Quick Look: John Wick Hex

This stinks of "rushed licensed game"... and I like a lot of licensed games.

Honestly I like the full East team on quick looks. It's definitely more entertaining than with just two people, and we can hear multiple different perspectives and questions.

This looks really cool actually

John Wick...

Monokuma killed his dog.

He brought his OWN Truth Bullets...

@lethalplacebo: This man might be on to something. Man, co-op was so good in that game.

@ismellyourpajamas: I've only ever seen video of it, but it looks awesome! Especially the way the ending is handled!

Lot's of complaining, this is a cool game, the replay is fine geesh.

@beforet: John Wick needs to be a film & 40's

Man, I wanted to like this. After playing through past the first boss, Dan is totally right. It looks bad and is animated in a weird stilted herky jerky way that makes everything look awkward. The story isn't doing anything for me either. Pretty sure if more time was spent polishing the engine and animations it would be way better. Maybe hexes were a bad idea too. Fingers crossed for a patch maybe?

Ooooo... uh oh, immediate first impressions on the graphics style.. Is this a 3DS game? not good :P

@vinny:

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@vinny: Lol that didn't work to well. Anyway was curious after you brought it up if anything along those lines was out there and sure enough. Would be cool but $1700 is a little to rich for my blood.

Finished Chinatown, and the first boss is rather easy, just get in there and mess him up. The replays look fine, as long as you execute well on the level, like John would. Could still use more polish though, especially with some replay camera angles completely missing the action. You can bump up the difficulty, so you have 5 seconds to act, if you want more challenge. Some of the kill combinations you can pull off are super satisfying either way.

I think this look interesting gameplay wise but it is so ugly looking.

I'm thinking the best John Wick game is Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

This was a hilarious quick look so if the staff gets discouraged reading negative comments I want to commend you because I loved every second about this. I do not see what people are complaining about. John Wick super fans, maybe? Bad game super fans, maybe? The game isn't reviewing well, so sticking up for it is weird when it isn't well done.

As a John Wick game this fails significantly due to the fact a John Wick game should be Max Payne meets Sleeping Dogs with Punisher 2004 kills ramped up to 2019 ultra violence - period, end of story. No way around it, that is the best implementation of a John Wick game. Make it switchable between 3rd and 1st person, it doesn't matter - give em' bullet time, give em a dog that bites people on the nuts, give him a wacky purple legendary sledge hammer for all I care - but give me that game instead of whatever they were trying here.

As a father of two human children and two puppies I do not have time for anything this slow paced.

Hopefully they will make a game based on the John Wick movies with that kind of action.

Turned based games are just not my cup of tea anymore.

Isometric Superhot. I like Superhot more :)

I don't get why the comments here are so harsh on Dan, when he likes what they're going for but has a large number of problems that seem pretty well backed up watching this video.

I personally was looking forward to how this turned out because conceptually it sounded likea a good way to do a John Wick game. But the options are so limited and even moving around on a hex grid seems like something that they could have easily just removed. Or perhaps increased the movement directions to make it flow way smoother, in the gameplay but especially in the replays.

Everybody in this quick look comes up with ideas for how this could've been better, so I don't understand why people are dumping on Dan for not liking it. It really looks like it could've done with more time in development to polish some of these ideas and rework other ideas entirely.

This uh... This game doesn't seem very good. I'm with Dan wanting a different game for John Wick. A stylistic, Max Payne like game would be awesome! Someone get Remedy/Rockstar on the phone.

I like the ideas of this game. It just seems like the execution isn't the most intriguing.

@cikame: Oh shit! Yes!! Blacklist!!

I forgot how much I enjoyed that game. You're absolutely right. Good call.

Man, that game was great. Really miss the Splinter Cell franchise.

This just made me want a new Splinter Cell game. C'mon Ubi.

@cikame said:

I'm thinking the best John Wick game is Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

Four people is too many for a quick look without co-op. Way too many voices going in different directions

This reminds me of Frozen Synapse with the timelines. I agree with Alex, the artstyle looks sloppy. It sort of reminds me of Invisible Inc, but with a cheaper look. The white / grey UI elements also look very barebones in a game that has to rely on being very stylish. Also, given that the replays will always look somewhat wacky with the forced diagonal movement, why not give each level a little visual epilogue of fast paced violence instead? Little scenes Mike can actually direct himself and will look good at all times.