“One man is utterly alone amidst the chaos of war,” warns the YouTube summary. “But there are worse things to fear than bombs and bullets here…” What could this mystery game be?
Clearly, it can only be one thing – CARDIO XTREME 1944, the new exercise game for REAL MEN. How fast can you run? HOW FAST CAN YOU RUN? Oh. Okay, that’s quite fast. But will it be fast enough? Possibly. Some people are good at running. Maybe you are too.
…or alternatively, it might be something to do with Fiends of the Eastern Front, about vampires in World War 2. Would at least make a change from all the bloody zombies.
“Debuting 14th February 2013, PC fans will soon get the chance to discover for themselves just what is in store for those brave enough to venture into the ‘Totraum’,” continues the teaser from Rebellion/2000AD, adding “Heil Gotterdammerung!” You can also head here to sign up for a spooky looking mailing list and to get first dibs on the gory details when it lands.
29/01/2013 at 11:03 Snids says:
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
29/01/2013 at 15:04 alison_brie says:
my best friend’s sister-in-law makes $74 an hour on the computer. She has been fired for 10 months but last month her paycheck was $21668 just working on the computer for a few hours. Read more on this site… link to pcgames.com.qr.net
29/01/2013 at 21:04 pigchicken says:
Best Friend’s siter-in-law? Thats a fairly tenuous link friend, I’m disinclined to believe you.
29/01/2013 at 18:56 Grey Ganado says:
I too am surprised at the apparent lack of a single German speaking person on their entire developement team.
29/01/2013 at 11:03 Gap Gen says:
I’m still waiting for an aliens in WWII game. I mean, I doubt I’ll ever read Turtledove’s books themselves, but the Wikipedia plot synopsis of his series was pretty entertaining.
29/01/2013 at 12:03 yurusei says:
Uhm, doesn’t the FPS version of XCOM qualify?
29/01/2013 at 12:26 Penguin_Factory says:
That’s set in the ’50s, I believe. And given how long it’s been since we’ve seen any sign of it, who knows if it’s even still coming out :(
29/01/2013 at 13:06 BobbyDylan says:
Wasn’t it changed to a TPS after XCOM did so well?
29/01/2013 at 17:59 Riaktion says:
TPS?
29/01/2013 at 21:14 x1501 says:
Third-Person Shooter. Someone sent Kotaku several seemingly legit screenshots that suggest that XCOM is now a third-person, squad-based shooter with more focus on tactics. 2K didn’t comment on it, so it remains a unconfirmed rumor. See here:
link to kotaku.com
29/01/2013 at 16:27 mseifullah says:
Isn’t that almost the exact premise of the Resistance series of games for the PS3?
I haven’t played any of them, but I think the story goes that WWII never actually happens on the account of a world-wide alien invasion. So WWII is basically replaced by the invasion but you’re using still (sometimes fictional) WWII era (and alien) weaponry throughout the games.
The E3 presentations and trailers looked fun enough that If I had a PS3, I’d probably own it. I’m sure there are some Let’s Play videos floating around if you want to take a closer look though.
29/01/2013 at 16:58 Miresnare says:
Yup. An alien virus arrives on the Tunguska meteorite. By the time the 40’s roll around, pretty much all of Eastern Europe is infected by the Chimera.
They’re a pretty good series of games, the third being by far the best (looking and storywise). The first hasn’t aged brilliantly, but it’s still fun. Great art direction on all three through.
29/01/2013 at 11:08 Brosepholis says:
For a moment I thought you said 3000AD, and I had a vision of another smarmy Derek Smart interview.
29/01/2013 at 11:33 wolfinexile says:
I heard that if you say Derek Smart enough times, you will summon him.
29/01/2013 at 19:21 zeekthegeek says:
What’s all this about Derek Smart?
29/01/2013 at 22:13 DonJefe says:
Who is this Derek Smart?
30/01/2013 at 07:40 sPOONz says:
Derek Smart?
30/01/2013 at 18:03 Echo Black says:
Beetlejuice!
29/01/2013 at 15:40 Wisq says:
Oh, thank you! I seriously had the two mixed up and was wondering why people were even remotely excited about this.
30/01/2013 at 04:28 Sarcophagus says:
This. I opened the story eagerly anticipating a flame-war in gruesome progress. I was sorely disappointed. I didn’t even get puns!
29/01/2013 at 11:08 Snids says:
Hey, Richard doesn’t normally do this stuff. I hope they’re giving you proper money.
29/01/2013 at 11:08 Richard Cobbett says:
Helping out with news today.
29/01/2013 at 11:11 frightlever says:
Am I nuts or is KG doing something like Fiends of the Eastern Front later this year?
I never got the V.C.’s pr Bad Company game I always dreamed of, but I got over it.
