New Afro Samurai gameplay trailer

by Richard Mitchell { Apr 17th 2008 at 12:00PM }

A new gameplay trailer for Afro Samurai has arrived by way of the Namco Bandai Editor's Day 08. As far as we're concerned, the trailer spends far too much time showing off the game's locales and characters and not nearly enough time showing Afro hacking his enemies to bits. The trailer is rather stark all around actually, thanks to its exclusion of any sound effects or voices. Most notably absent from the video is Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal of Afro. Still, what's there looks pretty enough, and the gameplay looks decent. Keep your eyes peeled and you can see the real time dismemberment engine that was revealed recently. Overall, we're not quite sure what to make of the game yet. Here's hoping future media does a better job of piquing our interest.

Tags: afro-samurai, bandai, namco, namco-bandai

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Zoot Suit Jedi @ Apr 17th 2008 12:14PM

My hype meter on this game definitely bumped up a few notches with the gameplay that was shown. I remain cautiously optimistic.

decapit8 @ Apr 17th 2008 12:23PM

looks shitty to me. The camera angles at the end were horrible lol. and the way he ran like a ninja every time he moved looked like things that would be very annoying after a while.

JAKEJAX @ Apr 17th 2008 12:38PM

Kind of reminds me of Samurai Champloo. It was a anime cartoon.

Darkwun @ Apr 17th 2008 12:51PM

Those camera angles looks like trouble already, i'm sitting on the fence gameplay wise with this one, kets hope a demo realease ill step up the interest levels....

emirabal @ Apr 17th 2008 1:17PM

Im with you, need a demo asap, i hear the show was awesome and have them all TIVO'D ;) ;) waiting to see them and was hoping the game would garner the same. wait on the demo.

andyg8180 @ Apr 17th 2008 1:28PM

looks exactly like TMNT... except with Afro Sam...

EmptyEnergy @ Apr 17th 2008 1:37PM

I would hope at least one person from the black community worked on this game or else I would be offended at the title and main character.

Digital Limit @ Apr 17th 2008 3:55PM

Really, you can qualify stereotype being perpetuated as long as a person characterized by the stereotype had a hand in its creation? That's ridiculous.

But yeah, tippy-toeing around stuff like this, especially when the argument for it is such a stretch, is silly. The show kicks ass. Hopefully the game does, too. Leave it at that!