xbox 360
Velvet Assassin Trailer Has Two Appealing Things
Posted by Michael McWhertor at 12:40 PM on July 9, 2008
Those two things would be tight pants and Nazi killing. Looks like Replay Studios, by way of Gamecock, will be serving up both in spades, as crouch-walking and fence-scaling are ideal activities for maximising the exposure of a caboose in taut leather. Velvet Assassin also lets you shoot Nazis in the face. You've already got our attention, Replay, so don't go screwing this up with some half-baked stealth gameplay. We don't want to have to push this one to the back of the shelf for fear of embarrassment.

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sisedi
Posted 1:29 PM 9/7/08
Ok, can we officially make it illegal for designers to have enemies that simply stand there facing one direction waiting for you to rape them from behind?
No person stands facing in one direction without any movement while completely disregarding their 6 during a war time situation, especially when they look as tense as that Nazi did.
sisedi
smuckersisgood
Posted 1:27 PM 9/7/08
Yay another brown game. *gags*
smuckersisgood
GLDarthziggy
Posted 1:22 PM 9/7/08
Overheard at the development officed:
"Wouldn't it be awesome if Sam Fisher was killing Nazis instead of terrorists? How cool would that be?!"
"Wait, we shouldn't make it Sam Fisher. He's probably copyrighted or something."
"Hmm... how about a hot chick in leather instead?"
"Perfect!"
Not stirring any buzz yet here.
GLDarthziggy
TheurerDiciple
Posted 1:17 PM 9/7/08
@Master_Achilles:
MGS4 has more "hot-latex-woman" than Splinter Cell for sure.
TheurerDiciple
goodbadorugly
Posted 1:16 PM 9/7/08
Bad trailer. Bad art design. Gameplay looks wonky. Just plain bad.
goodbadorugly
Tom Clancy's Samuraidino
Posted 1:14 PM 9/7/08
Snakes buns are much tighter and enjoyable to watch...
Tom Clancy's Samuraidino
TakuFangirl
Posted 1:12 PM 9/7/08
Game Videos is an unwatchable mess.
TakuFangirl
Yuji Noeji
Posted 1:11 PM 9/7/08
looks like a game for the Wii~!
Yuji Noeji
Master_Achilles
Posted 1:05 PM 9/7/08
@greeble: More like Splinter Cell than MGS.
Master_Achilles
Altersparck
Posted 1:05 PM 9/7/08
Needs less brown, more tight pants. Ya dig?
Altersparck
gcZanmato
Posted 1:04 PM 9/7/08
That looked bland and uninteresting.
gcZanmato
SG_Mahonay
Posted 1:03 PM 9/7/08
YAY, SHADES OF BROWN!
SG_Mahonay
slomo788
Posted 1:01 PM 9/7/08
@brokenscope: The ridiculously bad animations?
slomo788
greeble
Posted 1:01 PM 9/7/08
@Archaotic: Agreed, looks like a shitty knockoff of Metal Gear.
greeble
slomo788
Posted 1:00 PM 9/7/08
Go work on those tight pants, Replay. Ask Kojima some help if you need to.
slomo788
brokenscope
Posted 1:00 PM 9/7/08
....
Well I think that single handedly turned me off to that game completely.
Not sure why.
brokenscope
Thassodar
Posted 12:59 PM 9/7/08
Looks like that show that blew with Pamela Anderson.... V.I.P.
Do not want.
Thassodar
Strangelove
Posted 12:59 PM 9/7/08
Somewhere, Mel Torme is plotting a bloody revenge.
Strangelove
sarcasmOD
Posted 12:58 PM 9/7/08
@sarcasmOD: you really suck at spelling when you don't take your crazy pills, boy. That's EXPERT, not expect.
sarcasmOD
sarcasmOD
Posted 12:57 PM 9/7/08
That gameplay looked AWFUL. Literally the worst I've seen in a trailer before. Not that I'm some sort of trailer expect, mind you.
sarcasmOD
YourAnthony
Posted 12:57 PM 9/7/08
look average
YourAnthony
Señor Vorpal Kickass'o
Posted 12:56 PM 9/7/08
...eh, I feel like I've played this game a dozen times before already. They'd have to do something particularly innovative to interest me, and I know they're dying for my specific approval.