29/01/2013 at 11:21 Bluerps says:
I think it’s about nazi-zombies. Or nazi-vampires? Nazi-demons, maybe.
Supernatural creatures in SS-uniforms that constantly use hilariously wrong german.
29/01/2013 at 11:36 Askeladd says:
It’s probably based on a 80s comic, so you can’t be to hard on them.
At least they didn’t show me enough to judge them and it somehow reminds me of Killing Floor, which I love.
Cattle Farmer.
29/01/2013 at 11:58 Bluerps says:
Oh, I didn’t mean to be hard on them. In fact, I love supernatural Nazis who use funny german words. Does anyone remember Das Ubersoldat?
29/01/2013 at 13:22 apa says:
Död snö (with norwegian ös) was fun.
29/01/2013 at 14:17 The Random One says:
Hey, look! A Nazi zombie! It’s a, er… Nazombie!
29/01/2013 at 14:19 Llewyn says:
A zomzi.
29/01/2013 at 14:41 MayhemMike says:
Better hope they aren’t commie-nazi-zombies
29/01/2013 at 20:40 SuperNashwanPower says:
Kudos for “Alyx’s best scene” reference, OP
29/01/2013 at 11:21 Corpekata says:
Given the developer and the logo is pretty similar to their Sniper game I’m going to wager on this being a slightly lamer development. As in, some sort of expansion for or spinoff of Sniper Elite, sort of like how Red Dead Redemption did their Undead Nightmare thing.
29/01/2013 at 11:30 f1x says:
Well, Undead Nightmare was so damn awesome, but I don’t think this is going to be anything near, one can hope tho
29/01/2013 at 11:25 Vivian says:
oh god, not Bill Savage
oh, no. Not Bill Savage. Just some other very, very old stuff. 2000AD, we have now had a nice Dredd film (it was nice, I will space-biff anyone who says otherwise so super-hard), can we not now have a nice Dredd game? Where we go round judging people and generally being a hyper-fascist tool that happens to be in the right because everyone else is mutants?
29/01/2013 at 12:00 cwoac says:
Already been done. No, wait that was space marine. A rather large overlap on the two though.
Could make a lovely open world game. For certain meanings of lovely
29/01/2013 at 12:04 Harlander says:
A Judge Dredd GTA Clone?
Or.. True Crime Mega-City One, where you play as
Dirty Franka nonspecific Wally Squad judge going undercover…Yesssssss.
29/01/2013 at 12:08 Vivian says:
I would quite like a judge simulator, basically. You are a judge (maybe Dredd, maybe not), you’re in MC1, and for the most part (you could have Significant Events coming to the front eventually I guess) you drive around doing judge stuff. Dispatch calls as quests, megablocks as dungeons, ordinary perps as mini-quests/distractions.
29/01/2013 at 13:21 frightlever says:
I quite enjoyed Dredd vs Death, even though it became a bit too arcade shootery by the end. GTA: Mega City One (-a-like) would be brilliant, though two unsuccessful film attempts have killed that prospect stone dead. And yeah, I loved the recent film but it never ignited the collective consciousness.
29/01/2013 at 13:40 Lumberjack_Man says:
Dirty Frank! Now that’s a game I’d play.
29/01/2013 at 14:40 Harlander says:
Me too, but I can’t help but fear that every other level would be a hallucinatory nightmare worse than a cross between the dream levels from Max Payne and Psychonauts’ Meat Circus..
29/01/2013 at 11:30 Westmark says:
The shadows tell me it’s gonna be zombies again.
29/01/2013 at 11:31 westyfield says:
The discrepancy between the shot of a dude running down a country road and the sound of a dude running down a cobbled alley really bothers me.
Still, the zombie/vampire trend has largely passed me by, so I’m not as averse to this as some might be.
29/01/2013 at 11:52 mondomau says:
Totally bemused by this, considering the glut of (more) original and interesting properties Rebellion has access to. Just off the top of my head:
Strontium Dog
Rogue Trooper
Dredd
Bad Company
Armitage
ABC Warriors
Nemesis the Warlock
Zenith
Nikolai Dante
Slaine
Yes, I know Dredd & Rogue Trooper have both had games, but they’ve mostly been low-budget and unimaginative titles.
29/01/2013 at 11:58 Mungrul says:
Eh?
The most recent Rogue Trooper (as there was a Speccy RT game too history fans), was utterly fantastic.
It did Gears of War, but better.
And it was a great, if truncated, version of the Rogue Trooper story.
Hrrmph, I may very well have to dig it out and play it again.
29/01/2013 at 12:13 phlebas says:
Hostile Waters owed a lot to Rogue Trooper, I thought, and that was ace.
29/01/2013 at 13:00 Matchstick says:
Nikolai Dante would make an amazing hybrid 3rd Person Brawler/Turn Based Strategy game.
