The Conduit Gameplay Trailer

May 16, 2008 - We've been hinting at first footage for High Voltage Software's The Conduit ever since its unveiling a few weeks back, but we're finally able to pull the curtain back on it.

[cooke15]

All i can say is.. How are they doing this on Wii?? Please lend your engine out to other developers!

[thewhoopimen]

Omg wii fanbois are popping out of the woodwork lol. That game looks worse the killzone on the ps2. How do they do that???!

[TruthbeTold]

If that's what you have to tell yourself in order to feel good about your own choices then so be it. :p

[thewhoopimen]

i meant it as a joke about the fanboi. I have a wii myself. But i don't exactly think I will be playing this FPS on the wii anytime soon. It just doesn't look good. Corruption looks better even...

[Durffen]

Please let there be online multi player.

[Spartacus]

I think there is: at the end of the trailer, Mr. Adams says "Mr. Ford, Deathmatch has been authorized."

[Spartacus]

High Voltage Software: You have my attention

[thewhoopimen]

Mine 2. How does the tech demo look better than actual gameplay??? And why do people time after time get fooled by stupid perception tricks. I noticed they use the exact same texture strategy as most FPS on the 360 and PS3 console. People, stop looking at the gun and hand textures that represent the character. That will always be higher poly and sharper than the surrounding environment. So many of you gamers are fooled by how good the gun and hands look that you completely miss the simplistic cars, pillars,building walls and roads. The gun and reloading animation isn't what you are looking at 90% of the game. You're actually looking at the environment and enemies. Here is how game designers prioritize quality of textures. Main characters are always high polygon, enemies are always 2nd, and environmental objects last. Look at how weapon hits on enemies are simplistic paintball "puffs". Water is just a simple repeating texture. Explosions are just expanding orange spheres. Bullets fired on walls show a brown cloud "puff" exactly like blood "puff" and then leave oversized that seem to pop-in a millisecond later. Alot of the effects are simulated and not actual physics.

[Intrepid]

Amazing. Please buy this game to support the Wii's third party efforts. We desperately need more games like this.

[INehalemEXI]

This is the wii's KZ2 in some respects I guess. Its not exactly next gen looking but could be fun with the wii mote. Most likely will wait and buy it used.

[leeger]

Looks amazing for a Wii game but I can tell that it is a Wii game.

[The gaming GOD]

This game looks good. But the ps3 and 360 can pull off this look easily.

Honestly though, I hope people buy this game. It's really disheartening for developers when their GOOD games get outsold by stuff like mario and sonic at the olympics.

I'm talking about games like zack and wiki, okami, and no more heroes. Games that are GREAT, but sold like crap.

[Voiceofreason]

They'll buy this game if it is advertised like MArio and Sony at the olympics(3rd party game) was or SMG. NMH was in no way a failure and outsold all previous Suda 51 titles. Okami is a two year old port of a PS2 game with little to no advertising. Zack and Wiki is a hard sale when they give interviews saying its for 5 year olds but most reviews admit its not for 5 year olds when it comes to game play. Proof that 3rd party games will sale on Wii can be found by simply looking at the million sellers on Wii. Each of the 3rd party games that hit that mark also had TV advertising. Only exception I can think of is RE4. didnt see any ads for it.

[ChickeyCantor]

" This game looks good. But the ps3 and 360 can pull off this look easily.
"

*facepalm*

[7h3ultim8p00]

@ Sidar

Facepalm indeed.

[TruthbeTold]

Wow.
Did you guys see that monster/boss thing at the end?
We aren't supposed to be able to have this kind of stuff on the Wii. :)

[Forbidden_Darkness]

rather interesting, the guns are very Unique. i might have to pick this up for my dust collecting Wii when it comes out.

[TruthbeTold]

It makes me wonder though. If they can actually make the game look this good in a solid playable version with online capabilities, why hasn't Nintendo snapped this up themselves to publish it as a second party? Do they really not want this, or this type of audience? Any true gamer who's an FPS fan will want to play this if it pans out the way it seems like it will. Regardless of whether they play HD games or not. Graphics like this with controls the likes of MoH: Heroes 2 or MP3: Corruption? That's a small slice of heaven. Plain and simple.

[TheIneffableBob]

Because publishers don't just go around snapping up games that look "good". The developer usually has to go to the publisher to get a deal unless their game looks so promising that a publisher goes to the developer. Also, it seems that Nintendo is going for more of a casual audience, not a hardcore one, which is actually rather unfortunate. Nintendo games were once known for being popular among hardcore gamers.

[TruthbeTold]

The undertone of my post was that it may just be that this game isn't as good as we'd like to believe. Of course, I'm hoping for the best. Wii gamers are pretty starved for quality non-casual stuff like this from third party Developers.

[7h3ultim8p00]

Actually, the game IS that good. HighVoltage has 10 publishers trying to pick them up, but they haven't decided which one yet. I read that somewhere on Neogaf, and it was confirmed numerous times on IGN.

