For me, and I consider additionally for all players who discover video video games a possibility 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, after all, video video games.
And it’s exactly all of those references, spanning 40 years, for the reason that core of our improvement crew is comprised of 80s children (I’m virtually 50 myself!), which have set the tone, theme and style for the sport Mars 2120, out right now.
In Mars 2120 you’ll face an journey that tries to convey again the nostalgia of the motion and science fiction movies of the 80s and 90s, in addition to a loving homage to the style often called metroidvania, a mixture of RPG parts, platforming and non-linear exploration. And nothing may very well be extra applicable than encouraging exploration in a recreation whose most important theme is house exploration and the scientific curiosity that drives us as innate explorers in direction of unimaginable discoveries about our universe.
Each time you play a recreation, there’s a wealthy story from the very first sketches to its last 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 virtually 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 once we had been younger, or taking part in the video games of the style that left you in entrance of the display screen for hours looking for that particular merchandise or energy as much as overcome a problem that appeared insurmountable at first.
All that point might look like quite a bit to you, however for us it additionally represented an enormous step ahead. For the primary time, we confronted a mission 4 instances greater than some other 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 utterly unfamiliar.
Step into the footwear of Sergeant Anna “13” Charlotte and traverse situations paying homage to the planet seen in “Complete 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 feel you get the message right here. We now have taken all the pieces that amused us once we had 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 have now been constructing since we had been children.
The video games trade is for everybody, you simply have to leap in and make the sport you wish 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 amazing journey figuring out that Mars 2120 is not only a recreation, it’s additionally a dream, a bit of our lives that we actually wish 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 a superb 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 skills tied to parts like ice, fireplace, and electrical energy assist Sgt. Anna “13” Charlotte navigate the colony and battle her manner by way of the secrets and techniques of Mars.
