Critical Mass announces Sword of Dracula

Critical Mass Interactive (CMI) has today announced the development of Sword of Dracula, a first-person shooter based on the Image Comics series of the same name. No release date or platforms for the game have been confirmed at this time, but CMI and the series' creator, Jason Henderson, have stated that they plan to have a demo of the game ready for next month's Game Developers Conference in San Jose.

"The moment we saw the Sword of Dracula comic, we knew this was the franchise to jump on," said CMI VP of development Billy Cain. "We're talking a commando-vampire war in fierce, cinematic, Call of Duty-style gameplay. You could see it from the first issue. We knew we had to make this happen."

In the Sword of Dracula comics, Dracula is portrayed as the world's foremost terrorist, using the blood of thousands of victims to build himself a vampire army. Henderson describes his take on Dracula as "a king, a massive 300-year-old ubervampire with an army of vampires and zombies, and it'll take every Humvee, cannon, and Blackhawk Ronnie has to bring him down."

The character Henderson refers to as Ronnie is the character that players will assume the role of in the game, a covert agent named Veronica Van Helsing, who leads a UN-connected antivampire operation known as Polidorium. We'll bring you more information on the Sword of Dracula game as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, you might be interested to check out the official comic series' Web site.