It would appear that Joystiq has played an early alpha version of the game and the news is not good:
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/12/yo-jo ... ge_joystiq

ouch

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I'm going to wait for the reviews to come in.I want it but I don't want to pay 60$ for it unless it's good.I'm happy to see them making a game finally.I really wanted one during tthe VvV days,and I thought it would have gotten more attention from kids than the cgi movies they made.

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Crap

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I think it looks cool. Maybe I'm just seeing it this way because I want to, but the whole idea surrounding the game reminds me a lot of Army of Two, not to mention the Cobra soldiers look just like the two guys from that game.

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I really don't have an opinion on it. To be fair, Movie tie in video games are rushed to production and not very good. I would have like to see a FPS in the style of Fallout 3. Then again, a MMORPG would be great as well...though I don't know how much content they could have. It could play like City of Heroes bad guys and good guys...I dunno. I have hope though

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Well... I was hoping to be wrong, but this looks entirely uninspired and not at all interesting, thus far. I realize it's a few months out and a lot can change and blah blah blah, but... As it stands now, this does not appear to address any sort of nostalgic issues for me, and that would have been the only draw for me to this game. But I hope you guys enjoy your optimism for the next few months.

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wow, looks like it was written in flash.

I'll still rent it.

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"G.I. Joe the game draws more influence from the classic 80s cartoon, which is reflected in the enemy Cobra vehicle design."

Right. I immediately recognized the plane in the first pic and all the other stuff...........NOT. What is that plane? I could only recognize the figure Snake-Eyes.

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Yeah I stopped bothering with GamePro a number of years ago. They pretty well became a publication that just passes on the press release they're given by companies in order to claim to be "first" with news. Most of the gamesites/magazines have pretty well become that. It's after the game comes out and I guess about a month that you finally get real reviews.

I'll want it but I'll wait for the price drop. Heck even the Transformer game dropped by January last year with all of it's hype. It doesn't bother me to wait to play the game. Now if it was G.I.Joe the way we wanted it, I'd probably be ready to stand in line, but it's not.

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