goldenpp72
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Kameo was said to have broken 500k awhile ago somewhere, not great, not terrible, doubt we'll see a sequel though.
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Kameo Still Looks Lush!
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Randy Lanzarote
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I should really give Kameo a whirl now I've got myself an HDTV, photos I've seen of it in action makes my experience on an SDTV seem like last-generation gaming. I just wish I could pull myself away from Mass Effect long enough to play a different game!
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Bearillusion
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Solid game but Rare need to do away with loading screens.
Raging Spaniard
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Agent Icebeezy said:
Nice screen, her face looks deformed in that shot though.
MadOdorMachine
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Kameo is a beautiful game, the gameplay is what hurt it. It had potential to be a AAA game but fell short because of it's odd control scheme. If they would have mapped the actions to the face buttons (instead of the shoulder buttons) and switching characters to the d-pad (instead of the face buttons) I think it would have been better accepted.
Sviatoslav
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Really? That's way better than I thought. With Viva Pinata going over 500k and PDZ being a million seller as well Rare isn't as big a bomb for MS as some are making it out to be. Plus Banjo 3 is coming and should be amazing.Agent Icebeezy said:
Kid Chameleon
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Regardless of whether or not PDZ shared the same technology as Kameo, Kameo is far better, both artistically and technically.
Parts of PDZ almost look nice (there are some good uses of paralax mapping etc), but there was so much screen tearing and some of the character designs were dreadful. Kameo, on the other hand, has almost no tearing at all (aside from the badlands when there are about 300 trolls on screen (sounds like GAF!), and mostly nice art direction throughout.
GameOver117
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No Kameo 2? get it on it rare. 
rollingstart
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g23 said:
I remember forcing myself to play through that game when I first got the 360 after I got tired of PGR3 all the time. I kind of want to try it again to see if I enjoy it still.
eventually I picked up Condemned which was really awesome and maybe my favorite of the launch games (PGR3 made me wish I could play PGR2 on my 360 and I had CoD2 on PC).
and I didnt really enjoy the Kameo demo(s) at all, so I didnt really bother picking them up, but it was a good looking game.
great game for launch that still shines today.
I always wonder why kameo gets slammed so much. I found teh control great. Sure kameo herself is a bit floatY - but she is a fairy. I loved the subtle animatioons as well. She would actuallt lean and turn as you made her fly different directions.
Surely well worth $50...even though its like $6 now!
I always wonder why kameo gets slammed so much. I found teh control great. Sure kameo herself is a bit floatY - but she is a fairy. I loved the subtle animatioons as well. She would actuallt lean and turn as you made her fly different directions.
Surely well worth $50...even though its like $6 now!
I personally feel as if it's one of the most impressive next-gen games, even by today's standards. Whenever I see people flipping out over the MASSIVE INSANO textures/effects in games like Uncharted and Mass Effect, it always makes me wonder if I'm the only one whose ever bothered to play through Kameo.
brain_stew
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GreekWolf said:
On a technical level it still puts a great majority of 360/PS3 games to shame. I still think it has the most impressive textures and particle effects in a "next gen" game to this day.
Randy Lanzarote
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Just threw in the game for a quick 5 minute blast. One thing that jumped out at me; the game has a great soundtrack, it has a very 'epic' sort of feel to it. Graphics are great, very lush. Sometimes I forget the 360 can produce games of rainbow briteness. A lack of AF lets it down a bit, but being that Rare probably had the early dev kits with an X800 rather than Xenos, I'll let them off.
I'd love to see what they could get out of the 360 with a Kameo 2... someone make it happen!
I'd love to see what they could get out of the 360 with a Kameo 2... someone make it happen!
Randy Lanzarote
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That's it, I'm playing Kameo until American Gladiators comes on.
Yoboman said:
I agree with this. Also I don't like the artstyle all that much. I was really interested in this game when I got a 360 because the system lacked good action/adventures, but after playing the demo(s)... hmm not so much. Nothing I played was even remotely fun
The most laughable part of the demo was the 1000 orc fight. That cutscene before it screamed 'look at how many orcs we can put on one battlefield with new technology'
plagiarize
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I remember people laughing at me when i said that Ash's animation was some of the most impressive i've seen in any game. i guess this is the thread that will tell me i'm not crazy.
