I could have sworn we had covered Hydrophobia a few times before, but alas, Google cannot tell a lie. Kind of a bummer, because the game sounds intriguing as all heck. To quickly recap, the world is flooded, and you control an engineer aboard a city-sized ship that's being forcibly taken by terrorists.
Also, the character you play as, Kate, is afraid of water -- hence the title. Equally interesting is how Hydrophobia will be presented: it's getting an episodic release for Xbox 360 through Xbox LIVE Marketplace; not something you see happen every day.
Anyway, the official Web site for the game has a countdown that's set to end next week. To be more specific, Hydrophobia -- at least in some form -- will be present at PAX East. Either way, we can likely expect to get the first update in a long time. I was really started to worry about this title for a while there.
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5:00 AM on 03.20.2010
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For anyone who doesn't know, this game totes the most versatile and functional fluid simulation technology in any game made so far. It features water that collects, pools, ripples, waves, splashes and interacts with every surface and object in the game world. This isn't "fake" water like Bioshock, this is real simulated water that acts dynamically to it's surroundings.
That, and the unique story, are enough to make me buy it.
/onradar
Definitely looking forward to it.
We are Malthusians?
This sounds awesome. Just watched the tech demo video they did awhile ago, and the water physics look stunning. The concept is indeed intriguing, but I can't help but have part of me think that everything else in the game will suffer because of it. We'll have to see what happens when that countdown hits 00:00:00.
That's some freaky shit right there. It's also one odd reference to GoW... Makes me feel like doing some catchin' up with the good ol' Care Bears. *grips Lionheart*