If You Can Keep Your Head Whilst Those Around You Are Losing Theirs
Video games have progressed greatly since the bits and blobs of the early 80′s.
Take for example the Football Manager 2008 trailer, the game which is out this Friday to buy at places like Amazon
Pretty swish, n’est pas? Of course, what amuses me about trailers (not necessarily this one, as most Football Manager fans are not stupid) is that they always put “Not Actual In Game Footage” at the bottom of it. What sort of person believes that – say – Harry Potter narrowling avoiding falling rocks and dragons by ducking on his broomstick, then somersaulting would actually occur? Games can’t be both graphically and gameplay wise free flowing, and most developers generally go for the latter. They tried having graphics free flowing with Dragons Lair, and that was rubbish. I suppose that’s what I like about Football Manager, by not concentrating on graphics, it’s managed to produce a totally absorbing game that will take weeks off your life.
But anyways, I’m rambling off on a tangent. It’s a pretty cool video, especially taking the best poem ever written and giving it a football slant. Even though no actual in game footage is used (and probably for a good reason), it’s a good way to get people talking about the game.
Hell, worked on me!
Comments: 8 Comments
Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
sweet video, thanks for sharing.
Give it a few years and it will be both graphically and game play free flowing. They are getting close though. They even used the martial arts instructor who did the movies for the animations.
You just made my day buddy . I thought this was going to be released in around december . Great news for me .
I’m sorry, have you not heard of Half Life 2, Far Cry, Bioshock, Call of Duty (and sequels), maybe Colin McRae Rally for a driving game etc etc
There are plenty of gorgeous looking (better than the original Toy Story in terms of graphics) games out there with brilliant game play. Wrong wrong wrong.
You know what I’m going to say. It rhymes with sell out.
Quiet you you boring accountant type. At least I don’t spell awkward “Awquard”
I wasn’t talking about brilliant game play, I was talking about Non Linear Game Play.
You see, even with games like HL2, even with it’s gameplay and all it’s twists and turns, you still start at one point, and work through to another point and finish the game. Compare that with something like Elite, where your whole game can take multiple turnings. Sure, the graphics were terrible, but it was so absorbing you didn’t care. And the replay factor is huge – how many times do you start Football Manager again and again?
There are games that allow a degree of freedom (things like World of Warcraft and Entropia Universe), but even then, they pale in comparison to an old game called Ultima Online, where you could work your way up to King/Queen, or run a pub, or spend your days killing monsters. However, it could be tricky to replicate that in a single player experience.