Quick Look: Fuse

Such a major bummer. Give me Overstrike please..

I reFuse to buy this :o

Lets see what we got here...

I tried the demo and that was enough for me to wish it was a new Ratchet and Clank game instead but hopefully they make money going multiplatform now and we get some good games on the coming platforms.

@beachthunder: it's not the One 4 U?

This sucks, I wanted what they showed in the reveal.

Looks super disappointing

Something about the way this game looks just makes me hate it.

I miss Overstrike

Whoever thought this art style was a good idea should be fired.

Well, the percentage of complaints about the artstyle/missing Overstrike is already at 60%......

I'm guessing it will even out at about 50%..

It's a shame all Insomniac will hear is how it would have been better if they didn't change the art style. If you want to say the game looks too much like other games that's fine but talk about what the game is, not what it isn't.

There is just nothing I find appealing about the look of this game. It looks like the most generic third person shooter ever, and the demo didn't really do anything for me to change my mind in that regard.

And if people are complaining about the artstyle, it's because it was the only thing this game had going for it for a while. It actually looked kinda interesting back when the very first trailer was released. It had kind of a Pixar's The Incredibles vibe with the visuals and that was refreshing seeing as how many dark/grey/"realistic" shooters was released. Instead they changed the artstyle to grey and boring, so now it just looks like everything else.

Hurray!

I already forgot that I watched this.

It was focus testing, plain and simple. Kids they brought in thought it was something their younger siblings would play. So of course the solution was to go for grit and realism.

#FuckHelicopters

This is what happens when you let 12 year old kids in focus groups tell you what is good.

What a shame. This coming from the developer that made Resistance and Ratchet and Clank, both series that I hold dear to my heart.

I am all for developers trying out new IPs. And while this game does do some interesting things, and seems to have Insomniac's trademark weird and interesting guns...It looks like uninteresting military shooter clone #194854

I like all the perfectly flat rocks.

OH AND THE GRIT

Oh man...

The band wagon mentality in these comments make me sad.

I don't think it looks bad. Heck, compared to GoW this is a multicolored masterpiece. The problem is that it doesn't go all the way, but even so I find it much more appealing than most of the shooter out there.

What a BORING game.

Everybody poops, guys.

Even game developers.

Some developers suffer from IBS, some have a healthy #2 habit, some should see a doctor before they suffer something you might have seen on a weightlifting accident photo or two.

This? This is a healthy stool sample, a natural occurrence, something that must happen.

It really makes me sad this crap was made by the same people responsible for the glorious Ratchet and Clank games. sigh.

so if this is what happens when insomniac is not sony exclusive, then....

I will probably pick this up on the cheap.

Props to Brad for realising at the beginning that we dont wanna hear talk and menus we just wanna see how the game plays. Feel like sometimes this site doesn't see the use behind the Show Dont Tell school of thought, especially Ryan.

Seems I'm the only one that's really still interested in playing this, even after all the cosmetic changes and everything. And I'm completely fine with that, I loved the Ratchet games and I enjoyed the Resistance series so I'm willing to give this a shot.

The parts of the demo that I played were hilarious...

They do realise that there will also be a lot of FPS next gen as well?

This game needs Big Bo.

60 seconds in to the video is the time it took for brad to be confused.

Which game doesn't?

Well in all honesty it's not like Resistance was that great. Apart from fun guns it had pretty drab and boring level design.

If a company uses 12 year olds as their focus group they get no sympathy from me when they make bad decisions.

Thank you for reminding me of that song XD

I agree with Davis, this looks like a fake game

And to the people wanting Overstrike: The gameplay of this is probably not far off from what Overstrike was going to be and that doesn't seem overly compelling either. I think this is more a case of "too little, too late", than "focus-testing killed it".

I think I identified what looks wrong with this game, for me at least: it's the extremely excessive use of the blue/orange contrast. Almost every single scene in this game seems to be grey with tints of blue and orange, with very few exceptions. That particular color combination is supposed to be pleasing to the eyes/brain but here it's so overused, it actually becomes offensive (in its blandness).

Also, as far as game mechanics go, this game comes out at the wrong time. These days everyone seems to be fucking sick of cover shooters.

This game just looks painfully boring and generic.

It was suppose to be like this, a funny squad based Team Fortress 2 with super natural powers. :(

Compared to this, Resistance looks like a masterpiece, especially R3 which was just a really cool game.

"We started to discover that everyone thought this was a game for their younger brother. We would hear this from 12-year-olds. So we decided that we needed to make a game that had an older appeal."

I love this quote, I really do. 12-year-olds claiming that Overstrike's aesthetics were too "kiddy." This just in: 12-year-olds aren't even teenagers yet! They certainly don't know what adults want. Art style and tone aren't mutually exclusive. What are we left with after all of this focus-testing? A bland looking game devoid of any soul.

Not that I had any interest invested in Overstrike/Fuse to begin with, but the their reasoning behind the overhaul just rubs me the wrong way.

"Check it out if what you've seen blows up your skirt."

I don't think I've ever heard that before in my life. Is that something people say?

Why the hell is the video quality so low.

I'll probably pick this up. Resistance was a rare FPS in that I actually liked it, and generally everything Insomniac has done I enjoyed.

I was amused by the fact that Brad switched away from the girl with the sniper rifle, declared there was no sniper rifle, and didn't notice for ten minutes that she did indeed have one.

EDIT: Though to be fair, this REALLY looks like it should be played co-op, which Brad couldn't do.

Damn you!!! Now I really want Overstrike too! But will never get it! :( at least the funny characters would have made the game somewhat stand out from the field of generic 3rd person shooters, but what it is now doesn't have a hope in hell.

As usual for Insomiac games over this generation: Interesting guns, but the rest of the game makes me not want to play.

I don't know why people assume that Overstrike would have had better gameplay. For all we know the game play mostly the same. The only thing that the initial Overstrike trailer showed was characters and a more exaggerated art style.

@sleepydoughnut: wouldn't be to surprised if it was EA that had them change it.

BOOM!

Watching this later on myself, but the demo already gave me a pretty good picture of a very generic 3rd person shooter. Of course I could (as one of the many) bring up the 'art style' change again, but I suppose the gameplay might've been just the same even back then...and if we also assume, that the game itself ever looked like anything like the CGI trailer. Though I'm pretty sure that cartoony-like visuals would already make this 30% more appealing.

Oh well, let's wait for that third Ratchet & Clank - Further Future Trilogy then...

Eh, it looks alright, shame about the AI though.