Señor Vorpal Kickass'o
Pikadrew
Posted 12:55 PM 9/7/08
looks bloodrayne-ish. That's not a good thing.
Pikadrew
RodneyMcKay
Posted 12:54 PM 9/7/08
I just hope it isn't THAT brown. Yowsa!
RodneyMcKay
Archaotic
Posted 12:54 PM 9/7/08
This reminds me of Metal Gear somehow, but sillier.
Her crouch walk animation needs some tweaking, that's probably why...
Archaotic
Furude
Posted 1:56 PM 9/7/08
I like games with female main characters. If only they'd release this on the PS3 as well.
Furude
sir_carrot
Posted 1:54 PM 9/7/08
Leave it to Gamecock to cock things up.
sir_carrot
resetbutton
Posted 1:48 PM 9/7/08
solid snake with boobs...j/k
resetbutton
Flowen
Posted 1:48 PM 9/7/08
Is MGS4 out yet? Yeah? No word on a date for another? You sure? Positive? Okay, good. Guess its safe to make our stealth game now.
Flowen
Draylorn
Posted 1:47 PM 9/7/08
Looks boring.
Draylorn
shichi
Posted 1:46 PM 9/7/08
somebody turn off the uber-sepia filter
shichi
Patient
Posted 2:26 PM 9/7/08
This should be retitled: "Metal Gear Solid: Solid Snake's Grandmother"
Patient
Petezah
Posted 2:19 PM 9/7/08
Not the "two appealing things" I was thinking they'd be, but tight pants and shooting Nazis in the face will do, I guess. Also, they need to hire a new sound designer. I heard the same stock choking-death-sound four times in a row during that trailer.
Petezah
kevinl
Posted 2:16 PM 9/7/08
she should be fucking Hayden Tenno.
kevinl
kingofrain
Posted 2:13 PM 9/7/08
Why is there a border of smeared poop?
kingofrain
ManjiKengo
Posted 2:12 PM 9/7/08
speaking of nazis.....what the hell happened to saboteur?
ManjiKengo
PsycheE
Posted 2:11 PM 9/7/08
Mrs. Fisher?!!!
PsycheE
ksins5
Posted 2:10 PM 9/7/08
BORING
ksins5
DARTH_TIGRIS
Posted 2:41 PM 9/7/08
like". Such a Splinter Cell clone its shameful that they've differentiated by making it a woman dressed inappropriately for her role. *sigh*
DARTH_TIGRIS
DARTH_TIGRIS
Posted 2:39 PM 9/7/08
@Master_Achilles:
I see your "more like" and raise you one "almost JUST
DARTH_TIGRIS
IntelSilver
Posted 2:37 PM 9/7/08
@ManjiKengo:
Damn right, that game looked so good. Where is it!!! WHERE IS IT???!!!
IntelSilver
ghostadv
Posted 2:30 PM 9/7/08
That was boring... and just about everyone beat me to the whole "Sam Fisher/Solid Snake with boob" idea, so, yeah.
ghostadv
suya123
Posted 3:00 PM 9/7/08
Oh good it's a Snake that actually won't make me shake my head when I have to look at his butt.
Except it'll probably be 80% less epic.
suya123
HaydenTenno
Posted 3:27 PM 9/7/08
Bullet Witch for the American audience!
HaydenTenno
ifalldownstairs
Posted 3:25 PM 9/7/08
@ManjiKengo: as far as i've heard it's still moving along. It looks so much better than this game...
ifalldownstairs
chaos_isnt_here
Posted 3:19 PM 9/7/08
Nazis. The ultimate villians.
For all your villiany needs.
chaos_isnt_here
Antiterra
Posted 3:44 PM 9/7/08
@Archaotic: I say this as a huuuuge Metal Gear fan, but... sillier than Metal Gear? Is that even possible? :P
@HaydenTenno: So, should we expect the cheerleader and nurse outfits DLC?
Antiterra
hatedinamerica
Posted 3:41 PM 9/7/08
whoever made that trailer should be fired.
i don't care one way or the other about the game; but that trailer was just awful.
hatedinamerica
Shad0X
Posted 5:21 PM 9/7/08
looks kinda bad :/
Shad0X
unmarkedone
Posted 5:50 PM 9/7/08
Gah. I can only take so much throat slitting. I love the concept but this trailer makes me think that's all there is to the game.
