Gamespot's On The Spot featured not one but TWO awesome Capcom titles last week. First up, Mel and Matt stop by their studios for a live 2 player co-op demo of Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles on the Wii at 5:50 into the show. Hey, if they can play that well from big, weird chairs, imagine what an awesome shot you'll be from the comfort of your own game cave. Next up, Shana gives a zippy fly-through of Dark Void from the Tesla event held in the Bay Area. Ooo, "god of the skies," I like that phrase. Thanks for the love, Gamespot!
After letting you know last week that Dark Void will be jetting into 2010 (see what I did there?), I noticed that the official site had been updated with some cool 3D models of some in-game gizmos and weaponry. FACT: the only thing better than a rotating 3D model of a jetpack is a rotating 3D EXPLODED VIEW of a jetpack. How great is this? Check out the jetpack, helmet and two weapons here.
Wow, Bear McCreary is only 30! I was still working on riding a bike without training wheels at 30 and he's already composed one of the best soundtracks to ever grace a television show (Battlestar Galactica, duh) as well as the score for an amazing video game (Dark Void, double-duh). The San Francisco Examiner talks with Bear about his work and pumps us up for Dark Void, describing the music as much more "playful" than Battlestar's dark, military themes. He also discusses Caprica a bit, which will be exciting to Battlestar fans. Check out the interview for more.
Awesome sci-fi (definitely not SyFy) blog i09 dug up a link to concept artist Mitchell Mohrhauser's blog that immediately attracted my attention for the piece above. It's obvious that Nikolai Tesla's lab was inspiration of this piece. Tesla, of course, is the de facto leader of the human resistance attempting to stop the Watchers' invasion of Earth in Dark Void.
In reality, Tesla was a slightly crazed eastern European scientist who worked with Edison until their opposing views on electricity drove them apart (turned out, Tesla was more right than Edison). As the years went by, Tesla became more and more wacky, eventually becoming convinced that he could tap into an invisible energy source to power his "Teleforce," a weapon that the press quickly dubbed a "death ray." In 1934. For reals.
In the game world of Dark Void, Tesla has been using his supergenius to build the Ark for the human survivors, and has also created the jetpack that he straps on Our Hero Will as soon as he shows up. Will fortunately doesn't seem to have too many issues with being used as an experimental human torpedo, much to the inevitable delight of you, the player.
Mohrhauser is clearly channeling a lot of the same creative energies that the boys at Air Tight were grokking when they came up with Dark Void. Crossing fingers that Dark Void is a hit, we should get this guy involved with production design for the sequel.
