MediaMobsters og K.E. Media har i dag kunngjort et navnebytte på førstnevntes nye gangster spill. Det nye navnet er Gangland og det lanseres ganske snart.
Umiddelbart ser spillet ut til å følge i fotsporene til de gode gamle Gangsters spillene, men utvikleren lover faktisk ganske mye mer. I følge dem selv er spillet en forfriskende blanding av rollespill, strategi og noen sim-aktige elementer. Her følger et par ferske skjermiser og et utfrag fra pressemeldingen. Gangland lanseres i November i år.
You take on the role of one of four Italian brothers, Mario, Angelo, Romano or Sonny. Born into Sicilian mafia, your character must work his way up within the family and compete with other mobs and gangsters for supremacy within the game's 'Paradise City' playing environment. The GANGLAND theme is true to the pop culture mafia mythology built up over the years by mafia-themed movies - like The Godfather and Goodfellas - and more recently by hit TV series The Sopranos.
As you progress through the game building up your own empire by setting up extortion rackets, threatening locals, prostituting women and where necessary, murdering people, you gain respect from both your peers and family. The artificial intelligence (AI) in Gangland will react to the way in which you go about playing the game with an entire city and all of its inhabitants going about their daily business around you. Gangland players will continue to be surprised and thrilled thanks to a highscore system and a unique "Event Engine" that generates non-linear plot lines every time a new game is played. Each new game requires gamers to adopt a range of different gameplay tactics to successfully control, manipulate and extort each district's 300 active citizens and 200 hoodlums.
Combat in Gangland introduces a totally new way of fighting: The game mixes the rules of 'first person shooters' and 'realtime tactics' so players must move fast and make tactical use of the environment to win. Furthermore a unique "Event Engine" ensures a nonlinear story-driven gameplay everytime the game is played and the Highscore element ensures replay ability as players battle to become the most successful Boss in Paradise City.
GANGLAND can be played in both single and multiplayer format with up to eight people playing against each other controlling up to 50 characters each at any one time. In order to complete the game, single players will have to murder, pimp, threaten, bribe and extort their way through 26 maps comprising 13 challenges and 13 conquests. There are 15 different maps to complete in multiplayer mode.
FEATURES:
GAME:
- GANGLAND offers a unique blend of RTT/RPG/SIM
- Experience a living city with 800+ citizens per map
- Interact with 500+ npc's with individual behaviour
- Make your own family from 20+ unique characters
- Build a business empire on lots of illegal activities: - Visit 26 different map locations in Paradise City
- Solve 26 conquests and challenges
- Make use of a vast array of weapons and gadgets
- Use the environment in thrilling action-driven combat
- Use subversive gameplay tactics to trap your opponents
- Get surprised by the non-linear event-driven plot
- Compete with other players to get on the highscore lists
TECH:
- Up to 8 players on LAN/Internet
- Supports DirectX and OpenGL
- Full 3D with free camera rotation and zoom
- Supports all screen resolutions from 800x600 and up
- Highly scalable with customisable level of detail
- Excellent AI pushes the player to his limits
GAMEPLAY ELEMENTS:
Setup extortion rackets, bribe, steal, kill, bootleg, seduce, put out contracts, make drive-by hits, blow up buildings, infiltrate opponents, setup gambling parlors, brothels, speak-easies, international connections, and much more...