I'll also attest to the suckage of the player in this video. The Ign video is waaaaay better, it also looks like that not the last you'll see of the snake.

jive238

That was frustrating to watch. Whoever was playing really sucks.

argh

Hmmm, I thought one of the strengths of the spider over the scorpion was that the spider could climb walls and whatnot. Yet in that boss fight, the spider is restricted to the flat piece of earth in front of the snake. Looks like a formulaic, uninspired boss fight from a game I thought was all about innovation.

Stompy1

That spider hates those damn'd snakes on his MF'in plain.

Anyway, if this were more of a successful simulation, it'd be good. As it stands, it looks like... a video game boss fight, which is really bad.

Bergerac

Well, crap. Still a good concept, but that gameplay looks pretty weak; hopefully that's just the first boss, and there's some kind of learning curve beyond this advance 'n flail business.

cynopt

@DaveB: Your sympathy is duly noted.

dry-roasted-peanuts

@Pezdispenser: That's exactly what happened to me.

Benzak

This looks like one of those things that would be awesome to watch in real life (although I don't think a spider and a snake would fight in real life though sadly) but for a game doesn't translate well.

kojirodensetsu

@Reibooi: You obviously have not seen very many games.

GyrFal

The IGN version did look much better. Just imagine how lame Halo 3 would have looked if the only trailer you saw was of someone getting lost in that first jungle section for 10 minutes.

Pezdispenser

I feel bad for everyone who bought a wii.

DaveB

This looks like one of the stupidest games I have ever seen.

Reibooi

I might have to play this game on mute. That sound design is absolutely atrocious.

frostcircus

wow. why is the gametrailers vid so much worse than the ign vid?

bigman88zz

That guy really sucked. You obviously have to dodge the strikes and then bite his rattle when it's down.

Furysetzer

@alfredofroylan: Ok, that is a HELL of a lot better. Thanks.

dry-roasted-peanuts

i want to play as a rabid chinchilla with a party hat on

Grahamunculus

Man....I was sort of looking forword to the game, but that didn't look fun at all.

TheGuilty1

i gotta say this is a pretty boring looking boss fight. the only thing you can attack is the blinking snake rattle? and since when do spiders roar? hahaha damn if a spider attacked me and roared i'd give up on the spot.

shichi

It seemed pretty obvious to me that it was the first part of a puzzle/battle (bite the obvious glowing tail, then shake nunchuck to dodge the snake so it crashes into the friggin wall of cactus spikes!) and the player was just terrible at the game.

Just once it would be nice to see a vid of an up and coming game where the player was actually good at the game.

yomachaser

@excel_excel: Yeah, that was the first thing I thought. Then I watched the video and was pretty upset that that amount of epicness wouldn't happen....yet.

Hmmm, that would make a great story for MGS 5. Kojima, make it happen!

AcidCrownie

@Dayvie: How about Baby vs. Rhino?

I really want to be interested in this game. I've read a lot of good things about it. The combat here just looks boring. Maybe part of it was the fact that the player was sucking it up.

Silent Predator

That was ... kind of weird. The mechanics seem a bit out of place. Why doesn't the snake just eat the spider instead of smacking it around? Why is the rattle the boss' weak point? If it were some god or monster, then I'm fine with whatever bullshit excuses they come up with. I think we have a pretty good idea of how snakes and spiders interact, though, so I have a harder time letting shit like this slide. If the mechanics are going to be the same as every other game around, I'd just as soon play one with a setting that isn't as jarring.

shimage

They should make a Rock, Paper, Scissors fighting game with a rock character, scissor character and paper character.

IndustrialJones

Yep.. just saw the video at IGN.. makes the game looks way better than that :P

CockroachMan

Guys, there's actually a video with the same enemy and the same scene. The problem with this video is that the tester sucks, GT testers are really bad.
[wii.ign.com]
This is good.

alfredofroylan

Wow that's realistic .. >.>

Kingdom Oblivion

I've always wanted to be a spider!

Lingxor

@Gravnar:
+ 5 innovation points for them!! :P

Lazlo

So strafe, dodge attack, bite tail...repeat. That looked VERY boring.

Great concept...horrid execution.

TRT-X

I was hoping this was some sort of Spider-man vs Solid Snake super crossover..

Damn you!

Scuba Steve

Looks like shit. Guess I can take that one off my list.

Spoiler: Both lose, the beetle wins.

