Flashback creator working on PS3 exclusive: Amy
Paul Cuisset, the creative mind behind cult classics such as Flashback, Operation Wolf and Moto Racer is back working on a new game. Cuisset’s latest title, Amy, is a survival game that takes place during the end-of-times.
The game takes place in the future, the year is 2034 and global warming, natural disasters and disease is ravaging the world. It doesn’t sound too pleasant in the future.
A comet strikes Earth bringing with it a mysterious virus that mutates people into violent and crazy monsters. The gameplay sounds interesting as it mixes elements from Ico with the survival horror genre.
December 2034. Global warming has taken effect, spreading disease and natural disasters around the world. The small town of Silver City (Midwest, USA) has been directly affected by a comet that has come crashing down. When Lana regains consciousness, everything around her is just mayhem. Violent outbursts, fury, rage, wreckage and death: the world she knew seems to have torn to Hell. As if struck by a mysterious virus, most of the ones she knew have now become part of a wild horde.
Despite her wounds, she knows she must run as far as possible to escape this nightmare: the viral process has begun inside her but she refuses to become one of them. The presence of Amy, a strange little girl who seems defenseless, will force her to make choices that will change both their lives.
Infected humans, grisly creatures, Special Forces and even other survivors: they will have to trust and help each other to escape their pursuers in their attempt to survive.
KEY FEATURES
- Unique & deep gameplay that features extensive cooperation with a character to be protected
- Contrary to several games with a secondary character, Amy (the child you have to protect) is neither a super warrior nor a docile character that follows you. You are able to use her small size and weight to reach inaccessible areas, ask her to do specific actions and you’ll even be able to use her mysterious gifts. But she will need to trust you and you might accept to get hurt to keep her safe.
- Story-driven survival horror game set in a cinematographic atmosphere
- Amy is based on a rich, addictive and twisted story-based scenario. Strong efforts have been put on the characters backgrounds and behaviors but also on audio, sound design and a very unique use of camera setting to create emotion
- Original stealth-action gameplay that includes fierce close combat
- Lana and Amy are often weaker than their enemies. You can choose to confront them directly by using improvised weapons for close combat. You can run or try to push them away but you can also use hiding places and prefer stealth action. Lana being infected by the virus, she mutates when exposed too long and end up dying if not cured or protected by one of Amy’s special powers. But when infected, Lana can lure her enemies and move without being attacked.
- Wide range of enemies with strong AI
- Lana and Amy are facing various kinds of enemies that can detect sounds, heat, movements and much move. They also can act in hordes and exchange information. Some groups of enemies being aggressive to each other, you can try to escape by triggering a fight between them.
- Rarely seen before quality of graphics and animation on PlayStation®Network
- Amy might be one the first games on PlayStation®Network with such a level of rendering detailed modeling and motion capture animation.
- Puzzles to unravel arching storyline
- Running, hiding and fighting are core elements of the gameplay. However, you’ll sometimes need to use your wit to get out of delicate situations.
Cuisset has been responsible for video game classics like Flashback, which merged cinematic cutscenes seamlessly with action platforming back in the 90’s. Flashback was a game I enjoyed back in the day and was definitely ahead of its time during the SNES-3DO era.
Amy is set to launch exclusively on the PlayStation Network sometime in Q2 2011.
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February 28th, 2011
Another fucking exclusive!? Sony leave my wallet alone. I’m going to have to sell my 360 to pay for all these games, seeing as the 360 has only 1 exclusive on the way that I want.
February 28th, 2011
Sounds gay.
February 28th, 2011
Yeah Sony leave his ass… I mean wallet alone.
February 28th, 2011
ncaissie you seem to go on about mens arses a lot lol.
February 28th, 2011
It sounds pretty promising to me.
Sounds like an old school survival horror. Game play based more on surviving, running, hiding, and puzzle solving. Add in an interesting story, and I’m sold.
March 1st, 2011
game sounds deadly…ill be keeping my eye on this
March 1st, 2011
And I’ll be keeping my eye on Birdbrains lies lol.
March 1st, 2011
Reminds me of Bioshock in a way.
March 1st, 2011
I am an ass man but not men’s. I love nice buts on chicks, even the bigger ones LOL
March 1st, 2011
“Reminds me of Bioshock in a way.”
I still need to play that.
I feel guilty playing anything but DCUO when I’m paying $10 a month for it. LOL
March 1st, 2011
That’s a good incentive to keep playing DCUO.
You also must really enjoy it.
March 1st, 2011
4 of my friends have DCUO and they’re loving it.
Also, jojo and ncaissie have said good things about it.
The problem for me was that with so many games releasing this year it’ll be hard for me to get a break and find enough playing time to get my moneys worth (monthly fee) from it
March 1st, 2011
I love DCUO but I’m very curious about Bioshock.
I still need to finish Batman, COD BO, Transformers and I want to try LBP 2.
March 1st, 2011
“The problem for me was that with so many games releasing this year it’ll be hard for me to get a break and find enough playing time to get my moneys worth (monthly fee) from it”
If I wasn’t such a DC fan I probably would hold off also.
Did you try the Beta?
March 1st, 2011
Anyone else remeber Operation Wolf for the NES?
March 1st, 2011
I do and but that was the Master system or was it the Mega Drive? can’t remember which console cos it was a very long time ago for me. nearly two decades in fact.
does anyone remember paperboy on the armstrd CPC or Chopper X on the atrai ST ah good times before the xbox came and ruined everything.
March 1st, 2011
hey Liquid sorry for accidenty p*ssing you off the other day.
March 1st, 2011
and now we know where all of the excess bullsh*t from M$ goes to The small town of Silver City.
March 1st, 2011
NewFlash
M$ has announced an all new groundbreaking Kinect title thats set to blow our minds alway.
Kinect Play: The Rip-off of Eyetoy Play
gameplay includes swinging your arms to hit little people, pretending to cooking and meny more our biggist rip off let. how can we top this?
stay tuned to find out.
March 1st, 2011
Are you joking PS3?
March 1st, 2011
“Are you joking PS3?”
Are YOU joking, nc??
March 1st, 2011
LOL nope.
Is that new news or is he talking about a past announcement?
March 1st, 2011
it’s hard to tell whether he’s joking or being serious.
did you catch your bus man?
March 1st, 2011
LOL who are you talking to Roca?
March 1st, 2011
You and PS3 RULEZ lol
March 1st, 2011
@roca & nc
PS3Rulez stated the latest kinect title was called “Kinect Play: The Rip-off of Eyetoy Play”
IDK what sarcasm is like in the US/Canada but, to me, that screams sarcasm.
March 1st, 2011
That is what I thought but come on! With MS now days it is not like it can’t be true.
March 1st, 2011
Bazinga!!
March 1st, 2011
I just nutted in my pants at the thought of flashback.
That and Super Metroid are the best 2D platformers ever created imo.
March 1st, 2011
Oh, and flashback was better on the Amiga!
March 1st, 2011
I hope Sony is at least the publisher since I only buy games from Sony. The game sounds awesome.
Xbox 360 is the next Dreamcast. Sony kill SATURN with PS1 and Crush Nintendo 64. With PS2 they wiped the floor with Xbox and GameCube a no mercy beating that still going strong. And soon Xbox 360 is the next victim on Sony’s killing list.
Google in the dictionary means search.
Soon PlayStation will mean game, it will become a word.