*mortified*

Give kids real games, don't teach them to growl.

What was that look at the end? Was the kid going to pee on his dog?

Totally awesome.

As a nature lover I might have to check this out. Wolves are made of awesome, and since I, as a taxpayer, paid for it I think I should get my monies worth.

I SMELL DOG!

damn furries

Brilliant!

That kid was scary to an extremely intense degree- Especially that look on the end gave me shivers.
"Rawrr. Time to make PUPPIES."

..I wonder how much they cashed out for that theme song?

This is going to be free? YES! Me and all my "way to old to be playing this game" friends will rule the lands and smell elk!

Look out wolf world! Here we come!

-Niric

Doggy Style Unlocked!

i sincerely really want to play this.looks good but they need to get better trailer makers.I SMELL ELK!

Count me in, but finding a mate is disabled for online play? I'm disappointed. So much hilarity could have ensued from that feature, and possibly sue-larity too.

Actually, the only gov't agency I approve of giving my money to is the National Science Foundation, without them my girlfriend and many other researchers around the country wouldn't have their grants to continue work in their fields.

this looks great, cant think of many other animal simulation games, especially online co-op ones

It actually does not look so bad. Kinda. I'm not exactly sure where I stand on it. I hope no own growls at the game. But it's free, so, cool? Doubt it'll give Okami a run for it's money though.

i wonder if that kid laughs every time the wolf pees.

not much different from halo 2 actually. i've been the elk for years. i'm surprised they didn't put an "i own this" feature in the halo 3 beta. we'll see if it shows up in the retail version.

"Oh the Jedi's are going to feel this one."

Replace Jedi with "Furries" there Farnsworth

I gotta get me some of this...
I like the idea, if not the execution.

Haha. That first kid is weid as hell.

"Hey, this is our territory! Back off!"
*takes out 12-gauge and blows wolf's head to Kingdom Come*
"Whose territory is it now, bitch?"

...Sorry, wrong game.
(But calling an alpha male wolf a bitch, real hardcore, dudez.)

Anyway, huh, is it normal that the wolf looks like a dog and the boy so bored he wants to off himself?

AND: I'm surprised nobody wrote "Afrikaaaaa!" yet.
(It had the potential to become the new "Riiiiiiidge Racer!", but never quite made it. Sad.)

Run! I smell rabies!

I like how the Wolf Quest lettering was so similiar to another "Quest" game. *cough* EverQuest *cough*

Does anyone else think the kid is laughing cause we can't see what hes up to from the waste down. Carpets covered in urine!

Oh man, I haven't been to MN Zoo since our yearly trips back in elementary school. That place was mad awesome. I should go back there sometime before I find a real job, and have to finally move out of my home state.

@BigChiefSmokem: Ya man, without the NSF my dad woulda been a poor fuck and I probably would never have grown up with games. Shame on you Fahey!

@hana_fubuki: I don't go after fellow Kotaku posters, but that was unfunny, and just plain sad.

They are wolves, a symbol of this country and a symbol of nature. Not an adornment to put on your fireplace.

That trailer both repulsed me by the production values and the thoughts of children growling at a computer, and yet still intrigued me enough to make sure I download and play this game when it comes out.

I'm not sure I've ever been repulsed and intrigued by a trailer before. Wait, no, that's wrong. The Hot Shots Golf pantsu from earlier today.

Holy shit! This is too funny to be real!

This has to be the best way for our government to spend my tax dollars. There is simply too much to make fun of here. I'll start with kids hunting in packs.

Me: I see a kid umm... frolicking over there.

Sam Neill: That's because he WANTS you to see him!

Sam Neill: There are two more on the wings waiting to beg you for cookies and such.

Ok, I'm totally playing this. But is there a concern about teaching little kids that there is a social hierarchy that must be obeyed? We have enough alpha wolves to deal with going through high school. There's no need to program that into our heads. But wolves truly are made of awesome, as Grael4 said, so I've got to howl along with everyone else.

can't help but say its a sweet idea for a game

"Oh no, Timmy aggro'd a level 25 elk! Game over man, game over!"

Was it just me or did you guys get the creepy feeling that the kid was abour to try and eat his dog?

Oh and good call on the Duran Duran Tag line very nice

@Huginn: And you've never killed an animal in a videogame. Or a human, which I believe is supposed to be worse.

Chill. Don't like the joke? Fine.
But please, spare me the "symbol of this country" speech (which country would that be, btw? there's quite a diversity of origins around here).
I have as much (probably more, really) respect for animals and nature as the next guy.

What was it that Desproges said...? "You can make fun of anything, but not with anybody." Or something along thoses lines.

"The next best thing to being raised by wolves", yeah, that should have been lodged in there somewhere. But yeah... this is funny as hell.

After playing this game impressionable children can no longer return to the zoo.

It could teach kids the rules of running crews in the streets, and even more important - if you have no spray paint cans or markers - there's always urine, children!

I guess this is a kid MMO? A lame attempt, but I think in a couple years there'll be a good merge of freindly content and online gameplay.

Wolves peeing and weak graphics isn't it.

Urine, mating, killing animals and devouring their raw flesh... this game's got it all.

Seriously, though, It's a neat idea for a game. I'll probably give it a shot, even if their commercial is even worse than that RE4 Wii Version commercial.

Man, I'm in. You get to pee on stuff, smell an elk, and it looks like it would run on my TI-89.

"I SMELL ELK!" is too long to type out when you're running across the wilderness, peeing on things. It'll probably be reduced to "SMELK" in game-speak.

I can't decide whether this game is going to be a great way to teach kids about wildlife behavior patterns and conservation, or just a furry recruitment tool.

I half expected him to take a piss.

@NightsirK: You make baby Jesus cry.

It's ELK SMELLIN' season!

I hope that kid in the blue dies.

hey even if this game sucks.. we should at least give it credit for being a very unique game.. developer are trying to give a scientifically correct view of how it feels to be another species.

so yeah, they used up half a million bucks of taxpayer money, but there's at least some chance that some better game developer will look at this game as a prototype, and make a really interesting and unusual game based on this idea..

i think experimental game design is far from the worst way of spending $500k of government funds

of all people, kotaku should be the first to support such use of government funds.. so i'm surprised ur so angry at this game

unless u guys think $500k is better spent on hiring more useless government bureaucrats, or paying more money to corrupt politicians' business partners

Let the grinding begin!

That was hilarious, I SMELL ELK! lol is that real?