Eve of Extinction Preview
We take an exclusive look at the upcoming fighting adventure from Eidos and Yuke's.
Given the softography of YUKE'S Co., Ltd., its current project seems especially fitting. And we're not talking about the slew of WWF games the developer has cranked out for the sake of THQ's bottom line--its latest seems to have more in common with its hardy Dreamcast brawler Sword of the Berserk than anything belonging to the realm of sports entertainment. Announced today by publisher Eidos Interactive, Eve of Extinction--the YUKE'S game in question--blends a simple premise with some truly promising gameplay systems that have a great potential for depth. Basically, the game takes the form of a free-roaming 3D brawler whose starring character has access to a staggering arsenal of weapons, each with its own fighting style and special abilities.
An exposition of the game's narrative is in order. In the near future, a huge multinational conglomerate named Wisdom Inc. has its hands in many technological disciplines essential to humankind's continued success as a species. The company is very good at messing around with genes, as it happens, allowing it to genetically engineer food and people, as well as dabble in cloning. It turns out, however, that Wisdom's goals aren't all philanthropic--way down on the company's spreadsheets lies a dirty secret, one whose implications could spell doom for humanity. It turns out that Wisdom has learned how to fuse the human soul with a weird kind of crystal, and the result of the fusion--a weapon it calls "Legacy"--is pretty deadly. This is where Josh Calloway--the game's genetically enhanced protagonist--comes in. After getting hip to Wisdom's true intent, the former loyal employee decided to distance himself (both spatially and ideologically) from the vile corporation, and he took his girlfriend Eliel Evergrand (ex-Legacy researcher) with him. During their escape, however, Eliel was captured, and--in a most disturbing turn of events--Wisdom used her soul to power the most powerful Legacy weapon to date. Thus is Josh embroiled in a quest that pits him against the agents of Wisdom Inc. in an effort to stop a madman's designs and rescue his lover.
Apparently, Josh is armed with a Legacy weapon as well, and from what we've seen, it has the ability to change into many different hand-to-hand weapons, including swords, nightsticks, axes, katars, and staffs, among others. Each weapon form will bring with it a unique fighting style that essentially changes the way Josh's combo attacks perform. In an interesting twist, most of the weapon forms that we were shown behind closed doors at E3 seemed to have been based on those used by the characters in Soul Calibur. This also extends to the fighting styles Josh adopts when thus armed. When we made the Legacy take the form of a huge two-handed sword, for instance, it looked just like Nightmare's foul blade, and it caused Josh to fight in the same plodding-but-deadly style. Other nods to the fighting classic include Ivy's whip sword, Voldo's katar, and Kilik's staff.
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- Eidos Interactive
- Yuke's
- Sci-Fi Action Adventure
- Release: Feb 26, 2002 »
- ESRB: Teen
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