Nerds Log: Wednesday, July 12th 2006
I was play Frogger trial version over and over, because im a cheap b@ast@rd! I receive a mysterious voice message.... mysterious because i didnt catch the names when it appeared.... and it said "DUDE!!! OMG !!!! THERES A FREAKIN MASS EFFECT GAMEPLAY VIDEO ON MARKET PLACE OMG....wanna play uno?"
So i was like "Hey bud take the pills and cool thanks for the info." I went off to download it and was expecting something ive already seen on some website... but holy crap... this trailer simply blew me away. The trailer was a walkthrough from the E3 06 demo, It featured some character talkity talk scenes and really showed off the character detail. How would i sum up the character detail and acting? oh its pretty simple... just read the message the mysterious person sent me.
The movements were more life like than anything ive seen in a game so far, the voice acting was extremely well done for a game with no script, and best of all was the character facial expressions... the wince when a gun is pulled, the squinting when something bad is said, the jaw sticking out and the eyes narrowing when the characters get tough.... it was all simply amazing. I would say the most impressive part of the trailer (this part actually made me laugh at how cool it was...) was this scene where theres a girl with a visor and a helmet that appears, the reflection and detail on her visor, the refraction of light and color ...changy-ness in the lens was just freakin cool. I was also... oh wait, im suppose to start a new paragraph.
I was also impressed by the combat, it looked very nice with the squad based shooter touch. The best part of it? you really wanna know? the fact this game still has a year of development to go.
