The Grinder WILL BE a FPS on the Wii

[Guild McCommunist]

You might be current on High Voltage Software's The Grinder, but just in case, here's a quick primer. The title was announced as a Wii-exclusive online-cooperative first-person shooter similar to Left 4 Dead. Then the studio went quiet for a year. When Grinder resurfaced, it was for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 -- as a top-down action title inspired by the developer's Hunter: The Reckoning series.

Some fans suspected that the Wii version got the axe in the interim, but that's not at all the case. In fact, High Voltage wants to ship Grinder for Nintendo's console as a first-person shooter.

"The expansion of Grinder to 360 and PS3 and its subsequent change in gameplay and perspective has been somewhat misinterpreted as a universal change across all platforms," High Voltage's chief creative officer, Eric Nofsinger, explained to IGN. "We still genuinely love the Wii and would ideally like to see a publishing partner pick up both a FPS Wii version and a third-person action version specific to the 360 and PS3."

Nofsinger added that the developer has not stopped work on the Wii iteration.


How would you prefer The Grinder?

"We have invested more than year into the Wii; the game is extremely fun, and frankly, we wouldn't want to see that work 'thrown away,'" said Nofsinger. "But when we decided to add the 360 and PS3 platforms it didn't seem to make much sense to jump on the rainbow chasing treadmill of trying to do the same game for such dissimilar consoles and end up short changing one or the other."

We'll keep you posted as more develops on the title. In the meanwhile, we've posted a new video of the top-down 360/PS3 versions of Grinder on our respective sister-sites.

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I still have doubts. As Hadrian has brought up, they're working on 3 major titles while producing a lot of shit ones at the same time. It may just end up being rushed. Also, this will probably lack what made L4D really cool, and that was The Director. The Director made the game never the same and always kept it different. This probably won't have it. But whatever.

 

[Hadrian]

The Grinder always seemed like a more interesting game than The Conduit. I wish they would just finish that first before going to Conduit 2. Its not as if Wii gamers are desperate for a sequel or that the first did well enough to make them money.

They should have canned that fighting game, especially now its more family friendly.

 

[cruznik71450]

This looks like it's gonna be x10 better then The Conduit. I really hated the online play for The Conduit. Also online Co-op looks like its gonna be awesome and taking a shotgun to a group of enemies makes any game look good.

 

[Anakir]

Awesome. That'll give some life to the Wii. The Wii's list of games is getting better.

 

[shakirmoledina]

thought i get some screenshots to expand the idea

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not bad but i think not well coloured

 

[gg31337]

Grinder looks awesome! Conduit 2 is gonna be pretty sick too

This wiki has tons of info on the Conduit 2! There's even an 8 page article from Nintendo Power.