[N4g_null]

If you are a developer you will have to negociate the terms of the deal. Nintendo is too strong and could really cut into your profits. The guys are very high profile and you may be asked to change some thing in order to cater to a lot more people because nintendo does not throw money out the door and they guard the games they release like a super hero or some thing. While every one else is cool with putting out shovel ware they are not. To get ubisoft or sega or some one to publish it would be much better for them. Epic does a similar then this is why Cliffy b now rides around in a new exotic car. To put it simply you get paid way more.

[qwertyuiopasdfghjkl]

Looks good, even for the Wii. Will it look good on a SD display? Yes. Will it look good on a HD display? No. Check the picture and you'll see that up close in full view, it still looks like a Wii game.

Does it look fun though? I got a sort of (PS2)Area 51 feel about the story and a Timesplitters feel about the gun play. Looks solid all in all. I would pick this up if I owned a Wii.

[Voiceofreason]

LOL you're actually judging a game based on compressed video has proof it is inferior. I seriously doubt the video is HD so expanding it to HD and expecting it to hold up is just lame and pointless. I can pull up youtube videos that makes Gears of War look horrible. Doesnt mean it really looks bad though.

[qwertyuiopasdfghjkl]

Seeing as how all Wii games including this one run at or around 480p. I'm quite positive this too will look horrible on an HD set, but keep in mind, this is coming from someone who regularly plays COD4 in 1080p at 120hz on the PC. Yes it looks amazing if you wanted to know.

http://screenshot.xfire.com...

[Durffen]

I don't want to sound like a defensive fanboy, but it is only alpha form, so they have plenty of time to improve all the visual aspects, and polish it up.

[qwertyuiopasdfghjkl]

I'm deeply offended and sad when people call me SHARK... I'm not a fish. Its S-H-A-N-K. Cmon people READ!

[Durffen]

Haha, sorry about that dude. But once again, the game is only in alpha form.

[Kareshi_X]

Well Finaly the Wii is starting to impress me. I need to stay Up 2 date with this title

@The gaming GOD -

yeah ur right , its like No more Heroes .I remember reading a Post on n4g saying that no more heroes wasnt selling even if the creators were giving signed copies of the game.

[pwnsause]

im suprised that the wii is able to run this, thats great developing for ya. now if they are able to make the FPS controls right for the wii

[thewhoopimen]

... frankly i think it looks worse than any xbox or ps2 shooter.

[PoSTedUP]

it looked like an old computer game...why even bother? goldeneye 007 obviously looks better than this.

[thewhoopimen]

YOU HIT IT ON THE HEAD. I was trying to think what it reminded me of... And Golden Gun / Perfect Dark N64 come to mind!!!

[PoSTedUP]

right, but most of all, the enemies look like something out of duke nukem/doom that 2D turning look, not verry close up but a lil further away. i miss duke nukem, muli player laser-trip mines, doom was bad a$$ but i had more fun with duke, you can play dethmatches with bots and stuff.

[ChickeyCantor]

" Golden Gun" ....=D! XD

[darando]

looks interseting and atm i could do with a good fps on the wii, the only thing i really want is online (i can live without it) but it would be the sex if it had it..

it seems to be fast, kinda like timesplitters which rocks :P

[MK_Red]

They promised PS3 / 360 qualti graphics but this isn't even best by Wii standards. Mario Galaxy and Metroid were much better IMO.

[ChickeyCantor]

well mario is way more colourfull, also ...the video is rather small ?

[MK_Red]

Mario is indeed colorful but there are a lot of advance effects and lots of models and objects on screen with pretty great detail.

Also, even in this vid, you can easily see how mediocre lighting is (Compared to Mario) and special effects don't looks near as good as Metroid Prime 3.
I agree on the small size though but then again, Wii is 480p so there will be no HD trailer for it. A bigger / 480p is certainly welcome but I saw high res screenshots on some site and they looked pretty mediocre.
The only promising part is near the end when the creature is seen climbing through a hole inside the building but then, it's still far from best looking Wii game.

[ChickeyCantor]

actually if you look close in Mario galaxy, everything further away looses detail, causing the CPU/GPU to have more Power to calculate stuff.( all hail BLUR effect!)

in this vid you see lots of stuff going on at the same time.
Also the Gravity in mario galaxy isnt really that complex for the CPU...there was an article showing how it worked and there was even a demo made with custom code doing the same thing but i cant find it.

dont forget this game uses lots of graphical rendering techs( bump mapping, emboss mapping, normal mapping etc etc) at the same time.

But wasnt the engine from HV still in Alpha?

edit: i think its because of nintendo's art direction. They always pay attention to little details and stuff( im not talking about Textures XD ).

but i understand the dissapointment. in the last 2 years i started to game less...its actually depressing. I hope i actually get somewhere with programming....making your own is more FUN then actually play games XD

[MK_Red]

I see. I still think Nintendo is the only one that can make the best looking Wii games and Mario Galaxy and MP3 are still my choices but as you said, this and previous shots may indeed be pre-alpha or something. As for far objects, all games lower their detail and quality. PS3, 360, Wii and PC all use LOD or something.

