Quick Look: Inversion

That multipleyer running camera is so unashamedly ripped straihgt from Gears of War it's sad. : (

I've seen much worse generic games.

@Trilogy said:

Whoever has been pissing in everyone's cheerios recently should really knock it off.

Because small metal bullets work on metal machines. Yep... just like in the transformer movies.

@dennisthemennis said:

I wish they wouldn't do quick looks like this with a bad attitude. It gets reflected in the comments and everyone acts like a fucking jerk.

i agree with you the negativity can creep out from a quick look, i think it happens more when a game looks okay and they just say "i dont care i dont want another one of these games" scenario. Which they've done a few times. But this game looked genuinely boring... i dont think they should act like they had fun playing it if they clearly didn't, i mean sometimes that's really all they could do without just turning it off hahaha it was just a bad game - i dont think they were too mean. On the other hand i always feel bad for the developer, they must feel so bad watching this, but its their fault for making this game right. I mean they had to test it and see reactions like this at some point? And just didnt fix it? Wonder if the end is awesome enough that they thought this beginning would be carried? but wow that was a boring looking game.

You know what? Why don't we just not celebrate mediocrity? For me, there's nothing worse than aggressively middle of the road games/music/books/movies/what have you. I'd rather it be great or interesting but broken or just flat out fucking bad.

There's a weird attitude where people celebrate mediocrity that annoys me. "Hey, why are you being so mean. It looks fine! Not every game can be triple A!" "Ok, sure, maybe it's not the best game out there, but at least it tried!" "Guns, me like guns, guns shoot kills guns." Why not just not buy a mediocre game? And look, I'm not gonna fault you for liking it, but let's not talk about it like it's a good thing. Let's just get off this" brush it off as good try, chaps!" attitude and demand a game at least have some fucking BALLS. Whether they're good balls or bad balls, at least it's got balls. I would rather play a flawed but interesting game than some middle of the road, shit out for a buck bullshit any day of the goddamn week and that's exactly what this looks like.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is a hidden gem and these 30 odd minutes just show the bad parts where the people without imagination created the game. But let's stop giving everything a high five for passing the finish line and find some some games WORTH fighting for.

Holy shit everything about this game is gears of war. From the weapon swap icon to the shotgun crosshairs.

This is a boring, more brown (something I never thought possible) gears of war clone.

Wow this game looks horrible. Im glad we have funny people like Jeff and Ryan, I barely made it through the whole video lol.

So you've been kidnapped, then given backpacks that control gravity and find guns and a ton of ammo. But when a small group of the guys who have imprisoned you show up you give them everything back and decide it's best to go back to your prison. Just so you can immediately escape from said prison. OK.

There is nothing sadder than an empty deathmatch lobby one week after release.

So, basically, they ripped off Gears' gunplay, took the font from Mass Effect and slapped a half-assed gravity mechanic on it. And all that poorly. Fucking video games.

Finally! I know this game is not good, but no one has really even bothered to cover it. No doubt, that was why Namco dropped the thing during E3 week - to bury it. But that's why it needs a Quick Look!

The characters look good though, except or their shitty designs and hair. Technically though, they can get away with all those close ups easily. The world looks like typical this gen "bombed out grimy city" bullshit though. The gravity mechanic is absolutely a gimmick though - Sabre REALLY shouldn't have gotten this thing out after Gravity Rush for Vita. Compare this to that game, and how you can change gravity at will at any point in the game, and how that game's city was built for it and looks crazy and awesome. This game is more like Fracture, at best. I can't stand games this uninspired - the old, "How do we introduce the 'hoist your buddy up' mechanic" seems to always be used in place of just making your guy jump, simply because it's what other shooters do. SO BORING. I bet this game is loaded with invisible walls and other dumb crap like that too.

Never put a game mechanic in your game unless you'll let gamers use it all the time. If you can't design a game around that, than you're not good enough to even ATTEMPT that mechanic. Singularity was the same way; the TMD should've been awesome, but it was just a limited use gimmick weapon. Just like the gravity manipulators here. Shame.

This game looks terrible.

Ryan was delightfully hilarious in this QL.

Oh my god the writing! The writing in Gears of War was a travesty but compared to this it seems deep and compelling.

Finally! I know this game is not good, but no one has really even bothered to cover it. No doubt, that was why Namco dropped the thing during E3 week - to bury it.

Wow, really not much to see here

damn i got tired of Jeff and Ryan in this quick look, the game didn't look half bad and the guys came of as such assholes.

" Life...Take!" That needed to be a line for Max Payne. Along with "Kill!"

Spoilerz..... That is, after he shaved his head.

The stuff that happens in the pacing and game mechanics are very similar what happens in other highly praised games. Yet, because this game does not have Gears of War written all over it, there is all this negativity.

Using coop to overcome platforming. Wow I can not believe they did that. Not only did they do it but more than once. What is this the coop climbing game? This just sounds ridiculous. (That was sarcasm).

FYI, I got bored of Gears of War due to the cover and shoot, cover and shoot, watch cutscene, cover and shoot gameplay. I did not care about the enemies I was killing. However I can admit the game was in no way broken and can see how others can enjoy the game, similar to this experience.

So it's Gears of War's action, characters, and mechanics, plus the gravity powers of Dead Space, against illiterates. Woo?

@MediumDave said:

You know what? Why don't we just not celebrate mediocrity? For me, there's nothing worse than aggressively middle of the road games/music/books/movies/what have you. I'd rather it be great or interesting but broken or just flat out fucking bad.

