March 10, 2007
FiringSquad reports from GDC one game that is sure to get gamers intrigued: Urban Mysteries from Denmark-based company Zeitguys Game Development. The studio was co-founded by former Io Interactive member Morten Iversen who, according to the article, was the scriptwriter for the Hitman series as well as the company’s other action title Freedom Fighters. Urban Mysteries is an action game powered by Unreal Engine 3, having players travel through time to change the future. Here’s a bit:
We got to see a brief and very early demo build of the game running on Epic’s Unreal Engine 3. The first part of the game showed our player character as he explored Urban Mysteries’s vision of 2052 with gothic and Victorian architecture. We were told that we would even see Zeppelin like blimps in this future that the player can control and even use in combat. The demo got really interesting when we time traveled to the 18th century version of this city. Here we had to use native weapons like a one shot musket to battle an invasion. The game allows the player to either shoot or attack melee style with the musket to take out enemies. At one point in the demo we have to make a choice. Two people are in a burning building but you can only rescue one. You must decide which one to save and then head back up in time to 2052. The final part of the demo showed our character back in his own time line but we saw the future city change right before our eyes (in-game morphing of the level; not a cut scene) to something totally different.
Zeitguys were showing the game at the event to attract publishers. They are considering either an episodic release or an entire conventional game; either way we can expect it in late 2008 or 2009.
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