Ever since her illustrious debut in some nefarious eBay auctions, the mysterious character known as Agent Helix has become a talking point amongst the G.I. Joe fandom…I’m really starting to look forward to seeing how she meshes with the movie universe in the upcoming video game.
Thanks to Jeff Bohn for pointing out that an alternate cover for the upcoming Helix special from IDW has been posted on DeviantArt, courtesy of Dave Williams (BroHawk). The cover is shown in black and white as well as dazzling color! Check out the DeviantArt page right here, and the two images below. I’ m really looking forward to this book!
Somewhat under the radar, the G.I. Joe themed Monopoly game was released last week, and over at HissTank, Fast_Draw provides a neat, concise review of the game. There are some interesting optional rules additions to work with the Joe theme as well, which is pretty cool.
Click here to read all the details, and check out the images below.
Over on HissTank.com, a member has posted some images of pre-production items, including something I haven’t seen before…maybe I’m just out of the loop, though.
Anyone seen this? Looks like some type of minisub, probably something COBRA or G.I. Joe uses in the underwater battle we’ve seen and heard so much about…
Regardless of where it’s slated to appear, it looks pretty bad ass.
Now that I’ve had a few more moments this morning, I’ve put together some screenshots of the Irategamer YouTube review, featuring some interesting images like Kamakura in the Reactive Armor, Scarlett during gameplay, and a picture of everyone’s headshot from the roster screens. The more I look at those rosters, the more I think those are indeed all of the playable characters in the game. We know there are four unlockable COBRA characters (Baroness, Destro, Firefly, and Storm Shadow), we know Shipwreck, Kamakura, Agent Helix, Sgt. Flash and Gung Ho are all characters playable in the game who don’t appear in the film. Then, of course, there’s the normal cast of movie characters.
I’ve been promising a surprise throughout this whole Sigma 6 Celebration, and unfortunately the “surprise” is a bit dilluted, just because this figure has shown up on HissTank.com while I was in the planning stages of this big “reveal”, but still, I think folks will enjoy this in depth typical GeneralsJoes format review for the unproduced Adventure Team Dusty!
A great figure that unfortunately never saw the light of day, anything you could want to know, you can now find out!
YouTube video game reviewer IrateGamer got some hands on time with The Rise of COBRA at E3, and put together a nice mini-review. Along with the review itself, he mentions that Firefly is an end boss for one of the levels, but does specify that we won’t get to battle against the Crimson Twins or Serpentor. Most interestingly, he shows a quick clip of the roster selection interface, and amongst the characters that we already know about is “Backblast”, a fairly obscure Joe that apparently might have made the cut as a playable character. We don’t know for sure, but he’s mixed in with a roster that includes many characters we know are playable. The full list on the roster is:
Backblast
Agent Helix
Shipwreck
Beachhead
Kamakura
Sgt. Flash
Duke
Scarlett
Storm Shadow
Baroness
Firefly
Destro
Heavy Duty
Ripcord
Gung Ho
Obviously it remains to be seen if these are all acually playable characters, or if they’re just included with the unlockable “filecards” that have been mentioned. Time will tell. Check out the full review below, and thanks to HissTank.com forum member Imperial Serpentor for the info.
Well, this rounds off the GeneralsJoes “Sigma 6 Celebration”. I hope folks who are fans of the toyline enjoyed it, and I hope those who aren’t weren’s too put off by it, and maybe even found some redeeming characteristics buried within.
Obviously if you’re at this point, you’ve probably been reading all along, and have already perused the Season 1 Recap (Parts 1 and 2) as well as the first part of the Season 2 recap. So far I’ve covered the animated series as a whole all the way up through Episode 9 of Season 2. I’m actually somewhat surprised at myself for being able to stomach this out, because quite honestly I’m not a fan of the animated series. While there were snippets of cool action, and I always love seeing my toys come to life on the screen, as a whole the writing was painful, the dialog abysmal, and some of the characterizations were straight out of the worst stereotypes I can imagine. Yet some part of me enjoys the Sigma 6 universe so much, that it seemed a shame not to at least touch on the animated series to at least a degree. And at this point, I’ve gotten this far, might as well wrap it up.
If you’ve been following along, you’ve seen me cover Season One of the Sigma 6 cartoon in two parts here and here. I’ll be doing the same thing this time around with Season Two, covering the first 6 episodes in this article, then covering the next 6 episodes in Part Two. Episode 13 of Season 2 was merely a “recap show” wrapped into a pseudo-Awards show, so I didn’t feel that was even worth including.
It should be noted that in the US, Season Two only aired through Episode 8, the rest of them were found on the Canadian station YTV, or Hasbro’s “MonkeybarTV” website.
