QUANTUM THEORY: A Bizarre Shooter You've Never Heard Of 

I really liked that The Darkness allowed you to throw your little goblin ally at enemies, but being able to throw an entire cyberninja girl? This game is a masterpiece.

I love how when the girl dies he's just ok with it. No attempt to save her whatsoever, the guy just vaulted over all stages of grief straight into acceptance.

The “Lucky Strikes” joke was top tier, Oboe does it again

Japanese devs trying to make "western" feeling games always results in the most unintentionally hilarious shit

I feel all the games with Laura Bailey in them are actually all one connected universe

Hey Mr.Shoe, Cabela's has a game where you shoot wolves with a flare gun and you have to uncharted climb onto mountains in order to shoot moose. It's called Cabela's Survival: Shadow of Katmai and I think it's perfect for the channel

This game has my favorite aesthetic: a military shooter compensating its generic world with ridiculous half-medieval, half-organic technology.

i love how oboeshoes plays random games that you've never heard of and then there's always someone in the comments that goes "yo that brings back memories i had a blast playing that game when is was a kid"

You can almost see, smell, taste and hear the desperation the devs were in when the time came to name the game.

I remember the magazine ad for this game, which touted features like "Mutilate & Humiliate Your Friends in Visceral Online Multiplayer". Really showed what Japanese devs thought Western gamers were like at the time...

Actually, I have heard of it Oboe. It constantly came up when I was looking for Quantum Conundrum on the game store. Like, the second word are no where near the same and it wouldn't stop coming up. It wouldn't leave me alone.

This unlocked a core memory. I played this in elementary

There's gotta be some way to make an actually interesting game that doubles down on the absurdity of combining gruff gears of war guys with anime sword girls.

Oboe shoes gaming can you actually play the oboe

I feel like he just searches for the worst, most mind-numbing games ever made

Somehow this is exactly what I expected japanese Gears of War would be like

Dude, this game deserves a remaster

Also "They promise to deliver a game experience like any other." Is the perfect description of this game lol

As a future game designer I have to note the idea of throwing anime-sword-girls as future gameplay mechanic

This game needs a remaster

Oboeshowsgames has uploaded, time to wake up from my slumber

I knew I could count on you digging out this game. My only memory of it was its bizarre E3 trailer where they rattled off "tower" more often than they say "chaos" in that FInal Fantasy game. I did not remember the title or who made it, just that it was a Gears clone and they kept talking about a fucking tower.

"If you smoke you'll wind up like Quantum Theory" Welp that's it no more cigarettes for me.

This is the peak of brown and grey cover shooters 🔥🔥

I got this game as a gift from my big brother, I finished it and forgot about it immediately.

I had a soft spot for this unusual game from day 1. I still love the aesthetics of this game. Bizarre for the sake of bizarre...

this game looks so edgy and weird looking i'm at awe of the finish product of this game. thanks for the vid!

I did and finished it three times on PS3. There was no Gears of War on that console, but man, I have fond memories. Thanks for your video. Sad thing is, that this game never got the splitscreen co-op mode, that the developers once promised. And the network modes never worked for me, couldn't find any players 😔

people saying they remember this from childhood must have had shitty childhoods

That "Lucky Strike" joke made me pause the video and soak in the genius. Good job Mr.Shoe you do not miss.

"Do you know any redheads IRL who aren't evil?" *looks at my redhead girlfriend* "I'm in danger!"

Dude, the first E3 I watched on G4tv featured this game, but literally all I could remember was cover shooting and throwing a lady. No one knew what he fuck I was talking about but after years I had just assumed that I was just subconsciously combining elements for Vanquish and Prince of Persia and maybe a little Enslaved and some JRPG. But here it is... not really as good as all the other things I just mentioned. Thank you Sir Shoes for reminding me of, and subsequently playing for me, this game 12 year old me thought seemed uber cool.

The black dude after being shot for 30 while mid air was like guys im sorry i didnt mean to say that you have great defenses But he learned a lesson

Damn this game deserves a remaster

Oboe’s on to such a winner with this consistent weird old console era game uploading

2:32 Boe Jiden: We need to ban high capacity assault waifus

I remember playing the demo of this on 360. when i wasnt allowed to buy or play 16 or 18 rated games.

Throwable waifus, so there is one single redeemable feature

This game deserves a remaster

I remember this game because it had an awesome song in the trailer and I played the demo. It was beneficial for its time.

Ah Yes, the Prequel of Quantum Break

Well....your title is absolutely right. All your other 360-era games, I had forgotten and your video reminded me of them, but this one...yup, legitimately have never heard it. I think it deserves a remaster, I think then it would find the right audience.

Oboe you better try play Bulletstorm (2011). It's like Gears of War but in first person and replace your chainsaw gun to a leash.

never heard if it ? i was waiting at the store on release day to get a copy on ps3, literally left work and went to pick it up, played the hell out of it, loved it....for some reason, it reminds me of the BLAME! manga, and i loved it for that, exact reason why i loved another game PROTOTYPE, it had the same aesthetics for me, still have the copy of the ps3, wish there was one on steam.

