bye bye akklaim

http://gameboy.ign.com/articles/543/...html?fromint=1

well, I never thought they had such great games, but still...

one of the titles they were going to publish was the street racer Juiced. no idea what will happen to that now ...

[Metalmurphy]

Man that sucks... no wonder Burnout 3 is gonna be released by EA now. Thats odd Burnout 2 and 1 selled pretty well. Guess they didnt manage the money that well.

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[MaZa]

Well damn. Another classical game publisher bites the dust. This is bad.

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[Zer0Soul]

Really though what series thoes it still have that we even cared about?

Turok: The last one sold and played horribly. If this series is picked up, I'll be surprised, and the only saving grace is if it's something revolutinary.

Nba Jam: ...Last good Nba jam game? I'll stick to EA

Burnout: Now EA

Worms: Team17 will still live, so blah.

Shadowman:..While the first one was cool, never got into the other. (doubtful it would have been continued anyways)

The only two games that Akklaim even had me excited about was "The Red Star" and "100 Bullets" which both have already been picked up by other studios.

*shrugs* ...The only thing I feel bad about is the loss of jobs those people have now.

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[Kaiser Sigma]

I don't know... I kind of liked the first Turok game... in fact it was better than most FPSs of that time...

[Kane]

Didn't they do some game called Mortal Kombat or something. Piece of crap IIRC. There's little of Acclaim's that I'll miss which hasn't been taken up.

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[MaZa]

DON'T mock mortal kombat! First three games (plus ultimate/trilogies) were great! Though 4 was piece of crap indeed, unfortunately.

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I agree to u MaZa dude.
Mortal kombat rocks, although the MK4 wasn't that bad.
I will be waiting eagerly for deception.
Too bad Akklaim had to shut down.

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Originally Posted by MaZa

DON'T mock mortal kombat! First three games (plus ultimate/trilogies) were great! Though 4 was piece of crap indeed, unfortunately.

No... they weren't. The combo system was too mechanic and the chars' movement didn't appeal to me. Plus the huge number of pointless violent stuff to do bored me... animalities, babalities, friendships? Please...

[MaZa]

Originally Posted by Kaiser Sigma

No... they weren't. The combo system was too mechanic and the chars' movement didn't appeal to me. Plus the huge number of pointless violent stuff to do bored me... animalities, babalities, friendships? Please...

*lol* Those are exactly what made it good. About combos, they were indeed very mechanic, and in Mk3, they were more like special moves than combos. But they were still very good looking. Superfast fists and spinkicks without even hope to block them all. Oh, and those inhuman screams. I can still remember how Liu Kang sounded like when my J. Cage did his Nads cracker punch... Ouch...

MK - Deadly Alliance remakes fighting system to completely new. Instead basic high/low punch and kicks, every character has two unique fighting styles which you can switch, even inside combo. From kungfu to taekwondo and karate to tangsoodo and drunken boxing and so on... Very interesting looking and quite unique. Well, i have seen no game that has fighting system similar to that.

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hmm, I never liked Mortal Kombat. I remember Aclaim creating games for many handhelds ( Didnt they do the Lion King on the Game Gear ?). Oh well..

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There was WWF Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game though. It had similarities with Mortal Kombat, but was 10x more hillarious.

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Originally Posted by Zer0Soul

Really though what series thoes it still have that we even cared about?

Turok: The last one sold and played horribly. If this series is picked up, I'll be surprised, and the only saving grace is if it's something revolutinary.

Nba Jam: ...Last good Nba jam game? I'll stick to EA

Burnout: Now EA

Worms: Team17 will still live, so blah.

Sega is Team 17's publisher in Europe.

*lol* Those are exactly what made it good

oh? no gameplay then? :/

btw, I agree with Kaiser; MK stinks ;P

[MaZa]

Originally Posted by Samor

Sega is Team 17's publisher in Europe.




oh? no gameplay then? :/

btw, I agree with Kaiser; MK stinks ;P

Nope. Gameplay and controls were quite weak in earlier MK's. They improved a lot as serie continued though.

IMO MK is better than Street Fighter. Though i stopped playing SF after Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, so i dont know are later ones good... I got extremely bored after those endless revivals. SF2, SF2 champ.ed, SF2 Turbo, Super SF2, Super SF2 Turbo, Hyperblahblahbhah yadayadayada...

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[Rhombus]

MK isn't even an Acclaim game. Acclaim published MK1 and MK2, but both were developed by Midway. After MK2, Acclaim didn't even publish the MK games - they were all developed by Midway and Avalance, and published by Midway themselves, or by Williams. Anyway, I agree that the early MK's were more gimmick than substance, but I actually really really liked Deadly Alliance and I'm looking forward to Deception.

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Super Smash TV was a great game though, and I enjoyed the Wizard & Warriors games. But they didnt make that great games except for that

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[Cid Highwind]

Hey they played a part in the Double Dragon games for the NES!! DD2 and DD3 were among the best games of the whole system IMHO!!
Too bad I can't find games like that anymore nowadays......
/reminder to myself: Perhaps I should try the Beats of Rage mods for the DC

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Originally Posted by Cid Highwind

Hey they played a part in the Double Dragon games for the NES!! DD2 and DD3 were among the best games of the whole system IMHO!!
Too bad I can't find games like that anymore nowadays......
/reminder to myself: Perhaps I should try the Beats of Rage mods for the DC

Were those Acclaims!? OH NO!!! I simple love DD2 (though i hate its controlling system) and DD3.

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[Cid Highwind]

Need a screenshot Yes those were published by Acclaim, produced by Technos IIRC.
It took me some time as well to get used to the switching buttons for kick and punch in DD2, also I had to get used to the fact you weren't able to kick to the front. Because I first played DD3. But DD2 had a nice grapple move (the upward kick). And the hard hitting knee

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Originally Posted by Cid Highwind

It took me some time as well to get used to the switching buttons for kick and punch in DD2, also I had to get used to the fact you weren't able to kick to the front. Because I first played DD3. But DD2 had a nice grapple move (the upward kick). And the hard hitting knee

Yeah, its a shame that those grapple moves were removed from DD3. Two quick kneekicks to face and crunching highkick right after was somehow, satisfying, if you know what i mean.

Technos is dead company AFAIK aswell, so Double Dragons seem to be history now. Time to drop hopes for new releases for modern system.

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