For me, and I imagine additionally for all players who discover video video games a chance to expertise nice adventures, discoveries and challenges, Mars has at all times been an ongoing supply of fascination and thriller. All through historical past, many works of science fiction have positioned the planet because the setting for epic adventures in books, movies and, in fact, video video games.
And it’s exactly all of those references, spanning 40 years, because the core of our improvement crew is comprised of 80s youngsters (I’m nearly 50 myself!), which have set the tone, theme and style for the sport Mars 2120, out in the present day.
In Mars 2120 you’ll face an journey that tries to carry again the nostalgia of the motion and science fiction movies of the 80s and 90s, in addition to a loving homage to the style generally known as metroidvania, a mixture of RPG parts, platforming and non-linear exploration. And nothing may very well be extra acceptable than encouraging exploration in a recreation whose important theme is house exploration and the scientific curiosity that drives us as innate explorers in direction of unbelievable discoveries about our universe.
Each time you play a recreation, there’s a wealthy story from the very first sketches to its remaining kind. Mars 2120 was no totally different. With a really small crew and dividing our time between our different initiatives and video games, it took us nearly 5 years to complete the sport that we’d love you to expertise, discover and really feel like, once more or for the primary time, relying in your age, watching the flicks that fascinated us after we have been younger, or enjoying the video games of the style that left you in entrance of the display for hours looking for that particular merchandise or energy as much as overcome a problem that appeared insurmountable at first.
All that point could look like lots to you, however for us it additionally represented a large step ahead. For the primary time, we confronted a undertaking 4 occasions greater than another earlier than, as you do in a recreation that places you in entrance of nice challenges, whereas studying and experiencing a brand new improvement expertise with which we weren’t fully unfamiliar.
Step into the sneakers of Sergeant Anna “13” Charlotte and traverse situations paying homage to the planet seen in “Whole Recall”, really feel the concern of going through gigantic enemies like Ellen Ripley did with the queen of the xenomorphs in “Alien”, throw punches like Arnold Schwarzenegger did in his traditional motion movies (Sure! Mars 2120 has hand-to-hand fight!) and really feel the abandonment and uncertainty of being misplaced in house just like the character of Willis Davidge (Dennis Quaid) felt within the 1985 film “Enemy Mine”.
I believe you get the message right here. We have now taken all the pieces that amused us after we have been younger and introduced it again particularly for you, within the type of a recreation. As a result of we would like you to have enjoyable with all the pieces that sparked our need to make leisure our job – video games! So I’m not exaggerating after I say Mars 2120 is a dream we’ve got been constructing since we have been youngsters.
The video games business is for everybody, you simply have to leap in and make the sport you need to play. And that’s precisely what we did and what you are able to do too! Now it’s time to place in your spacesuit, get your fists prepared and go on an important journey understanding that Mars 2120 isn’t just a recreation, it’s additionally a dream, a chunk of our lives that we actually need to share with you.
Are you able to defeat terrifying enemies and uncover all of the secrets and techniques of the primary human colony on Mars?
I dare you! After which come again and inform us the way it went. Good luck and have an excellent journey!
MARS 2120
QUByte Interactive
$19.99
$17.99
MARS 2120 is an action-adventure recreation that attracts inspiration from iconic Metroidvania titles, with gameplay parts from combating video games. With using particular talents tied to parts like ice, hearth, and electrical energy assist Sgt. Anna “13” Charlotte navigate the colony and battle her manner by the secrets and techniques of Mars.