Sorry for the rather generic sounding headline, but the title of the game in question is so long it actually broke WordPress. This is the news that shooter ‘PewPewPewPewPewPewPewPewPew’ is hitting Xbox LIVE Indie Games this week for 240 MSP.
Apart from having the best name ever, this side-scrolling shoot ’em up is controlled entirely by your voice via a mic. Saying “pew!” will make the protagonist fire a projectile, whilst shouting will unleash a bomb.
Check out the video below.
Source: Eurogamer
hazelam
i wonder what kevin butler would make of it.
Klart
This is what an entire generation of gamers has been waiting for! The revolution! Hands free gaming!
Pew!
jayjay119
So now we have Microsoft Sonic as Well as Microsoft Kinect? Really branching out into those energy controls eh MS?
Forrest_01
Why do they need mics? Kinect does voice recognition doesn’t it?
Sympozium
Extra firepower?
Commander…
[Commander:] Yes, Captain Ziltoid?
[Ziltoid:] Divert all the power from the main engines to the front guns
[Commander:] Yes captain Ziltoid, anything else?
[Ziltoid:] Take ninety percent of the surplus power and divert it toward the sonar awakening voice recoquctian device
[Commander:] Aye aye captain.
[Ziltoid:] We must summon the 6th dimensional planet smasher, I feel like a bit of fun…Summon the starship.
PEW!!!!
alonemusic
Devin Townsend reference WIN
scavenga
…anyone play Lifeline on PS2?
Hopefully this’ll be less ulcer inducing for you XBox people.
TSBonyman
LOL! I like the sense of humour that brought this game about.
It also looked like a second player was controlling the vertical movement of the ship by blowing or making “thrust” noises! :D
igotmy9milli
Will def try the demo of this. Looks fun!
Paranoimia
Surely this should have been posted 5 days ago…
Paranoimia
Although… something like this was first done in the 70s & 80s, on TV, via the telephone!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_POWWW
Video here, at the bottom of the page:
http://www.icheg.org/blog/chegheads/2009/10/pow-the-original-online-game/
UK version was on BBC’s Saturday Morning Picture Show with Mark Curry. Yes, I’m that old, and used to watch it all the time. :-)
quinkill
I think you mis-wrote ‘best’ and should have put ‘worst’ name ever!!