Well, this game certainly looks and feels different (and so it should...) than GTA. Not sure if I like just how aradey it feels, though.

PlayerX

The cover art looks just like The Transporter.

FATDAN

Vin handles a gun like a girl.

chuffhoncho

don't know why, but this game doesn't really do anything for me :S

Sandbox_Emperor

The game looks considerably better than it did awhile ago. A few months ago this was a "stay-away" for me. Now it looks like it has potential for a fun game. We shall see.

bradcopping

So is this game/movie about an assassin in a wheelchair, or what?

Protector one

I wonder whether the Iron Giant will open the door for other celebrities to start becoming leads in videogames, similar to how a lead in a movie can sell the product?
We have to tread carefully as something like this could eventually lead to a heavy dilution of video games.

Strong Arm

"I don't know if Wheelman will be another Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher bay"

Please put down the crack pipe hahahaha.

spacecoffin2

Too fast, Too furious: Escape from Burnout paradise.

Zombie999

@AngryEddy: o hai. we upgraded yer tirez.

Gavbot

I fixed that thanks guys :)

Adam Barenblat

"I'm not an assassin....I just kill a lot of people on busy city streets."

Also, the bullet time looks cool, but there's no logical reason shooting a van in the window would blow up a line of cars; or why your rent-a-car punches other vehicles out of the way like they were constructed entirely out of styrofoam cups.

rdj

Um....... Midway Delaying Wheelman to Q1 2009

But yes this game looks totally awesome! I can't wait to play it ^_^

bmills

Vins in yer car
comboing the freewayz

AngryEddy

I can has new genre?

Gavbot

i'm afraid this looks meh-tastic.
the driving physics look dreadful and its way too arcadey. y wouldnt i just play GTA IV?

mr_ace

That's looking pretty cool. I had previously thought you couldn't get out of the car, but now there's stuff on foot as well it's looking like this could be pretty cool.

photoboy

@LittleBigPlaneteer:

impressions = expectations

I just woke up :(

LittleBigPlaneteer

This video exceeded my impressions. I'm actually interested in getting this game now. Perhaps not the best game visually, but it looks pretty fun and Barcelona is a cool city to drive around in.

Let's not bash it just because of Vin guys.

LittleBigPlaneteer

Wow GTA with a bald dude how devishly original.

Fenian

Oh look, its another Midway game, I bet this one will be as great as the last game they made, because yeah they are awesome.... oh wait.

TraeGenius

@okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under): That was probably in Vin's pitch and script and dream of the game. "The line is 'I'm not an assasin, I'm a wheelman.' That's got to be in there!" So now the devs make fun of him by stressing that little point.

chuffhoncho

I loved how necessary the explaination for the last few seconds of the scene was.

Narrator: "He explains he's not an assassin, he's a wheel-man..."

Vin Dissel: "I'm not an assassin, I'm a wheel-man..."

- TOP NOTCH -

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

looks fun. and that yellow smart car got owned. take that european trends and fuel efficiency!

k.ong

another GTA wannabe

artistpavel

@SegevRaz:

Exactly.

LittleBigPlaneteer

@artistpavel: Because every FPS is a Doom wannabe, right?

Yeah, we get it, its sandbox, you can shoot and there are cars to drive, doesn't mean its "another GTA" (though I won't mind for a high-quality GTA clone)

SegevRaz

"I'm not an assassin"

those 15 guys in bikes that I just killed on my way here were not on purpose!!

IGC

tl;dw

if i would've been at work, maybe i would've managed to watch this for more than 1 minute.

or maybe not.

loopholezero

@slyzxx786: Really? I found Just Cause to be really fun and exciting in that over-the-top way. It just because way too long and bland in the end, though.

eclipsegryph

WOW looks like, plays like just cause. I will defiantly not be getting this

slyzxx786

The sandbox genre is stagnating. Something needs to come along and kick it in the ass to get people thinking up new stuff. This doesn't look like it will be it.

Reikoku

^

RIDErepublic

Wish they hadn't let him get out of the car. I was really looking forward to this being a new "Driver" game, where all the missions were vehicle based. None of this "Driver 3" please, the only game that can do GTA is GTA.

thewisestfool

@Reikoku: You're right, seeing as it's not a sandbox game.

Mitchard

bleh... sweet crash physics... not.

gomerkyle9

Did that little hybrid car seriously FLY when he hit it? wtf?

Chanthas

@rdj: No, there is a reason.

Jonn

SOOOO many racing games coming out, UGH! I'm probably guna get this one too. along with like 75% of the other racers on their way.

Lanhoj

This really doesn't look to appealing to me, I think the driving and shooting both look dated and I predict the story line will be as cliche as Henry Hattsworths monacle. I see nothing to attract me to this game at all exceot easy gamer points so will be giving it a miss

EmeraldCockroach