Why Overstrike was renamed Fuse

hmm, interesting choice, since Overstrike is a lot more 'Internet Searchable' than Fuse.

"Fuse Overstrike" sounds like an even better title.

meh stoped caring after the trailer for Fuse Overstrike looked a million times more fun and interesting while Fuse just looks like yet another forgetable Generic Shooter.

EA should just make mobile games, and GTFO.

Oh look another 3rd person shooter....woo hoo.......

Is this the first game insomniac is making that isn't only on Playstation?

They renamed it after gamespot fuse :P

Fuck EA. They ruined Bioware

"We really want to create a cohesive experience for players," he added. "We never want to feel restricted by the earlier decisions we made in development."

Nice! I wanted to get this game....but now I can spare my money on GOOD games instead 

Hmm...I wonder how many Insomnica devs EA will lay off after this game doesn't do well due to EA's unrealistic and irrational expectation that this will sell because it has GEARSSHOOTUNBOOBIES all over it.

Co-op, run of the mill gameplay, generic art style, and only the weapons look cool.   If you had asked me six months ago what an insomniac game published by EA would be, I would have answered this. 

Are you hearing this Insomniac? can you hear the internet? no, thats no acclamation.

thats the sound UNIVERSAL DISAPPROVAL makes. thats what happens when you base your decision on the opinions of 12 YEARS OLD (they actually did that look it up)

I adore Insomniac, but I just can't get behind this game. I hate games designed for coop, because no matter how much the developers try and tell you it will play just fine single player as well, it won't. It almost never does. I am a single player gamer. I play games to relax and unwind, not to interact with annoying people/friends. So 99% of coop games are useless to me.

That means Fuse is useless to me, and that's a damn shame, since I am such a huge fan of Insomniac. Another thing I want to point out is that I have been known to be eerily accurate at guessing a games success before it launches. For every guess I have made, I've only been wrong once, and that was when I said Borderlands would bomb big time. Every other time, I've been right on the money.

Having said that, I am going to say that Fuse is going to bomb. I guess 600,000 total sales in the first 6 months. I hate to say it, but the game just won't do well. Nobody knows this game exists. They aren't pushing it hard enough first of all. Second of all, it looks like just another shooter. Adding some "powers" isn't enough anymore. Thirdly, it looks like a T rated game, and T rated shooters usually don't sell very well. 

looks like a crappy gears/mass effect clone.

BOOOOOORING

The premise and art style of Overstrike seemed more interesting to me.

Fuse looks to be just another addition to the action shooter genre. Nothing really unique to it.

I don't really understand changing something so drastically that initially had good buzz.  I don't think it has anything to do with the name, the game play and art style don't look anything like the original trailer at all.  I mean I know it's about creative choice but if the people liked where you were going, i would start heading back in that direction asap.

lol can third person shooters get any more generic? Still I'll give this game a shot if it has great co-op!

How much does anyone wanna bet that EA was somehow involved with all these drastic changes? That's what happens when you get your game published by EA...your creative new IP gets massacred into a generic military shooter with horrible dubstep music slapped onto a boring trailer.

Ok but can it tell my girlfriend that I want to break up with her? Hah...hah...oh god.

No PC version? Oh, such a loss, a generic co-op shooter hasn't been released on PC for ages.

Insomniac is one of my favorite developers but this game is the most embarrassingly generic slop I've ever seen. At least the cartoony graphics and over the top weapons of the original trailer held some promise. This... this is madness. I honestly thought it was a joke when I watched the gametrailers episode. Who is this game supposed to appeal to? Laughably generic and bland.

I'm a bit on the rails with this game. Will wait for reviews.

I too prefer the original title and art style; that said, I hope the changes don't leave the characters' personalities on the cutting room floor.

You are all right. I enjoyed the first trailer with all with it's exaggerated characters and near team fortress like art style, however I didn't like the name "Overstrike" either. ;)

Overstrike = Generic name, but I could live with that

Fuse = Suuupppppeeeerr Geeeeeneric name

I saw an EA in the trailer, and some utterly horrible music, so count me out.

Fuse sounds like an energy drink. I want a PC version!

What I don't understand Insomniac is why you decided to change the art directory, humor, and personality that had people interested in the title in the first place. Now it just looks like another generic shooter with nameless characters.

Yep, I really liked the original art style and feeling of Overstrike as opposed to Fuse.  The name doesn't matter, but those other things do.  Why do I feel like someone at EA looked at the direction Overstrike was headed and said "This looks too whimsical and fun, we are EA and we HATE fun! Change it!"

I am not sure about the game, but I like Insomniac. I'll be sure to check this out.

I like it...I do miss the lighter side and the charm of the game, but I still will buy it.

I want to say I hate the new art style,  but that would imply that this new look has style.  This game is pulling the "reverse Borderlands"  instead of finding it's soul at the 11th hour,  it lost it.  

i don't like how they changed the tone of the new trailer to be more serious and leave bloody messes as you rampage. the old trailer had a cartoony feel with a borderlands-esque humour. but if the game is good i don't really care.

hopefully this will have more meaningful multiplayer than borderlands. borderlands is fun but multiplayer wasn't really original. if this game has symbiosis between the players like crossbow bolts fired from behind the shield give extra damage or something, this could be excellent. otherwise its just generic.

half the games have title names that have little to do with the story anyway so it doesn't matter

A game that wasn't released yet now has a name... great.

From the trailer, this game looks rather "meh"

Name doesn't matters, Game matters

This doesn't explain why they changed the look.

This game looked a lot more interesting with the lighthearted, "Pixar-esque", art style. The Resistance series proved that Insomniac is no good with drop-dead serious games.