Sega's Samurai Jack

**NoFace** · 27 Jan 2004, 01:06 AM

Oh god, I missed the part where you mentioned it was done by the Azurik people... this is worse than when I said it'd suck if the PS2 Vectorman people were doing it.

This is not a Sega product in my eyes... nor do I have any desire to play it anymore. Blech.

**James** · 27 Jan 2004, 01:54 AM

Not to be Miss Mary Sunshine or anything, but if you block Jack out of those shots they actually become kind of cool. Sadly, Jack is a hideous abomination so all hope is dead.

Azurik... Couldn't they have gotten Uep Systems (of Rising Zan fame) to do it or something? If you're only going to allocate $1.50 on the development budget then at least get someone with style.

James

**Mzo** · 27 Jan 2004, 01:57 AM

Those pics + Azurik =

**Drewbacca** · 27 Jan 2004, 02:20 AM

I was really looking forward to this game. I was hoping they'd use more of a Viewtiful Joe style gameplay than a 3D action adventure type game.

Now, I'm not looking forward to this at all.

**MVS** · 27 Jan 2004, 04:53 AM

What are Sega's internal development teams actually doing these days?

**Diff-chan** · 27 Jan 2004, 05:06 AM

Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater

I haven't seen the show but the character design of Samurai Jack is awful. I hope Sega's just publishing the game and not wasting a good team on it.

It's an amazingly good show. Really.

**Green** · 27 Jan 2004, 05:46 AM

Originally Posted by diffusionx

It's an amazingly good show. Really.

Seriously. The complaints about the show being dull perhaps stem from it being paced sometimes like classic Japanese films where there will be long slow shots of a beautiful landscape and ambient whatnots. This is offset with the usually awesome action scene which are some of the best I've ever seen. Most of the episodes I've seen are really good, but there are some I could see turning people away like the one where he has to save some rave kids from an evil dj or something silly like that.

**rezo** · 27 Jan 2004, 05:49 AM

Yeah. The character design reaction is something most people have before seeing it, I think, but the art direction makes up for it entirely and the directing is some of the best I've seen for a cartoon on TV.

As for the screenshots: " =\ "