Fallout Enforcer preview at XBox.IGN

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:43 am

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<a href="http://xbox.ign.com/">XBox.IGN</a> has posted up a <A href="http://xbox.ign.com/articles/395/395047 ... preview</a> of <A href="http://www.interplay.com/fbos">Fallout Enforcer</a>. Here's a jolly good bit of fun from Doug Perry, the author:
 
 <blockquote>Hardcord RPG fans of the PC game might look at the transition as a sellout, but Interplay likes to see it as a transition, a slight departure, and least for now. One could also see the glass half full. The series has not died with the massive changes seen at Interplay in the last three years, and the company feels confident enough to deliver it to the consoles in a more action-oriented fashion. I'm happy to see it. Plus, I'm not a real big RPG fan, so this rendition makes it far more palatable.</blockquote>
 
 The series hasn't died? This game looks like corpse rape to me. In fact, after this, I'm betting <A href="http://www.interplay.com">Interplay</a> is going to put Team Chuck hard at work on Freespace: Jet Ski Racing. Maybe Doug Perry will tell that fan base they should be optimistic about that one, too.
 
 Naturally they wouldn't get an RPG fan for this preview, those guys were probably too busy hugging the toilet over this.
 
 Thanks to Rosh of <a href="http://www.nma-fallout.com">NMA</a> for pointing the way.

Kreegle · Post by **Kreegle** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:57 am

I'm not a real big fan of ice-hockey, so when someone includes chicks in thongs, pirates and maybe a beachball into the game, I'll find it far more palatable.

Think of it as a "transition". Sure, you might upset and alienate a few of those "hardcord" (?) ice-hockey fans by distorting everything they loved about the sport, but damnit... imagine the new audience you're gonna get! It's a win / win situation... out with the BAD audience (those who know), in with the GOOD audience (those who DON'T know)!

Picture the glass half full.

...

*puts down the crack pipe, feeds imaginary monkey, sends resume to IGN*

Post by **DarkUnderlord** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 8:30 am

Jesus. This review starts off bad right from the start. That opening paragraph is a doosey!

Up until 2003, anyone owning a console would have looked at Vivendi-Universal's portfolio of games and turned away genuinely disinterested. With the exception of the mostly interesting game, The Thing, games such as Dark Angel and the port of No One Lives Forever, just didn't cut the mustard. Seeing the company's games today, however, changes everything.

Take Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel for instance...

The fact that they've already got their hands on this though, surely shoots Elara down from her temple in the sky (well, puts a few more holes in her already crashed and burning plane). If this "story driven game" is already this near completion, it's gone.

It just doesn't get any better wrote:As players build up their character with enemy kills and level progression, they can use their earned character points and attribute them to the various characteristics of their choice.

Characteristics like... uhh... shooting stuff and shooting big stuff and throwing stuff? Don't hold back on the options here.

I think Dougy sums it up quite nicely:
"Once you slaughter them [your enemies] it's time to collect weapons and move on."

Joy. I'd rather slaughter Interplay and move on, personally.

Killzig · Post by **Killzig** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 10:39 am

The massive changes at interplay over the last 3 years? Like what? Losing millions of dollars? Losing the rights to publish d&d games on the pc platform -- including the ability to put out bg3? Yea, I can definitely see the half full side of things... means Interplay might croak before FOBOS is put out and we'll be spared this crappy effort. WOO HOO!! LOOK I'M AN OPTIMIST. Leave it to IGN to kiss ass like no one else.

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 2:58 pm

Kreegle wrote:I'm not a real big fan of ice-hockey, so when someone includes chicks in thongs, pirates and maybe a beachball into the game, I'll find it far more palatable.

BMX XXX!

Doyle · Post by **Doyle** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:39 pm

Heh. I suspect that a lot of IGNs articles, especially their "previews" are just another form of advertising.

Mr Carrot · Post by **Mr Carrot** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:50 pm

He hates RPGs though, in previous articles he preattled on about how pc rpgs should be like final fantasy.

peasofme · Post by **peasofme** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 3:54 pm

the worlds full of stupid people

Mad Max RW · Post by **Mad Max RW** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 5:13 pm

Doyle wrote:Heh. I suspect that a lot of IGNs articles, especially their "previews" are just another form of advertising.

