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First North American DSi-exclusive game


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Lady_Satine
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PostPosted: Oct 23 2009 12:22 pm Reply with quote Back to top

From infendo.com:

Early adopters of Nintendo’s half-step DS upgrade have eagerly been awaiting a full sized retail release exclusive – next week they’ll get it.

System Shock launches on October 27th, and will be the first “DSi Only” game to hit shelves in North America. It appears to be a basic “tap to shoot” on-rails shooter… except the location is your bedroom and you control the rails. This one kind of flew under the radar, until now, we thought next week’s iCarly game would be the first North American release to utilize DSi features.

Despite it’s upcoming release, not a lot is known about this title, but here’s what Storm City Games has to say:

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This innovative, action shooter uses the DSi camera to turn your surroundings into the playing environment, and your DSi into a weapon against attacking enemies! Truly unique and totally physical, with 100 levels of action and 360 degrees of intensity, ‘Flaw’ is the future of handheld gaming excitement.

•360° Optical flow/ motion detection technology
•100 scripted levels
•One button game play
•10 unique creatures

It seems like a pretty basic implementation of “Augmented Reality” gaming, using the camera and graphics overlay to bring the real world into the game… or maybe put the game into the real world? Although it’s too early to pass judgment, if the compass on the bottom screen of the promo images really works, I’m gonna call this one a triumph, straight out. …still, my gut tells me to wait for Ghostwire.

Edit: According to this hands-on article ( http://www.gamersdailynews.com/article-2125-Hands-On-with-System-Flaw-DSi.html ), this publisher is apparently SO small, that this game is only going to be available on amazon.com.

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The game is innovative, but it's not really my kind of game.


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Pandajuice
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PostPosted: Oct 23 2009 01:54 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I don't know. It sounds kind of gay to me, and in the article posted, they admit that it doesn't matter what the camera is pointing at or the background it sees, and the only interaction with the real world is simulating when an enemy is to your right and forcing you to physically move the DSi to the right to see it in the game. It doesn't seem all that innovative to me, and instead seems really shallow.
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PostPosted: Oct 23 2009 02:14 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I'm taking a guess that this isn't related to the much acclaimed System Shock series on PC?


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PostPosted: Oct 23 2009 02:22 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The game is called System Flaw. The opening sentence is a typo. I was massively disappointed when I found this out.

Will not buy this. Did you see the box art? It looks a bad 90s print ad.
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PostPosted: Oct 23 2009 04:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Not for me. I'd rather take Monster Finder over this.


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PostPosted: Oct 23 2009 04:07 pm Reply with quote Back to top

lordsathien wrote:
One button game play

Oh boy, that sounds like fun! Let's crack out the Atari 2600 while we're at it!
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PostPosted: Oct 24 2009 08:16 am Reply with quote Back to top

The Atari sucked. Seriously, aside from Montezuma's Revenge, I haven't sene a worthwile Atari 2600 game.

And, like Syd, I was very disappointed when the game turned out to be unrelated to System Shock.


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PostPosted: Oct 24 2009 08:31 am Reply with quote Back to top

Nekkoru wrote:
The Atari sucked. Seriously, aside from Montezuma's Revenge, I haven't sene a worthwile Atari 2600 game.

There are a few dozen. Most of them were by either Atari, Activision or Imagic. In particular, Demon Attack, River Raid, Keystone Kapers, Pitfall, and Adventure are fun. Some later got prettier versions on other systems, but all of them started out on the Atari and were fantastic at the time.
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Nekkoru
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PostPosted: Oct 24 2009 09:16 am Reply with quote Back to top

Well, the main reason the Atari turns me off is because you can't beat any of the games, except for maybe half a dozen.

Also, Double Dragon on the 2600 sucked.


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PostPosted: Oct 24 2009 09:33 am Reply with quote Back to top

Pretty much any game released for the 2600 after 1983 sucked, and many of the ones released in 1982 and 1983 sucked, which was one of the main contributors to the implosion of North American video game market in 1983.
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