Wow, I can’t believe Dark Void didn’t just fly off the shelves.
Capcom was probably the worst offender, but Hudson made Bomberman dark, gritty and shitty with Act Zero and Namco made Ace Combat: Assault Horizon with QTEs and a NATO bootlicking plot, and gave Ridge Racer to FlatOut developers Bugbear to turn into a Burnout ripoff with Unbounded. Many such cases!
Dark Void fucks, I will battle you till death. also Airtight was a western studio
Lost Planet went really hard too, as did Dead Rising, if Vanquish with its DARPA guy counts it does too, Binary Domain is also a fun lil guy.
All of those slapped with the possible exception of DV. Know little to nothing about it except for vertical cover mechanics
Dork Void is a turbojank game that barely lasts three hours and has Nolan North, but switching from dorky-third-person-cover-mode to dogfighter jetpack mode and buzzing ground enemies feels so good. You can pull off some bullshit in that game.
Sounds fun! I love jank, I love it to the point I consider it a negative if a game has no jank whatsoever (lack of ambition).
Would you recommend trying to emulate it?
It is on PC, you have to
since it got delisted and had GFWL anyway, but it’s a worthwhile venture. It’s also on PS3 and 360(better version) fwiw. Also also it had a DS/PC spinoff, a nonlinear exploratory platformer called Dark Void Zero which is cute.
ARRRRR comrade-atey!
I’ll look into the 360 emu and pc torrent. Thanks for the info!