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Quick Look: Hard Reset

Ryan and Brad head to the PC to get locked up with some Hard Reset.

Sit back and enjoy as the Giant Bomb team takes an unedited look at the latest video games.

Aug. 19 2011

Posted by: Vinny

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Hard Reset

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Cool.

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Edited By Dante_the_Jedi

Looking forward to this quick look.

Edit: So close.

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Hadn't of either this or Bodycount until today; weird.

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What a great developer name, yet what a terrible game name. Looks good though.

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Great!

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I'm instantly getting a Quake 4/Prey vibe off of this.

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This has nice visuals... the gameplay seems old school but I'm liking it.

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Edited By GunnBjorn

Flying Wild Hog build a whole new Engine for Hard Reset. 
God, I still hope for a Painkiller 2!
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Looks great. Been awaiting this quick look for a while!

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Edited By BeachThunder

:o Interfacegasm

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This game looks better every time I see it. Pretty excited to play it. Though that HUD is a bit...much.

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HARD SETTINGS RESET - ... DO IT AGAIN!! :)

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Those small robots look like they're straight out of Screamers!

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I'm loving the weapon design. The fact the three spark plugs (or whatever) on the back of the plasma rifle go up and down in quick succession when using the blaster, and then all go down at once for the mortar, is really nice.

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looks good

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Looks VERY promising... like they took what made Deus Ex good, threw in what made Bioshock awesome, along with a bit of Painkiller (of course) and a bit of Vanquish to round it all out.

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I saw Electric Trebuchet at the local dive. They suck live.

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That's a fucking great main menu. I almost want to get this game just for that.

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So many great games coming out this year.. crazy.

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"Let's go fuck some shit up!" The true RTD way

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I cant stand when you are supposed to be on city streets and they're void of people.

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wondering if ryan and brad ever played painkiller. game looks pretty much the same with a graphic overhawl and diferent art style, but the shooting, secrets, even the view angle it looks and feels so much like painkiller. expectable really and comendable, painkiller was a great game :)

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God everything about this game is fucking cool as hell.  Day 1 purchase for sure.

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This looks like my kind of game! I will be sure to snatch it up once I upgrade my PC.

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This game looks like heaven for my sci-fi nerd brain. So glad it's coming out sooner than later.

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It's not a PC quick look without Dave.

I didn't realize that this game is a PC-exclusive. That's a shame because it looks awesome.

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I'm nursing a semi as i type....that was awesome.

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Yo, computers like Doom 3.

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I really like that the menus are animated but the people that call on your HUD aren't. PRIORITIES!

And maybe its just me being super out of touch with PC games, but damn this game is fucking gorgeous.

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After recently finishing The Witcher, I became a fan of CDProjekt.

This, too, looks pretty rad.

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Ok, even if this is only some dumb fun shooting, I'm still gonna buy it, just because of the beautiful art style and menus.

Blade Running...

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@Sticks said:

What a great developer name, yet what a terrible game name. Looks good though.

Wat? Terrible game name!? It's fucking great compared to the myriad of "Blank of Blank", "Blank: Reckoning", "Blank:Origins" games or "Made-up-fantasy-name-that-no-one-has-any-fucking-idea-what-it-means-and-don't-care"
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@Sammo21 said:

I cant stand when you are supposed to be on city streets and they're void of people.

as far as I remember, it was explained (all the humans are underground because of these robots). bit like the matrix.

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Since I looked them up anyway

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws) :

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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EDIT: Goddamn you, radar5!

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it's true, when a game is announced too early at first I'm all OMG OMG OMG this is gonna be so awesome, then when the game is finally about to come out, I'm so tired of waiting I kinda don't care any more. 

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PC SUPREMACY

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@Laketown: ah, I will have to watch it again as I didn't see or hear that anywhere.

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@Sammo21 said:

@Laketown: ah, I will have to watch it again as I didn't see or hear that anywhere.

I didn't get this from here, but from earlier trailers and earlier info

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Wow, this game actually looks really awesome. I just wish I had a better computer to play it on!

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Wow this is one mediocre lookin' game. This game, besides the graphics, could have existed in the 90s. When will developers start doing more interesting things with the FPS genre?

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@Slaker117 said:

  1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

4. If conflict is brought to the streets, a robot must be prepared to drop a bitch.

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@sirdesmond said:

Wow, this game actually looks really awesome. I just wish I had a better computer to play it on!

Well, like they said in the QL, the game seems to run fine on fairly old hardware...
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@BeachThunder said:

@sirdesmond said:

Wow, this game actually looks really awesome. I just wish I had a better computer to play it on!

Well, like they said in the QL, the game seems to run fine on fairly old hardware...

Yea, that's true. I'll just have to check the minimum requirements and such. My laptop is just starting to hit the old mark, although at the time I first got it, it was amazing. It's probably about 3-4 years old now.

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Dude, this looks fucking awesome.

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Looks visually interesting, but if the finesse of the gameplay begins and ends with "shoot the panel" its about as deep as the "hey a barrel next to the guy, shoot it" mechanics of the last decade. And seriously, circle strafing as something mindlessly lumbers your way in 2011. Cmon. Is the shooter mechanics bar that low? Have a little respect for your fanbase, some people can see through the shiny shit and notice this game is mechanically on par with any given shooter from 2004. 
But hey, it is a demo. Maybe it gets interesting later.

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I really love the look of the game, but I don't care for the linear gameplay. I just find linear shooters to be really tedious and repetitive to play. Wish them the best of luck, as it looks like they took the time to make it good for PC.

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looks cool...

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@ryanwho said:
Looks visually interesting, but if the finesse of the gameplay begins and ends with "shoot the panel" its about as deep as the "hey a barrel next to the guy, shoot it" mechanics of the last decade. And seriously, circle strafing as something mindlessly lumbers your way in 2011. Cmon. Is the shooter mechanics bar that low? Have a little respect for your fanbase, some people can see through the shiny shit and notice this game is mechanically on par with any given shooter from 2004. But hey, it is a demo. Maybe it gets interesting later.
Everything you said is true. This game needs a super interesting story badly
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@OracleXIII said:

it's true, when a game is announced too early at first I'm all OMG OMG OMG this is gonna be so awesome, then when the game is finally about to come out, I'm so tired of waiting I kinda don't care any more.

I totally agree with this. At least, in most cases.