High Voltage trying to give Wii players voice chat with The Conduit |
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| BY Se Ajala Jun. 17th, 2008 | More on: |
High Voltage Software has been making a lot of positive waves with their upcoming Wii offerings recently. The hype for The Conduit and Gyrostarr, both titles that show a lot of promise based on various reports and impressions, is there. All High Voltage has to do now is live up to it.
Sure that’s no easy task, and rather than resting on their laurels the devs at High Voltage are trying to round their games out by giving gamers exactly what they want in two fell swoops. The first is a competent fast-paced FPS that takes full advantage of the Wii’s motion controls, the bar for which has been set by games like Metroid Prime 3 and Medal of Honor 2: Heroes, and then top that off by offering players the ability to communicate in-game via voice chat.
Okay, okay before you start cheering and championing them for their efforts you should know that this isn’t set in stone, but an idea that they are looking into. Dan Kauffman, the lead game designer of The Conduit had this to say via the game’s official website: “We are exploring the possibility for voice chat. It is too early to make any promises along these lines, but we agree it could make the game even better!” That may seem pretty vague, but hey, it’s nice to know it’s on the developers minds at least.
[See also: The Conduit gallery]
June 17th, 2008
at 2:21 am
god, that looks really good for a Wii game
June 17th, 2008
at 3:13 am
Hell to the yeah baby!
June 17th, 2008
at 8:34 am
First day purchase for me. After seeing the video on here and soaking as much info as I could up on the web. The only thing that can hurt me shelling out the dough for this one is the fallout from now until the game drops. I mean look at the game play video. Sure some of the human enemies look kinda bland. But the speed the game moves, weapons they’ve shown us, and even the vague story line have me curious, and anxious as hell for this one.
And if the word on the streets is to believed High Voltage isn’t even shopping this to Pubs until is DONE even though they have pubs supposedly beating down there door for rights to this one. I can believe it though.
June 17th, 2008
at 11:48 pm
Each set of screens shows advances over the last, with the effects in their demo now popping up in-game.
I believe them when they say they’ll make the game look great, but for me question marks remain over the game’s style and quality. It’s not like the developer’s are experienced FPS devs. But then again Retro weren’t that great before Metroid…
July 2nd, 2008
at 8:18 am
Wow that screen shot looks really good…
I am very excited for this game, pray to god it isn’t a flop!