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Sunday Comics: Dead Island Oh boy. Not often we get to write celebrity goss, so you’ll excuse me if I get a little giddy at the prospect. According to *ahem* Star Magazine, Angelina Jolie thought it’d be a good idea to send Brad’s sister’s kids a game for Christmas. So she sent them bad-guy-shooting and lady-bits-punching sim Ghost Squad! Not a good idea. [Brad's sister]Julie was shocked when Angie sent her children the commando-style video game Ghost Squad. According to a family insider, Julie and her husband Rob sent it back with a note that read, “We don’t promote violence in our home.”
How do you know when you’ve made it? When the Germans, famous for their rapier wit and brooding lifestyle photography send you up in a magazine ad for Sega’s Wii shooter Ghost Squad. Obviously, Ghost Squad doesn’t take itself too seriously, but who knew the boys and girls in the marketing department were so quick with the PlayStation 3 puns? They don’t stop there, apparently, as it seems no game franchise is spared the hilarious Sega of Germany treatment. You guys! I’ve going to start wagging my finger in mock disapproval if you don’t stop!
Please, no Wii Date Rape jokes in the comments. It’s beneath you.
Ghost Squad: neue Printanzeige [WiiGamer via UK:R]
Previously, we were a little unsure on Ghost Squad. Now? Totally keen for it. Games that feature dolphin guns, banana kills and fisticuffs with barely-clothed ladies don’t exactly come around every day, you know.
One of the few games at this week’s E For All Expo that I hadn’t had extended hands-on time with was Sega’s arcade light gun shooter Ghost Squad. The Wii port of the Chihiro hardware arcade release doesn’t reinvent the genre, but it makes a fine addition to the library of games playable with the Wii Zapper peripheral. This is straight up, old school arcade action, providing plenty of terrorists to shoot dead, and potentially loaded with more replayability than any home light gun shooter to date.
Tekken 6 may have baby chicks, pig tossing and bear on marsupial battles, but Ghost Squad? Ghost Squad‘s got bikini girls with machine guns, swan boat chases, more tan lines than we’ve seen in a game to date and special tactical forces with dolphin squirt guns. This is watercooler stuff, people. Do not miss.
Some of the game’s bizarre design decisions were visible in the clip we posted a few weeks back, but it just keeps getting weirder. Good job, Sega. I like you again.
Gallery after the jump.
But no actual ghosts. Sega’s Ghost Squad for the Wii certainly wasn’t what I thought it was, mostly because if it involves light gun gameplay and doesn’t have “House of the Dead” in the title, I tune out. Fortunately, Ghost Squad does seem to focus on old-school shootin’ and super sexy unlockables. I may bite.
