For me, and I imagine additionally for all avid gamers who discover video video games a possibility to expertise nice adventures, discoveries and challenges, Mars has at all times 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 itâs exactly all of those references, spanning 40 years, for the reason that core of our growth staff is comprised of 80s children (Iâm virtually 50 myself!), which have set the tone, theme and style for the sport Mars 2120, out at present.
In Mars 2120 youâll face an journey that tries to deliver again the nostalgia of the motion and science fiction movies of the 80s and 90s, in addition to a loving homage to the style referred to as metroidvania, a mixture of RPG components, platforming and non-linear exploration. And nothing might be extra acceptable than encouraging exploration in a recreation whose foremost theme is house 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 closing type. Mars 2120 was no completely different. With a really small staff and dividing our time between our different tasks and video games, it took us virtually 5 years to complete the sport that weâd 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 once we have been younger, or taking part in the video games of the style that left you in entrance of the display for hours looking for that particular merchandise or energy as much as overcome a problem that appeared insurmountable at first.
All that point might appear to be quite a bit to you, however for us it additionally represented a large step ahead. For the primary time, we confronted a undertaking 4 occasions greater 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 expertise with which we weren’t fully unfamiliar.
Step into the sneakers of Sergeant Anna â13â Charlotte and traverse situations paying homage to the planet seen in âWhole Recallâ, really feel the concern of dealing with gigantic enemies like Ellen Ripley did with the queen of the xenomorphs in âAlienâ, 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 house just like the character of Willis Davidge (Dennis Quaid) felt within the 1985 film âEnemy Mineâ.
I feel you get the message right here. We’ve got taken all the things that amused us once we have been younger and introduced it again particularly for you, within the type of a recreation. As a result of we wish you to have enjoyable with all the things that sparked our want to make leisure our job â video games! So Iâm not exaggerating after I say Mars 2120 is a dream we now 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 thatâs precisely what we did and what you are able to do too! Now itâs time to place in your spacesuit, get your fists prepared and go on an awesome journey realizing that Mars 2120 isn’t just a recreation, itâs 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 very good journey!
MARS 2120
QUByte Interactive
$19.99
$17.99
MARS 2120 is an action-adventure recreation that pulls inspiration from iconic Metroidvania titles, with gameplay components from preventing video games. With using particular talents tied to components like ice, hearth, and electrical energy assist Sgt. Anna â13â Charlotte navigate the colony and battle her approach by means of the secrets and techniques of Mars.
