The style and look of this game make my eyes scream with delight...

If Samuel L Jackson is doing VO, they have to have Ron Perlman in it too... and towards then, it seems like this is true. This will be a buy.

ekkobi

I have to say that visually the game looks pretty rad. We'll see how the controls pan out.

Eville1

Is Sameul L Jackson doing the VO?? Cause then this is the second coolest thing ever!

excel_excel

It's fucked up that we think this is cool.

But it is.

Woodwater

The whole style is great, but not knowing who this guy was I was still a little skeptic watching the video... then he said Soul Reaver.

keyrat

What a tasteless comment.
...I'll go

Pombar

Well, he's got me intrigued. I'd like to see how the gameplay relates to the music and if it really is as cool as he makes it sound.

hrunting

Dave Robinson owes me some Cookies!!!!

WEBBSTA

I'm impressed, this game looks very nice. I hope it plays just as nice. I'll for sure be watching out for this one.

hondo

Man, that guy does have a way with words. My favorites are "we're going to literally smack the taste out of your mouth..." and "supergamer"

Lokno

The more I see about this game, the more I just know I have to get it. Damn, that's awesome.

Archaotic

Dude really let me down at the end there, though.

Bernard McGraw

God...why the hell dont I watch the whole thing before I post...idiot >:(

Skitzoap

I wonder if the game will have music by the RZA like in the movie. That was amazing.

Skitzoap

God that looks awesome.

Bernard McGraw

I really like the style, I'll keep my eyes on this one

Taifuu

hmm nice..i loved the movie.
love the style.. even if its a bit old

vln

for me the most innovative thing about this game is the music-animation system.

even if it doesn't meet expectations, it surely will set a precedent where a AAA title begins to do what guitar hero and audiosurf did, which is match gameplay to the music.

Sullyville

Whoa, literally. Now that's a first.

Culebra

The visuals look great, loved the anime, but I'm gonna wait and see how it controls based off of play tests before I stop being so cautious. But it looks sweet!

mackincheese

It's only video so far, but the character movement looks slightly sluggish. *Slightly*

Chupakun

holy shit the visuals look great for this

ManjiKengo

Nobody smacks the taste outta my mouth! I'm eating BACON!

Ejvid04

@ekkobi:
The trailer had a clip of Perlman's Justice talking in it, as well as Sam Jackson as Afro. They're in it, no worries.

Archaotic

They're going to "literally smack the taste out of your mouth...".

I think he means "metaphorically smack the taste out of your mouth", but hey. :D

Is this really only for the 360 and PS3? :(

PenguinJim

@Shteve: I wouldn't say he's "a stereotypical Afro-American". He doesn't really seem to have a "stereotypical" personality if you watched the anime. Maybe it's the long flowing Afro and the fact that he smokes? Also, it takes place in Japan, not China.

enigma89

I am extremely excited now. They had me at "chop off noses by mistake".

enigma89

Like Chupakun said, the movement looks a little stifled, and we'll have to wait until, maybe, a demo comes out or something to really see how the combat is going to work out. It'll all nice an good if you can slice off random body parts, but if you're limited to repetitive moves or a completely useless/unneeded countering system, then it won't matter. But, right now I don't know what it'll be like, so I'll hold of on my judgements.

Blah8

There's been Samuraï Western which bring a Samuraï into the old, Cowboy time, United States ...

Than there is Afro Samuraï which bring an stereotypical Afro-American into the old China ... ?

I'm not quite sure about what to think about this one ...

Shteve

The ingame scenes reminded me of Musashi 2. I have a feeling that it's going to play like that.

I really like the idea of the music changing tempo as you get combos or counterattacking or whatnot. Could have given us a sample of what kind of music is in the game though(yes, I can guess based on the anime).

Furysetzer

Cheesy big-name plug to hype up this game :/

reywing

probably will be a generic hack and slash gameplay game, but DAMN it looks cool

mbeck

@enigma89: Ho yeah, my mistake about China ! Irealised after sending it that Samuraï's make way more sense in Japan than China !

Shteve

Visually looks stunning. But gameplay wise, Do the enemies block or react to what the player is doing. I'm betting that the enemies simply stand there waiting to get their heads off'd.

nerdBOY01

The animation for Afro looks a tad bit stiff, other than that ... I really like the art style, kinda some cel-shaded business going on. I hope that the soundtrack will feature RZA's tracks too.

dead_red_eyes

Not sure if i'm super excited for this game but I'd love to play it. It seems like it could be a good title.

MosesMonster

@Shteve

Watch the Anime before making judgements :P

It was great and I even went and bought the DVD Version

z0phi3l

I'm definitely gonna be looking at this in the future but, I'd really like to see some multiplayer as well. Something like a Bushido Blade - 1 hit can kill - kind of deal.

They say there will be enough in the game to make you want to play it through 3 times but, if it ends up being a short game, those 3 play-throughs won't be enough. Throw multiplayer in and you've got instant extra longevity to make the game feel like it's worth the $60USD.

Eclectified

geif. nao.

plx?

TheSmiterer

I have high expectations for this game, I really hope they pull off everything they're boasting here.

