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PsychoToxic poisons production line

Whiptail's postapocalyptic FPS emerges from production limbo, goes gold, and is now due next week.

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More than four years after it was first announced, PsychoToxic is finally set to make it to market. Postal publisher Whiptail Interactive announced today that the game's gold master has been sent to production and that it will arrive in stores "in the second week of March." It is rated M for Mature and carries a semibudget price point of $29.99

Combining supernatural horror and first-person action, PsychoToxic is a different type of postapocalyptic game. Instead of an apocalypse--be it nuclear, biological, or interstellar in origins--the game is set after the apocalypse, that is, the rapture. Players assume the role of the appropriately named Angie Prophet, an angel/vigilante who is "Earth's last line of defense from total destruction."

The harbinger of that destruction is one Reverend Crowley, inspired by famed real-life satanist Alastair Crowley, who summons the first three of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--War, Pestilence, and Famine. It's up to Angie to stop horseman number four--Death--from materializing and literally raising hell on Earth.

Featuring 90 enemies across nearly 30 real and surreal levels, PsychoToxic is a blend of shooter action and magic-casting. Angie will wield standard first-person shooter weapons, like rifles and grenade launchers, as well as more unique items like the curiously named "udder cannon." She will also have special "angelic abilities"--think a supernatural Deus Ex--which will let her perform feats like mind control and temporal distortion. The game will also employ advanced physics, courtesy of the German-built Trinigy Vision graphics engine.

For more on PsychoToxic and its long road to release, summon up articles from the depths of GameSpot's previous coverage.

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