Too Human Too Sexy for E3

About a month ago I listened to an EGM podcast dedicated to Denis Dyak and his long-winded, whiney and convoluted defense of his company's (Silicon Knights) crappy Too Human demo at last year's E3. "Game previews are pointless", "The gaming press is not 100% objective" and "E3 sucks for developers" were some of his key (and paraphrased) sentiments expressed in his hour-long showdown with the EGM podcasters.

I had come across tidbits of info about this game before but didn't know much about it aside that it was a third-person action/adventure game set in a sci-fi universe. To educate myself on the controversy, I found the E3 video of the game demo and indeed, I was stunned by the lackluster quality of everything show in the demo and my sympathies were torn between the EGM editor who slammed the shit out of Too Human based only on this sad demo and Deni Dyak, the game's creative director who has laboured over this game since the early 1990s. Ouch.

But that was then, this is now. It's already frickin' mid-April and there is a new, updated preview of this ambitious Xbox 360 exclusive title. Xbox 360 Fanboy posted up the video link yesterday and it has made me forget about Silicon Knights' E3 fiasco completely.
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Did you watch the video? Pretty impressive, to say the least. Admittedly, the very mention of 4-player co-op put the game in my SOLD bin immediately. This video shows so much more of what the game is about and it is looking like a very epic blend of some of my favourite gaming formulas. Shall we do the lazy comparisons of existing games in our description of Too Human? Sure, let's give it a whirl:

Too Human is Diablo-meets-God of War-meets-Devil May Cry-meets-Marvel Ultimate Alliance with a epic storytelling flavour of Lord of the Rings mixed with traditional Norse mythology.

The game looks fantastic. The world (and the 360 in particular) cannot have enough addictive action-RPG games. Although a few things still look sketchy, like the dual-firearm combat and the actual range of character customization options, Too Human is shaping up to be a heavy-hitter and yet another title to watch for in late 2007.

Source: IGN via Xbox 360 Fanboy