There's a weird attitude where people celebrate mediocrity that annoys me. "Hey, why are you being so mean. It looks fine! Not every game can be triple A!" "Ok, sure, maybe it's not the best game out there, but at least it tried!" "Guns, me like guns, guns shoot kills guns." Why not just not buy a mediocre game? And look, I'm not gonna fault you for liking it, but let's not talk about it like it's a good thing. Let's just get off this" brush it off as good try, chaps!" attitude and demand a game at least have some fucking BALLS. Whether they're good balls or bad balls, at least it's got balls. I would rather play a flawed but interesting game than some middle of the road, shit out for a buck bullshit any day of the goddamn week and that's exactly what this looks like.

But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is a hidden gem and these 30 odd minutes just show the bad parts where the people without imagination created the game. But let's stop giving everything a high five for passing the finish line and find some some games WORTH fighting for.

If this was an ugly, stupid, offensive, buggy or downright broken game, I would've agreed with you. But I can't.

And if you like games, stop being so eager to dismiss them, because you'll rob yourself of many possible great experiences this way.

I'm not saying that you should lower your standards, but only to lighten up and remember that it is better to experience a mediocre game than to entirely miss a possibly good one (if you really care about games!)

Just picture yourself a few months from now, on a boring afternoon, when you'll stumble across this game in the bargain bin at the local game store and then tell me you won't shell out a few bucks and play it out of curiosity.

Let's not over scrutinize, because, after all, it's just a videogame, not the cure for cancer.

That sniper kill at the end was hilarious.

There's always something weird about fighting flying enemies from behind cover. Why don't they, you know, fly to where you are?

@dr_mantas said:

There's always something weird about fighting flying enemies from behind cover. Why don't they, you know, fly to where you are?

I agree with you.

But, following the same logic, you can also ask that your enemies have the same health as your character, the same level of abilities and intellect and even their own option menu. And, if they can also fly while you can't, isn't it logic for them to always beat you?

You need these loopholes and albeit strange gameplay conventions because, if you put things in that way, it defeats the whole idea of fun and even the purpose of trying to beat the game or any other game, for that matter.

@Vlad_Tiberius: Well in games the enemies are usually regular soldiers/cannon fodder. And you're a goddamn hero or extremely lucky.

But flying enemies could maybe start approaching you, so maybe you would have to move to different cover or something. Make it more dynamic. I ain't no game designer, though.

@dr_mantas: I agree, but that's because you're supposed to beat those guys in these games, you're supposed to best them.

This is just like wondering why Chuck Norris/Arnie or Stallone always managed to survive against all odds and always kicked and shot every villain's ass in those old action flicks from the '80s.

It's a story, it's something fictional, it's suspension of disbelief. It's a distraction. It's meant to make you feel good, and powerful, that you accomplished something by beating them

Put this in, played for 10 minutes maybe, slipped it back into it's Gamefly sleeve -- all before the mail went back out! Yay.

Ryan was a fucking drama queen in this one, or maybe I'm just upset because he shouted directly into my ears.

Spot on, R & J; offensively, bordering on frustratingly, mediocre and generic.

Not every game can be Assassins Creed.

Quit acting so fucking entitled and offended you fuckers.

It's like a group of californian teen girls up in here.

@ZombieSpace said:

damn i got tired of Jeff and Ryan in this quick look, the game didn't look half bad and the guys came of as such assholes.

@Trilogy said:

Whoever has been pissing in everyone's cheerios recently should really knock it off.

Whoever has been pissing in everyone's cheerios recently should really knock it off.

Whoever has been pissing in everyone's cheerios recently should really knock it off.

Whoever has been pissing in everyone's cheerios recently should really knock it off.

So this is a full game and not an XBLA game? Weird.

Is the menu font from Mass Effect?

@perfectlizardwizard: I did the exact same thing. So bland.

Looks pretty bro.

Dat Roadie run ass cam...

This game reminds me of Fracture. It has a half-decent looking mechanic that gets smothered in mediocre Gears Clone gameplay. The gravity shifting might be kinda cool if they actually focused on it and made the gameplay act like that's why you're playing it.

Could not beat this game drove me Insane!!

The dude on the right in the screenshot totally looks like Corey Feldman.

They're getting too old for this shit.

This looks awful. I can't believe that anyone would waste their time playing this instead of the multitude of other, better third-person shooters on the market.

As always, I got my copy for free. I put a few hours into it and still came out liking the game, this is a quarter chugging old school arcade game all day. Nothing too fancy about it... a been there done that game, but still fun none the less. I would not pay $50/60 for it, $20/25 would be a more reasonable price for it. The replay value just isn't there. Buy used or rent is my verdict.

@Rowr said:

Not every game can be Assassins Creed.

Quit acting so fucking entitled and offended you fuckers.

It's like a group of californian teen girls up in here.

I may not have read every comment, but I'm fairly sure no one wanted this to be like Assassin's Creed.

"Don't move. I think they'll shoot if we move."

In the grim 3rd person shooter future, everyone is required to work out 7 days a week on a steady diet of 'roids.

There is nothing homo erotic at all about this.

I could've fallen asleep halfway through and wouldn't have noticed. What a disgustingly mediocre game.

@Pseudonymous: I don't want to sound to intrusive or anything as I realize it's probably none of my business but how did you get it for free?

@Rowr: I agree. It's like, if you don't think the game looks good, fine. So don't pay 60 bucks for it and more importantly, don't complain about as if you paid for it. I hate when people haven't even paid for a game and yet they think they are owed something