I highly recommend Fracture for you to check out, fun 3rd erson shootie

I randomly got this game for my birthday one year. Played it once then sold it years later.

Man I remember playing a demo of this game on my ps3 years ago, I didn't feel compelled to finish the short demo. lol

Dude, I remember this. Got it as a present from some family members after they saw some gears of war marketing. They were kinda close i guess.

The lucky strikes joke had me wheezing like a man that bowled every day for yesrs

Damn,Quantum Theory deserves a remake!

Throwing women is a game mechanic I never knew I needed

This brings back memories of booting up the 360 ,playing thus game for five minutes and instaltly regreting my purchase

Wow Cortana sounds really passive aggressive in this one

A few ways you know you're playing a game from the early 2000s: Everything is brown/grey, every soldier looks like a generic Unreal asset, they're all voiced by Steve Blum, and Laura Bailey is probably in it too.

dude, your Lucky Strikes bowling pun absolutely fucked me up hahaha

Bro your channel and the games you played really brought back the nostalgia! I remember it was my birthday in the 6th grade, I rushed to gamestop with my dad and wanted to get bulletstorm and homefront, but they were too expensive since they were new so I ended up settling with timeshift, quantum theory, and dark sector!

I just realized I've accidentally been calling this game Infinite Undiscovery for years, and had to go look up what that game actually was.

I'm really happy you managed to find a niche for your channel.

wow i cant imagine what Keith Fergusson was thinking about when Voicing for this game, what a trip not hearing him in D2

2:35 Nobody needs a 30 round assault sword girl. 😆

The fact that he said "No, I'm Chaos" tells me this is an alternate universe prequel-sequel-sidequel to Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

I think I've seen gameplay of this back on G4 (you know it's been that long) and it was just a vague memory stuck in the back of my mind for a decade

"What can they smell you coming? Are they drawn to your stench?" Jesus Christ hahahahahahahah

Artstyle looks like everyone's armor got chewed and spat out...

i was watching a bunch of your videos, now i get ads for Oboes.well played sir xD

5:18 missed opportunity to call it "babe blade"

A couple of recommendations for the channel, Never Dead and Binary Domain. I actually remember enjoying Binary Domain, as far as I recall, but it's another game that I feel falls into this category of games.

I only knew this game existed because I found it on a Xbox 360 pirate game site

This game really has the dna of Strangers of Paradise

I appreciate Lord Saladin being the main character

Dude, this game deserves a remaster!

Oh lordy. I rented this from the Blockbuster back when this came out with a mate and I kid you not, that first beginning bit of the game was as far as se got. It controls like soapy water. *PTSD intensifies*

Now you must play the best mediocre dudebro shooter out there: Bulletstorm

Lmao now I think I will randomly remember that stupid "die well" thing if I die while conscious

Oh wow, turns out I heard about this game, but the name didn't stick, and for me it was "that awful GoW clone with anime girl as a sidekick".

This is one of the best looking games I’ve played on PS3. Graphics are top notch. Has some decent music too. It’s not a good game, but there are worse.

I forgot this game existed. Looking back it was a bad game but it was fun at the time.

new favorite weapon: Throwing Woman. perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

I would love to see you play the outfit, I played it on the Xbox 360 and I think I still have a disc copy, don’t know how I would even give it to you but I would totally do it if you say you’ll make a video on it

They should have released this on N64 as a fighter and called it Quantum Instinct. Or Killer Theory. "Works" both ways.

Hey Oboe since you are playing all these jank games from the 7th gen you should play Fracture from Day One Studios. It was published by lucasarts. It was a third person shooter in which you can control the physics and raise or lower the ground.

I wasnt sure what game he was playing when I watched this video so I looked in the description to find out, turns out it was just the first gears of war from 2006, thank you for the confirmation

so basically .. pack of cigs = perfect game ? thanks oboe 💪🏾

My respect after hearing that 2A joke at 2:33 📈📈

Quantum Theory sounds like it would be some kind of nerdy, sci-themed, Gordon Freeman type thing

We're going down the iceberg now

Day 656 of trying to get Oboe to play through skyrim as sigurd. A video saying “you’ve never heard of this game” where I ACTUALLY haven’t heard of the game? Oboe really can do anything

You play the most interesting mid games from the 2000s

5:23 Stranger of Paradise, is that you?

I remember when I played the original PS3 Demo that I thought "Ah, PS3's Gears of War attempt"

I can confirm being a redhead automatically makes you evil... I am one

This looks like they really wanted the Warhammer 40k license, but couldn't get it.

at least no one said "I have a bad feeling about this"

I'm gonna write "complete Damnation" on every one of your videos of playing old games, maybe

Syd just looks like a Walmart Guts.

Off course the producer is named Yasuo of all possible names

Check out singularity and inversion. I remember really liking both when the came out.

Bro! Throw girl just pulled out the amazon lord of the message move :O

Another forgotten game that I think would be interesting to see oboe play is "Dead to Rights: Retribution"

You forgot to add the brown/grey scale to the part of what all games had at that time