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In Precursors the players take on the role of a young fighter pilot who immediately becomes embroiled in a tumultuous war that will engulf the cosmos. Using an assortment of crushing weapons and perks, ranging from organic guns use to buggy driving, the player and his three teammates will set out to uncover a secret of ancient races that threatens the balance of powers in the galaxy.
Twelve beautiful and detailed planets, a variety of space ships, flyers and other vehicles, and a host of weapons ranging from standard plasma rifles to bizarre spider cannons, are among the features that make The Precursors unique. A well-balanced blend of role-playing engagement and dynamic FPS-style action in a completely open world are characteristic for The Precursors. The thrill of exploring space, leading adventures on faraway planets and fighting in merciless wars between rival galactic empires makes for a compelling experience.
We plan to release versions for the PC and the Xbox 360.
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Key Features
- Various game worlds (jungle planet, post-nuclear world, desert, space station etc.) which you can travel without any loading screens;
- About 250 missions;
- Large variety of weapons: organic and inorganic, upgrading system;
- Space battles and first person combat at the surface pf planets, inside of space ships and stations;
- Set of usable vehicles: flying (interatmospheric vessels and spaceships) and ground vehicles;
- Possibility to set up a relation’s system with different fractions through the game.
Gameplay. This is freeplay RPG with FPS\Space sim combat and economical component.
Hero. Main character of Precursors is a young pilot of Amarnian race, who just finished education. Accidentally, he got into a scrape at the time of inceptive war between two powerful intergalactic states.
Length. Depending on gameplay style, on average it will be about 20 - 40 hours for passing the main quests of story.
Plot. The game plot starts when our hero - young pilot of Amarnian race arrives to the native Goldin (planet) after his graduate at space pilot’s school. There he gets known that recently galaxy had suffered series of terrible and mysterious events. One of such occurrences had greatly affected Amarnian civilization and fundamentally changed life of our hero. He will have to try his best to reveal disasters original cause and solve all concerned problems.
Great number of locations waits our hero in his journey – scorched deserts under the flaming star, exuberant green jungle, annihilated in destructive war planet of ancient high-tech civilization. Player’s scope of activity doesn’t limited with only planet surfaces – space flights and battles, ability to board vessels of various races or commerce with them displays features which will make game even more vivid and exciting.
RPG/FPS/Sim??. Depending on your play style. If you prefer to spend most of the time in space controlling spaceship then it will be more space simulation game for you. But if you like to fight with monsters on the planets surface you will feel it more like shooter. Theoretically all of core gameplay elements are significant and equally interesting, but we consider “Precursors” as an RPG in the first place.
Combat. There are two types of combat in game – ground-based combat and space battles. Land combat is a shooter with great amount of vehicles, destructible objects and developed AI opponents provided with virtual senses like hearing and vision. Concerning space battles, they are designed not only for hardcore players but for the general public, although they are not totally arcade style.
Vehicles. There are large set of usable transport presented in game – various armored vehicles, walking robots and many more, furthermore different space ships which will be used to explore galaxy expanse.
Weapons. There are about 15 types of hand weapon, differentiated by type and origin. Besides usual foot action you can fight using armored vehicle, spaceship or walking battle robot. In addition you will have an opportunity to shoot from stationary Plasma or Laser cannons.
Space Vehicles. There are several types of flying vehicles, such as: interceptors, corvettes, cruisers, battleships, transport spaceships, passenger transports, also space stations and satellites.
At the beginning of the game main hero, after finishing specific quest line will obtain a space ship as inheritance from his father. This ship will be used in future space trips.
Naturally, you can upgrade your spaceship. Engines, weapon systems, protection shields, decorative furniture, and life support system – all of those elements can be replaced or upgraded. Believe us, you will find a reason to spend your money if you want to drive a high-tech battle ship instead of heap of junk.
Skills. The main hero can improve his skills with the help of advanced system of perks, which gives an opportunity to create a personal and unique character, appropriate to your gameplay style. System core is simple – player gains experience killing mobs and completing various quests. When hero reaches next level you can learn new perk or improve an existing one. All perks can be divided in few groups – pertinent to combat system, non-combat abilities and space skills.
Besides that you can upgrade space ship, some types of weapon and so on.
Surely there will be highly developed economical system and peculiar to our projects great amount of confronting fractions.
Perks. There are about 55 various perks in “Precursors”. You will find perks for social and personal use among them, some responds for different kinds of resistances (drug, alcohol, adrenalin, etc), others for health amount, protection and efficacy of various abilities like “sprint”, “invisibility”, “jump”, “nigh vision”, etc. There are also combat perks which will make your character stronger and skillful in battle. Certainly you will see the full list of perks directly in release version.
SideQuests. You will be always able to leave main quest line and start an investigation of new planets and locations. You can support or oppose any game fraction or complete optional quests in any order you like more and what is more, most of the quests can be completed in different ways.
Factions. There are about seven various factions in the game. One of them will be aliens and the rest mostly presented by various humanoid fractions which are splitted in different alliances and empires and usually fighting each other. You'll find more details in Precursors Encyclopedia.
It is said that you had already started Precursors optimization for Xbox 360 hardware? Is it true and what reasons for such implementation?
We consider Xbox 360 as extremely successful product - relatively inexpensive and very powerful platform. Moreover, development of Xbox version from PC is not so complex and expensive process in comparison with other platforms like PS3 and others. Generally, it’s not so wise to refuse such large and promising market nowadays.
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