Buffy - Chaos Bleeds Gets Staked Out

Thanks to Shacknews for pointing to a new Gamespot hands-on preview of Buffy The Vampire Slayer:Chaos Bleeds, and another hands-on preview at IGN. This Eurocom-developed follow-up to last year's The Collective-developed (and distinctly under-rated) Buffy The Vampire Slayer title for Xbox will, this time round, be available for Gamecube, PS2, and Xbox. IGN seems to think a lot of the title ("..even if you don't give a hoot about the Buffy universe, rarely does such a capable, well-rounded game come round that also retains a firmly established TV series at its core.") and Gamespot, though more reserved, also thinks it looks promising. And, of course, Buffy fans worldwide are salivating now they know Sid the dummy is a playable character.

Sid the dummy

[illuvata]

can somebody explain who Sid the dummy is? in english, please

Re:Sid the dummy

[nidx]

from the s1 episode of buffy the puppet show [buffyguide.com]

Re:Sid the dummy

[Anonymous Coward]

Sid comes from the Season 1 episode "The Puppet Show" [buffyguide.com] and is a ventriloquist's dummy in search of a demon who is harvesting organs.

Re:Sid the dummy

[Anonymous Coward]

In addition to all the other answers, Sid the dummy is the main character from the episode that brought us the immortal lines:

"Does anybody else feel like we've just been Keyser Soze'd?"

and

"That's the kind of wooly-headed, liberal thinking that leads to being eaten."

and

"There are some things I will not tolerate. Students loitering on campus after school. Horrible murders with hearts being removed. And also smoking."

Hmm, no Alyson Hannigan this time.also

[EvilBastard]

Giselle Loren [imdb.com] as Buffy Summers, but IMDB still lists Alyson Hannigan as doing her character's voice. I wonder how hard they'll try to hide it this time - I recall in the first game they listed Giselle Loren as "Other Voices", to try to misdirect people.

I found her attempt to do a "Buffyisms" the 2nd most annoying part of the game, beaten only by the textbook failure in game design that was the "Dream Level" which is where I abandoned the game at.

I thought Buffy's voice was done quite well

[Chuck Chunder]

Though I too abandoned the game on the "Dream Level".

Repeatedly plummeting to your death just isn't all that interesting.

Still Waiting for the port to the Sinclair ZX80

[infonography]

Z80A-3.25 MHz CPU is the best ever made.

Wish I could have seen Buffy....

[AtariAmarok]

The show sounds good. There are many fans of it on here (Well, I hope it is good, unlike Farscape which is pretty bad but also has many fans on Slashdot). However, one of the "Telecommunication acts" of the 1990s contained a provision that would make my cable company pay a fine for carrying an actual UPN affiliate (with Buffy). So much for that.

Re:Wish I could have seen Buffy....

[greck]

BTVS is in the process of coming out of DVD, and it's some of the cheapest TV releases I've ever seen... Amazon has the entire first season [amazon.com] for $29.99, and other available seasons for $45. Alternately, you can rent them from Netflix [netflix.com], and probably your decent local independent-type video store, too.

That sounds pretty good.

[AtariAmarok]

" Amazon has the entire first season for $29.99, and other available seasons for $45. "

Mod that informative! That sounds like a much much better deal than the arm,leg, and 12 strips of gold-pressed latinum they charge for each season of Deep Space 9.

Re:Wish I could have seen Buffy....

[questor]

First season of Buffy is only twelve episodes.

Re:Wish I could have seen Buffy....

[greck]

Hence it's twenty-dollar-cheaper list price, vs. seasons two, three, and four.

What the Hell!?!

[dbretton]

You can play as Sid the Dummy, but NOT as

TrogDor the Burninator [homestarrunner.com]

What gives?

Re:What the Hell!?!

[greck]

I honestly had to pause the last episode until I stopped laughing... the sad thing is I was telling a [fellow geeky] friend the next day about it, and he asks, "what's a Trogdor the Burninator?" I think he works too much.

WHOA! I was just Googling, and had no idea there was a TROGDOR GAME [homestarrunner.com].

graphics took a beating?

[WildBeast]

What happened to the graphics? Why does the sequel look worst than the original?

Hrm. I have to ignore this.

[Muggins the Mad]

well after spending months waiting in drooling hope for the previous Buffy game only to find they changed their minds about a PS2 release and were only releasing on X-Box (I will never support the MS reign),
I have to not think about this one until I actually
see it on the shelves in a non-Xbox case.

- MugginsM

Re:Hrm. I have to ignore this.

[WildBeast]

You prefer the Sony/RIAA/MPAA reign? No thanks, I'll stick to MS, especially because it got better graphics.

Re:Hrm. I have to ignore this.

[Recoil_42]

riiiiight... and your console comes form a company that owns a movie studio (and a very vocal member of the MPAA), a record label (and a very vocal member of the RIAA), dominates the portable audio scene with overpriced crap........ and stereo scene..... and DVD scene...... and console scene (XBOX is 3x as powerful as a ps2, and costs the same.. plus 2 games! ditto gamecube) and also owns a very large game studio, makes computers, laptops, camcorders, pocketPCs...... along with many, many other various pur

ummm...

[alcharn]

Who the hell is Sid the dummy? I think I need further explanation.