Friday, September 23, 2011

Warca: Shoot a camera, not a gun (video)

WARC is an FPS game set in the war in the Middle East and North Africa. So far nothing unusual. The interesting thing is that they interpret a single soldier in combat, but a journalist only be equipped with a camera. A FPS where you do not shoot any firearm? Better yet, just keep reading.
Today it is common to find games based on war FPS like Call of Duty or Battlefield, where the command of a soldier to fulfill different objectives throughout the game pitted against other soldiers and terrorists. What is not normal is that in a game of this style controls to a reporter instead of firing a gun, put shooting. And this is what gives us WARC, which tells the story of Jesse DeMarco, a journalist who must take photos in the conflict that will travel throughout the game. The idea of ​​the game is that players achieve real-world experience of war journalism through the process of filming the conflict to enter into different risk situations equipped with a camera. As we move forward, the scenarios will from action packed to quieter moments where we talk with our colleagues on developments. The game has the support of the Australian journalist and filmmaker Tony Maniaty Robert Connolly, who directed the film Balibo, a political thriller about the deaths of Australian journalists during a conflict in East Timor in 1975. Graphically the game can see that developing still lacking polish some specifics, such as the effects of fire and light. Being developed for four months and Defiant Development Brisbane, WARC is currently in the process of letting us find a distributor in doubt about your departure date and for which platform will be available. What do you think of the idea?