It feels insane, but now is already the time where developers are announcing games for 2008. The Collective (Star Wars: Episode III, Marc Ecko's Getting Up) today announced Harker for next generation consoles, showing five images from the Xbox 360 version of the game. The game is inspired by the horror novel "Dracula", and that is quite a story to base a game on. See more info inside.
The Collective informs via a press-release: “We’re very excited to be bringing the classic world of 'Dracula' to life in a new and intriguing way,” said Nathan Hunt, studio head of The Collective. “We feel this story lends itself perfectly to the survival horror genre and will create a fantastic next generation experience for gamers.”
In the game, players take on the role of a very different Jonathan Harker - hardened and ruthless - who is on a very personal mission to destroy all vampires after his beloved Mina falls prey to Dracula. Gameplay involves a combination of hunting these ferocious killers through tracking and exploration, along with an up-close and personal combat system, brutally-effective in the execution of the vampires; using a variety of weapons and environmental factors.
“'Harker’s' goal is to bring an in-your-face, visceral, and personal style of combat to the survival horror genre,” said Nigel Cook, producer. “None of these vampires are going to die with one shot. They’re going to fight for their survival, which will give the player a huge level of satisfaction when they successfully execute one.”
"Harker" will bring to life the underbelly of the 18th Century World, taking players into diverse locations, areas never explored in history books, in a gritty, realistic art style that will fully immerse players in their environments. The game also features an incredible roster of blood-thirsty, shape-shifting vampires each with their own savage abilities, sometimes hiding in plain sight; the player may never know just how close they are.
The Collective actually developed the eminent Buffy The Vampire Slayer game for Xbox, later raped by Eurocom or something and made into a sequel called Chaos Bleeds.
If this embraces any of the mecahnics found in the first Buffy game, it's gonna be brawly goodness.
Man i want to play as vampire, not as hunter. Vampires are supposed to be superior to human in almost every aspect so how can single man exterminate hundreds of vampires. And they better not put any scifi scheisse in this.
Posted by SimonM7 The Collective actually developed the eminent Buffy The Vampire Slayer game for Xbox, later raped by Eurocom or something and made into a sequel called Chaos Bleeds..
What?
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And why in the FUCK dont they base this game on the Buffyverse? Who the hell wants to play in the Drac... aha, they lost the rights? Sorry for the rant, that explains it.
Eurocom or whoever owns the rights to Buffy better make a nextgen Buffygame ASAP (or sell the rights to someone who actually can), specially since the series stopped airing ages ago. Stupid Eurocom... if they had not raped The Collective this game would infact be a Buffygame *cries*
Posted by Nit3m4re Hard to base whether or not its good from those 5 screens. Hardly informative screenies imo xD
Uh, no kidding...So are you telling us that you could tell the quality of a game based on screenshots if they were more "informative"? Truley a prodigy types amongst us.
As for it not being a Buffy game, yeah it's too bad, but I think these vampires look cooler. The show rocks, but I always thought the vampires looked like victims of fetal alchohol syndrome.
One of my favourite vampire games was actually "Hunter the reckoning" man i loved that game, im still hoping for a sequel for next-gen consoles but this Harker thing will suffice for now at least :D
Posted by SimonM7 The Collective actually developed the eminent Buffy The Vampire Slayer game for Xbox, later raped by Eurocom or something and made into a sequel called Chaos Bleeds.
If this embraces any of the mecahnics found in the first Buffy game, it's gonna be brawly goodness.
Yeah, The Collective Buffy and Indiana Jones games were great. Buffy may not have been graphically amazing, it's just the fighting mechanics. Managing to fight 4 vampires at once was great. It showed just how bad Chaos Bleeds was, sometimes it was hard to fight a single vampire, let alone 4.
Doom_Bringer
oh yea that, Dragon Age was preloading at the time (3 Hours ago)
GriftGFX
Maybe.. it's different for pre-loaded stuff too. (4 Hours ago)
Doom_Bringer
@GriftGFX: well Dragon age extracted is suppose to be arround 20 gigs but the download was only 8 gigs or 15 gigs...procedure might be different for newer games (4 Hours ago)
GriftGFX
45 minutes for this game would have to be like... 3+ megabytes per second. My Comcast can't do that. (4 Hours ago)
GriftGFX
My FFOW DL is almost 12.9 gigs and like 95% done. (4 Hours ago)
GriftGFX
Steam appears to download extracted and installed, there's no install process once you finish downloading a game. (4 Hours ago)
Doom_Bringer
D2D file right now is 9.2 GB's. I think it was less when I was downloading it (now its extracted) I am pretty sure Steam works the same way. 12 gb is probably the extracted size :P (4 Hours ago)
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If this embraces any of the mecahnics found in the first Buffy game, it's gonna be brawly goodness.
Looks good though looking forward to this :D
sounds bloody cool ..
http://www.viciojuegos.com/avance.jsp?idAvance=132...
In my opinion this game is too violent, too bloody, etc. Its graphics are very bad by now.
It'll be better to wait more.
For 14+ months of development time left, I'd expect this game to improve somewhat :-) (Not saying it's bad, just it's going to get better)
The Collective actually developed the eminent Buffy The Vampire Slayer game for Xbox, later raped by Eurocom or something and made into a sequel called Chaos Bleeds..
....
And why in the FUCK dont they base this game on the Buffyverse? Who the hell wants to play in the Drac... aha, they lost the rights? Sorry for the rant, that explains it.
Eurocom or whoever owns the rights to Buffy better make a nextgen Buffygame ASAP (or sell the rights to someone who actually can), specially since the series stopped airing ages ago. Stupid Eurocom... if they had not raped The Collective this game would infact be a Buffygame *cries*
Hard to base whether or not its good from those 5 screens. Hardly informative screenies imo xD
As for it not being a Buffy game, yeah it's too bad, but I think these vampires look cooler. The show rocks, but I always thought the vampires looked like victims of fetal alchohol syndrome.
The Collective actually developed the eminent Buffy The Vampire Slayer game for Xbox, later raped by Eurocom or something and made into a sequel called Chaos Bleeds.
If this embraces any of the mecahnics found in the first Buffy game, it's gonna be brawly goodness.