By Jim Rossignol on June 10th, 2011 at 2:31 pm.
IGN are reporting that Amy, Vector Cell’s game that had previously only been confirmed for PSN, has now been spotted on the radar of other formats, including Steam. It’s a game about a zombie contagion and Amy, a little girl who is resistant to it. You play a woman intent on rescuing the titular zombie survivor, who must lead the little girl through dangerous environments. But this woman is not resistant to the infection: she is slowly turning into a zombie and have to deal with it by scavenging medical supplies or hugging Amy herself to stave off the march of zombification for a few moments. There’s a video below.
10/06/2011 at 14:37 baby snot says:
That’s taking the whole ‘Free Hugs’ thing in a new direction.
10/06/2011 at 14:38 Moni says:
Creator of Flashback/Fade to Black, obvious comparison to Ico… filed under “interesting”.
10/06/2011 at 14:39 Kaira- says:
That looks really interesting. I wonder how the zombification is implemented to the game, and what kind of things it can lead to.
10/06/2011 at 15:13 dsch says:
As you go through the game, you become more powerful and the enemies get tougher, but you only become more powerful by proceeding further down the zombification process. The story ends with a transcendental moment of self sacrifice.
(Speculation)
10/06/2011 at 15:17 Jonny Stutters says:
Hammer triangle now to resist delicious brains?
10/06/2011 at 14:40 Keymonk says:
This is quite cool. However, I’m sure I’d be scared shitless playing it, so I’m not likely to do so.
10/06/2011 at 14:40 Daiv says:
I didn’t know you could combat the zombie plague with hugs. I guess I should feel bad for all those headshot double-taps.
10/06/2011 at 14:46 banski83 says:
L4D2 mod plz; I wanna hug me some zombie clowns, make all the pain go away.
Well, might still shoot the clowns. Hate clowns.
10/06/2011 at 17:30 TheApologist says:
Hug the clowns back to life, *then* shoot them.
I like this plan.
10/06/2011 at 14:44 CaspianRoach says:
Here’s hoping it’ll be Silent Hill-like in terms of horror and survival.
10/06/2011 at 15:44 phlebas says:
Silent Hill meets L4D meets Ico? Could be quite something if they manage to pull it off at all.
10/06/2011 at 17:16 Kaira- says:
Drop L4D and you could have all the money I have.
10/06/2011 at 18:00 Jake says:
Did you guys hear about the new Silent Hill HD? It’s SH2 and 3 in HD with new voice acting… but only on the bloody PS3 (anyone want to swap consoles?)
This game looks pretty good as well.
11/06/2011 at 14:16 Sonicberry says:
Silent Hill 2 was pretty much about a guy who was really bad at Ico.
10/06/2011 at 14:44 DeathHamsterDude says:
I’m going to keep an eye on this. Looks like an interesting take on the zombie genre, but I’m not fully convinced just yet.
12/06/2011 at 02:38 Wozzle says:
Stop stealing my mind-thoughts.
Basically how I feel after all that. Amazing concept, but probably easy to do badly.
10/06/2011 at 14:47 kastanok says:
Damn, Zoe, have you tried like moisturiser of something? I know it’s the apocalypse but standards, girl, standards.
More sensibly, nice of them to show off the awkward movement controls, indistinct environment design and immersion-breaking mid-level cutscenes in the first teaser. A customer usually can’t tell those major flaws until the reviews come out.
10/06/2011 at 21:59 jonfitt says:
Sadly: this.
10/06/2011 at 14:48 Mordsung says:
I just want a game where I can be a horrible kill-beast without needing to save or hug little girls.
Why can’t I just be a horrible kill-beast?
10/06/2011 at 14:56 4026 says:
Man, you are so right! There’re absolutely no games on the market right now that cater to that desire.
10/06/2011 at 15:02 Mordsung says:
Duke Nukem is not a horrible kill-beast. He’s a man with guns.
I want to be a slimy, clawed, tentacled kill-beast.
10/06/2011 at 15:14 Jesse L says:
And you probably already played Prototype?
10/06/2011 at 15:14 Zelius says:
Prototype kind of caters to that desire.
edit: synchronised!
10/06/2011 at 15:17 Dominic White says:
Yeah, Prototype is an amoral tentacled murder-beast simulator. And it’s a lot of fun, too.
10/06/2011 at 17:32 TheApologist says:
Infamous if you go the naughty route. Darksiders? Maybe the Darkness (I only played a bit of that one)?
L4D2 multiplayer?
10/06/2011 at 17:49 Cyberpope says:
death worm
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=279075
DEATH WOOORRMMMM
10/06/2011 at 14:58 Vague-rant says:
Looks cool. I am a bit sick of zombies though. I hope its not infectious.
10/06/2011 at 15:01 Ovno says:
Interesting idea, hope they do something good with it :)
10/06/2011 at 15:29 Raiyan 1.0 says:
Especially the ones that pay in ‘hugs’.
That’s not a real currency, silly!
10/06/2011 at 15:29 Mordsung says:
You’re not animalistic enough in Prototype, and the violence isn’t personal.
