Vin Diesel's Wheelman review | minimme
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ต.ค. 2024
- Is Vinny D's Wheelman wheely good or is it wheely bad? Wheel find out in this video, man.
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Pretty obvious that Vin Diesel recorded his lines at home or from his trailer on a set.
The other actors are in a spacious booth, while Vin is talking straight into your brain.
Like in The Cell?
He literally sounds exactly like he does in the Riddick games.
Yeah, it always happens to me when he speaks, in the movies, in the Riddick games... His voice enthralls me
Otherwise known as his normal acting voice
Maybe he did a Sean Connery and recorded his lines on the Toilet
Vin Diesel starring in a game called "Wheelman" is kinda like if Daniel Craig was starring in a game called "Secret Agent Guy"
A wheelman is like a getaway driver.
@@handsomebrick I think that is his exact point
Mobile game makers "You're on to something, tell us more"
Thank you for this honest laugh you made for me 😆
Lol I would totally play secret agent guy 😂
As janky as these celebrity-made games are, there’s something oddly fascinating about celebrities making genuine efforts to expand into different mediums. Idk, like I’d assume it would take someone who would really want to embark on this sort of venture to make that kind of commitment and investment into their own game and studio
And for the record, I’m talking about proper games like 50 Cent, Wheelman, etc, not low-effort mobile games like Kim Kardashian’s mobile abomination
i remember having fun with 50cent: Bulletproof
"Kim Kardashian's Mobile Abomination" also sounds like a Burnout/GTA knockoff.
Vin Diesel seems to genuinely enjoy videogames though, he was quite involved in the Riddick games IIRC. I think the 50 Cent ones were a bit more of a cash-in kinda thing.
@@daveface69 vin diesel is weirdly a massive fuckin nerd. He likes D&D ( I think that's common knowledge but I could be wrong), pretty sure he specifically wanted to do Riddick too.
I have absolutely no source on this and I could be very wrong but i hope I'm right lol
It's one of those cases too where you can tell Diesel genuinely wanted to make something fun as well. There's clearly a lot of heart put into Wheelman.
I rented this from GameFly as a kid and never returned it. Don't have it anymore but man, this is even jankier than I remember.
Indeed, btw hi, Kacey!
How much do you owe them?
Yumi Memequeen More than the stimulus check
Is this thing even worth it today? I mean, Xbox Game Pass is a thing,for one example
This game is the definition of a Game Fly game.
Poor Midway tried to bank on tying actors with games before with The Rock and Spy Hunter, which also completely died on its ass, No idea why they thought it would be a success a second time. (maybe they saw how well Vinny did with Butcher Bay and Riddick)
Should have just made a movie based on The Suffering or Psi-Ops.
Psi ops is so ripe for a mind screw of a movie
Even as a child i could tell these gsmes were bad and i would never rent. Basically any game based ona movie, with an actor, or paid for by a company like (racing games)
All suck ass and feel like shovelware.
MTV Films and Midway were working on a movie adaptation of The Suffering back in 2005 with Stan Winston involved but since then, there have been no updates.
The reason they got The Rock for Spy Hunter was because they wanted that to be a tie in game for a Spy Hunter movie, which would have starred The Rock. But the movie went through development hell and ultimately got shelved.
At least it's better than Fast & Furious Crossroads.
I remember playing this game and the TV rumbling and ressonating with the bassy voice.
Careful, you'll open a void!
@spindletea Hahahahaha! I not long beat Black Mesa actually, really enjoyed it. (Much more enjoyable and interesting over the original Half Life too.)
My phone's vibrating when he talks in this video.
LMAO that fucking emoji check
yikes
@@MXOY99 weird, I prefer the original in a lot of aspects outside of maybe visuals and NPCs.
Logic out the window? Its a Vin Diesel game, there was no logic to begin with...
I looked out the window to see where they threw the logic, but there was just a banana and some string.
Escape from butcher bay would disagree
@Stellvia Hoenheim Describing him like that makes me think of Patrick Seitz, he has a manly as hell voice but looks like a complete dork.