They need to go big, show some explosions, hand-to-hand combat, sniping, ragdoll, chase scenes, hostage-saving, train boarding, bridge demolition, carpet bombing, skydiving -- I dunno, anything not brown and slow will do.
unmarkedone
steerpike
Posted 5:47 PM 9/7/08
Meh. Unless it's MGS or hitman, stealth games just don't do 'owt for me.
Even if they involve knifing nazis. I hate those guys.
steerpike
Thorax
Posted 5:47 PM 9/7/08
Well, she's still not an "ass monster," so I'll let the emphasize on the tight pants slide.
Still hoping this turns out to be a solid stealth title.
Thorax
Starsky
Posted 6:25 PM 9/7/08
Man this looks crappy... I can't believe they show this awful trailer to the public.
Starsky
LuppyLuptonium
Posted 7:35 PM 9/7/08
Well since the modern term realistic means brown... MAKING A GAME THATS JUST SHADES OF BROWN SHOULD BE BRILLIANT!
LuppyLuptonium
neojam
Posted 7:57 PM 9/7/08
doest look very promising or good...
neojam
karateka
Posted 9:27 PM 9/7/08
Another damn brown, dark game. Can't they do anything else?
karateka
seafisch
Posted 11:10 PM 9/7/08
Isn't leather kind of a "noisy" material when it bends and stretches - and therefore not condusive to sneakiness?
seafisch
grecords
Posted 12:06 AM 10/7/08
I honestly couldn't see anything when it got too brown. They need to fix that because it could ruin what could be a terrific game. I'm going to assume the gameplay was terrific because I couldn't see it.
grecords
Sullyville
Posted 12:51 AM 10/7/08
Personally, I am moderately charmed
by it. It looks like it might have
some of the retro fun of a No One
Lives Forever. Hopefully in between
all the sneaking and killing there
will be oodles of atmosphere. Also,
I like women's bums in tight leather.
And the animations in this game
are quite nice. So seeing that
bum moving will be very compelling.
Sullyville
MrDo
Posted 12:38 AM 10/7/08
It's like Anne Frank gone commando
MrDo
TrueCrime
Posted 1:21 AM 10/7/08
I would drape myself in velvet if it were socially acceptable.
That said, this game looks pretty tedious.
TrueCrime
fuchikoma
Posted 2:26 AM 10/7/08
huh. Usually after showing how your game is like all the others, it's customary to also show "the twist" which separates it and puts it above the others...
Ah well, not quite ready to support Gamecock yet anyway.
fuchikoma
dmfamzo
Posted 3:08 AM 10/7/08
Damn how many nazi has been killed since the birth of vvolfeinstein??? LOL!
dmfamzo
Daisuash
Posted 3:50 AM 10/7/08
I don´t know why, but while watching this video, the word "generic" started to show in my monitor, in big fat bolds...
Daisuash
Spiffyness
Posted 4:57 AM 10/7/08
So basically it's a Metal Gear ripoff with crappy animations? DO NOT WANT.
Spiffyness
Chewbenator
Posted 5:25 AM 10/7/08
Animations are bad, main character is gimmicky, and the textures are muddy.
Chewbenator
shiroren8
Posted 7:03 AM 10/7/08
this reminds me of dark sector without the glave but with a woman and nazi's
shiroren8
stranger
Posted 11:03 AM 10/7/08
Wow.
This looks like Bullet Witch meets Vampire Rain with 100% more Nazis and 100% less talking gun-broom. Ouch.
Maybe Gamecock can show up at some awards ceremony and publicly embarrass themselves in a misguided attempt at guerilla marketing this or... maybe they could just cancel it and save their breath.
stranger
EditorinChief
Posted 10:54 AM 10/7/08
Eh, it seems a little late to make a stealth spin off of Perfect Dark Zero. Main character is a Joanna Dark rip off. The animation to kill the same enemy nazi are kind of lame too. Eh, still to early to be this cynical about a game.
EditorinChief
Mecharine
Posted 11:47 AM 10/7/08
Thats pretty unimpressive. The animations look like theyre from a generic 3rd person game.
Mecharine
freespeech
Posted 6:29 AM 16/7/08
kinda reminds me of dark sector!!!!!!!
freespeech