Gears of War developer Epic Games might have a reputation for highly detailed graphics based in realism, but its latest title shows the studio is capable of dramatically divergent art direction.
Called Fortnite, the title is being teased in a new trailer released by the company on Saturday. The characters in the teaser are rendered in a style much more minimalistic and stylized than Epic's traditional photo-realistic depictions of humans, and could be described as cartoon-like.
The trailer appears to show a game involving humans building strongholds out of garbage and various pieces of found material in order to defend themselves from inhuman creatures (such as the one pictured here) who come out at night.
The company has not formally announced any further details about the title, including its target platforms.
Epic's latest, shooter Gears of War 3, is one of the holiday season's premiere action-adventure titles currently commanding retail shelf space for Microsoft's Xbox 360. The game was released in September to critical acclaim and week-one sales in the neighborhood of 3 million.
Epic also develops and supports the popular Unreal Engine 3 game engine.
It seems a lot more like the HL2 mod, SourceForts.
The artstyle screams Monday Night Combat and Team Fortress 2, to me.
Not to discount Epic's efforts, I expect a solid, fun title here. If anything it points out that it is harder and harder to be unique these days with the number of projects out there.
I find this rather disappointing. Especially after the samatarian tech demo I expect more from epic as some random mixture out of ideas indie devs brought onto various plattforms for years now.
Looks like it could be good fun - concepts are definitely very sound, and Epic are pretty good at execution. It doesn't sound like a huge-hours title to make, could be a 'fill-in' title for this gen, before they try putting something together for the launch of the next consoles.
I hardly think that Gears of War 3 had "realism". That being said, I do think this game has potential to be fun. Seems pretty original. I can't wait to see how it turns out.
I think that heavily detailed comic book style of realism is generally referred to as Hypereal ( or I suppose in Epic's case u could call it "Unreal" )
Now that you are stopping with the "realistic" shooter crap, can you start again make the games that I did actually liked, like... Jazz Jackrabbit? I want a Jazz Jackrabbit 3, in 2D! (or "2.5D" at most)
Or... Tyrian! (that can be in 3D...)
Or... ZZT even? ZZT was a awesome adventure engine, we need more of that!
I will launch a new campaign: Stop making FPS! We have enough of those already.
great to see epic make this game for real and dare to go away from the typical blockbuster shooter with ultra realistic brown grey graphics.
The artstyle screams Monday Night Combat and Team Fortress 2, to me.
Not to discount Epic's efforts, I expect a solid, fun title here. If anything it points out that it is harder and harder to be unique these days with the number of projects out there.
woop woop.
-Everybody Else
Or... Tyrian! (that can be in 3D...)
Or... ZZT even? ZZT was a awesome adventure engine, we need more of that!
I will launch a new campaign: Stop making FPS! We have enough of those already.