Which is odd, because I'm usually very skeptical when people try to add in dynamic systems because they always fall short, they're either lackluster or predictable. And here they're doing dynamic animation, path finding and music. Talk about stacking the chips. But still, for some reason I believe they're doing it.

We already know that it's visually intense, they have the original voice actors and even RZA is their musical coordinator. Seems like they know what they're doing so far.

Absent Blue

RE5: White guy killing a bunch of black zombies = racist game.

Afro Samurai: Black guy killing a bunch of Asians = totally ok.

Why is there no stupid politically correct racism BS being flung about because of this game? Double standard much?

Generico

Plain Epic. I kinda got a kill bill - type feeling when watching this. Especially with that music.

OmniDragon

Dig the movie, dig the cell shaded style of the game. I need to hear more, because if it's just a stylistic "beat em up" I'll pry rent and/or wait for it to hit the bargain bin.

But it looks like it'll be entertaining and fun at the very least

FunKrusher

@Generico: Based on an anime. Guess the hate train goes towards the anime, not the game.

Ashurahori

I wanna test that music thing :D

nypad5

@Generico: I suggest you crack open an good US History book. Surely after reading that you would understand why a white guy killing tons of black people would be a far more touchy subject than a black samurai dude chopping up other Japanese samurai. Not saying that I agree. Just saying that I as a black person can certainly understand why it would be a tricky subject.

Anywhoo, this game looks awesome. Though I greatly prefer Samurai Champloo as far as hip hop sword fighting anime goes.

Dauragon C. Mikado

Another game on my radar. Now I feel compelled to check out the anime.

Zero_Tact

@Generico: Clearly, no one Asian worked on this game.

Now that my cheap joke is out of the way, I must say it sounds like you still don't understand N'Gai's comments about the RE5 trailer. If you are still that worked up about it, perhaps you should get around to reading the entry at Mutiplayer.

DiscipleofJamzy

Looks nice.

Once game I can think of that came close to full dismemberment was Jedi Knight 2, but it needed a cheat code to enable. Then you could just swing a lightsaber and detach any joint on someone. Sometimes after diving into a crowd and thrashing there would just be a pile of singed mismatched parts. Pretty brutal for Star Wars actually, which I guess is why it was disabled.

Other than that, I draw a blank, but I remember either in Samurai Shodown (4?) or Last Blade you could sometimes finish someone by cutting in half (same animation every time) and they would do the classic "stop. look surprised. slide into two parts. fall down" act. That was pretty shocking for a 2D fighter.

fuchikoma

@PenguinJim: You're partially correct. The use of "literally" is more often in a hyperbolic sense for emphasis than its original definition. People butcher the English language all the time but this isn't an example.

rapsodist

I loved the anime, but every time I see this game I think that it's just too clean. I'm not usually one for gore (I purposely turn down the gore levels in Unreal Tournament), but in this case it really defined the style of the anime that sets it apart from other shows.

psychobaka

@fuchikoma:

I remember that shit. So you could use the lightsaber to cleave parts off right? That was one of the best things about the game.

There was a couple of PC games over the years to have dismemberment, such as SOF and the like, but Im so very excited for an afro samurai game where I can chop, cleave and bloody my way to victory.

Komrade_Kayce

Holy holy crap. And they say the industry isn't innovative!

Seriously. I'm actually pretty excited to check this game out.

stevesan

Literally is the one word you can't use metaphorically.

Another favorite abused (non)word is irregardless. Do they maybe mean regarding? Probably not, but it's basically what they said...

fuchikoma

@excel_excel: second only to the anime itself?

where's the gore?

juliopalio

Needs more blood. The anime had the most beautiful blood effects that I`ve ever seen.

Superstar90 UNLEASHED

It's great to see that dicks will still be dicks... you know who you are ;)

okenny :)

So... It'll give you a taste of cool, and the game will smack that taste out of your mouth...

That's pretty much what Lair did to me.

bobtheduck

The music and severing systems are interesting. The art style is awesome.

Now I want to know about the gameplay, though. It looked sluggish. It also didn't show any of this running-up-walls jazz. Saying it's almost as good as Assassin's Creed as far as actions go--I'm very very skeptical and a bit turned off if they're just using another game to boost this one's reputation. Somehow I think this guy had more of a goal of selling us the game than describing its features honestly.

SykoSilver

Samuel L. Jackson AND specific amputation technology?! Sign me up!

Zero_Beat

Either this or Ninja Gaiden will be our slice 'n dice game of the year....pick one people, PICK ONE!

Batousi

For a moment there, I thought I was looking at an Xbox360/PS3 game.

Looks freaking amazing.

artofwar420

It will actually "literally smack the taste out of your mouth."

Sounds unpleasant. Also, how did they achieve this? Do they ship some kind of special taste smacking device with the game? Like, a controller shell similar to the Wii Wheel, but with taste smacking capabilities?

L_K_M

This, quite frankly, sounds amazing!

*cough cough* @ L_K_M's comments... come on man, what planet are you from?

Daigoji Gai

@Daigoji Gai: Uhm... Whoosh?

L_K_M