There’s only...family
FF9
Vin Diesel's Stealy Wheely Automobiley
Vin Diesel's High Bass Car Chase
Vin's Diesel Wheels Man
Gary Pay
This made me laugh hard. A proper, hardy laugh. Thanks, Gary.
Vin Diesel's
Grand high prices
Taking something that doesn't belong to you
Auto-whillie-mobile.
🤣🤣
I remember begging my parents to get me this game on PS3. I finally got it and thought it was of the most graphically impressive games ever created. I beat this game so many times. I gave it to a friend and never got it back. Still one of my favorite guilty pleasures
So...I'm from Barcelona, and I literally picked up this game a couple days ago after looking for it for sometime. I'm having so much fun with how bad everything related to Barcelona is. Except for landmarks, there is nothing that looks like the real city! It feels like they made a random map and just added some of Barcelona's landmarks and called it a day. And the dialogue is soo messed up. I've found some drivers that shouted things about their office or about having a "catalan pope" while I pushed them out of their cars. This game is just hilarious to me.
Buah, pero es que ni tan sols els llocs d'interes s'assemblen, es com si ni s'haguessin mirat la ciutat hahahahaha
Vin Diesel as Vin Diesel in Vin Diesel the Vin Diesel game
So basically, Riddick
It sounds great I wonder if by any chance Vin Diesel has to do something with this game
I'm from Spain and I vaguely remember this game's release. There was a bit of controversy at the time because the game depicted violence in Barcelona and, of course, videogames bad. I found an interview in Catalan in which the developers argued that "you were the good guy" and, from what you've shown, it seems like they tried with things like not being able to shoot cops, but there's no much you can do when you're developing a GTA clone. The game released and it had billboards and all but I don't think it was a huge sucess here.
It is also interesting that the NPCs had their obligatory random lines which were common at the time and they did have a mix of Spanish and Catalan, which would be a nice touch if they weren't so stereotipical and if some of them didn't have a Mexican accent. I guess it's not as bad as Mission Impossible II or Knight and Day (Tom Cruise always mixes things up in his movies) but it doesn't make much sense.
Overall, at least they tried, but they made most of the same mistakes that Hollywood tends to make when setting the action in Spain.
Being from Brazil, I feel you on the thing that games always have bad NPC dialogue whenever it's set in a non-English speaking country.Max Payne 3 did a good job but some of those accents are hideous lol
@@andodide Both of you have nothing on "russians" in video games and movies. I think there are maybe 2.5 games where they actually bothered to cast russian speaking voice actors instead of bulgarians (if you are lucky), the movies situation got better in the last few years but still far from good.
The Cruise Multiverse - where all characters are the same guy, and are [ *and* are played by] Tom Cruise
I'm from Spain too, I've never heard about this game tho, thanks for the info tbh
Merica yo
Your dedication to forgotten shovelware is astounding
I think of shovelware as the mountains of shit on the mobile app stores or clogging up the switch eShop. Zero-budget, worthless crap with no redeeming fun value or effort put into it. Wheelman is clearly a class above that as a middle-market game, the likes of which has become a dying breed. Janky as it may be there was obvious effort put into this, and a real intent to make something fun is clear. The "mid-tier" budget affords more out-there mechanics compared to big budget games which tend to play it safe.
@@amac203 Well fucking said.
this isnt shovelware
TH-cam is is the Free Skillshare.
not even a joke. TH-cam, for all its flaws, has to be one of the largest information repositories in the history of the world
It's free real estate
Ouch!
Skillshare is the website everyone is talking about, with a fascinating lore and graphics to rival next gen consoles!
Larry Bundy Jr lol your really hiding in the comments here
When I saw "includes paid promotion" I thought Vin Diesel had paid you to promote Wheelman.
11 years after the fact.
Should we be so lucky.
Walking around in this game looks a bit like those GTA clones that start up with a Unity logo
💀
Right now, Barcelona actually really looks this empty.
oof
@@PreviewAvailable *coof
Quarantine Bois, rise up and stay home.
“I fix things”
*not even a few seconds later*
“I just drive”
Yes, continue the great work on those photoshops.
What's so funny about Wheelman it's that Fast and furious literally became as dumb as this game now.