The thing is that recently all vids from all console exclusives have disappointed me graphically. Killzone 2 didn't wow me like the E3 and GDC demos, Resistance 2 looking pretty ugly to me (Yes, even the direct feed shots from yesterday). Gears of War 2 looked exactly like the original and the bigger enviroments and more creatures were obviously for the on-rails level and felt kinda scripted. MotorStorm 2 was decent but still not what I wanted.

Maybe I'm too harsh but none of games from recent Gamers Day events have lived up to me expectations.

[MK_Red]

EDIT: Since I can not edit my original now, I posted this :)

Good point about Nintendo's art. In the end, I have to disagree (as usualy :D ) and say Mario Galaxy still looks a whole lot better even technically and not just from an artistic point.

Still, I definitly agree with you on games in general and current state of titles. Bubbles for you my friend :)

[Ace Ventura]

PS3 quality graphics? See: Killzone 2, GT5, Uncharted, Rachet, UT3, MGS4, Resistance 2, LBP.

Hmmmm...

[ChickeyCantor]

is teh character wearing a watch?!XD

interesting...looks good and now wait for some opinions about the controller scheme

[IzKyD1331]

well, i was sceptical, but i cann say that im impressed (no where near the PS3/360 quality they promised though)

[PoSTedUP]

ummmmmm.......no where near ps2/xbox quality either XD

[TheFreak]

Love it! hopefully the controls are good then this game has potential

[TheXgamerLive]

My nephew is going to jones big time for this one.

[flexbox360]

stop hating on the game. everybody knows the wii is not a ps3 or xbox360. let the wii fans feel excited about a game. they dont get this excited all the time. haters

i dont have a wii tho. i dont want another gamecube

[ChickeyCantor]

yet you wanted a new xbox or ps =D !!! =I

[flexbox360]

seems like ur a wii fanboy. well i like to upgrade every generation. the wii is a rip off with new controls. 3rd party support for the wii needs some help. reaaal bad

[phantomexe]

Why do you guys bash this,this game looks alot like some fps i've seen on the 360 let the wii have there moment and as a gamer ps3 or 360 fan support this game and yes the wii needs this.This game looks really good and i hope someone picks it up.

[mrbillybadass]

looks good for a wii game, and online is a deffinite turn on im happy that wii gamers finally get an online shooter...it will sell very well only for the reason that im sure wii gamers are nearly starved to death for a good online shooter and using the wii-mote should be really fun online, but im guessing the game around 8 or so but dont kid urselves the graphics arent that good and the only reason it'll sell so well is because it has no competition cause when ur in a weight class by urself the only place that u can get is first

[ManOnFire]

Looks are one thing but to me the controls and how smooth they feel are the most improtant. Not having played the game and only going by what the vid shows looks promising to me. Everything looked pretty smooth. Did anyone notice if the screen was locked or if there seemed to be a small bounding box ?

Edit: After watching again it would seem like there is a bounding box now the question is will it be adjustable like MOH2 ?

[Perverted]

The ending comments gave me hope for multi(online please!).
Graphics where good for Wii, but would be mediocre at best on ps360..
Besides better graphics are always welcome Wii but it's the controls/plot/online component that Wii games really need fixed(too many mini-game games!).

[cooke15]

Maybe Nintendo should take the step and help publish the game. But dont try and force them to do things the way nintendo wants it. Just slap the nintendo name on the box. get it to stores, and it will sell.

[heyheyhey]

that would be cool, we haven't seen a new Ninty IP in ages

and then there would be a war between the two Ninty FPS franchises

[cooke15]

they did publish Geist and Eternal Darkness.. so its not out of the realm of possibility.

[fatstarr]

^_^ good visuals might look better when it comes out go wii

[Ricdog]

Yea, why do people act like these r gonna be the final graphics. The game is still under production, there is still time for improvements. I think this trailer was just to show a glimpse of how its gonna be played, not how its gonna look.

[BattleAxe]

They should port this game over to the PS2

[M_Prime]

the game looks decent.. reminds me of HALFLIFE 2.. especially the bugs.. i dunno why but it does..

and we know HL2 was on the PS2 and the original XBOX so why can't it be one on the wii? i'm sure it can and this is on par with those graphics which are good enough for me..

for a WII game the graphics are pretty good.. i just hope its not a boring story..

[loftydj]

hot

[N4g_null]

The Wii is very limited hardware wise yet this is possible. Impressive and I wish them luck. The different guns is a nice idea also. So far my interest is up for this one. This may be the golden eye and perfect dark replacer that nintendo needed. Of course nintendo is not going to publish this as it would be hard to keep the e for every one look. As much as I love what crysis and the other HD gaming big wigs for how much they've pushed FPS I'm really looking forward to the new blood.

The style is a little different which is good. Now with valve wanting to make a Wii games admittedly for the kids maybe this game will make them defend their turf. It does has a HL2 feel to it along with a secret service vibe going on.