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I remember spending hours running around the elf kingdom and just looking at the beautiful graphics. I need to re-purchase the game as I never finished it.
It was really amazing to see Kameo evolve over the last year of its development.
BlimBlim had recorded many videos of Rare demoing the game at various gaming events and every time it was shown (E3 05, GC, TGS, X05) it'd look significantly better. I remember them adding a lot of effects like depth of field and doubling the number of particles and enemies on-screen and stuff in just a month or two. I still have a DVD of movies from the "afro-tree" boss fight (both the Xbox version and the 360 version from a year later) and the jump was pretty huge. I'll see if I can still find it.
Now I'm in the mood to play through this game again! Too bad there probably won't be a sequel.
BlimBlim had recorded many videos of Rare demoing the game at various gaming events and every time it was shown (E3 05, GC, TGS, X05) it'd look significantly better. I remember them adding a lot of effects like depth of field and doubling the number of particles and enemies on-screen and stuff in just a month or two. I still have a DVD of movies from the "afro-tree" boss fight (both the Xbox version and the 360 version from a year later) and the jump was pretty huge. I'll see if I can still find it.
Now I'm in the mood to play through this game again! Too bad there probably won't be a sequel.
Kestastrophe
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I repurchased Kameo at Kmart for only $7 a few months ago. This was my favorite launch game, even though I managed to beat it in a day.
LordofAllThatIsEvil
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i think i might need to track this one down again. Looks better than I remembered.
BrokenSymmetry
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qirex99 said:
Because of this thread I started to replay Kameo yesterday, and precisely this was what I noticed this time. The animations of Kameo flying are indeed very well done.
GreekWolf said:
Well I played two. One had a level of the game where you entered a castle and had the rock/plant/iceman powers, as far as I remember. It lasted pretty long too, but it wasn't fun.
The other demo had nuggets of different parts of the game: an orc battle, a boss battle (a big tree of some sorts) and a section in a town. None of that left me wanting to play more. How much of this game do I need to play through?
It was a really good game, probably the best launch game with PGR3. Graphics were and are stunning, as is the music.
I love it how this game is always portrayed by GAF as proof that Rare have lost it, when all it proves to me is that they definitely haven't.
I might have to play through it again now as well.
I love it how this game is always portrayed by GAF as proof that Rare have lost it, when all it proves to me is that they definitely haven't.
I might have to play through it again now as well.
_Alkaline_
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At first i said HOLY SHIT
But then i realised it's a pic taken off a HD set and we all know that makes games look better than they do in real life.
Hitler Stole My Potato
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Meh. Sure there's parts in Kameo that look great (hell, the section towards the end in and around the castle still looks incredible with the DOF effect and all) but it was all mared by some rather shitastic character designs (something I normally don't give a damn about but it was impossible not to notice in Kameo).
My biggest pet peeve with Kameo isn't the graphics or music though, it's the gameplay. I didn't think it was fun at all. People like to point and laugh at PDZ as a sign of Rare's supposed incompetence but I honestly believe that they should be looking at Kameo instead. PDZ's single player game might've been one colossal stink bomb but the multiplayer was a complete blast. Kameo on the other hand had some sort of half-ass adventure game that just wasn't compelling at all.
Anyway, if you guys are looking for some pics of it....I think I still have some.
My biggest pet peeve with Kameo isn't the graphics or music though, it's the gameplay. I didn't think it was fun at all. People like to point and laugh at PDZ as a sign of Rare's supposed incompetence but I honestly believe that they should be looking at Kameo instead. PDZ's single player game might've been one colossal stink bomb but the multiplayer was a complete blast. Kameo on the other hand had some sort of half-ass adventure game that just wasn't compelling at all.
Anyway, if you guys are looking for some pics of it....I think I still have some.
Well to be honest, I didn't even know there was second one on Live. I played through the original demo at launch and wasn't too impressed. The visuals seemed passable, but the controls were much too wonky and the overall experience just didn't seem very fun... so, I passed. Several months later, I played the retail game over at a friends and was shocked by the quality of the final product. It was a completely different experience, which makes me wonder just how old the demo build was.Darunia said:
Of course, I'm sure the game isn't for everyone, which is why I always suggest a rental before plopping down the moolah.
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