OMG! First "Sabre Wulf"(GBA) gameplay-video!!

[Zubiac666]

and it looks fantastic
let's cross fingers it plays that well too

go here (vid will load automaticly):
http://gba.n64europe.com/index.php?id=2247
:D

can't wait

[Jasoco]

I don't know what it is, but it looks interesting.

[Mac-Abre]

Holy ****, that looks damn good for a GBA game. The part where the guy in the top hat is being carried while the wolf chases the hero cracked me up.

[Querjek]

(Me to Rare)
"Took you long enough x_x "

But it does look good, like the new Banjo GBA game. BTW, you all should get that one.

[gamergary]

Looks like a snes rpg but it looks ok so I might pick it up.

[maxlords]

Him grunting like an old man with a hooker in his bed kinda creeps me out. Also....REALLY don't like the RARE look to games. Bleah.

[Oobgarm]

I dunno. I feel nostalgic when I see a game that looks so much like Donkey Kong Country and it's ilk.

The game itself doesn't look too spectacular to me, just another GBA game with some nifty isometric camera angles.

BTW, wasn't Sabre Wulf a character from Killer Instinct?

[Starcade]

I can say the graphics look nice.

That's about it.

[tom]

Sabre Wulf was one of those stupid UK tape loading games on a calcutator they called The Spectrum during the 80s. Spectrum had no joystick ports, no sound, colour clash, not even a keyboard, just some rubbery-thing, but hey, it was the best selling UK home computer, because it was cheap.

'Ultimate Play the Game', a UK software company learned coding on this machine, and became Rare. The rest, as they say, is history.

See pic here:


http://www.retrogames.co.uk/stock/assets/images/Spec_-_Sabre_Wulfe.jpg

[Zubiac666]

i can't believe that nearly noone knows the original game.
It's a very famouse classic.
thanx to TOM for info

[tom]

That's ok, although I never liked the Spectrum (why didn't UK gamers go more with C-64 with fdds, or Atari XL with fdds is beyond me), many coders started out on this machine, so I give it credit for that.

But all UK'ers should remember that the Spectrum was a UK computer and not well known in the USA (Timex tried but didn't succeed). USA gamers just didn't agree with 'tape loading' games, but then who would when the best selling 8-bit computer in the USA was the Apple II with fdd (15.000 disc titles by 1985. source: EG).

All UK hits like Jet Set Willy, Jetpac, Knight Lore and other games only sold in the UK and a little bit in the rest of Europe, but not overseas. Some companies like Epyx tried to distribute titles from softers Edge converted to disc, but even with renaming the titles, UK software was not well received in the USA (A letter in CGW from 1987 mentioned 'that the only decent game coming from the UK is/was Elite' and that's it).

Now, of course, UK coders are amongst the best in the world.....Well, sort of!!

[Querjek]

Jetpac

I LOVED that game on Donkey Kong 64, and knew it as Rare's first game, but I had no idea what system it was on and why I couldn't find an NES ROM of it (It looked like an NES game to me).

[ManekiNeko]

I dunno. I feel nostalgic when I see a game that looks so much like Donkey Kong Country and it's ilk.

The game itself doesn't look too spectacular to me, just another GBA game with some nifty isometric camera angles.

BTW, wasn't Sabre Wulf a character from Killer Instinct?

Well... yes and no. The character in Killer Instinct was named Sabre Wulf, but he's not the same character as the one in the game Sabre Wulf.

JR