The Scourge Project is a four player co-operative third person shooter from Tragnarion Studios. A relative newcomer to the industry, founded in late 2003 and based in sunny Mallorca with only nine members, they have rapidly grown in size by obtaining developers, programmers and artists from Sega, Ubisoft and Eidos so they are not short on talent by any means. The game is utilising Epic's Unreal Engine 3 in an attempt to deliver a true co-op driven story to the players, which means even in single-player, all four of the games protagonists will be present with AI driving the empty seats.
Cheat Happens - When a gaming franchise like Gears of War becomes a blockbuster, a lot of good can come from it; new mechanics, new standards, in short - the entire industry benefits. Of course, there are downsides, like the fact that every developer wants to create a clone.
Resolution's Greg Giddens writes: The past decade of FPS and third person shooter mechanics can all be found here. The Scourge Project unashamedly takes elements from a large collection of titles – most notable Gears of War – and copies them into the framework. Unfortunately any flare these elements had to begin with have been completely extinguished due to rough implementation and a lack of quality overall. It’s generic and boring with no personality of its own and despite the addition of some fairly enjoyable multiplayer components its short lived fun at best.
Played the demo and was pretty disappointed, looks fairly good, but thats about it.
Tragnarion Studios has released a playable demo for The Scourge Project: Episodes 1 and 2. The demo allows gamers to experience the exciting Squad-based gameplay in several checkpoints from the full game, including support for Single-player and up to 4-Players in Co-op.
The demo can be downloaded from any of the four following sources...
