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When it was first rumored that The Expendables 2, sequel to Sylvester Stallone’s homage to machismo cinema, would be getting a movie tie-in it was unclear what type of title developer Ubisoft would be trying to create. Would it be a third person or first person shooter? Would it be able to capture the excessive violence and overabundance of bullets that made the first movie so successful?
Now, we have the answer to some, not all, of our questions regarding The Expendables 2 in the form of a gameplay trailer that has just appeared online. While it has no context and only briefly shows off combat, it is quite illuminating for a number of reasons.
From the get go players will notice that, like The Expendables 2 is a team up of ex-military heroes so too will the video game provide gamers the opportunity to team up in what appears to be four player co-op. Our guess is that many of the characters featured in the first film, and those added to this sequel (like Chuck Norris) will be available as playable characters.
As far as the gameplay is concerned, The Expendables 2 looks almost like a top down, twin stick shooter, only your standard third person shooter’s camera angle. Animations look a little stiff, and the rendering of Stallone specifically is a little like that of a wax figure, but it’s too small of a slice to judge the final product.
Though tie-ins like Battleship and Men in Black have appeared seemingly out of nowhere, at least those products were announced by their publisher, whereas we have heard nothing from Ubisoft about this game. Given the nature of the footage, and the lack of information, it feels entirely possible this game never made it that far in development, and has since been cancelled.
Many will be quick to dismiss The Expendables 2 because of an assumed rushed development and the stigma associated with a movie tie-in, but there’s no denying there are some interesting ideas at play in the gameplay footage. Hopefully the game can, at the very least, deliver a fun cooperative shooter experience that allows gamers to play as their favorite ’80s action heroes. That is, if we aren’t looking at footage from a cancelled game.
What do you think of this first look at The Expendables 2‘s gameplay? Which of the film’s many stars would you most look forward to playing as?
The Expendables 2 should be releasing some time in August – alongside the feature film – but nothing concrete has been announced
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Movie tie-in games always suck. It’s a law of nature. Of course we dismiss is it based on the assumption of rushed, half-assed developement. And we are right to do so: They can’t afford not to rush it in order for it to coincide with the movie’s release.
Don’t pay them a dime for these cheap cash-in attempts.
i hope that this garbage didn’t cost anything from the movies budget and that it is just an extension to the movie that the chinese company helping produce the movie did.
at this stage i want to see some gameplay before judging b/c like the saying goes ‘dont judge a book by its cover’.
A law of nature? It’s been defied quite a bit then. Every Spider Man movie game, Goldeneye, the Lord Of The Rings Hack and slash games, Chronicles Of Riddick, Ghostbusters: The Video Game.
That looks stupid. Nuff said.
N thats y they shulda left it as a movie!!
This reminds of old NES style shooters and the first few Bad Company games.
Anyone remeber the arcade game Cabal?
you know. this don’t look all that bad tbh. at least it isn’t any of that FPS crap.
what are you all talking about? this looks freaking nice , where can I download this demo ?… I loved the first movie..
but where is Statham :\ …
uh … this doesn’t look good at all … On the other hand there are a few games based on movies that need to be defended because they were covered with nothing but love and awesomesauce.
Goldeneye: Not only the best movie game ever, but the best FPS ever, period.
Spiderman 2: They still cant top the greatness of this game. Needing something to web onto first of all, what a concept!! why cant they duplicate this!!
The Punisher: Nothing to do with the movie, but absolute epic Punisher game-play, gory, evil, sadistic … (drool) god i love that game.
so not all movie tie in’s are bad, there are a few epic exceptions.
i agree with you those games were and still are awesome
i remember buying the punisher game and not expecting much from it but that game was crazy and caught the true essence of the character in the way he could kill people
spiderman 2 was cool but the new spidey game looks like it could be the best spidey game yet
and of course goldeneye the game that will never die, that game will always get remade for every generation of console coz its that damn good
That looks like exactly what I expected. Quick, clunky cash-in. And it looks like a regular Xbox game.
^ Ditto.
Oh man, they look like action figures! :’)
The Warriors and Scarface games were pretty good, but this game looks very bad.
OMG !! what are you all talking about !! ill be the first one in line to buy this game. Who care about graphics when you can play with stallone, dolph loundgre, chuck norris and all the other guys !! this will be EPIC !!