I want like a first person game where I’m crawling around on walls and tearing out people’s throats while they gurgle and shove their grubby little hands in my face as a desperate attempt to push me off.
I can’t properly portray the game that I am imagining in my head, but it would be one of those games that would cause people to have moral qualms about playing it.
10/06/2011 at 15:54 steggieav says:
There’s the new Alien vs. Predator, but that was supposedly kind of bad. Also an old game called Jaws Unleashed, but that was also pretty bad.
10/06/2011 at 15:56 DK says:
If you want the horrible crawling, tearing out of throats, etc. you could play The Darkness. It doesn’t have the grey morals though, unless you consider mafia lifestyle grey (the Darkness Main Character has excuses for considering it white)
10/06/2011 at 16:58 Torgen says:
Natural Selection?
10/06/2011 at 19:19 BobsLawnService says:
The original AvP as the alien is what you are looking for. Trust me on this.
10/06/2011 at 22:01 jonfitt says:
AvP 2000 (As it has been retroactively renamed)
or AvP2
Both allow you to play as the Alien and Predator who do all the things you are mentioning.
11/06/2011 at 11:23 Eclipse says:
one of the three Alien vs Predator games :) the alien campaign is what you’re searching for.
Also, this HL2 mod (if it’s still played) http://www.hidden-source.com/
10/06/2011 at 16:03 Drake Sigar says:
Windmill- I mean infections do not work that way!
10/06/2011 at 17:14 Strangeblades says:
Looks good. Especially if they use running, evading and scrounging as chief game mechanics.
Also my first RPS post and I am loving this site. It’s quickly becoming the place where I want to be…. typing comments.
UPDATE: How do I change my profile picture? I like the silly little guy to my left but I curious as to how to replace him.
10/06/2011 at 20:36 Salt says:
The picture is handled by Gravatar.com, which is by default generated from your IP address. Go to their site and you can personalise it, then be surprised when it appears on other websites too!
10/06/2011 at 17:17 kulik says:
Oh man, you can tell she was once a beautiful woman. …and the way womens tends to identify them self through they looks you can tell this may get slightly disturbing, i like it.
10/06/2011 at 18:22 jplayer01 says:
Oh, wow. I’m going to have to get this, I love the concept. I hope you guys cover this game again once it’s released. I’m afraid I’ll miss it because it isn’t a big, well-known franchise game.
10/06/2011 at 18:37 Starayo says:
If this is indeed coming to steam.. Hurrah! :D
10/06/2011 at 19:10 Eukatheude says:
Could be fun and interesting, but… Do we really want a game-long escort mission?
10/06/2011 at 19:49 gwathdring says:
If it’s done right, an escort mission could actually be exciting and valuable. Given proper character motivation, and a companion AI that’s good enough at staying alive to feel fair to you … it could be quite compelling. And if the whole game is indeed built around the two characters surviving together, I can see it doing those things.
11/06/2011 at 01:48 Eukatheude says:
I don’t know, i think i’ve never played an escort mission that was actually fun to play. Got any examples? The only one i remember of was in Resident Evil 4, and boy that was awful.
11/06/2011 at 02:30 BrendanJB says:
ICO was a game long escort mission with puzzles and adventure, and it’s one of the best games ever made.
11/06/2011 at 23:59 Daniel Rivas says:
Half Life 2: Episode 1.
The trick is to make the escortee not helpless.
10/06/2011 at 19:30 Farkeman says:
Edit: post fail
10/06/2011 at 22:30 jonfitt says:
Here’s my prediction:
“Doctor, we can harness this girl’s DNA and reverse the zombie plague and save the world… but doing so will kill her”.
DUM-DUM-DUM! SO SAD!
10/06/2011 at 22:58 Nick says:
AND SHE IS PREGNANT
11/06/2011 at 01:49 Eukatheude says:
Can you harvest eve?
11/06/2011 at 05:07 pipman3000 says:
Will escort-lady get the little girl to safety but get shot and killed by the first survivor they find, or will the little girl cure escort-lady’s zombification through the power of love and friendship?
buy the game and tell me because i’m too lazy to finish games these days.
10/06/2011 at 22:35 Vinraith says:
So the whole game is one long escort mission? *shudder*
11/06/2011 at 06:03 PleasingFungus says:
Like Ico!
11/06/2011 at 06:23 Big Murray says:
It’s Ico, if American McGee got his hands on it.
11/06/2011 at 01:34 feighnt says:
someone ought to be mentioning Siren (“Forbidden Siren” for brits, i think).
fairly confident they were influenced by this game. part of the game involves you playing as a teacher who’s protecting a young girl from zombies.
if, at any point in this game, you come to control the little girl and then the zombified protector-lady appears and chases you, then Siren influence is 100%
11/06/2011 at 04:44 Freud says:
Finally a zombie game that sounds interesting.
Fade to Black was quite a good game, back in the dark ages.
11/06/2011 at 12:21 Shazbut says:
I still remember the glorious second level of Flashback, which was like a 2D Deus Ex. Why the whole game couldn’t have kept that up is beyond me. Anyone else remember? I’m talking about New Washington.
Anyway, this looks interesting!