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The guys who worked on Ratchet and Resistance announce Spyborgs, a quirky new Wii title.

In the same manner as Ratchet & Clank, Spyborgs is looking to combine cartoons, violence and hilarity in one great package for the Nintendo Wii. And with a development team built from folks who worked on Ratchet, Resistance, Call of Duty and more, they are definitely on the right track.

Spyborgs is an action-adventure game that brings together a team of five quirky super-spies, each with a distinct personality. The game is based on working cooperatively, using different characters to engage team-based challenges. For now, it's a two-player affair, thought the team at Bionic Games is still unsure about the final maximum number of players that can play via co-op.

The five characters in Spyborgs are Stinger, Kindred, Voxel, Clandestine and Bouncer, a bruising yet kind-hearted robot. The gameplay seems like a mix between combat and puzzle-solving/platforming, done is a Pixar-like style. But it follows a Saturday morning cartoon type of structure. And that means there are actually commercials! OK, they're not exactly Hungry Hungry Hippos, but singing goldfish plumbers are arguably just as weird. And some of them act as mini-games.

Different characters use special abilities to engage team-based challenges.

Different characters use special abilities to engage team-based challenges.

Each character has a special ability that acts as a skill, and there are a few, such as acrobatic skateboarding and robot strength for bashing down doors, which happened in the first level demo they showed. Here, the gameplay was similar to Ratchet & Clank, and graphically impressive on the Wii.

There wasn't a whole lot of gameplay of Spyborgs on display, but considering how early in the development cycle this game is, we still have high hopes that it will deliver a very different kind of Wii experience that is lacking on Nintendo's console. Stay tuned more more Spyborgs updates, which are sure to come around E3.