Wheelman was fast and furious 6 before it came out
You mean 4
You're really gonna try to act like all the movies aren't dumb?
The first was out before the sixth tho
😔
@@DickChimney but the first 3 were tolerable at least
Now I see why Vin Diesel was so resolute in proving he was a gamer when he was drunk onstage at the last Game Awards.
💀💀
i suspect this game was built "back-to-front": they started with how the game would end and then just kept walking backwards from that. Its the prequel problem all in a single game.
Hey, you talk about wheelman but don’t mention the best voice actor that isn’t base boosted Vin? You don’t mention the Scottish guy my sister actually knew which is the only reason I knew about this game? Shocking
This game reminds me of Pursuit Force series. I played PF: Extreme Justice so much back in the day this cover on PSP disk broke. It's so strange noone has mentioned because it is exactly the same: driving, jumping from car to car and shooting.
Oh yeah! On one pursuit force review they mentioned it was like this but fun. I hated that you couldn't play extreme justice on PS Vita
Pursuit Force is so good
I always thought Vin Diesel was onto something when he put together Tigon to make games he could star in, he's a likeable lead and it could have ended up being really cool. It's just apart from Riddick, the games he was in were half baked bollocks.
Woah. I.E is on a good time for once?
I just want to come back to this video to let the world know I got my hands on this game. I've yet to play it, but I can already say that this is definitely, unironically one of my favourite games among my collection, simply because I can just take it off the shelf, shove it in any visitors face and say; Vin diesel, Wheelman.
Vin sounds so hilariously out of place or more accurately, everyone else does.
A criticism of the time I've read was lamenting about that while characters looks OK for a videogame of the time compared to what is pretty much a 3d scan of vin disel they look "bad"...
His voice sounds like two boulders rubbing against each other
his voice sounds an anchor giving birth
Chris Redfield wants to know your location.
I remember playing this and having fun, albeit I was 12 at the time. It came out around the same time as The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, and I bought them both at the same time, which was strange, as I wouldn't call myself a big Vin Diesel fan, even back then.
The two chronicle of riddick games are honestly kinda great...
Damn, Vin has the word "Alpha" right on his shirt, it might as well say "Ouch!"
i always thought this game was made just to market the Pontiac G8 GT lmao
Our lord and savior, Vin Diesel.
When there was only one set of tire tracks in the sand, that was when he was carrying you in his Pontiac G8.
He ain't got physics, he got families
I remember quite well this Wheelman. I learnt about it in May or so of 2008 in a magazine. I'm from Barcelona and one of my dreams as a kid was to play a game in an open ended Barcelona, like back in the day Driver and then GTA.. There was a game that featured Barcelona in PSX called Europa Racer but it was only a track loosely based on Barcelona. So I was pretty excited to see that Wheelman could bring this dream to life.
Well, the Forza games on Xbox and Grid 2, even that they are racing games in a closed track, do a million better job on representing the city. They respect every street and its scale. Wheelman is a really bad interpretation of the city made for the sake of gameplay. Wide and long roads everywhere, the scale absolutely broken (things that are separated in real life for kilometres they are right next to each other in the game), the monuments don't even have the right scale and as you say in the video, everything is dead and empty.
However, it's amazing how this lazy representation has some great details, like the cops speaking catalan or the metro that has the real lines and names everywhere. It's so weird how they pay attention to little things like that but then fins things like Port Vell being crazy small or the tiny Sagrada Familia and its ugly empty sorrounding area.
I only ever caught glimpses of this game from Stranglehold, the CG Trailer played on an endless loop in the Movie Theater portion of the first level hehe!
This game was my childhood, I've had amazing time playing it. Looking it now, at 25 years old, I would replay it just to get that same great feeling as a kid. Thanks for review!
I remember playing the demo multiple times and enjoying it but never bought the full game 😂
Ew
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Bro, this game was amazing in my 10 year old mind back in 2009 & when my "adopted" brother came home with a fresh copy. We beat the entire thing in the same day. He didn't have an Xbox 360, I did & what a great arrangement. He bought so many games & we played through them all together. So shout out to you Allan!
