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Aside from the impressive, if rather violent, looking Mad World, SEGA and Platinum Games showcased two other games at a top-secret event earlier this week. While neither received the same lengthy gameplay demo we were lucky enough to get for Mad World, a few nuggets of information were revealed and core gameplay concepts were announced.
Rounding off Platinum Games’ three-game showcase, this DS adventure title developed by Nudemaker was shrouded in almost much secrecy as Bayonetta. Influenced heavily by the writing of great sci-fi author Arthur C Clarke, Infinite Line sees you captaining a space ship, ala Captain Kirk of the Star ship Enterprise. This ship is said to be fully customisable and you can choose from over 200 designs – worked on by a very capable mecha designer.
“A couple of months ago I actually heard some very unfortunate news,” explained game directior and Nude Maker president Hifumi Kouno. “We unfortunately lost a very important English writer named Arthur C. Clarke. So this next title we’d like to introduce, Infinite Line, was a title that was greatly influenced by Arthur C Clarke’s work and novel Childhood’s End.”
Gameplay wasn’t shown, but we were told that you’ll be able to choose your location on the ship (bridge, engineering, etc), pick your crew from almost 200 characters (helmsmen, operators, etc) and explore a vast world. This is a space exploration game which will allow you to travel between galaxies – something the game’s producer seems very proud of given the DS’ small size.
According to Kouno: “By travelling through space and getting involved in this deep and engaging storyline, by the end the player will have figured out what it means to be human in this vast emptiness.” Certainly a very exciting prospect and ambitious for a DS project.
What we don’t know is how all this will play out, with our only glimpse at the game coming from some screen shots that apparently featured placeholder visuals. The team at Nude Maker is working on high-end 3D visuals – something we’d love to see in a DS game but are quite rightly sceptical about.
With no gameplay to go on, as with Bayonetta we’re hopeful of great things but will have to reserve judgement for a later time.
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Infinite Space
- Platform(s): Nintendo DS
- Genre(s): Adventure, RPG, Simulation, Third Person
