Here's a game idea I've been thinking about for a while.
Warning: This game is not even remotely PC.
Working Title- Fallout: Iraq
Systems- X360, PC, PS3, Wii.
Genre- RPG
Developer- Black Isle Studios (or wherever the makers of Fallout 1+2 are now.)
Engine: Mostly the same as the fallout 1+2 engine with some graphical changes to make it look like modern-day Iraq.
Setting: Modern Day Iraq
Story: The protagonist is a Kurd from northern Iraq whose father (a businessman) has just been kidnapped by thugs in Baghdad. Being the most able member of the family, the protagonist is dispatched to save his father. Unfortunately, the family business isn’t doing so great and the protagonist will need skill and cunning to either get together the ransom money or find another way to free his father.
Along the way, the player will have much the same freedom afforded them in the previous fallout games. They can be a good guy that tries to help out the innocent, they can play the role of mercenary and work for the highest bidder or they can be an out and out villain that kills children for the hell of it (or they can be in any grey moral area they choose.)
The game will feature an overland map of Iraq and the player can travel to different key locations (Baghdad, Al-Qaeda base in Anbar, Kirkuk, Starting Kurdish Village, Dick Cheney’s Secret Bunker, etc.) Traveling about on this map will prompt random encounters (like bandits, U.S. Military patrols, refugees, etc.)
Naturally, there will be a super-secret underlying plot going on. Maybe the US government has insidious plans for Iraq’s oil money. Perhaps Osama Bin Laden is coming to town with a heinous terrorist plot that must be stopped. Something like that.
Factions within the game that the player may work for or battle against:
The U.S. Military: Doesn’t pay especially well or trust the player very easily but is a potential source of limitless and high-tech resources. Potential missions include recon/intelligence work. A VERY dangerous foe if you pdo a lot of evil stuff.
Others to be detailed later:
Shiite gangs (including Muqtada Al-Sadr‘s boys)
Sunni insurgents
Al-Qaeda in Iraq
Kurdish Factions
U.S. Contractors
The Iraqi government
Base criminal elements and other thugs
Tribal leaders and warlords
