By Jim Rossignol on July 5th, 2012 at 3:00 pm.
Boasting a Quake/Unreal sort of pace, Grim, by MorePolygons, is looking like my sort of thing. Much of the FPS stuff is familiarly run-and-frag, but it also allows crazy jumping, as they explain: “One of our unique mechanics (as seen in the video) is Leap, allowing you to quickly move around the level and escape enemy fire, or jump right into the action.” You can see some of that going on in the video below, and it’s mighty fine. They’ve also got an interesting assault-variant game mode, which you can read about over on their site.
I’ve not had a chance to play this yet – just off to Rezzed! – but you can download the beta from here. Trailer ‘neath click.
05/07/2012 at 15:20 squareking says:
I miss games from the Quake 3 school. Also LEAPFACE
05/07/2012 at 15:21 Shortwave says:
LEAPERFACE!! >.> Kay, done.
05/07/2012 at 16:24 zeroskill says:
Gonna check it out, since yeah, im desperate for a decent Quake style shooter. I wonder why still nobody has picked up on making a new Arena game (a good one). So we will see how this will turn out. Impossible to say from just the video.
07/07/2012 at 04:13 Theon says:
You mean like Cube 2: Sauerbraten?
The best and smoothest arena-shooter in existnace, which also happens to be a free and open-sourced game with native linux compatability?
sauerbraten.org
05/07/2012 at 16:25 diebroken says:
Looks just like enabling the low grav mutie in UT to me…
/loads up UT, ahhhhhh home sweet home!
05/07/2012 at 17:08 Yammo says:
Miss Quake you say?
Have you tried Tribes Ascend? :)
Brilliant shooter… absolutely brilliant.
https://account.hirezstudios.com/tribesascend/?referral=2404806&utm_campaign=email
This link should give you (I think) 5k XP at lvl 5. :) not much but at least something. :)
05/07/2012 at 18:18 ThTa says:
They’re nothing alike, and I do enjoy both T:A and Quake.
It’s fairly unique, even relative to the previous Tribes games (for better but mostly worse).
05/07/2012 at 15:20 Shortwave says:
You mean these six students on their own are able to make a pre’ damn solid looking fps title without needing a million dollaz to do it?! : O Heh, all jokes aside. This is look brilliant to me. The leaping seems like it will be epic. Ha. I’m down, loading! Yay, free stuff.
05/07/2012 at 15:35 LionsPhil says:
At a glance, it looks UDK-based.
05/07/2012 at 18:48 zeroskill says:
Yep it is made in UDK
05/07/2012 at 15:33 Gonefornow says:
One weapon model to rule them all.
Is it intentional, change mode/ammunition to get different results, or just a demo thing?
Probably a demo thing.
__Edit__
Well I just read about the Mateba on their site so..
not quite either.
05/07/2012 at 15:40 mollemannen says:
how is this newsworthy? it just looks like unreal engine with one modded weapon?
05/07/2012 at 16:19 marvelza says:
its about a game, right? obvious answer is obvious
05/07/2012 at 17:18 mollemannen says:
it’s about a new gun and lowering gravity in unreal 3. why doesn’t people write about all the amazing stuff i created in paint that is inspired by games i play?
also im all for indie and student stuff but come on!
06/07/2012 at 03:36 The Infamous Woodchuck says:
Can we play the stuff you created in paint, inspired by the games you play?
i don’t think so.
06/07/2012 at 14:08 mollemannen says:
no but i made my own soundeffects for guns in half life. come on man your just being pathetic
07/07/2012 at 03:23 Jackablade says:
Send it to Kotaku.
05/07/2012 at 16:27 zeroskill says:
Yeah screw student projects. We want more Battlefied 3 DLC…
What is this “PC Gamer”?
05/07/2012 at 15:50 BobbyDylan says:
Not my cup of tea, really.
05/07/2012 at 16:15 kud13 says:
GRIMFACE?
ok, i’ll stop now
05/07/2012 at 16:39 Zakski says:
I was gunna go with WARGRIM personally, but I thought I might get sued by Games Workshop :P
05/07/2012 at 16:19 wodin says:
I’m sure years ago I played shooters where you could jump dead high..surely that isn’t innovation or even a unique feature these days is it?
05/07/2012 at 16:20 The_Great_Skratsby says:
Even as a student project, that was a bit underwhelming. I was expecting a bit more fluidity and the usual UDK like running about plus quick dodging and jump mutator. But hey, perhaps the trailer isn’t really conveying things well.
05/07/2012 at 17:14 LionsPhil says:
I was expecting at least one rocket-jump.
05/07/2012 at 17:13 RegisteredUser says:
Finally!
The click to view on youtube button returns.
05/07/2012 at 22:09 Stochastic says:
FYI, you can also click on the video title and it’ll open up a new tab that takes you to the Youtube page.
05/07/2012 at 17:32 Bork Titflopsen says:
WARFACE? MUZZLEFLAAAAAASH!!!!
05/07/2012 at 17:54 McTerry says:
That is one of the biggest muzzle flashes I have ever seen. It blends the hell out of me. :S
05/07/2012 at 18:10 voidburn says:
Can’t see anything…..
Giant muzzle flash blinded me….
halp…!
05/07/2012 at 19:26 PitfireX says:
Just another fast paced FPS…. nothing to see here.
05/07/2012 at 19:56 niussd says:
http://is.gd/PFQQs4
05/07/2012 at 20:15 DazedByTheHaze says:
For people waiting for a new arena game… watch jp’s talk with 2gd. Its way too long but he speaks about a arena project he wanted to start with old pros like fox… but investors wanted an mmo for 100mio instead of an arenagame for 2.5mio… search youtube for it, 2gd is the guy when you are looking for that kind of info.
Ps: he cancled the project for now… started 2gd studios instead.
05/07/2012 at 22:59 jonfitt says:
MMMMMMMMulti-muzzleflash-kill.
05/07/2012 at 23:14 wyrmsine says:
The truth of the Unreal/Quake comparison pleases me.
06/07/2012 at 02:11 Dances to Podcasts says:
As a student you don’t have any shareholders to please, no families to feed, no business to keep in business. This means you’re free to experiment. Wildly. Seeing students make something that’s so generic always disappoints me. :(
06/07/2012 at 03:22 Shortwave says:
Any old schoolers should definitively check this game out.
I played only a few rounds and I was really impressed with the mechanics.
It’s really a lot of fun, for being beta it’s very stable and enjoyable thus-far.
I’m more than excited to see where this goes. I’m balls deep.
Help pop the servers y0.
06/07/2012 at 03:31 TwwIX says:
Meh. It looks like a glorified U3 mod with hardly any content.
07/07/2012 at 04:15 Theon says:
Don’t see what’s really “glorified” about it. It actually looks worse than UT3 in many ways, to me.
It’s on the now stand-alone UDK, though, so it’s not -technically speaking- a mod, and thus won’t require UT3.