Deviant Development's new game Warco : The News Game is one of the most unique takes on FPS games for many years but one question mark looms over it.
Indie gaming has enjoyed a huge revival over the past couple of years. Games such as Minecraft are out-selling certain 'big' titles as much as 100-to-1, and we're faced with a future in which the next Angry Birds could come from absolutely anywhere.
Of course, the indie landscape is a minefield littered with less memorable titles too, so we've picked out the titles we expect great things from in the next 12 months...
I enjoy the idea of indie games being successful too even though they do not have a crazy ad campaign or a large company working on them. I am very excited to see Hawken and a few of the other titles looked interesting
ARS - Warco is a first-person game where players shoot footage instead of a gun. A work in progress at Brisbane-based studio Defiant Development, the game is a collaboration of sorts; Defiant is working with both a journalist and a filmmaker to create a game that puts you in the role of a journalist embedded in a warzone. Ars spoke with Defiant's Morgan Jaffit to learn more about this political game disguised as an FPS.
This title truly have me interested, I just hope it keeps this premise throughout the WHOLE game. The last thing I need is a plot twist that forces the protagonist to hold a gun or tape an M203 Grenade launcher to his camera.
Kyle Orland writes:It's almost a cliche at this point for makers of war-based shooting games to tout their titles' "realism." In general, this means the military uniforms and jargon will look and sound right, the guns will be rendered correctly down to the last shell casing, the war-torn villages will be based on real satellite maps, and so on.
