Fuse Announcement Trailer Sparks Into Action

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Lee Bradley

Here’s the first proper trailer for Insomniac’s first multiplatform title, Fuse.

From the studio that created the Ratchet & Clank, Spyro and Resistance series, Fuse began life as Overstrike. Now, following the release of yesterday’s screenshots we get to see the shooter in action.

“Fuse demonstrates what Insomniac does best: outlandish and gruesome weapons design, over-the-top action and a touch of humour,” Insomniac Games’ Founder and CEO, Ted Price said yesterday. 

“We’re especially excited to see how players utilise lethal teamwork by combining their Fuse weapons to stop a deadly arms race.”

Fuse is out in March 2013. You can find out a little bit more about the game here.

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  • Peter Fox, pls...
  • I was going to buy Overstrike because it looks quite funny Like borderlands. I aint buying Fuse because well Fuse as the title sounds pretty crap and they made it a more serious 3rdPS. Pause it at the 00:44 mark and the AI looks close to bf bad company 2 mulsplayer characters
  • Yeah Overstrike looked way more stylized and exciting...
  • nice
  • I can picture the meeting at Insomniac. "Hey, instead of bright colors, a stylized look, and some humor, let's go for dull colors, realism, and a completely serious tone. Cause no one is doing that!" Kinda disappointed in the direction they're going with this one to be honest.
  • Reading the other comments, glad to know I'm not the only one who preferred the former style. Game will likely still be a blast, but the original style had so much more personality.
  • It looks OK but I still would have preferred Overstrike.
  • Whatever, gamers humour blows. Looks similar to VANQUISH so it seems right up my alley, although I said the same thing about Binary Domain before I played the demo.
  • ehhh i always support insomniac and loved most of their games so far so i'll give this one a shot too i guess
  • boooooring!!! so insomniac is a ps3 dev that creates the same common shitty shooters as the xbox ones do, btw i have an xbox not a ps3 i just think ps3 games are more unique in terms of gameplay and mechanics
  • WTF did I just watch? All I saw was a "hide behind this big ass shield" game.
  • i was just thinking "what the games industry needs is more shooters"
  • Plan B on a trailer for an American made game is... surprising.
  • Overstrike looked funnier and less like all these "we're trying to be serious" games, which in turn, make them boring and have no character.
  • @13 - I thought it was Hadouken! haha XD
  • Sadface, I was really looking forward to Overstrike after the VGA trailer. Even without gameplay the setup and characters showed a lot of promise. Now I can wait for Fuse to hit the discount bin...Insomniac or no. I'm really getting tired of publishers and designers assuming what gamers are going to want. 95% of the time they opt for fails like Star Wars Kinect instead of the games we really want to play.
  • As soon as I heard Plan B I had to turn it off, I can't stand that wigga.
  • We'll see. It looks like they took it in a very different direction from their first trailer. It's grittier and gorier, with a focus on making everything look 'normal.' Some of the characters downgraded their over-the-top status and lost what made them really unique. It's a shame. To clarify, there is in fact a fine line between over-the-top creativity and ridiculous design from lack of artistic creativity. I believe that this game was on the positive end of the spectrum. Reasons why I think they changed: 1 - The (let's call him Team Leader)'s shield could have borne too great a resemblance to the vanguard shield in MassEffect. Though honestly I don't think it was that close. It could be a desire to distinguish it from the hardlight shield in Halo4 or any number of other sci-fi games. 2 - Several other posters have brought up the point that it could become associated with and possibly compared to Borderlands2 with 4 unique teammates in cooperative play and a cartoony style. Borderlands2 is slated to be a huge success and the comparison by gamers could hurt this game's sales. 3 - Military shooters are extremely popular, always sell well, and using an established graphics engine saves money. Here's hoping they kept the personalities the same under those changing faces.
  • To bad they dropped the overstrike concept, but well some caracters in fuse look kinda simular to those shoed in overstrike. But hey its a squad based 3th person shooter and its prob or hopefull co-op so thats good enough for me, it def not looks bad so i def give this a go, i mean honest i heared ppl saying binary domain wasn,t much but i totaly enjoyed evey second of it. And with all those special "fuse" weapons it sure looks fun.
  • Looks pretty fun.Somewhat looks like Gears of War but that can be a good thing.
  • Not sure about this one. Seems to be taking itself too seriously. I liked the lighter, more humorous tone of Overstrike more.
  • This game = Prototype 2 + military shooter. Awesome! Now I can safely go back to sleep and never care about this game ever again!!
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