New True Crime: Hong Kong and X-Men Destiny images

GameDynamo - "Activision just shared with us a couple of new images of True Crime: Hong Kong and X-Men Destiny - the first one is a real screenshot of the game, while the other one is just a cool wallpaper. While we would have preferred a whole batch of screens full of revealing info, we're not going to complain here... after all, a picture is worth a thousand words, isn't it?"

[Gambit07]

Ummm... does that X-men pic count as a screenshot now?

[Yi-Long]

... they've got Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Guitar Hero money!

They honestly don't give a flying fuck about the quality of any of their games anymore cause they'll still be making tons of profits each year from the millions of lemmings who lap their generic shit up...

You think they are going to bother with going through all the trouble of actually posting an actual image from the actual game? Come on now(!) This shitty image has the phrase 'X-Men' in it. That's enough! 'The fans' don't need anything more. They'll be on the forums for weeks all over this, raving like drooling mad monkeys!

;)

Anyway, these are Activision games. Anyone who loves games and gaming shouldn't even consider buying these. Not just because most likely they'll be mediocre, but because you'd be feeding the Activision-tumor by giving it money.

Activision and Bobby are the cancer in the videogame-industry.

[Yi-Long]

... yet up til now, there's been hardly any information, screenshots, videos, or whatever coming out. No hype whatsoever. It's going to be a very VERY quiet release.

... which most likely means it's a piss-poor game.

Personally, I LOVE Hong Kong and I love GTA-style sandbox games, but this game has never looked like a winner to me. From everything we have seen so far (which is very little), it just doesn't look or feel anything like the actual Hong Kong, the gameplay looked last-gen, and the main character looks bland.

Not sure who the guy in this picture is. Probably the bad guy, which makes little sense, but maybe they made a VERY last-minute change to the bland looking main-character, which would make even less sense.

[mastiffchild]

Thing is , Yi, Activision didn't push Singularity AT ALL and that was a GOOD game(didn't need MP and could have spent the cash better on some adfs or more SP but still), Blur was a decent game and they didn't market that and so on and so forth.

All I'm saying is that if it isn't COD it can wither and die as far as Activision are concerned-even IF it's a quality product or big license(remember BloodStone-they didn't even push a Bond game FFS and it KILLED their studio so why make Bizarre, who make sodding car games, make it anyway???). That even carried if it's a GOOD game that could, with care, make a dent right now and you have to wonder about just how long Acti can keep allowing non COD games to die outside the nourishing glow of their publicity.

Ah, God knows but Acti do wind me up and I can't help but think both of these are being thrown to the wolves in favour of concentrating on more of the same.

Do they want all their studios o either shut down so they can slim down or to end up making map packs to feed the COD beast. IO say it again, it's odd, Singularity was one of the better SP FPS games of recent years and I can't recall seeing ONWE ad for it or ONE review pre release.

[Yi-Long]

... on both accounts.

1: that it's actually a decent game and the fact they're not communicating any information or media or hype pre-release has nothing to do with the actual quality of the game...

2: Activision might be doing this on purpose just so they can indeed twist their studios arms to just work on their big games like CoD. I really wouldn't put it past them.

[turgore]

it actually doesn't look bad.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[EliteDave93]

Damn! i forgot about True crime Hong Kong! i have pre.order it i loved the first ones.

[Yi-Long]

... just think rationally for a minute here, Dave.

Yes, there is a chance this might turn out to be a great game that's fun to play.

But.

IF that was the case.... wouldn't you think it would be getting just a little bit more marketing and hype right now!?

If I can give you some well-intended advice: cancel your pre-order, use the money to get some great games from some bargain-bins, and in a few months there's a HUGE chance that you will be able to pick up True Crime HK from those same bargain-bins for a fraction of the money. IF you're still interested by then.

Or better yet, just buy it 2nd hand, so Bobby/Activision don't get any of your money.

[EliteDave93]

K i might wait then.. When is the game comin out anyway? i havent heard anythin about it for months!

[Yi-Long]

... which makes the media-silence all the more suspicious.

Anyway, there are tons of games in the bargain-bins which should keep you happy ;)

[dkgshiz]

The 1st True Crime game was pretty decent. True Crime:New York was really mediocre though.

[Arup02]

Very excited for the New True Crime game. It seems pretty fun

[Sidewinder-]

"Nick Kang live from the crime scene."

Lol it was a bad game, but it's some funny highschool days memories.

"What's that? I cant hear yo...oh you can't hear me either!"

VERY FUNNY NICK!! lol. "Anybody get this on video?!?!"

[bronxsta]

Well, look at Singularity. According to a lot of sites and reviews, it's actually a pretty decent, really fun game but Activision did zero promoting for it.

So there's some hope for True Crime

Now I enjoyed the Black Ops campaign but I think Activision really needs to focus on its other seris. Remember when they actually made quality games: Spiderman 2, the earlier Tony Hawks, etc.?

[mastiffchild]

Blur was good too, as are a few Acti published games outside the COD/GH/TH Axis but they just don't seem interested whatever their other games are like recently and it's either a bit mad(surely making some money back would be good, no?)or there's something sinister going on. Whatever, why not push a game when it's better than average?

It's a big kick in the teeth for these devs to slave on games that aren't given a chance by their publisher.

[Solid_Snake-]

new true crime looking good. shame the new driver looking like wheel man. cant believe they opted for that stupid camera to car change instead of free roaming the lazy bastads.

[pr0digyZA]

I have hopes for true crime because it has people who worked on, GTA,HUlk,Saints row, red faction,need for speed and more so i hope they can pull together and create a fun game.

Its still a while till it comes so im sure the marketing will go up near its release. Plus who says good games only get good marketing, sometimes the classics are ones that don't.

[T3MPL3TON]

I don't have any interest in True Crimes because I know nothing about it and I won't be touching X-Men unless it comes out and people call it a must buy.

[DontShoot-Me-Bro]

Does this have multiplayer anyone know?

Looks cool from the youtube vids, could be a cool GTA style type of game.