Do want. Monkey Island co-creator Ron Gilbert's touch and spin on DeathSpank are evident enough in the images and videos released, but the insightful and oft-hilarious designer did leave the project before certification. In an April update to his blog, Gilbert notified all "Premium Gold Level" subscribers of his departure from Hothead Games, and also teased something which non-PS3- and 360-equipped people might be interested in: a third version of the title.
As DeathSpank ends the creative and production phases and start down that long and winding road of certification and testing of the Xbox and PS3 and [REDACTED] versions, it's looking quite amazing and is damn funny. So, to quote my childhood hero George W. Bush: Mission Accomplished.
== TEASER ==It's hard to tell if Gilbert was being serious about a possible other version of the game, since his post characteristically bounces between serious and preposterous. Yet, it's hard to believe that Hothead Games, a studio that has put a few titles on the PC and Macintosh, won't be gifting those platforms with the game at some point in the future. I should note that several other sites have pegged DeathSpank as a PC release in light of its EA Partners announcement, and while no denial has been issued, Hothead hasn't commented on the supposed confirmation (other than to say they like money).
Confused and don't know what DeathSpank is? In a nutshell, it's a Canadian government-funded Diablo-esque RPG that features point-and-click puzzles on top of 2D and 3D pop-up book style elements. Also, it appears to be as funny as Gilbert thinks it is. Come to think of it, I probably should have just written "Diablo meets Monkey Island" again, eh?
DeathSpank will launch at 15 bones, or whatever the Microsoft Banana Dollars equivalent of that is. (Let's say 1200 points.)
Do want. Monkey Island co-creator Ron Gilbert's touch and spin on DeathSpank are evident enough in the images and videos released, but the insightful and oft-hilarious designer did leave the project before certification. In an April update to his blog, Gilbert notified all "Premium Gold Level" subscribers of his departure from Hothead Games, and also teased something which non-PS3- and 360-equipped people might be interested in: a third version of the title.
As DeathSpank ends the creative and production phases and start down that long and winding road of certification and testing of the Xbox and PS3 and [REDACTED] versions, it's looking quite amazing and is damn funny. So, to quote my childhood hero George W. Bush: Mission Accomplished.
== TEASER ==It's hard to tell if Gilbert was being serious about a possible other version of the game, since his post characteristically bounces between serious and preposterous. Yet, it's hard to believe that Hothead Games, a studio that has put a few titles on the PC and Macintosh, won't be gifting those platforms with the game at some point in the future. I should note that several other sites have pegged DeathSpank as a PC release in light of its EA Partners announcement, and while no denial has been issued, Hothead hasn't commented on the supposed confirmation (other than to say they like money).
Confused and don't know what DeathSpank is? In a nutshell, it's a Canadian government-funded Diablo-esque RPG that features point-and-click puzzles on top of 2D and 3D pop-up book style elements. Also, it appears to be as funny as Gilbert thinks it is. Come to think of it, I probably should have just written "Diablo meets Monkey Island" again, eh?
DeathSpank will launch at 15 bones, or whatever the Microsoft Banana Dollars equivalent of that is. (Let's say 1200 points.)
Not fond of the art style and the humour seems to be trying a little too hard..
But I'm a huge fan of the Monkey Island games, so the fact it's by Ron Gilbert means this is almost an instant buy anyway. Plus I'm a sucker for Diablo-esque loot grinding games, especially when co-ops involved.
While I have to agree that it looks like they are trying to hard, the sound editing of the videos and voice work is amazing. Gotta check those out folks, they are very promising.
If this was being released to any other month aside from June/July I'd move my calendars to that month of release immediately, can't wait for this game. Any game that looks like it mixes Diablo & the humor from Monkey Island series is an instant hit to me.
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