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Time-traveling mech puzzler Reset will support Oculus Rift
Reset, the sci-fi, noir mech game from indie developer Theory Interactive, is getting even more impressive – it will support Oculus Rift. Theory Interactive shared a few screenshots of the game in bug-eyed virtual reality, along with a new trailer that doesn't appear to be in immersive 3D, but we can't be sure because we don't have a pair of those special blue-and-red glasses on hand. Reset is an exploration and open-world puzzle game set in a desolate future, on a fictional volcanic island in the Galápagos. Players travel through time as a mech to solve physical riddles with themselves and uncover the island's secrets. Reset currently in the midst of an Indiegogo campaign, with five days left to raise €34,000 and hit the goal of €65,000. We've been excited about Reset since its debut, in-game trailer hit the web in 2012, and the final game is due out on PC at the end of 2014. Click the second VR screenshot below for a better idea of Reset's Oculus Rift world.
Solve wibbly wobbly timey wimey puzzles in mech game Reset
Reset, the time-traveling mech game from Theory Interactive, has officially launched a campaign on Indiegogo, seeking €65,000 by December 23. Theory Interactive teased the campaign in October with the project's first gameplay trailer. Before that, all we knew about Reset was that it offered a unique take on single-player experiences: It's a co-op game that you play with yourself, traveling through time to solve puzzles cooperatively with other iterations or your giant robot. Also, we knew that it was pretty. Theory Interactive is based in Finland, and to comply with Finnish law, everyone who donates to the development of Reset must choose a reward (horrible, we know). Reset is due out for PC around December 2014, with Mac, Linux, SteamOS and next-gen consoles a possibility down the line.
Time traveling robots in Reset are aging well
Reset still looks good. It first popped up in April 2012 with a quietly captivating trailer and premise: It's a first-person, PC puzzle game that involves a lot of co-op – but it's single-player. As a humanoid robot, players travel through time to solve puzzles cooperatively with themselves, in a deserted future city. Today's video offers the first look at gameplay in Reset. For a game about mechs, the future and time travel, it appears to be a patently somber experience. We can't shake the feeling that something terrible happened here, and something even worse might occur if this robot can't fix it. Reset comes from Alpo Oksaharju and Mikko Kallinen, two artists that make up indie studio Theory Interactive. The game is on Steam Greenlight Concepts and the team plans to launch an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign soon. We can't say anything about the game itself yet, but Theory Interactive certainly knows how to craft a nice trailer.
Reset trailer is almost as interesting as its single-player co-op gameplay
The above debut trailer for Theory Interactive's Reset is made entirely with a unique in-game engine, Praxis, and doesn't include any added effects, CGI or Peter Jackson-level motion capture. We swear. Well, Theory Interactive swears, so they're the ones that will have to deliver on this hefty promise. If the trailer isn't tantalizing enough, Reset's gameplay premise is captivating too. In this first-person puzzle game, players have the ability to travel back in time to solve puzzles cooperatively with themselves, meaning the phrase "single-player co-op" makes an impossible amount of sense. Theory Interactive comprises just two people, Alpo Oksaharju and Mikko Kallinen, but we're inclined to believe it's really just one person and his future self, who has brought back advanced innovations with the sole purpose of crafting this wonderfully entrancing debut game trailer. And, we hope, a game to live up to its promises.
