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Frozen Endzone now Frozen Cortex, original name 'a bit rubbish'
Mode 7's upcoming turn-based strategy game is now Frozen Cortex and no longer Frozen Endzone, after the developer admitted a rebrand was necessary. In a frank blog post, the Frozen Synapse creator revealed its reasons for the change, one being "the original name was a bit rubbish and we got bored of it." Mode 7 also introduced Mac and Linux versions this week in an update to the Steam Early Access release, as well as "significant" aesthetic changes. The studio added it believes the game looks better in its new guise, and that the original name was tied to perception of a "Madden game with robots."
Frozen Endzone blitzes onto Steam Early Access
Frozen Endzone takes the turn-based strategy Mode 7 delivered in Frozen Synapse, but makes it all sportsball by swapping out the guns for pigskins - snazzy, futuristic-looking pigskins, but pigskins all the same. If that's a combination that has you ready to pad up and get tactical, the good news is the Windows PC game is now available on Steam Early Access. It's priced $25 stateside and £19/23 euros in the land of the other football, and that includes a bonus key to pass to a friend. In essence, Frozen Endzone is about plotting runs and working out where you want your players to be, one turn at a time, as you try to keep control of the ball and score some neon-tinted touchdowns. Of course it gets much more complicated than that, but on that basic level it was challenging to stop the Mode 7 devs from piercing through my robot team of players a few months ago, which they did time and time again. As it stands, the "early beta" version offers both single-player and multiplayer modes including a ranking system for the latter, while Mode 7 says the next thing on its agenda is to get the single-player campaign mode added. The game proper is due in "late 2014." [Image: Mode 7]
Frozen Endzone beta begins December 5, takes the field in new trailer
The beta program for Mode 7 Games' Frozen Endzone will launch this Thursday, December 5. The turn-based strategy game, first announced in March, has players moving their players across a futuristic field in a game similar to American football. Our brief time with the game found apt comparisons to the developer's previous strategy game, Frozen Synapse, particularly in regards to the depth of Frozen Endzone's tactics. Mode 7 Games also offered up a new trailer for the strategic football game, which introduces the game and the developer's beta program. Frozen Endzone was greenlit by Valve along with 19 other games in April, granting the game distribution on Steam for Mac, PC and Linux in 2014.
Release your inner Landry with football strategy game Frozen Endzone
Frozen Endzone, the American football-based strategy game from Frozen Synapse dev Mode 7, is limbering up for a public beta later this month. The beta will feature "several multiplayer modes," with purchasers receiving the full game when it releases and a free game code to give to a friend. It's been some eight months since Mode 7 announced Endzone, and the switch from tactical shooting to tactical sports still seems a strange one to me. Or at least it would, except after talking with Endzone creator Ian Hardingham at a recent UK expo, it's hard to imagine his next game being anything but a celebration of pigskin. When you mention football to Brits like myself, you'll typically lose us to talk of spheres, nets, and penalty areas. Not Hardingham, though. "I just fell in love with American football about ten years ago," he told me. "It's so exotic, it's so tactical. I love how everything is cast off into these individual plays, and you can spend forever really analyzing each play. "The way that Americans throw everything into their sports, I find that relaxing. It makes me forget about the horrible things that are going on in the real world." Hardingham talked plenty and passionately about his love and knowledge of the sport, something I don't share as a fan of the other type of football. But for all his fondness for Super Bowls and NFL Sundays (is that right?), his simultaneous turn-based strategy game isn't intended to be a detailed reflection of the real-life sport.
Frozen Synapse developer announces Frozen Endzone
Mode 7 Games, developers of Frozen Synapse, recently unveiled a trailer for its next strategy game, Frozen Endzone. In it, players will use simultaneous turn-based commands to get their team to the end-zone in a futuristic American football-style match.The PC, Mac and Linux game is slated for a 2014 release with an open beta planned for this year. Frozen Endzone is currently seeking community approval on Steam's Greenlight service. %Gallery-183015%
