3D Realms and Recoil's big announcement: Earth No More |
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Sporting gameplay facets that include revolutionary human interaction and conversation-affected AI (reminiscent of BioWare's Mass Effect), real character growth and absolutely no gameplay ripping cutscenes, Earth No More is beset upon a "possible world," where Mother Earth fights back against humanity's constant abuse and experimentation of the environment.
And boy does she pack a whallop: the plot kicks in a small town in New England being quarantined, because of a mysterious outbreak of mutating spores and poisonous red vines (think "War of the Worlds" alien growth). The outbreak spreads and "perverts" everything it happens to cross in its wake.
The player takes on the role of Will Forsyth, a "young chap" who must get to the bottom of the outbreak with four other characters who won't necessarily serve as your "squad." "The team is intricately analyzing how group dynamics work in movies like the 'Alien, The Thing,' 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' and '28 Days Later,' hoping to emulate that kind of tension in game form," the developers said.
3D Realms and Recoil Gamers' ambitions for the game seem all out, as they mentioned that the shooter game will be breaking off from the "lone hero" aspect of the shooter genre while not exactly focusing on squad-based cooperation either. Although deathmatch and campaign co-op are integrated into its multiplayer features, Earth No More will even allow fresh joiners to take the role of the enemy and hinder the progress of the co-op players (al a Arkane and Valve's The Crossing).
Collaboration is built as a strong aspect of the game. While four other characters, each with their own motivation and history, accompany the player through the game, enemies will also be able to join up with each other comrades. Each enemy will have a certain strength and skill, and they will work together to put their best strengths to bear against the player.
3D Realms' Scott Miller was also quoted to have said, "We're going to design almost every weapon in the game to where it's going to have a sort of collaborative mode to it." And one such weapon was revealed: the Linker. Unreal Tournament players pay attention, because this weapon is probably exactly like the Link Gun (Plasma Gun for the Epic's UT classic players), except without the green glow or the repelling force. It was described as a "reverse proton pack from 'Ghostbusters,'" suggesting that it could have weapon graphic effects like Half-Life's Gluon gun.
Earth No More is considered one of currently three big projects that 3D Realms has underway, and the company claims they will have bumped up that number to eight once they have the manpower to fuel their development. Expect the sci-fi FPS Earth No More to grace the next-gen consoles and gaming PCs by 2009.
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Hmmm... they can announce anything they want. But after a decade of waiting for Duke Nukem Forever (DNF - Did not finish) I am not about to believe anything said company "announces"