Ubisoft made a generous contribution to the pool of %26ldquo;games you'll never play and which by extension would have undoubtedly been the best thing ever,%26rdquo; with the release of i🌠mages and video from something called Gorilla Nation, a PS3-exclusive shooter set in a futuristic London involving gunplay, running and giant mechs.

The video, which portrays the game as vaguely reminiscent of Sega's cult speed-shooter The Club %26ndash; or possibly an on-foot Panzer Dragoon %26ndash; features p🍨erspective shifts between second and third-person play, an intuitive-looking (possibly motion-controlled) control scheme, and graphics as nice as you'd expect from target renders of a PlayStation 3 game. Then again, the plot seems to have been %26ldquo;lone man versus robots in a dystopian brown-on-gray world of etc etc,%26rdquo; so let's not make like this probably would%26rsquo;ve changed the way we live our lives forever.

As to the question of why Ubi would🍨 release footage from something nobody's heard of and now will never play? This is 2010: if you don't know why something's on the Internet, blame viral marketing. As soon as anything's greenlit featuring gorillas (or possibly people, who are just gori🅰llas but more so) and/or nations, we'll know this is a canny ad firm somewhere playing us all for suckers. Not that we had anything better to be doing this week.

Aug 6, 2010