If you're already in the Telltale fever with the announcement of Sam and Max being bound for a Wii Disc, then todays announcement will further add to the mouth foam action thats already happening. Coming in June is the first ever episodic game series for net connected consoles, and if you're familiar with the off beat humor of Homestarrunner.com, and own a Wii, this is going to send you into further hysterics.
Telltale Games will be bring us Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, based on the insanely successful Homestarrunner.com series. The game will be released as five individual episodes via the WiiWare service. While pricing and a solid release date is still on the way, you'll see episodes hitting your Wii monthly.
"Homestarrunner.com is one of the biggest success stories in online entertainment," says Telltale CEO Dan Connors. "The Chapmans have been treating the Internet to episodic content for years. We're thrilled to have teamed up with them to take episodic gaming to the next level via Nintendo's innovative WiiWare delivery system."
The player uncovers each episode's comedic plot through character interaction, dialogue-based puzzles, and the use (and abuse) of inventory items. In addition, each episode will be crammed with time-wasters to keep players poking around in the world, including Strong Bad emails to check, prank phone calls to place, and mini-games styled after the arcade games on the Homestarrunner.com website.
The partnership between Telltale and the Chapmans, creator Homestarrunner.com has been a close one. This hands-on collaboration will deliver long-time fans the ultimate Strong Bad experience and give new players a crash course in the series' offbeat and unusual humor. The episodes play like extended cartoons, during which the player assumes the role of Strong Bad—controlling his actions, hearing his innermost thoughts, and becoming part of his awesome world. Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People features the cast of characters and locations from the Homestarrunner.com cartoons, and the games are fully voice acted by Matt Chapman and the rest of the original cast.
And if you're not totally convinced this world first in console gaming is gonna be worth it, take it from Strongbad himself! "Telltale has been rejecting my ideas for green text adventures for years," laments thousandaire gadabout Strong Bad, "but we finally reached a compromise with this puffy 3D point-and-click-em-up adventure. They claim all the coding was done with green text, so I guess that's pretty cool."
So while you wait around till June, why not check out one of Strongbads episodes!
Submitted by Robtot
11/04/2008
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