News - GAF TV: Tony Hawk's Project 8 preview
Posted by
Richard Brownell
at 02:15:17 AM EST on 10.24.2006.
Last week, we
premiered the GAF vidcast. One week later (wow, on time?), we have the second episode. And we ditched the name, since that was actually the only complaint we got about the show. All content now falls under the moniker "GAF TV" which should be ambiguous enough for whatever content we choose to release.
This week's "episode" is a preview of
Tony Hawk's Project 8 from Activision, which is coming out for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 next month. It's a short piece, but we'll have a full video review of another title later this week (watch this video to see of what).
Again, we aren't on iTunes yet. There are some things like the name and graphics we want to finalize before we get ourselves up there. But if you are reading this, you are mere moments away from grabbing the video anyway.
iPod Video: direct download
PSP Video: direct download
WMV (highest quality): direct download
As usual, we're very interested in your feedback, which you can leave in the comments below.
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drumlord 10.29.2006 at 10:51:42 AM
tsundae: It wasn't a "promo." It was specifically billed as a short, somewhat humorous preview. Some people will like it, some won't.
You will probably like the Oblivion one coming tonight. I've been working on it on and off all week because Oblivion is just too damn big of a game for it to be easy to video review.
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tsundae 10.29.2006 at 12:29:38 AM
I feel like this review was just made just to have something up. There wasn't any real substance to it and while I realize on the marketing platform its smart to preview a game thats typically very well sold and well received, but there wasn't anything in the preview to make me favor or dislike the game. I am a big Tony Hawk fan and yeah, your playing was absolutely horrid and for fans of the series, showing how not to play the game doesn't do much.
The advice - take some time to do either a real promo or a real review. Don't rush it at first - quality is better than quantity at this point.
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heartless_king 10.26.2006 at 10:19:09 PM
Gun is okay.
Rich, I'm not gonna lie, I always imagined you sounded different. I dunno what exactly I was expecting. I expected you to have a voice like a weasel or something like that (no offense).
Anyway, good show this week. TH doesn't interest me all that much unfortunatly.
As for the what to review question: I'd say nothing past 6 months and definitely do retro stuff if you find you're out of recent stuff to review or just couldn't get all the new stuff due to monetary means.
Yup.
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bjork 10.26.2006 at 12:27:34 AM
GUN is good.
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mduo13 10.25.2006 at 09:56:26 PM
Well, I'm disappointed you guys didn't have someone more familiar with Tony Hawk to do the video review. Also, I was hoping for a little bit more length.
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drumlord 10.25.2006 at 09:06:33 PM
I chose not to see GUN when it came out, not my kind of game. One of our staffers, Sam, is good friends with a guy at Neversoft actually.
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winky 10.25.2006 at 08:58:35 PM
drumlord: You make a valid point but Neversoft spent so much time making these games they are incapable of making anything else, see GUN , at least they have this to fall back on.
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sugoi 10.25.2006 at 12:07:01 PM
Awww, it was pretty good. I suck at/hate Tony Hawk games too (probably the former causes the latter) so from my perspective it was a pretty good preview.
Really looking forward to that Oblivion video review... playing the PC version right now, myself.
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bjork 10.25.2006 at 01:04:34 AM
Man, if I still worked here and had video access, a vib-ribbon video review would totally happen. Everyone should experience it once!
Anyway, THPS looks pretty good to me, but I've thought it's great ever since they lifted the free-skating gameplay from Aggressive Inline, so...
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onacouch 10.24.2006 at 11:32:24 PM
Sorry, similar to yourself I think the last (and only) THPS game I played was the THPS2 demo for Dreamcast. I saw the video posted and I just finally got around to watching it just now tonight. Commentary sounds great and I anticipate Oblivion. I don't own a 360 and I don't really plan on owning one in the near future so I haven't been that motivated research this game. As bad as it sounds I'm looking forward to you doing all the "work" that way I know I'll get a good taste of the game with no browsing or huge downloads.
I enjoy these episodes, keep up the good work!
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drumlord 10.24.2006 at 10:24:55 PM
So this episode has proven something. You guys just don't care much about Tony Hawk (at least compared to Table Tennis). This episode is clearly not as popular, in terms of comment, article views, youtube views, or direct downloads. I think the Oblivion one will do better though.
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drumlord 10.24.2006 at 01:25:37 PM
winky: Activision milks some things and they certainly pump out a lot of non-hits, but Tony Hawk seems to be the franchise the put the most effort into, probably more than Call of Duty.
eightbitonline: Point taken. But I think a month back is not far enough. Certainly, Table Tennis and Oblivion are both valid purchases for the 360, because of how infrequent 360 releases were this year. They're two of the top games on the system.
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winky 10.24.2006 at 12:43:19 PM
wow more activision crap...keep up the franchise milking dudes.
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eightbitonline 10.24.2006 at 12:25:27 PM
In regards to "sometimes reviewing older games", I think doing stuff like Oblivion and Table Tennis might be the wrong move. They're at a weird age where they're old enough that we are losing interest in them, but not old enough that they might be considered retro or classic.
My suggestion would be to either do previews (like this episode), reviews of brand new games (less than a month old), or games from previous generations of hardware (PSX/N64 or older).
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drumlord 10.24.2006 at 10:07:12 AM
thanks kenshin. I was sleepy when I made my comment earlier and forgot to mention something. We DO want GAF TV to be covering the latest greatest games, but while it grows, it suffers the same problems we have with regular reviews, which is that we don't always have the latest games. Of the 10 front page reviews right now, half were bought by the reviewer themselves, meaning I wouldn't have access to it to do video content on it.
So do please bear with us as you will from time to time get older reviews, but you won't get an older review of Army Men; it will always be something signifigant like Oblivion.
The big blowout of GAF TV goodness really starts with the Wii/PS3 launches. I've been working hard with publishers to ensure we'll have video coverage of all the launch games you want to see, and of course that means you'll get reviews of all those as well.
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kenshin73 10.24.2006 at 08:51:55 AM
great commentary
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drumlord 10.24.2006 at 08:31:12 AM
Sometimes we'll do older stuff, particularly if it hasn't been reviewed at all for the site (like Oblivion).
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bignfanboy 10.24.2006 at 07:00:18 AM
I like it. No qualms with you my brother, but why review Oblivion next week? Isn't it sort of old?
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jekku 10.24.2006 at 02:41:48 AM
Dang! This one concluded with a cliffhanger! Neat little video and thanks for making me chuckle. >_>
The game looks okay. I would think the falling animations would've improved dramatically by now. The Tony Hawk game I really played was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3.
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