I was blown away, we were too young to notice the jank im guessing & were considering this the next big leap in open world games. Haven't played it since that day but will always have fond memories. Probably our first game we knew a big movie dude was in & it rocked our understanding of games. (Most celeb humans didn't plaster their mug/ name everywhere so we wouldn't notice anyone in prior games like Halo 2.)
Good times, the saboteur was another one. So many I can't even list, when he wanted to beat a game by himself he'd let me barrow his ipod touch which we both bought apps on as in 2009 it was still especially mind blowing.
Anyway meminim, thanks!
3:55 the interview is gold. The slightly askew hat and indoor sunglasses really make the vibe.
16:30 and you saved the best for last lmao
what a terrific thumbnail this was. (haven't watched the video yet, but I already know it'll be great)
Driver Parallel Lines review when?
„Bass boosted in to heaven“ .... I died. Hard. Especially because of the setup. First this sentence followed by the perfect example. Still crying 😂😂😂
I remember I got this game when it was released and as a 14-13-year-old kid I really, really loved it! The graphics were super realistic to me back then, and I loved the cars, and the way they drove. It was such an awesome game to me back then - not 100% sure I'd like it now without the nostalgia lenses.
Nice review! I haven't finished it, but I know it will be great, love your videos!
Vin number
Diesel engine
He was born in a car factory
he's a pickup truck, toyota hilux maybe
"Venga! Venga! Venga!"
The good ole days of playing the demo in the summer of 09.
I remember that, I used to play it all the time along with playing demos to a game called Ninja Blade, a side-scrolling game called The Dishwasher, the X-Men Origins: Wolverine tie-in game, as well as watching a downloaded episode of South Park called "Fatbeard."
@@mattc2306 Oh yeah, I remember Ninja Blade. I also used to play the Wolverine demo too. Good times.
Ngl, this 4:37 damn cool and newer, next gen action/open world games REALLY need this as a basic gameplay mechanic.
The first piece of content which has relaxed me this week big ups / subscribed 😁👍
I streamed this game with OnLive back in 2010. I thought I was so high tech streaming a GAME in all its blurry, input lagging glory back then. Impressive tech for the day...and of course I found the game enjoyable enough.
the thumbnail of this video caused me to fly into a violent rage and now ive done something horrible....
I remember this game because it was a demo. I thought it was a joke, then remember saying "I'm a wheelman" in a bass boosted Vin Diesel voice being a running gag for years. Nice to see from the demo I basically got the entire gist of the game.
In an alternate universe, Vin Diesel is named Vinncent Petrolli who is a down to earth sort of a person, and this game is an accounting sim.
i seriously live for these vids
Funny thing is. Decade later Fast and Furious Crossroad also took place in Spain, albeit with the absence of Vin Diesel as the lead character and instead we got 2 'Wolfenstein Youngblood'-like protagonists.
I don't know what it is but I love when actors get into games or make their own. Feels nice
I remember my parents buying me this alongside a Playstation Move... Think it was $5? Loved it! Just so very fun.
Oh man! Looking forward to that stranglehold video!
The It's Always Sunny reference in the subtitles was brilliant - that sort of hidden joke is why minimme is awesome!
Tbh when you said you were gonna review Wheelman, I thought you were referring to Stuntman, the game that was basically an engine test for Driv3r.
This game was the vin diesel's wheelman of our generation
I remember tearing through the side content of Wheelman like the races because you could literally just slow down time and cap every opposing driver within a half a minute of starting a race.
Fun fact, the other actors were recorded in a professional VA booth, whereas Vin said his lines in the place you are playing the game through a tuba. And you still don't know how he got in.
This was the game I got when my parents didn’t want to buy me GTA. I probably played through it atleast 20 times and even now, about 12 years later, I still remember the characters and story. Glad I found this video.
I haven't played Wheelman in years! Not entirely sure how I ended up with it, but I remember having fun with its absurdity. Thanks for the video showcase!
Oh, man. This was the first PS3 game I ever played. I know it's not great, but it has a special place in my heart, just because I spent a long time with it, and again, it was my first PS3 game. I always remember skipping the update because I was young and impatient, lol. I don't remember the entire story but I remember enjoying it, and the gameplay was a lot of fun - especially that ramming feature. The physics were awesome when you would smash a car off the road. Sleeping Dogs (fantastic game) has the same mechanic.
