Deadpool game. That sounds stupid at face value, but this is a game that truly represents the character, in all his twisted, violent, hilarious, gory glory. Comedy in gaming is difficult to pull off, but the Merc with a Mouth that millions of comics fans love really does come to life in this game. With Nolan North’s spot-on voice-acting and longtime comic scribe Daniel Way’s snappy dialogue and pop-culture snark, the game already feels as authentically Deadpool as I was hoping it would. I’m optimistic based on what I played, and as an avowed fanboy of the character, June 25 can’t come fast enough.

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[Jick]

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Ehh...not feeling this gameplay. It could do with some more polishing, too.
I really hope we get a demo soon, since it comes out next month.

 

[SpideyForPrez]

[YT]2LgUv416fLM[/YT]

Ehh...not feeling this gameplay. It could do with some more polishing, too.
I really hope we get a demo soon, since it comes out next month.

Yeah, it does seem like it could use some extra polish and detail, but overall it still looks like it might be fun. So in other words, a typical Activision game. Despite my usual reservations with a game like this I think I'll probably pick it up on day one anyway. It's Deadpool! Although I just saw that it's listed as $49.99 at GameStop and Amazon, and while I don't want to pay more, that price doesn't really fill me with confidence.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Looks exactly how i pictured it to. As long as its not Aliens: Colonial Marines bad, nothing is stopping me from getting this. I really need a 'turn your brain off action game' after some of the stuff iv been dealing with in my personal life. This looks like the perfect medicine.

 

[James]

Any word on how long the game is?

It looks like a ton of fun, but I can't see myself paying full price for it. Probably wait a year or so until I can get a cheap pre-owned copy.

 

[henry_9305]

Game cover

Spoiler

 

[Gamma Goliath]

Awesome cover!

 

[Nathan]

Those are some big bazookas.