Hydrophobia Now XBLA Exclusive, Gets New Media

I hate it when there's one piece of tech that is really great, but fails to fully integrate into the game and leaves gaping holes in the believability. The physics simulations in the water seem very nice, but the main character is wholly unaffected by them. Those are some large waves and strong currents at various parts of the video, but the woman walks through them with nary a bracing or stumbling animation, as if she's walking through regular air.

I think Euphoria simulation, or something similar that addresses force and inertia on character has become incredibly important to me in games after playing GTA IV. In certain games like this one, it's not just a handy gimmick -- it's necessary, because so much emphasis and attention has been given to the movement of water that it must interact with the character correctly. Otherwise, hey, there's a lot of water everywhere. So what? It becomes a glorified tech demo with what looks like some pretty mundane gameplay and level design wrapped around it.

I could live the remainder of my life happy if I never saw more "jaw-dropping" hyperbole.

Looks like Beyond Good and Evil crossed with Bioshock?

Horrible fake russian or whatever accent.

Fails to impress me, but the water surely looks better than it does in BioShock....

Will there be flippie-floppie DLC?

Sounds to me like they saved quite a bit of money on the soundtrack, perhaps to spend towards making the water look wetter...

it sure as fuck better have wet clothing tech, or at least wet tank-top tech.

this would be way cooler as a FPS

Thomas Malthus eh? Interesting. TO WIKI!

Awaiting the "only possible with the power of the XBOX 360" announcement. Oh wait, They don't pull that shit on the 360.

I'm not really sold on the water when it doesn't seem to be doing more than make crates bob or make you swim sometimes. On the other hand if there's an awesome, physics-defying gun that lets you redirect huge waves into people's face... that would be sweet.

What the developers certainly don't have is bloomophobia.

Real nice, more great pics @ http://www.hydrophobia-game.com/

Looks like a potential hit.