New American McGee's Grimm Media Surfaces

Some of these shots are so colorfull and full of random crap...
http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=9232&game_id=4109&id=113868

I just want to get a katamari in there and roll it all up!

Looks like this guy's artstyle...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3fa-sjsvno

"American McGee's Grimm showcases American McGee's startling ability to twist even the most candy-coated environs into a decidedly American McGee-esque wasteland of horror, as evidenced in this latest set of screenshots."

Is it really a startling ability to make other fairy tales look like Lewis Carroll wrote them?

The Gametap aspect to this makes the enterprise wholly unappealing. The user experience of this middleware service would have to surpass that what's already established, like Steam, to justify a subscription.

I don't mean to hate on Gametap, it's just not for me :(

Good god that's ugly.

It's obvious they were trying to aim for 'style' there somewhere... but a good style means not having to make everything look like shit.

There's absolutely no theme to the color. As far as I can tell NOTHING actually has any lighting other than straight faceted vertex colors. The textures have incredibly obvious repeating patterns and random colors splattered everywhere, making me think they were done with a phone-camera and a quick photoshop tweak to get rid of the seams. Low-poly stuff everywhere.

This might have made it in 1999, but now it just looks lazy, unprofessional and amateurish.

Is Mr McGee still touting how awesome outsourcing shit to the lowest bidder is? Because if so I want to know what pack of primary school students are doing this so I can avoid them at all costs.

And possibly egg them.

American McGee.

http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=9232&game_id=4109&id=113865
Ouch!

If anyone likes weird/twisted fairy tales they should read Gregory Maguire. Just fyi. :) He's excellent.

Exclusive to gametap? Well there goes any chance of playing it.

Who's making this?

Good good this looks so 1994. FUGLY

Looks alright and very much like a McGee production.

Looks pretty good actually. Might be shallow on game play but its zero cost for me since I gget gametap anyways.

I don't know if anyone here has seen it but the art style reminds me of the Lucasfilm animated movie, Twice Upon a time.

Finally we get some media for American McGee's American McGee's GameTap service of American McGee's 24 episodes on a brand new American McGee fairty tale based on an American McGee's Grimm featuring American McGee characters in an American McGee setting for American McGee gamers.

I'd be much more interested if:

1. There were 5-6 episodes, not 24. I'm scared of commitment that way.
2. This wasn't on gametap.

I'm still interested in knowing more at this point, but very wary.

I'm all for avant garde/abstract art direction in games, but a lot of this Grimm media plain just looks fugly.

And what's with the 24 weekly episodes? Splitting the game up *that* has got to be a killer for the production team, not to mention the fact that each episode is going to end up being 2 minutes long.

OK anything other than GameTap and I'd be interested, but the only other thing I'd get GameTap for is Sam and Max, and I already buy that straight from Telltale. Another option please, even if it's time-delayed (ala season one of S&M).

God that looks bad.

Does anyone else notice how much this video game commercial *feels* like a tv show commercial? maybe its just me.

Looks daft.

Steam please?

Hard to tell what is done a certain way for the art vision, and what just plain looks bad. I was excited to see the headline, but less so after seeing the media.