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Update: Tom Clancy Viral Site

fourzerotwo — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 23:14:00 +0000

Alright; I’m 100% convinced this new Tom Clancy viral site is for a new game that merges the storylines and teams from all three Tom Clancy franchises (Splinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon). The hints provided in my previous post (link) combined with the fact that the official sites for all three games have just updated with news posts concerning terrorist acts / events in different locations around the world which are directly mentioned in the radio chatter heard on the viral site confirmed all three teams are involved. The news posts below:

Splinter Cell Update (click to enlarge)

Rainbow Six Update (click to enlarge)

Ghost Recon Update (click to enlarge)

Now, listen to the ‘news’ radio chatter on the Viral site, and eventually the reporter will mention briefly each of these events and / or locations the events take place in the radio chatter. Which leads to my conclusion that the events which unfolded in the three latest Tom Clancy titles, somehow directly or indirectly caused the events of this new title and will require the presence of all three teams / units to handle it.

Any additional facts, speculation, conspiracy theories welcomed.

New Tom Clancy Viral Site

fourzerotwo — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:37:00 +0000

The Site: http://jsf28555833-80604722.com or http://www.rev64.com

What we do know:
- Its a Tom Clancy Game (Clancy logo at the bottom)
- It mentions the Ghost team (Audio with Ghost Lead).
- It mentions Cross Com (could reference GRAW or since its 2028 could be any future military force)
- In the META tags it mentions Ghosts, Splinter Cell, and Rainbow Six (See: Meta tags)
- The radio audio references locales from all the series (i.e Mexico City, El Paso Texas)
- All the latest Clancy titles ended in ‘to be continued’ with the main character(s) in a compromised position.
- The radio audio discusses a global war taking place in the US, Europe, and Asia.
- The radio audio says the US capitol in Washington is gone, new temp capitol in Boston.
- US east coast has been invaded.
- 2028 Olympic games in Brazil cancelled.
- It mentions Splinter Cells being active.
- It contains audio of Splinter Cell tech being activated.
- It references ’special ops teams’, ‘ghost team’, ’splinter cells’.
- JSF = Joint Strike Fighter (program) or Joint Strike Forces

Any other info gathered? Based on what I’ve seen / heard I’m leaning more towards a new title that combines the storylines and teams of all three series. Considering all three teams are mentioned and referenced too several times on the site directly (via meta tags) and indirectly (via text and audio).

Not to mention all three ended ‘to be continued’ with all their main characters in questionable situations. Plus all three story lines could easily tie into each other from the latest three games, many tied into enemy activity in Mexico City, the El Paso border, both Rainbow and Ghost teams training in Mexico during the last games.

Any thoughts?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Demo

fourzerotwo — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:59:00 +0000

Release: March 20th, 2007

We’re not even three months in, and 2007 is already shaping up to be the best year of my life…

In terms of awesome media that is… you know.. not like ever or anything.

I mean come on… first a new Die Hard movie, then rumors of a new Indiana Jones.

And now, If you didn’t already know, theres a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie hitting down this year.

I know… I know… a flood of childhood memories hittin’ ya eh?

Yeah, its not the live action Turtles we knew and love, but after Turtles In Time, I think we were tapping the well on that one. The new CGI film vows to stay true to the TMNT comic-book series more so than anything.

In addition, and the purpose for this post, Ubisoft has stepped up to the plate, and put up the change for the Video Game adaptation of the new film. While I’ve seen more than a few horrible movie license titles come out of Ubisoft, nothing against them… movie license games are typically of the horrible variety, overall Ubisoft is one of my favorite publishers [/rant], it appears that they’ll be taking the game in the vein of Prince of Persia.

The good news is, you can check it out for yourself. The game will be released on pretty much every platform they can get it on, including Xbox 360, Wii, and PC. While I’m not sure if we’ll be seeing a 360 demo pre-launch of the game, today I was sent over a nice PC Demo that’ll at least give you a feel for what to expect.

WorthPlaying.com - TMNT PC Demo
WorthPlaying.com -TMNT Trailer

So whats the verdict?

Look like a game you plan on picking up?

I am hyped for a TMNT game period, I don’t care what it is. The PC demo pretty much blows chunks in terms of visuals and gameplay, but regardless I’ll probably end up picking it up for pure nostalgia reasons.

I’m a sucker for anything that could stir up some childhood memory goodness, but overall I think the finished product is going to have some decent gameplay that will make the purchase worthwhile. So for the moment, we’ll put this in the Skeptical but still sorta hyped category.