Sigtrap Games and Mastertronic are ready to rock and roll with their six-degrees-of-freedom first-person shooter Sublevel Zero, the obvious love letter to old favorites like Descent and Forsaken now only a couple weeks away from Steam launch on October 8th.
If this is the first time you’re hearing about Sublevel Zero, or if you lost track of its development amidst the bombardment of games this year, there’s a brand new trailer out this week to get you caught up on the game’s old school meets new school 6DoF awesomeness. Sublevel Zero clearly is aiming to please the hardcore fanbase with its procedurally generated maze environments, roguelike permadeath, limited ammo and resources, and a crafting system for upgrading the gunship with new tech and weapons.
At launch, Sublevel Zero will be available for PC and Mac, with Linux to follow soon thereafter. The game will take advantage of Steam features such as achievements, cloud saves, full controller support, and trading cards. Console releases as well as Oculus Rift support are also planned for 2016–I’m so not buying into the VR hype, but this is the ideal type of game to show off the tech.
Having spent quite a bit of time playing the original Descent growing up–I even remember buying a flight stick just for it–I’m super-psyched to check this game out. It’s just too bad that I don’t have a modern flight stick to complete the trip down memory lane come October 8th. (Anyone have any good flight stick recommendations?)
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