So, while it wasn't the best game ever, it was at least a little unique and was good fun + I loved seeing Vin in the game as I was a huge fan of the Fast and Furious franchise (still am, though it's not what it used to be). Thanks for the review, minimme - it's very well done, as always, and you've brought back some memories!
Aren't these the same guys who made Spy Hunter? They had already tried this "multiple media" approach where they had planned both a game and a movie with some big action star. They ended up making a bad, boring game and canceled the movie. They didn't learn from their mistakes, but you CAN have some fun with The Wheelman
This channel deserves way more attention
Cool video man! Can't wait for you to cover Stranglehold, I loved that game.
Vin sounds like he’s speaking from inside my head, I’m scared
YES! I was hoping you'd make a review of this. I spent so much time as a kid just mindlessly driving around like a maniac
I remember my friend showing me this game when I was about 7. I was amazed at being able to pop the tires. Another game you should do is the transformers tie in game
They were so fixated on whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
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I didn't realise that Minimme was doing well enough to get sponsorships. Nice grind dude.
This looks really flipping good... surprised I never saw an ad for it back in the day.
This game was like : uhm pursuit force is a cool game, let's copy it, make it easier and put a lifeless open world
I remember playing this as a kid
and Finishing the tutorial
And then doing nothing but drive around and jump from car to car for hours
I don't think I ever got to the second mission
lol
"His character [...] never raises his voice and never really shows any emotion beyond calm and collected".
Well, that's Vin Diesel for you.
I remember this was one of the first "GTA like" games I played before GTA IV. Nowadays I look back on it and think Saints Row on the side of the law. The boss chases really reminded me of the first two SR games.
Holy shit I've never hit that subscribe button so fast, damn I can't wait to crawl through your content
Despite the actor involved, this plays out more like The Transporter than the Fast & The Furious.
Even still, this was a pretty fun (and underrated) action game.
I love your narrating voice you're my favourite narrater and one of my favourites TH-camrs minime
Vin Diesel sounds exactly like he does when he's playing Riddick.
That wall of text at 3:37 is terrific
I only ever played the demo, but I replayed that time and time again. Part of my childhood even if I never really had it.
dude i played the shit out of that game but forgot about it over the years. I can't believe you made a video about it!!
I loved the game when a I was kid , but most annoying thing is You can't Jump
Damn Daniel, back at it again with the terrifying thumbnails.
Haha I was not expecting that voice performance even after he worked up to it. I like to imagine that Mr. Diesel did the sound mixing himself.
The one thing I remember from this game and they made sure I didn’t forget since it’s on the front cover, was the Pontiac G8.
Ok ,nobody will know this game, but it reminds me of STARSKY AND HUTCH! A great game i got as a gift from a cereal package back in 2009
I still remember this being my second game in for the then new generation(Xbox 360) and I was floored how realistically vehicles would get damaged and annihilated.
I legit felt like it was better than all those hard GTA games that the child me could never finish them...Goold old Times!
God I really need to finish spec ops the line. Thanks for reminding me!
Yes, please do Stranglehold! I was so feckin excited when I first see Chow Yun-fat in a video game
Hell yeah mini man this one was a banger and I absolutely can’t wait for the stranglehold video it’s honestly one of my favourite games
I actually just picked this up recently. I had it back in 2009 but never really played more that a few missions. It's just your typical run of the mill game. Nothing to write home about but entertaining at times. It's a game you'll finish and never think about afterward.
I knew you would mention the spin around and shoot technique from Driver PL. There it felt awesome to make it work, totally agree with you ^
It’s crazy to look at this game the older I get..I used to love this game as a kid😂😂
you took Wheelman from my childhood. Now it's time for the Knight Rider games
With all said, tho, this game makes a great Barcelona impression world-building-wise! I could recognize most of the places even at full speed :)
I remember playing the xbox 360’s Wheelman demo over and over for hours on end back in elementary school. Back when that’s all I needed to entertain myself.