Mr. Mastodon Farm

I hate spiders and I'm still interested in picking up this game. Geez, am I that starved for a decent game on the Wii? Nah, for some reason I think this game has potential.

BelmontHeir

OMG I can't wait to play this so I can run around while a snake bites me and I miss his rattler every time I try to strike back! AWESOME!

Dick-Ballistic

@Junker: I think what you meant to say was Jordan vs Bird.

justhesh

Meh, the player controlling the spider sucks. Why fight the snake when it has the high ground, compounded by the fact that it has a clear range advantage .....

Unless of course that's just the limitations of the game itself. =(

GrassJelly

@pasquinelli:

Its a gimped version of Rhino. No tusk and 2 legs. Marvellous creature.

Dayvie

@excel_excel: I thought that too.

superbabyproject

@Dayvie: that would be awesome. what's a ryno?

pasquinelli

This must be the game they keep talking about for the Wii that caters to the hardcore gamers. All that the snake's tail is missing is a big flashing red light that says hit here...oh..wait...

RaynR

@excel_excel:

Yeah, thought the same thing.

moutski

@Dayvie: I'm pretty sure that's not what I meant. But good play. :p

chuffhoncho

@hlfx: We can dream man....we can dream....

excel_excel

@Jtn:
Yes, same boss fight, better quality, better player. Watch the one on IGN if you find this entertaining.

mistersneak

@excel_excel:

+1 on that sir......same thoughts here :(

hlfx

While I think it's a great concept, and more original than most games, that was a terrible way to show it. Maybe the guy playing it just sucked, but the controls seemed awkward and the video ended with the player dying. I don't know about everyone else, but personally a gameplay video should show more than "Here's what it'll look like when you awkwardly fumble with the Wii remote and then die.".

Aye Mak Sicur

Not as great as I hoped it would be.

You can't just take an awesome idea and slap a half-hearted video game on top of it.

I know! Let's make a MMORPG about pirates! It will be awesome.

Wait...

Veloc

Where's the panda that does Kung Fu?

NotoriousJnX

@chuffhoncho:

Yeah! Where is the Karate Chop or Spiral Kick?? Don't tell me they forgot the Spawn Web of Death attack as well??

Geez, I hope someone got fired in the Spider Research Department.

Dayvie

@Dayvie:

Pfft, no way, Bird vs Airplane is what it's all about.

..

Wait, I missed the point.

Junker

Cool! Better than the pre-rendered rubbish that are used to promote games endlessly

@Gravnar: You get to play a scorpion as well!

I mustn't have been the only one who saw the title of the article and thought "OMG! SPIDERMAN VS SOLID SNAKE!!"

excel_excel

Great, it's the game version of the movie Komodo vs. Cobra if anyone heard about it... And if not, go to Youtube pronto for some hilariously bad... everything.

Tesla7zap

You know, this video would probably be much better if the person actually controlling the spider know what the hell they were doing.

Mongo aside, it still looks pretty spiffy.

dry-roasted-peanuts

I kind actually dug this.

sergotron

That looked like awkward controls, to me.

- There didn't appear to be any kind of lock-on;
- I get the feeling that the UI was trying to tell the player how to dodge, but the player wasn't having any.

Either the whole game provides heads up as to how each encounter can be played, or, more likely, this was a very early creature that was intended to teach you the dodge mechanic.

gblock

The guy playing sucks. There's a much better video on IGN.

Jtn

a giant enemy snake attack its weak point for massive damage

bigsamboni

@Dayvie: Definitely! My money is on the hamster though, those things are vicious.

Gravnar

that looks worse than ps2 games

holysocks

Yeah! Take that snake!

CockroachMan

@Gravnar:

Ryno vs. Hamster.

Nows thats where the moneys at.

Dayvie

Well, it looks awesome, but the battle itself seemed a little simple. I hope there are more moves than just lunge forward and well, stand up on four legs. Also, was there a run away and sneak up on the snake option? Or a lead him to a more strategically sound location option?

chuffhoncho

@Lazlo: well... you get to be a spider... not much else...

Gravnar

Wow, that didn't look fun...at all. I don't know why the press has been so favorable of this game. It must have something uniquely fun about it....surely it must.

Lazlo

So, snake is Triangle Man, and spider is... anyone else, right?

I hope Sony's not too pissed. Their plan of having Kratos fight a rattlesnake in God of War III is fucked, now...

