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1:29 AM on 01.30.2008

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An action game sealed with a kiss: Faith and a .45 details emerge
Jim Sterling

An action game sealed with a kiss: Faith and a .45 details emerge screenshot

A little over a week ago, we talked about Faith and a .45, a game notable for its awesome title, interesting backdrop and the fact that it was being made by Total Overdose developer Deadline Games. Now there are some new gameplay details, mostly regarding the focus on co-op and the rather close bond that you will be able to share with your partner.

After an intense shootout, main characters Ruby and Luke will apparently celebrate survival with a kiss. More importantly, Ruby can also apply a kiss of life to Luke if he's out for the count. Now, in a single player mode with an AI-controlled Ruby, that's interesting. If played over say, Xbox Live with an online friend, however, I can't help but feel this is going to lead to hilarity, not to mention a fair few of online gaming's famous homophobes finally getting together to explore those latent feelings they've been having.

The developers are working hard to create a partner that the player really cares about, inspired by the fact that in Gears of War, you don't really give much of a stuff about your squad. In Faith and a .45, you will really get to work together, and Deadline is promising some real co-operative gameplay, such as being able to toss a gas can in the air for Ruby to shoot and explode. Here's what Deadline had to say about the game's plans:

We have a design rule to make sure that Ruby is really interesting and easy to play with. What we call it is 'To play around with an unscripted A.I. you care for' — that's the line that we use internally. That means Ruby should be able to take the initiative on her own, not just react or be scripted to exactly what she has to do... That came mostly from playing some of the other co-op games — say a game like Gears of War, where you have a character with you most of the time, but you don't really depend on him and it's kind of like whenever he goes down, you fight on, and then he wakes up again after the battle is over. There's no real connection.

So, we're looking at Gears of War but with ranch-hands and kissing. Here's hoping that Faith and a .45 succeeds where Kane & Lynch failed and we finally have a decent buddy game on our hands. I am looking forward to good things here.



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This sound very interesting. I hope that it's not a FPS....




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Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 01/30/2008 01:32

Maybe Kane & Lynch would have been better if Lynch kissed Kane every once in awhile.
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topFAPgearFAPgorillaFAP at 01/30/2008 01:35

when her vagina bleeds will he put a tampon in it like in army of two?
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The-Excel at 01/30/2008 01:40

Someone call Fox, we have us a double offender.
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CatalystMan at 01/30/2008 01:52

I can't wait for the hilarious sexual screenshots when the game comes out.
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vitus at 01/30/2008 02:00

Interesting idea. i mean it might even open up gamers to you know... female interaction among other things.

In all honesty, stories that lack emotional seedings tend to disappear. If you look at something like say FFVII, the underlying theme of Clouds character is his love to the people around him, notably Tifa and Aries. I do however feel that scripted interaction is much different then trying to force a gamer to share the empathy or love that the character has for another character. The fact is they have to make ruby an appealing character to create that bond, I guess the first thing would to be to make her useful... which is half what they are suggesting. If i get shot and i am going down, i want to see ruby go all out and kill a bunch of bad guys and save my ass, or at least try and go down in a blaze of glory.

if there is one thing that pissed me off about gears, Its that if i died, they just kept fighting like nothing was wrong. if i go down, i want all the AI on my side to go down.
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Mybuu at 01/30/2008 02:04

I would imagine for a really good buddy game to work the AI would have to do alot of surprising stuff and take alot of the burden off the player aswell as the game still being a challenge....if that makes sense.
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Banj at 01/30/2008 02:18

"Thanks to acid I now know Kane & Lynch is a great game...

...I saw through the bullshit."


- Mitch Hedberg
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Fading_Star at 01/30/2008 02:47

Please don't suck.
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atheistium at 01/30/2008 03:33

Hahaha! A game gamer boyfriend and girlfriends can play together ;-D But srsly, I love this idea. I'd much rather play the girl than the guy and the games looks pretty :D I loved co-op and me and puppet did Halo 3 and Gears together. We have Army of Two planned together. So here's another title!
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Reaprar at 01/30/2008 03:33

Jimmles, are you aware your existance has been noted again?
http://consolesandconkers.blogspot.com/
kawitchate's Avatar
kawitchate at 01/30/2008 04:27

i'll save you with a kiss jim
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glipe at 01/30/2008 04:54

Sounds to me like we're looking at NOT-Gears with ranch hands and kissing. While having a team around you in Gears looked cool, unless you were playing co-op, they were kind of shit for an elite fighting force! As the guys at Deadline Games rightly point out, there's no real connection.

To me, optimistically, Ruby will be a cross between Yorda and Alyx Vance, with more initiative than either!
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 01/30/2008 05:19

Sounds hot.
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Cowboy TTop at 01/30/2008 06:48

Like the name and the idea. Whether it'll be effective in execution we'll have to wait and see. Screen shot looks cool though.
Origim's Avatar
Origim at 01/30/2008 08:32

This game is starting to sound more interesting by the moment.
fyre's Avatar
fyre at 01/30/2008 09:05

Looks fun. Why aren't there more games set in that time period?
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 01/30/2008 09:55

Reaprar: Desperate men with a need for publicity. They sent me a little love note on Xbox Live too.
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loki d20 at 01/30/2008 11:21

It sounds kind of corny and nice at the same time. Kind of like a good bad B movie.

I'm guessing if you play first person and your partner is AI controlled, there'll be a control for telling them to pick up and throw something for you to shoot and something similar. Otherwise, would get annoying having to keep an eye out for what your partner is doing.
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moot button at 01/30/2008 11:22

a shooter set in the great depression... Gears of Wrath?
teknohed's Avatar
teknohed at 01/30/2008 11:27

Any news on if this co-op is "true co-op", meaning split screen, or just over Xbox Live?
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MechaMonkey at 01/30/2008 11:35

"Dude, I'm down. Come kiss me."

Oh yeah, this one's gonna shape up to be an instant classic.
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 01/30/2008 12:26

All the good kissing jokes have been made....
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Eschatos at 01/30/2008 17:05

That is a silly name. I prefer "Luke and a Laser Cannon". Then make it a futuristic shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world where an alien invasion has destroyed everything familiar about the world we know!
moot button's Avatar
moot button at 01/30/2008 17:46

also, the Grapes of War
Xymplx's Avatar
Xymplx at 01/31/2008 20:41

This sound very interesting. I hope that it's not a FPS.


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