You'd rather it came from uranus, than came in uranus.

@Cruithne: Now that gave me a laugh.

Its an interesting choice of naming for an expansion. Thats for sure.

@Cruithne: It's better to give then it is to receive :)

That game and Commando 3 seem to have a lot in common.

Of course Uranus, of all the planets...

After all, with Neptune, you can't make bathroom jokes.

looks kinda fun, a bit like smashTV

Personally, I hated rocketmen after the demo I tried.
I'd rather they made these developers bug fixers for SFIITHDR

This reminds me of Total Carnage.

Man, what a crappy game. I love when terrible games or games that were irrelevant a week after their release get a bunch of DLC (Kane and Lynch I'm looking at you).

You know they only kept working on it because it was 'in the marketing plan', and all of maybe 12 people will buy it.

@TheCleaningGuy: You do realize that within a dev house as large as capcom there are MANY different divisions that work on differnet projects?

@the-hypnotoad: You cant bitch about K&Ls DLC unless you are a total tool since it was free you know.

@Witzbold: Oh oh... looks like Witzbold gotten into the sauce again :( Nothing is sadder then a drunken penguin talking madness :(

I have it on good knowledge Capcom only works on one game at a time. Even when they outsource work to other dev houses, they stop working until the other dev house is finished. I heard it was more efficient this way :)

They really should change the name or Uranus to get rid of that cruel joke forever.

Now what could we call it?

@okenny :):

Of course its more efficient. How else do you think they're able to make over 100 Megaman titles while Nintendo can only crank out a new platformer every 5 years? Its because Nintendo has a whole bunch of teams and divisions. They're just so behind the times at that place.

@Lijik:
Blegh. Make that "new Mario 3d platformer"

@Marasai: Urdick?

@okenny :): And by 'good knowledge' you mean a dead squirrel right, because that's about as smart as that production schedule sounds.

This game is lots of fun, it reminds me of Cannon Spike, which was great just to pop in and play. The world needs quick and 'disposable' games. I don't always have time to play a 45 minute mission with 10 minutes of cutscenes.

@Marasai:
Urectum

(If you didn't get the Futurama reference, then you live a sad and unfulfilled life)

@Witzbold: Yes. However, the team that made Rocketmen is not a very good one. If the full version's anything like the trial, it's incredibly mediocre. I'd rather have Capcom put its manpower into a good game than an expansion to a bad one.

@Xagest: I wish I could award you points in here, somehow. You have made a crappy day a bit funnier. Thank you, and Futurama!

@Xagest: I didn't :( I don't own a TV :(

okenny <--- poor :(

I've never played Rocketmen, though I'd agree with Witzbold that it looks like Smash TV from the perspective of someone on an LSD trip.

@Xagest: Here, let me find it on the smelloscope...

@okenny :): Thats bullshit since no game studio as large as capcom can afford to do such projects. In Japan they work on multiple titles all the time for example.

I've played it an the full version is worse than the trial. It needed another year in development I think.

I actually don't mind the story, the characters, or the voice actors, it's the pace of the gameplay that just doesn't work. A lot of repetition. And the forced movement of the screen in a game that relies on the mechanics like Smash TV (or Robotron 2084 if you prefer) just doesn't help it a bit. Selecting weapons is a mess as well.

Uranus just can't vut a break. If you try to pronounce it another way you just get something sounding like Urine-iss. (I think they tried to hide it that way in the Appleseed manga movie for the character General Uranus?)

@floppylobster: Maybe a year is too long (another month or two).

(and that should be cut not 'vut')

I'm amazed that this game is getting a sequel. I downloaded the demo and the number of bugs, bad pacing, time-limited guns, etc just put me off of it. I was a massive fan of smashTV and Crimsonland, and it's amazing to me that they were able to botch a tried and true formula like that so easily. I can't even put my finger on what is so bad about it. It just feels like they put it together in 10 minutes. The fact that I can walk through doors because of clipping issues, and to continue I'm told to press X, but in reality you can't continue unless you press O, all seem to just scream "I was put together in 10 minutes by narcoleptic ponies!

lol what a lame game (from what I read in the comments) its really bugger O_< I can imagine that.... wonder why it got a sequel...

****warning buzz kill moment ahead****

everyone knows Uranus isn't pronounced "Ur-anus" its more like "yoor-uh-nuhs"

Rocketmen is one of the most horrible games I've played. I soldiered on with a friend because, well, we were a bit drunk and I didn't want to play Sega Superstar Tennis. I was almost in tears after the penultimate level; an hour of mind-numbing shooting followed by the longest and most boring boss battle ever devised. Having your ass handed to you by a subway train and a car full of chavs isn't my idea of fun.

And the cutscenes are like Star Trek fan fiction put through a blender. It's hard to say if they were being ironic or are genuinely talentless, but given how poorly they're made I'm going with the latter.

Amusing, but I would have expected something more akin to "Rocketman: It Came from the Bargain Bin."

@ Witzbold: i think his point was more like why put dlc for a crrappy game... it is still a crrappy game with free dlc. btw - I never played that game to be fair.

@ hrabbit: yur uh nutz?

@hrabbit: Yeah, but it's like "urine-ous" then, as semi-previously mentioned. Poor planet just can't get away from the bodily waste jokes since people just seem to want to shit all over that planet.

Did anybody actually like this game???
Only played the demo but it was the worst game I've ever played in my life, no joke either.
This is also the first game I felt RAGE after I've played a game because it was so bad.

I'm looking forward to the DLC myself. I bought the first game and adored it other than the forced movement. I'll be buying this as soon as its available.

@Dir_en_grey: After upgrading my guy's speed a LOT, I liked the demo - doing that gave my guy enough maneuverability to actually dodge bullets instead of sit there like and idiot and take it. Still didn't get it though, since I didn't come to a co-buying conclusion with my brother, as we do both realize that the title lacks any sort of polish, though it does offer good horde shoot-em-up gameplay.

Title stolen from the in game video game at your first house in San Andreas, "They Came From Uranus".

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Because no jokes were made about Uranus before San Anreas, right?