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Quick Look: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Brad and Jeff try to find out what the other half of the battle is.

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

Aug. 5 2009

Cast: Jeff, Brad

Posted by: Drew

In This Episode:

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

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For some reason this game just kind of reminds me of space invaders. Hide behind destructible cover, shoot forwards. Yeah, it's just like space invaders, without the inventiveness or clever art direction.

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Edited By citizenkane

Wow, that looked really bad, even for a movie video game.

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So, basically it's Metal Slug in 3D?

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wow that looks SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Edited By blackblade500

Man that game looks like shit.  I hope nobody in their right minds would drop $50 on this piece of crap

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haha, ShoeUnit, good name.

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Edited By DukeTogo

Dude, Dial Tone was an awesome figure, now he's a chick?
 
At least you got to drive a sweet Snow Cat for a while.
 
I'll pick it up after the hype is over and it's $10, just for the mindless fun that it stole from the old arcade game.

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Edited By natetodamax

I had to stop watching after 10 minutes because it was so boring. This looks like it would be a good XBLA game, definitely not a retail

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This looks atrocious.

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I wish I had a Shoe-unit.

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Edited By mrsmiley

Terrible.

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@stinky said:
" looks like an XBLA game. "   
 
Quoted for truth.  Shoulda just been an XBLA release.  Looks horrible.
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$50 for this? What were they thinking?

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Snow Job? 
 
Please let there be a character that is all about winds.
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"We now own Heavy Duty...take whatever cultural commentary you want from that." 
 
HAHAHAHA!
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Edited By ArbitraryWater

This game looks pretty terrible.

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I couldn't believe it when he said it was $50...I really thought this looked terrible for an arcade game...but retail?!?!  Holy crap.
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Edited By anklebreaker

shocking!!

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This game is too much like Contra. Not only does it suck but the movie is going to suck as well. I hate movie licensed video games.

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I'm glad I watched the quicklook, because the "only P1 gets the achievements while playing in co-op decision" completely baffles me. It's sad that the developers couldn't support P2.
 
The combat looked like what I thought it would, with infinite ammo and grenades. 
 
And I know that they need radio communication to describe the next set of objectives, but I didn't like how the action got cutoff to do it; definitely, ruined the sequence for me. Also, they shouldn't keep the timer going on the superability mode if you hit a radio-com event in the game. It should suspend because taking away that from the player doesn't make it fun to play.

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Edited By JohnDudebro

It doesn't look that offensively bad. Just super simple. 
 
And having no nostalgia for G.I. Joe, I kinda want to see the movie now.

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I can't believe i actually had to go and check if that was Mike Shinoda or not...thank god it wasn't
 
Also couldnt believe what i was watching was a 360 game.
 
Holy Shit, the sound effect at 16:37 is soooo common...and old! the last place i can remember that from was WCW Backstage Assualt. Well almost.

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I never liked G.I. Joe, even when I was a kid.

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Can't stop staring at Jennifer Love Hewitt boobs.

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This is how you trick a sailor...or kill him. Whatever happens first.
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Edited By FunExplosions
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Army Men: Green Rogue. Same mechanics , but came out in 2001. the worst game i've ever played. i knew that  then... and i was 11. so why the hell are they still makin shit like this?
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Brad didn't pull a Brad.

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Who thought making this game was a good idea.

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feels sort of like Contra for the old SNES. shouldn't be full price though

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looks contra-esque

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Holy crap this looks very bad. I thought this game had some potential? Or was that Jeff being the huge fan he is having false hope? Probably the latter.

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This should have been a 15 dollar downloadable game.

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I'm interested in the movie, if only for Christopher Eccleston.
 
But this?  This just looks terrible.

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I haven't even seen the QL yet, and the comments have me convinced. Btw, the movies is going without any reviewer previews.... this is all a fucking joke? If only it were just that. I thought this shoddy crap ended in the 90's with bay. man.
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@Soviet666 said:
" Can't stop staring at Jennifer Love Hewitt boobs. "
Yeah, they are pretty distracting
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You're going down.

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Kinda sucks these movie games get so little dev time, most of them would actually be decent with a few extra months work. 

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So this is a class-based action game with guns...and particle effects from Lego Star Wars.  Nice.
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Brad didn't die!

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Reminds me of the Joe arcade game from back in the day, only remade into 3D.
 
And the movie can suck as much as it wants since that Cartoon Network adult-oriented movie, GIJoe: Resolute, kicked supreme amounts of ass.

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Wow that game looks really really rrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyy fucking stupid,

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bad like the movie

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XBLA...

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Wow
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stinky-> yeah. it looks like it should be downloadable.  Watchmen pwns this in polish and gameplay and it wasn't great.
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COOOOOOOOOBRAAAAAA!!

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these guys punch like girls! This game sucks just as much as the movie will

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That looks SO bad. 

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Heavy Duty looks just like the big machine gun dude from Resident Evil 5, even with the machine gun attachment on the back.