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Find out about Visual Concepts' upcoming action game.
As game consoles have become technologically more advanced over the past few years, developers have come the closest they ever have to capturing the feel of an animated cartoon in their games. The biggest hurdle these days lies in imagination. Graphics are really no longer an issue, when a system like the Dreamcast can pump out visual stunners such as Wacky Races, Looney Tunes Space Race, and Jet Grind Radio. It's now a question of how to produce something that aesthetically harkens back to the classic stuff we all used to watch as kids. Visual Concepts is attempting to get in touch with its inner Tex Avery with Floigan Brothers for the Dreamcast, a 3D action game that pays homage to the animated classics of old.
Floigan Brothers follows the antics of siblings Hoigle and Moigle Floigan, owners of a junkyard. Older brother Hoigle is a tiny fellow, who makes up for his lack of height with brains and sass. While younger brother Moigle doesn't appear to be quite as swift as his older brother, you will discover he's actually quite sharp in other ways. Moigle may not have the brainpower to waste on important things like eating, but he's a whiz with machines. The main drive of Floigan Brothers is to help Moigle gather parts for a secret project. Trouble brews when Baron Malodorous sends down a team of cats to sabotage things around the junkyard so he can take it over. Why the baron wants the junkyard when he's got the cash for huge blimps to take him around and a staff of cat saboteurs is anyone's guess, but there you go.
Gameplay in Floigan offers you a variety of moves easily accessed via a simple control scheme. You take control of Hoigle and must play with, reward, punish, and teach Moigle through the course of the game. Interacting with Moigle causes him to evolve in a sense, as he learns new games to play and new moves that will help you assist him in gathering all the parts for his project. You control Hoigle with the analog pad, while the Dreamcast's controller buttons are displayed in the upper right-hand corner of the screen, and their various context-sensitive uses are indicated as they become available, à la the Zelda games on the Nintendo 64. Pressing the Y button calls up a circular menu for interaction that offers you a variety of Moigle-centric choices. On the speak menu, you can choose to hug, teach, or insult Moigle or offer to play a game with him or respond to his questions. In addition, you will be able to check on your status in the game to see the number of "points" you've collected, how many parts you still have to help Moigle collect, and what areas within the junkyard, which is where the game's action is confined, have been opened up so far. Lastly, the shoulder triggers swing the camera left and right.
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