Comments on: Chillingo Announces Upcoming Side-Scroller 'io'

By: ArtOfWarfare

ArtOfWarfare — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:20:49 +0000

Sliding feet for the fail.

Seriously, what the heck? Did they even try to make the feet animate properly or did they think just moving up and down would be fine?

By: moataz

moataz — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:32:34 +0000

Absolutely right. Flashback would be great because the pace is perfectly suited for something like the iphone. I do think though that it would not sell so well due to games most iphone users have become used to.

By: along123

along123 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 10:25:56 +0000

for this to be available on the iphone/itouch is cool. I just hope like de others says that the control and gameplay doesn't suckz. It would be such a waste of the beautiful graphics.

By: Vikram @ iPhone Game Reviews

Vikram @ iPhone Game Reviews — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 04:59:05 +0000

This is not pure side-scrolling. It is a mix of 2D and 3D. The controls might be horrible for this type of gameplay. But still, I'm going to keep my fingers crossed.

By: BOWB4ZOD

BOWB4ZOD — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:44:06 +0000

this game looks awesome

By: eVp

eVp — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:26:03 +0000

@hkiphone

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that clip is from the desktop version. Thus I don't think the framebuffer effects will carry over to iPhone (no support for shaders on the hardware). You can always make such effects with software rendering, but it seems the game is built on OpenGL. I might be wrong though…

By: M.W.

M.W. — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:07:27 +0000

looks good, but everyone is saying it was a failure.

Not sure about this one…

By: danrel

danrel — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:51:04 +0000

WHOOPS! My bust, I actually bought the game a while back for my iMac, not my jailbroken Touch…. erm, it was bad either way though and I don't suppose that it'll be much better with touch controls. I still hope that it is though, as Chillingo has grown synonymous with the word quality(more or less)…

By: danrel

danrel — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:46:44 +0000

I played this game back in the day when I had a Jailbroken 1st gen iPod Touch. I still had to pay for the game though.

It's really not all that fun. Sure the graphics are pretty and all, but the game play is very boring and repetitive. I'm sure that the dev has refined the game a bit and more than likely added some new features, but from the look of the video, it's still a rather bland but pretty game.

By: hkiphone

hkiphone — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:38:09 +0000

The graphics look good, especailly the heat waves etc, but honestly, I hope they're not banking on being the "first iPhone game with heat wave buffering!" marketing crap. The game needs to be played too, not just watched.