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!

Wow, way to take an interesting, original idea and turn it into a cookie-cutter pile of shite I've seen a hundred times before. *sigh*

mwoody

Man, that music is fucking awesome, so Planet of the Apes. I loved it.

justhesh

I wish to see this game but with nonviolent creatures vs. really really really dangerous animals.

Gravnar

it = the spider

Dragoona

that was desperatly awful.

bubassi

The snake attacked it's weak point for massive damage.

Dragoona

@excel_excel: I thought the same thing with Solid Snake vs Spiderman.

akumaserge

@BossMonk: If you watch the IGN video, you get a clearer image at what's going on; the spider isn't attacking the tail to harm the snake, but rather to aggravate it. When the player dodges the aggravated snake bite in the right place, freakin' Snake rams its face into the cactus.
But of course, the jerk playing the game clearly sucks, and didn't even attempt to dodge the following attack.

I really like that the Snake isn't actually beaten - it gives you a huge feeling of proportion and taste for food chain.
It's a shame this video make it look so terrible and gimpy - the IGN playthrough is so slick, it's practically moist.

Toastbusters

stepped* sorry.

King Seafoam

This one time, I steeped on a Rattle snakes tail- and then there was an earthquake.

King Seafoam

wow, you would have thought that the bundles of dead skin that make a rattler's tail would also be its weakest point for venom based attacks!

About as unlikely as using a mostly unexplored setting to make the most uninspired gameplay imaginable. Might as well replace the spider with a space marine, it would sell better that way.

BossMonk

@Toastbusters: Might also be a change made since the build IGN played.

Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc

Also, it looks like the guy is playing on easy or something, since the tail in the IGN footage didn't glow like mad.

Toastbusters

everyone wins except the spider. it's getting pwnd by the snake! do something already!

Orionsaint

ehhhh meh beh thq

Shabat0ge

I can't decide what is more retarded:

1) The idea that the rattlesnake's rattle would be its weak point (rattlesnake rattles are essentially thick clusters of dead skin cells; in reality, that is a rattlesnake's least vulnerable point. Even worse, they grow back!)

2) How many times did that snake have to bite that tarantula before it croaked? Fifteen? Jesus, have the creators of this game ever heard of venom? I mean, even without all the cytotoxins, neurotoxins and haemotoxins a snake like that would deliver with each bite (a couple of which would be lethal to a tarantula in molecular doses), getting repeatedly impaled on those fangs would be pretty awful, too.

That was one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

parazen

hehehehe

that was terrible.

really now, whose gonna buy this game?

chaos_isnt_here

Why does the snake sound like a lion? And the spider a tiger cub?

Anyway, it would take only one or two bites from a snake for a large spider to be done for. Still interesting though.

Thedavid

@alfredofroylan: Thanks for the link. Much better when the tester is not a trained chimp minus the training.

ThursdayNext

@parazen: It's. A. Game. It's not a Discovery Channel documentary. Games have the same requirement as movies and comics to be enjoyed; that you suspend your disbelief. Do you dislike COD4 because you can take an infinite number of bullets without dieing provided you have a breather in between getting shot at? Does it bother you that in any game, you may run out of ammo but your enemies don't? Do you really hate extra lives because we only have one life? Gameplay mechanics, like health bars are used to make games entertaining and...well...not impossible.

Calm yourself, and if you find you get upset because a game about being a spider isn't realistic enough convert to Budhism, you never know, you might get lucky and be able to try the real thing!

ThursdayNext

@chaos_isnt_here: I'll be buying this game.

Not an FPS - check
No buzz cut space marines - check
Not a minigame collection - check
Not a sequel - check
Good looking Wii game - check (search on youtube, I'm impressed)

Ptolemy

The person playing during the demo is an idiot. "Uh, lets just stand there when the snake lunges at me. Then I am going to do a forward attack from 20 feet away. Oh, the only way to hurt the snake is to hit its tail, well I think I will just stick to my strategy of getting my ass beat"

Arkos

Can I at least ONCE JUST ONCE! Have a normal battle with a fucking snake?! Is that too much to ask?! Why does he always have to be bigger than me!

Though...i guess in RE1 and RE4 you kinda did...so i guess i have. But ARRGHH Big snakes...::stabs at thee::

s0nlxaftrsh0ck

Can you play as a badger?

glutto