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Just got this new Game Informer, and it has this game I thought you guys should know about. I know nothing of the story, but it is a Stealth/Action game, and comparisons are being drawn to Theif, and that's not probably too far off, as one of the Lead Designers from that game is working on it.




You play as Corvo, one of the Empress' personal bodyguards, but when she is murdered, you get blamed. The game is you trying to clear your name in the giant power vaccuum and punish the person responsible. The Outsider grants people magic, and there has been a few "mentions" of the developers love of Lovecraft.

They also say that your actions affect the world, not your dialogue choices. It's an assassination game, but they hope to include ways of ending every mark without killing them.

Spell list seems to be off the wall stuff, with Super Speed being the most mainstream so far. Along with that is Possession, Rat Swarm (who will apparantly attack you if you don't give them a better target), Slow Time, Blink, Gust of Wind, and "Many others". Your supposed to combine them, covering "large amounts of ground" with Super Speed, Double Jump, and Blink, you can summon up a Rat Swarm and Possess one of them for an easy get away, and even possess a guard, fire his weapon, Slow Time to stop the bullets, and then jump in front of them, saving you ammo.

Looks interesting, but I don't tend to do very well multitasking powers

I do like the strider suit thing in the first picture - very cool

Yeah, it does indeed look very cool. I just wish I could do it justice right now; I have to get ready for work, but when I get back I'll post more from the Game Informer article, which seems to be the only source of info on it :/

Do want.

This actually looks awesome...

Scifi steampunk stealth game with a visceral magic system?

TAKE MY MONEY.

Also look at this

Not just that but the story looks to be all shiny and beautiful...

That death mask is killing the game it looks so damn good.

templeorks wrote:That death mask is killing the game it looks so damn good.

The death mask looks awesome

The mask in the second picture really doesn't

SilverMK2 wrote:The mask in the second picture really doesn't

It reminds be of Brink...

That's a mask?

I thought it was just a bandanna or something.

It looks like it's some kind of rebreather or something...
Whatever it is it looks solid and not soft.

It looks like "we can't be bothered to animate this person's face"

SilverMK2 wrote:It looks like "we can't be bothered to animate this person's face"

Good old CBA rule...
I find myself getting more and more excited about this game... despite the general lack of infomation.

corpsesarefun wrote:Also look at this

I charged the group of guards, saw that there were too many to fight, one of them threw a grenade at me, I Possessed him, as my body disappeared in a firey explosion, people looked at my Host like an old friend, right before I retreated a safe distance to shoot their whiskey and light them on fire.

I'm looking at my game informer and it has a 10 pg spread with tons of info about the game. Also the stilt walkers with bows are sweet. It says they are shooting for a Imersive, visceral experiance that allows us the player to experiment and be creative in affecting the games world.

Turns out this games is by Arkane Studios. Am interested now.

Slarg remember that Bethesda(bethesda zenimax) are largely irrelevant to the subject. Bethesda (zenimax) are a publisher ('bethesda softworks' are the development wing behind elder scrolls/fallout 3). By the logic of your thread title Rage is a bethesda game .

God-dammit Bethesda stealing my plot ideas...

Kasrkai wrote:God-dammit Arkane Studios stealing my plot ideas...

Fixed.

Viktor Antonov is also involved with the game so no wonder the art style looks so great.

Looks like....Witcher 2, but Science Fiction.

Not that I'm complaining.

Like Witcher 2? Huh?

I see steampunk Deus Ex, with shades of Bioshock.

I meant the plotline, not the game.

Perkustin wrote:

Kasrkai wrote:God-dammit Bethesda stealing every one in the past three years of my plot ideas...

Fixed.

Viktor Antonov is also involved with the game so no wonder the art style looks so great.

Fixeded.

I read about this today in the new Official 360 mag. It really sounds interesting and the powers give me all sorts of nasty ideas that I want to try when I play the game.

This game does look freaking awesomesauce. I just dont understand possession....

One person quoted that you explode in a fiery ball when you possess someone else.... but that makes no sense does it? You would lose all of your stuff!!! Do you have any stuff to lose...?

Another said you can possess someone to more or less shoot themselves. But wouldnt that be shooting yourself? Or do you actually return to your body?

But if you return to your body...how can possessing a rat mean a quick get away, as I read first hand in the article, it does say that Rats can crawl through sewers, which make great easy get aways. sense does not This make.

It does, once you realise that what the mean when they say "possess" is your entire body, gear, etc. zips into another person as if you were a spirit/bendy shapeshifter and from there you control them and when you are done you "pop" out of them. So its more like you are a ghost as opposed to you mind controlling someone else from where you physically exist and then returning to your own body when you are done.

Jaon wrote:One person quoted that you explode in a fiery ball when you possess someone else.... but that makes no sense does it? You would lose all of your stuff!!! Do you have any stuff to lose...?

They threw a grenade at me, and I possessed some one as the grenade went off, causing it to appear I died (My body "disappeared" in a firey explosion).

I'll leave this slideshow here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OazMsVzNBE4&feature=player_embedded

It looks like its pretty much just a re-skin of a Bioshock game (Infinite is my guess, its already very similar in theme) with a different story/setting. Switch the term Plasmid with Magic and you're good.

Also not a fan at the setting. Call me a steampunk snob, but it seems like the game is trying to ride the wave of the current steampunk fad without actually considering what it means to be steampunk... then again, that is true of most recent settings that are self defined as 'steampunk'.