Wolf2K E3 Trailer? Nope.

fuck fox, i dont plan to buy this game so far and without any footage i dont even care about it, all i seen or some ok screenshots

whatever

i saw some SOF2 footage and it looks great ill probably buy that, and MOH too

thanks fox, i dont care about WOLF even more because of you

why dont they just yank the music and release a no sound version, at least with just the gun sounds and such?

S.M.

When I played this game they had a dedicated button for "boot" and it was like an all purpose thing where you could kick objects, kick doors open, kick enemies, open tin cans, erase stains, make turkey jerky, etc.

As was indicated by ToeCutter in the forums at Voodoo Extreme:

Wow, this is a GREAT story, let's read BETWEEN the lines:

1. Gray Matter/Activision pay FAT cash to license the ALIENS music to use in their trailer for E3.

2. The FOX guys get a peek at the finished trailer and express *minor* concern about the confusion the music *might* cause with their upcoming product, Alien versus Predator 2.

3. The Gray Matter/Activision guys see an opportunity. They offer "Well, we'll show it at E3. We just won't make it available for download after the show *IF* you'll refund a large portion of the fat cash we paid you for the music."

4. An nervous FOX marketing exec ponders the great deal of cash he's been given by his company to promote Avp2 at the SAME show and responds "Um.....OKAY, deal!"

5. Gray Matter/Activision get a huge refund AND they *still* get to show the trailer at the show.

6. Knowing that many hardcore gamers expect to download the trailer soon after the show, Gray Matter/Activision formulate a sanitized press release designed to appease the slathering game geeks who comprise their target market group by implying the trailer won't be available for download because they've been bullied by big, bad FOX Interactive (who, as most of know, actually have a history of bullying anyone they disagree with).

I'll bet this discussion lasted no longer than 10 minutes (if the right people were present). I've seen this happen a thousand times in my business.

It all about the cash, really.

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You see a lot of people will refuse to buy AvP 2 in protest of this, and buying RTCW in protest, too.

I also indicated this in the forum:

The Activision folks are being lazy, IMHO. They can easily make the old video footage with new music. All they are trying to do is rile up you guys against FOX Interactive so that you'll buy RTCW and never buy AvP 2 in protest, therefor guaranteeing Activision and ID more profit.

All it is is fucking laziness on their part. They paid 20th Century FOX (not FI) money to show a trailer at E3. Never once did that part allow them to release it outside of E3 to the public. They were well within their rights to not allow the release, since they use the source material for a part of the Aliens franchise. It's theirs, and they can do whatever the fuck they want with it.

It's not dirty politics or fucking each other over, it's business, and in business you never help your competitors unless it gives you an advantage. I agree the "confusion" is just PR bullshit, but all that means is that they don't want to allow a competitor to use "Aliens" music for a competing product like RTCW. Game sales is a zero sum game, and every sale a competing product makes is one less sale to you, because most people don't buy more than a few games a year.
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Sad, but true. Activision is playing on our sense of "morality and justice" to make FOX look bad.

dammit i want to see more

>:(

I am both shocked and saddened :(