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Deadfall Adventures on PS3 dives to the Heart of Atlantis
Deadfall Adventures, the first-person adventure game for Xbox 360 and PC from Polish developer The Farm 51, is putting on the boots for another adventure, this time on PS3. Deadfall Adventures: Heart of Atlantis is an expanded and revamped re-release of The Farm 51's 2013 adventure/FPS hybrid, featuring new locations, new fights, reworked graphics and more. If you're unfamiliar, Deadfall Adventures takes its inspiration from the likes of Indiana Jones, who in turn takes inspiration from pulp serials like Doc Savage, which in turn can trace their pedigree to the character Allan Quatermain. That may sound like a confusing string of follow the leader, but it's actually more like coming full-circle; the hero in Deadfall Adventures is James Lee Quatermain, great grandson to the extraordinary gentleman, Allan. Deadfall Adventures: Heart of Atlantis is expected to fight off Nazis and the supernatural sometime this summer. [Image: The Farm 51]
Nordic's Deadfall Adventures explores Lost World with FPS eyes
A quick glance at Deadfall Adventures suggests an Uncharted-like lower-key, first-person shooter, and in some ways that assessment isn't miles off the mark. Both properties star a rugged adventurer with a notebook, both feature alluring companions with romance on their mind, and both aren't shy about tracing their roots to Allan Quatermain novels. Deadfall Adventures especially, given its hero is the great grandson of Quatermain. Based on what I saw at a recent demo, the comparisons don't go much further. While the Uncharted series places its emphasis on spectacle and orchestrated action, Deadfall Adventures, developed by Painkiller: Hell & Damnation studio The Farm 51, looks to focus on classic FPS combat. Set during the second World War, the game combines "historically accurate" weapons of the time like the MP38 submachine gun and AVS36 rifle with the lush surroundings of ancient ruins and temples, rendered neatly - don't expect blockbuster stuff - in Unreal Engine 3. Those environments caught my attention, specifically the manipulable dangers lurking within them. In the hands-off demo producer Martin Kreuch showed me, time and time again I saw conspicuous traps that were connected to large switches on the ground. Shooting or stepping on these switches made the traps unleash Indiana Jones-style dangers; we're talking flurries of spears, jets of flame, all the things that really ought to have killed Indy but never did.
Painkiller H&D dev loots temples in Deadfall Adventures for 360, PC
The next game from developer The Farm 51 and publisher Nordic Games is Deadfall Adventures, a first-person shooter/puzzler with a definite Indiana Jones air about it. The game, due July 30 on Xbox 360 and PC, is set in 1938 and stars an intrepid explorer called James Lee Quatermain who's escorting a (probably beautiful) US agent called Jennifer Goodwin. Their mission is to travel to an Egyptian temple and retrieve an ancient treasure, The Heart of Atlantis, ahead of the Nazis or Russians. All that's missing is the whip.Still, it's not like Deadfall Adventures is the first or anything, and Nordic Games isn't shy about its cinematic inspirations and aspirations."Deadfall Adventures marries the ethos of the Saturday morning matinee with the summer blockbuster to create an original adventure which will grip players from start to finish," said Nordic managing director Klemens Kreuzer. "We're putting players into the heart of the action, just as they'd dreamed as children, staring at their heroes on the silver screen."The Farm 51 and Nordic teamed up on Painkiller: Hell and Damnation last year, clearly a relationship both parties enjoyed. Whether or not they can build on that to help Deadfall Adventures do justice to its summer blockbuster billing - well, we'll wait and see. %Gallery-180158%
