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ok, now for the fun shit. thanks to derrick and greg for the heads-ups.
DEVIL JIN AND JINPACHI
first up is some rockin’ new tekken 5 game footage from tekken zaibatsu. the spanky new hand-shot vid features some korean arcade-goers going ape-shit over the two last bosses in tekken 5, devil jin and jinpachi…heihachis dad, kazuyas granddad, and jins great-granddad. heihachis already 80-something, so this dudes gotta be like over a hundred. fucker should be brawling with a wheelchair and oxygen tank. the videos pretty badass…with devil jin looking like a bad motherfucker, and jinpachi fucking shit up with massive fireballs from the giant mouth in his belly. thats kinda nasty.
WORLD OF WARCRAFT
and the second movie is the newly released intro cinematic from the forthcoming blizzard mmorpg world of warcraft. game cinematics have come a long way in the last few years, with every other new game sporting some badass cinematics. but just as i was beginning to think gaming cinematics had finally caught up to the standards blizzard laid down (especially those from diablo 2 and lord of destruction), they come back and blow them all away. in terms of art direction, cinematography, and just plain quality, blizzard is still without a doubt the best cinematic renderers in the gaming industry.
> devil jin and jinpachi (via tekken zaibatsu)
> world of warcraft intro cinematic
chills… tingling spine… oooo…
total WETA/LotR influence can be seen in the WoW cinematic, but it’s well placed.
i’ve always been a fan of the cinematics
by hideo kojima too MGS series. MGS 3 looks
very nice. comes out today.
http://www.gamespot.com/index.html?reflash=1
oh and, about tekken 5. it should be out here
in the states any day now. O_O
the mgs cinematics would be alot better if their dialogue made any kind of sense.
“snake, we must infiltrate squishy antelope, because the geo-political dynamics of botswana are adversely effected by the global dependence of crude oil production…compounded by the societal reciprocations of black-market sales of spring-scented snuggles fabric softener. and my underwear is on backwards…”
or of the sort. anyhoo, the nod still goes to blizzard…
The detail in the WoW trailer amazed me – did you notice the dwarf’s beard, and the fur on his bear blowing around?