CryoStasis Preview – An Adventure with a Twist

Posted November 5, 2008 by .

The year Is 1968, you’ve ended up exploring a frozen ocean miles from life, when all of a sudden from the corner of your eye you see a floating ship. Wait what’s that? Well the answer to that question is exactly what the developers of the up coming game CryoStasis from the developers at Action Forms.

The game is due for release sometime in 2009, just when? Well no body really knows the exact dates but their website is up and running (and looking good) and is currently telling us a lot about the game such as the guns involved (yes guns! As it turns out, the ship is inhabited by the living dead) and has a load of screenshots and press releases.

Now back to that little matter of those zombie things running around the ship. That is where the cliché and predictability ends. The game has an impressive feature where by you can use ‘Mental Echo’. No, it’s not the voices running around the developers head when they thought of that one, it’s a cool feature that lets you go into the past of a dead NPC and make them do something that will in-turn help you in the future. For example, you come to a locked door with a dead NPC slouched beside it. You can use mental echo to go into his past and make him leave the door unlocked. You then jump back into the present and stroll through.

There is a realistic side to the game too. By the looks of it, the ship has been floating around for at least a couple of decades, age and the arctic storms have taken their tool and damaged the ship cosmetically and physically. Those weather conditions also play a role during normal game-play. Your character is susceptible to the temperatures. That means if you stay away from a heat source for too long then you will freeze to death.

For your first weapon, you will need to make due with a torn off water valve, but as the game progresses, the weapons become more and more intriguing (good thinking on the game developer’s part) right up to the trusty old bolt-action rifle…well it was 1968!

CryoStasis will be released on Windows PC Quarter 4 of 2008.

Check Out this link for the Official CryoStasis Website

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