For me, and I consider additionally for all avid gamers who discover video video games a possibility to expertise nice adventures, discoveries and challenges, Mars has all the time been an ongoing supply of fascination and thriller. All through historical past, many works of science fiction have positioned the planet because the setting for epic adventures in books, movies and, in fact, video video games.
And it’s exactly all of those references, spanning 40 years, for the reason that core of our growth staff is comprised of 80s children (I’m nearly 50 myself!), which have set the tone, theme and style for the sport Mars 2120, out as we speak.
In Mars 2120 you’ll face an journey that tries to carry again the nostalgia of the motion and science fiction movies of the 80s and 90s, in addition to a loving homage to the style generally known as metroidvania, a mixture of RPG components, platforming and non-linear exploration. And nothing could possibly be extra acceptable than encouraging exploration in a recreation whose essential theme is area exploration and the scientific curiosity that drives us as innate explorers in direction of unimaginable discoveries about our universe.
Each time you play a recreation, there’s a wealthy story from the very first sketches to its ultimate type. Mars 2120 was no totally different. With a really small staff and dividing our time between our different tasks and video games, it took us nearly 5 years to complete the sport that we’d love you to expertise, discover and really feel like, once more or for the primary time, relying in your age, watching the films that fascinated us after we have been younger, or enjoying the video games of the style that left you in entrance of the display screen for hours looking for that particular merchandise or energy as much as overcome a problem that appeared insurmountable at first.
All that point might look like lots to you, however for us it additionally represented a large step ahead. For the primary time, we confronted a undertaking 4 occasions larger than some other earlier than, as you do in a recreation that places you in entrance of nice challenges, whereas studying and experiencing a brand new growth know-how with which we weren’t fully unfamiliar.
Step into the footwear of Sergeant Anna “13” Charlotte and traverse eventualities paying homage to the planet seen in “Complete Recall”, really feel the worry of going through gigantic enemies like Ellen Ripley did with the queen of the xenomorphs in “Alien”, throw punches like Arnold Schwarzenegger did in his traditional motion movies (Sure! Mars 2120 has hand-to-hand fight!) and really feel the abandonment and uncertainty of being misplaced in area just like the character of Willis Davidge (Dennis Quaid) felt within the 1985 film “Enemy Mine”.
I believe you get the message right here. We’ve got taken every thing that amused us after we have been younger and introduced it again particularly for you, within the type of a recreation. As a result of we would like you to have enjoyable with every thing that sparked our need to make leisure our job – video games! So I’m not exaggerating once I say Mars 2120 is a dream now we have been constructing since we have been children.
The video games trade is for everybody, you simply have to leap in and make the sport you need to play. And that’s precisely what we did and what you are able to do too! Now it’s time to place in your spacesuit, get your fists prepared and go on an awesome journey understanding that Mars 2120 is not only a recreation, it’s additionally a dream, a chunk of our lives that we actually need to share with you.
Are you able to defeat terrifying enemies and uncover all of the secrets and techniques of the primary human colony on Mars?
I dare you! After which come again and inform us the way it went. Good luck and have a great journey!
MARS 2120
QUByte Interactive
$19.99
$17.99
MARS 2120 is an action-adventure recreation that attracts inspiration from iconic Metroidvania titles, with gameplay components from combating video games. With the usage of particular skills tied to components like ice, hearth, and electrical energy assist Sgt. Anna “13” Charlotte navigate the colony and battle her manner by the secrets and techniques of Mars.