29/01/2013 at 13:24 frightlever says:
I’m hoping Prey 2, if it ever sees the light of day, will evoke Strontium Dog.
29/01/2013 at 13:44 DestructibleEnvironments says:
I really want a new Rogue Trooper game. :(
30/01/2013 at 07:44 sPOONz says:
How about Glimmer Rats, remember that? That’d be good
29/01/2013 at 21:37 Mrs Columbo says:
From the comic I won a copy of the Strontium Dog game for the Commodore 64 decades ago. It cost me nothing and yet was still massively overpriced. My childhood died at that moment.
29/01/2013 at 12:14 SuperNashwanPower says:
Please let it not be slender man. Seriously. More done than a barbeque sausage on bikini atoll
29/01/2013 at 16:49 Splynter says:
I like that expression. I think I’m going to have to borrow it from you.
29/01/2013 at 18:27 Davie says:
Sigh…I remember, back in the foggy winter of 2009, when the Slender Man was new and terrifying. Now he’s just as cliched as zombies. ‘Tis a shame.
29/01/2013 at 12:36 BreadBitten says:
Wolfenstein?
29/01/2013 at 12:48 CobraLad says:
That looks so uninspired Im going to post equally original post.
So…
WARFACE!!!
29/01/2013 at 13:01 Arithon says:
My vote is for “Fiends of the Eastern Front” – done well, it could be awesome.
29/01/2013 at 13:44 BigJonno says:
I just want to give them cookies and hugs for announcing a game just over a fortnight before the release date. It’s a breath of fresh air in this age of teasers of announcements of teasers for trailers of previews.
29/01/2013 at 13:46 Richard Cobbett says:
I’d expect an announcement, not the actual game.
29/01/2013 at 13:53 BigJonno says:
According to Eurogamer, they checked and it’s the actual release date.
29/01/2013 at 13:54 Richard Cobbett says:
Really? Hadn’t seen that. In that case – iiiiiiinteresting.
29/01/2013 at 18:55 Snargelfargen says:
The way it’s phrased is awfully ambiguous: “Debuting 14th February 2013, PC fans will soon get the chance to discover for themselves just what is in store for those brave enough to venture into the ‘Totraum’,”
Will it be in stores????
29/01/2013 at 13:48 Spritzwasser says:
This looks a lot like Deadlight.
29/01/2013 at 15:08 Dances to Podcasts says:
I’m hoping for an Irish Rebellion setting. With Cthulhu.
29/01/2013 at 15:48 BigJonno says:
Apparently it’s standalone, but Sniper Elite related.
“Update: Rebellion, the tease, has ended speculation and told me this new game relates “definitively” to Sniper Elite.
The clue was in the eagle logo, apparently. It’s a “perversion” of the Sniper Elite logo.
This secret new game has nothing to do with the upcoming Sniper Elite V2 DLC. “It’s part of something new and stand alone,” a Rebellion spokesperson said.”
29/01/2013 at 18:43 Hoaxfish says:
kinda disappointed now
29/01/2013 at 15:59 Jackablade says:
Launching Tadpole before clicking on the video here and having the cheerful banjo music kick in over the top of army guy running along the road does rather change the tone of the clip.
29/01/2013 at 16:34 mseifullah says:
All of that chromatic aberration is giving me a Unity Engine vibe. I say that because it seems likes a lot of the fancier Unity games add that effect to a very noticeable degree.
29/01/2013 at 16:36 ShDynasty says:
Sniper of a Nazi Empire: Rebellion! That’s why they sued Stardock!
29/01/2013 at 17:00 mariejanet657 says:
my co-worker’s half-sister makes $67/hour on the laptop. She has been without a job for 5 months but last month her pay check was $16364 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read more here http://www.bit90.com
29/01/2013 at 18:28 dogsolitude_uk says:
2000AD? Strewth, what I’d pay for a decent Nemesis the Warlock or Slaine game….
29/01/2013 at 18:48 Chorltonwheelie says:
Strontium Dog for me.
As a disaffected, going off the rails, youth I’d only stop to absorb Johnny Alpha. I related. That didn’t happen often back then.
I would chew your leg of for a good SD game. STALKER without the interminable boring bits?
(I like fondant fancies and kittens these days).
29/01/2013 at 18:59 Chorltonwheelie says:
Hang on…hang on a cotton pickin’ minute… I meant Harlem Heroes!
Come on?
29/01/2013 at 21:44 Mrs Columbo says:
You’d better be referring to the original one, you mutha! Not that abomination they trotted out in the early nineties. That was a major part of what killed 2000ad for me. I never went back.
30/01/2013 at 11:59 sgtjoker says:
Looks like Twilight:2000. A pen&paper RPG about US GI’s stuck in post-nuclear war Poland.
01/02/2013 at 17:19 phlebas says:
Totraum? They’re teasing Dead Space?