Preview: Angry Barry (Arrogancy Games)
Angry Barry is a side-scrolling beat-em-up for the Xbox 360 Community Games and PC with a little bit of politicial parody and a big ton of crazy thrown in.
On Barry's quest "for the presidency of the United States", he must fight his way through an assortment of different characters over 9 stages. The first noticeable feature worth mentioning is the amount of enemies on screen - racking up those combos looks like pretty good fun.
The other is the seemingly fully interactive world - or should that be fully pickupable world? Benches, buses, buildings, giant shoes... that could potentially turn out to be rather amusing. Throw in there local 2 player and a price of 400 MS Points (price for PC still to be determined) and mindless button bashing awaits.
Check out more info at Arrogancy Games.
Comments
The Bush Boss is awesome haha!
Posted by: Kraken | May 18, 2009 10:27 AM
I was suprised to see that the butt in the intro belonged to a man...
Posted by: Karlek | May 18, 2009 11:00 AM
I can only assume that Howard Dean popping up there means there is some kind of screen-clearing "BYEEEAAAAAAAH!" move.
Posted by: Sam | May 18, 2009 11:08 AM
Thanks for the coverage and spreading the word - as a studio of nobodies; any coverage helps :) Hopefully everyone enjoys the game when it comes out later this month!
Posted by: Aaron | May 18, 2009 12:18 PM
Interresting game theme. Looks fun and funny, smashing people with cows and houses is simply awsome.
Posted by: Kapser | May 18, 2009 2:40 PM
Not to be too critical, but this game looks a little slow and the fighting seems repetitive. It reminds me of 'Bad Dudes' or 'Shinobi', a bi-level 2D beat 'em up. But it's 2009, there needs to be more of a spin to the gameplay than just 'you can pick up anything.' Some more varied levels (rather than just endless waves of enemies), more jumping, and more features might make it more exciting.
Posted by: fdgfdgfdg | May 18, 2009 4:03 PM
Cool to see you here! Good luck with the game! Too comments I agree with is the fighting seems it could be sped up and that looked like female intro!
Posted by: Matthew Doucette | May 18, 2009 6:13 PM
Thanks for the comments. The speed is purposeful; as was mentioned, it's more of a classic fighter as opposed to a new school Ninja Gaiden inspired fighter, so the speed is appropriate to that. I tried to put a lot of things in it to keep it from being too repetitive; mostly event or humor based. Hopefully it works.
I see Vimeo is being dumb - they just removed my video for "violating the TOS" as they apparently didn't realize that I uploaded a video of my own game. Ugh, thanks a lot, Vimeo.
Posted by: Aaron | May 18, 2009 7:39 PM
Ah Vimeo fixed it; phew.
Posted by: Aaron | May 18, 2009 8:15 PM
Is Medvedev also a boss - or an ally?
Posted by: Ilya Chentsov | May 19, 2009 11:26 AM
I regret revealing too much about myself by pointing this out, but that butt in the intro is rotoscoped from a video spread on the internet of a girl walking on a treadmill with no pants on. A shame they chose to open the ad with something plagiarized.
Posted by: Kosax | May 19, 2009 4:27 PM
Of course, I've talked about that in several forums; it was purposeful and was put in because we thought it was funny to anyone who recognized the source.
Posted by: Aaron | May 19, 2009 5:28 PM
Kosax : mhh realy ????????????????????????????????
a shame ??
think bout it cmon hope ur not serius
Posted by: daso | May 19, 2009 7:40 PM