Behemoth Game #3 Details
The developer has posted its first in a series of videos on YouTube showcasing the various features and mechanics of the game, and this initial installment focuses on a mode called the "Soul Game" (working title). Behemoth's video reveals a few new details on this mysterious project, so far known only as Behemoth Game #3.
This is a four-player collection of various platforming challenges that could be described as mini-games. Previous Behemoth efforts included a lot of unlockables and customization and the developer wants to continue that in Game #3. Before starting a match players can customize their avatar's head. The game lobby is its own platforming area with the different game types waiting behind many doors. In the video Behemoth chose a door labeled "Constructory" and initiated the Soul Game, in which players each have one soul and must try to steal the souls of the other team.
As players run and jump around the environment, exploding blocks appear and disappear in certain locations. Touch one and the burst will slow you down. We know of two weapons that will be available: grenades and frisbees. The music heard in the demo is very reminiscent of other Behemoth games.
At the end of a game, your score is represented by the length of your characters' legs – the tallest is the winner. Behemoth promises a good story will go along with all this mini-game action.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
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