That about sums up every game media site and magazine in existence. Previews have always been another form of advertising.

Slave_Master · Post by **Slave_Master** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:23 pm

It always elicits a laugh when a game is "previewed" for months on end, then called a piece of shit a week later.

Ooe · Post by **Ooe** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:35 pm

I think our "dear" MR Doug Perry was somewhat drunk or HEAVILY BRIBED to write that! It cant be serious! GAAAAH!

Ooe · Post by **Ooe** » Fri Apr 25, 2003 7:40 pm

Doyle wrote:Heh. I suspect that a lot of IGNs articles, especially their "previews" are just another form of advertising.

EVERYTHING IGN does is in some way profitable. Those bastards dont do ANYTHING if it doesnt give em a few bucks! (No offense, but...) CAPITALIST BASTARDS!

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 12:27 am

And once again, seeing more news about this game, the crowd goes wild.

Rosh · Post by **Rosh** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 2:58 pm

Check out g-mann11 there.

I guess it would take the stupid twit to be hit by a bus to know that a bus was coming towards them.

Morons like that should be shot.

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 5:41 pm

Rosh wrote:Check out g-mann11 there.

I guess it would take the stupid twit to be hit by a bus to know that a bus was coming towards them.

Morons like that should be shot.

Yeah, he's quite an idiot. Check out this thread on VE3D on the subject.

#11 by g-mann11 on 4/26/2003 5:34:24 AM PST
no it becasue of people who bash a company because the want to make other games in the "fallout" universe rather than a Sequal to fallout 2.

Which I don't understand why people like ot bash a company for making a spinoff fallout game. It not like C & C games making a spinoff Oh wait.

#12 by Saint_Proverbius on 4/26/2003 9:16:04 AM PST EDIT
And where is Westwood now, g-mann11?

Only a fool would bring up Westwood games having spin offs, since Westwood no longer exists because they didn't make enough money for EA.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sat Apr 26, 2003 7:06 pm

Yeah, because C&C Sole Survivor was so damn good. Ditto Renegade. Red Alert did well because despite being a spin-off, it was still the same game.

spyder07 · Post by **spyder07** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:56 am

Wait, I'm a fan of Westwood's good oldschool stuff but what the hell is sole survivor? And I never heard that EA dissolved them. Is that why generals sucks so bad

Anyways, back on topic, this is just a D2 clone with guns, MR T., and some chicks in thongs with the fallout licesne slapped on.

Jiles · Post by **Jiles** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 6:47 am

spyder07 wrote:Anyways, back on topic, this is just a D2 clone with guns, MR T., and some chicks in thongs with the fallout licesne slapped on.

From the renders in IPLY's jigsaw puzzle it looks they they dropped the thong and gone for the 'wasteland beauties with big tits and milky white skin' look.

Saint_Proverbius · Post by **Saint_Proverbius** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:22 pm

spyder07 wrote:Wait, I'm a fan of Westwood's good oldschool stuff but what the hell is sole survivor?

Sole Survivor is basically C&C where you only control one person. It was a horrible concept that wasn't recieved well at all. Basically, it played really close to the RTS, but you were only given a soldier or other unit to run around the map with and that's it.

Review at Game-Revolution

And I never heard that EA dissolved them. Is that why generals sucks so bad

Generals was Westwood's last game.

Jiles wrote:From the renders in IPLY's jigsaw puzzle it looks they they dropped the thong and gone for the 'wasteland beauties with big tits and milky white skin' look.

Thongs are still in, they're in those trailers at GameSpot.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:26 pm

Not even, Saint. Earth & Beyond was Westwood's last game. Generals and Red Alert 2 were developed by EA Pacific, a development outfit totally separate from Westwood that now handles all C&C games, including the probable C&C3: Tiberian Dusk. The real Westwood was dissolved shortly after the release of Earth & Beyond, with a hollow shell of the company staying together to maintain the game. It's just like Origin after UO.