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Plain Sight: New XNA game brings robot-on-robot ultra violence to the masses photo

London-based indie studio Beatnik Games (described as "six guys working in a shoebox") have announced their new XNA project, Plain Sight -- a 3D multiplayer game featuring robotic sword fighting and explosions.

In Plain Sight, the aim of the game is to score points and increase your size by slashing opposing robots to death and stealing the points they themselves have accumulated. Sounds simple enough, but in order to bank any of the points you have won, you must commit suicide by blowing yourself up.  If you take out anyone else in the resulting explosion, you get to bank more points.

The screenshots are pretty simplistic and highly stylized as you'd expect from an indie title, but the design of the characters is very cool indeed. Makes me think of Metal Arms, and anything that does that gets my attention quickly. If you're interested in trying out the game, you can sign up for the beta, which is of course free to do. If you try it out, make sure to let Destructoid know what you think. 

Plain Sight will be coming to both the PC and Xbox 360 in Q1 of 2009. The RRP is going to be £10. Sword + Robot = Interest greatly heightened.

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Toneman's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 06:45
Toneman
Sounds awesome. Anything with robots is good.
Wexx's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 06:53
Wexx
I love robots!

...

And indie games!
TheGreatMango's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 06:57
TheGreatMango
Meh, style looks good, and I'd ove to support an indie studio, but that gameplay sounds like it'd last all of 5 minutes.
vrplumber's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 07:02
vrplumber
Its like the Grand Theft Auto of Twisted Metal Games, only with robots instead of cars!

also points

ok its nothing like that

might still be cool
Rifter01's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 07:11
Rifter01
I like the idea of this game, it kinda reminds me of this song, so hopefully I can destroy everything I touch. Muhuhahah!
Vitamin Awesome's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 07:19
Vitamin Awesome
It looks interesting, I'll have to keep my eyes on this one.

Indie studios like this are pretty damn inspiring, That does it. Time for me to learn a Programming language. C(++/#), here I come!
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 07:41
BlindsideDork
I like robots and explosions but shame it is on the 360 and it looks kind of bare...
Zeno's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 07:43
Zeno
Oh god, Metal Arms was glorious. I'm interested.
randombullseye's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 07:54
randombullseye
Robot on robot murder is a serious issue.
AgentMOO's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 08:52
AgentMOO
This sounds sweet - I'll be picking it up. I can't wait until XNA games hit the marketplace.
Spitfire's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 09:27
Spitfire
wow this looks so cool. I cant wait to get m hands on it. Great find.
TrailerParkJesus's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 10:15
TrailerParkJesus
Kinda like arena mode in castle crashers eh?

It sucks that every XBLA game from now on is going to be unfairly compared to CC, at least by me. Those poor bastards.
GohanGVO's Avatar - Comment posted on 09/08/2008 13:44
GohanGVO
The "slash and 'splode" genre is woefully underrepresented.
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