Wednesday 27 February 2008

8 days emerges once more.



Remember seeing this game, way back at E3 2006. It certainly looked impressive, even if it is a CGI film. However, with virtually no new information since then, many simply assumed it had been canned. Well, apparently Sony London, the development team behind the project had other ideas. New news has emerged about the game. A new trailer along with gameplay demos were reportedly showcased behind closed doors at GDC. Sony hasn't officially released any new information on the game, but if reports are true this is what we may expect:


You'll travel across eight States of North America. This, as you might imagine, is said to make for one of the biggest game maps in any console game to date. So large, in fact, that you will never revisit any one location, and will be constantly pushed to move on.

It will also apparently incorporate Google Maps functionality, and tie into a real-life clock, so when played at night in real life, it will be night in the game.

You take control of one of two characters (possibly one of the two seen in the early trailer), each with their own storyline and varying abilities. One's a bad guy, who's out for revenge on a mob syndicate.

The other is a good guy - a detective who's in search of the same mob syndicat, who've kidnapped his son. Their paths, predictably, cross at some point, and they end up working together.
Reports are comparing the game to Killzone 2 Graphically and to Uncharted: Drakes Fortune in animation. This, if true sounds awesome to say the least. The title is expected to see a release date of approximately October 2008, an official announcement is thought to be made very soon.

Source: CVG

No comments: