Gamecock Media Group have announced they will be joining forces with with Firefly Studios to launch their next game – Hero. Gamecock founders Mike Wilson and Harry Miller first started working with Firefly while running Gathering of Developers. At that time, the two companies brought the original Stronghold games to market.
Hero is the first game to take you into a real dungeon, one where a shadowy evil has come to feed on despair. This a dungeon at war - not a place with bags of gold just lying around! This action RPG uses Firefly's dazzling new HD engine, allowing the player to storm heroically through underground halls while taking in the detail and complexity of a world previously unseen. Master melee, ranged and magic skills and 'Close combat' a totally new, brutal mode of fighting as you battle your way through vast crowds of monsters. Fight alone or have a friend drop in to survive - and maybe even save - the darkest society imaginable!
Hero is slated for a Spring 2009 release on a PC and a next-gen platform.
Megan Myrick writes: "Hero and Monster Girl Quest 3d are technically two separate titles that have been combined into one campaign. For a project that’s been going on nearly three years, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of significant progress. Some of the past updates for Hero have talked about fine-tuning animation and lighting, but only a “Half-Demo” has been released."
I can understand life getting in the way of game development, but it doesn't take much to give backers a quick update.
A new game tentatively named Hero was leaked May last year, and may be the same upcoming new IP Ubisoft revealed in their recent earnings call.
A look at the doomed open-world Midway game and its spiritual successor, Awakened.
...a couple days ago while dropping the kids off at the pool. The game sounds like a lot of fun, and I'm excited about seeing where it goes from here.