Videogame super spies move too slowly. At least the team at Edge of Reality studios thinks so. The Austin-based developer has played every stealth game under the sun and found them lacking. Now, after years of making profitable license games (think Shark Tale and Over the Hedge), they intend to do something about it. Put simply, they want to kick the stealth genre into overdrive by making it faster, smarter, and increasingly brutal.
The game to make it all happen is Cipher Complex, and it just happens to be Edge of Reality's very first original game. After years of squirreling away money from its franchise offerings, the team decided the time was right to start making Cipher Complex, an idea the team had been brewing for years. It would carve out its own subgenre by focusing on something the team likes to call "aggressive infiltration." And yes, it plays exactly like it sounds. Instead of sitting in a dark corner waiting for a guard to walk by, players will actively push through obstacles (living or otherwise) to achieve their goals. Players avoid detection through speed and lightning-fast executions -- not from hiding and avoiding confrontation
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Cipher Complex demo and test environment discovered on an XBox 360 XDK Test Kit! Both the demo and the test environment (London) contain debug features. Cipher Complex was developed by Edge of Reality games and was to be published by SEGA before it was cancelled in 2009.
I was so super hyped for this game, this was way before anyone had done the whole "Action Stealth" thing, WAY before Splinter cell conviction brought that style of gameplay into the spotlight and offered many of the same aspects and more. Was pretty damn sad when it became vaporware
TomM_GScom Writes:
As spotted by the increasingly prolific Superannuation, the LinkedIn profile of a former Edge of Reality producer indicates that Sega pulled the plug on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game earlier this year.
"Producer for Cipher Complex that was canceled by Sega," reads the job description of Rob Brown, who served on the project from July 2008 to January 2009.
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ye Kojima taking the stage at microsoft keep dreaming for that aint happening he wouldnt want work with something that doesnt even come close to his expectations. why does sh!t like this even show up on n4g hhg ban would be in order.
why sooo much hate? are you making money with sony or Kojima? No so stop being a troll.
But I don't expect too much from this title. They are taking the necessary steps by creating a solid story and character background. My main concern that it will be too easy and a very short game. But it looks awsome.
If you watch the video there is, what appears to be, about five seconds of gameplay at the end.
I just sent that in for evaluation a little over an hour ago.. Not stealing my news, are we?;)
Sounds fantastic... sign me up!
I think it's a fantastic idea, I think this game will be more of a challenge than you think D3acon. The skill will not be in sneaking, but sneaking and than doing your moves so smoothly and fast that the guys don't have a chance to yell for help. Good idea, good story, we'll see about this one later
...and as long as the game lasts long enough, and is fun enough, I'll be sold.I wonder how they'd get multiplayer in there?