Vapourware cRPG Afterfall has launched a new website, announcing the start of their franchise universe "that will be bigger, better, and more interesting than any game-world ever before". And, as revealed earlier, the first game in it won't be Afterfall but a survival horror codenamed RASCAL.<blockquote>Afterfall is not only games taking place in post-apocalyptic world. It is a huge project, in which we put our hearts and power. For many years we have worked on universe, that will be bigger, better, and more interesting than any game-world ever before. Now we can freely say "We made it", and we want to show you them by several different projects. The most important of them Afterfall cRPG (And RPG means Rrole-playing game, not a game with RPG-elements only) and his sequel. Apart from that, we are plan to develop many games (and maybe not only games) represents various genres. One of them is RASCAL, survival horror that introduce you in our amazing Universe. Universe, where the only limit is your imagination.
Year 1945. A modified German v2 missile, carrying a Nazi atomic bomb on board, strikes in the Soviet troops moving from the east towards Berlin. Losing many of the troops and seeing the power of a new weapon, the Soviets got tricked into the bluff and for fear of next attacks they decide to retreat beyond Vistula line. When the USA and USSR attain their own nuclear weapon, a three-sided Cold War and an armaments race begin. Over a half a century later, in the year 2012, the world is on nuclear fire of the final war. However, few people have predicted tragedy and survived in the bomb-shelters, caves and deep mines. They have escaped covers and tried to lead an ordinary life. Howewer, live after apocalypse never will be the same.
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RASCAL, is a survival horror in the third-person mode, which will introduce you into our universe - the world destroyed by the nuclear war, where nuclear holocaust and the longstanding contamination forces the group of random people to spend the rest of their lives in a cramped bomb-shelter. You are a psychiatrist who has the task of helping people suffering from the confinement and loss of everything and everybody they left on the earth's surface. When, due to an accident, one of the bomb-shelter's levels is contaminated by a dangerous psychoactive substance, you are impelled to struggle for existence with close, until recently, relatives such as your family, shelter-mates possessed by madness as well as your ever-growing insanity. Soon you will experience how your ordinary life become into a mad nightmare...
The action taking place in claustrophobic, dim and hostile locations, accompanying by music creating unique climate - from the big bomb-shelter's to the deserted and dead surface. If you are expecting a huge dose of adrenaline, psychosis and nightmares – Rascal won’t disappoint you. Unigine(TM) engine guarantee a great graphics, dynamic physics and lights, and a lot of special effects that you never see before. Last, but not least our system of Quick Time Events with adaptation interface gives you full control in many different situations on your way - from short self-cutscenes and mini-games to the exciting movie-like hand-to-hand combat.</blockquote>
Year 1945. A modified German v2 missile, carrying a Nazi atomic bomb on board, strikes in the Soviet troops moving from the east towards Berlin. Losing many of the troops and seeing the power of a new weapon, the Soviets got tricked into the bluff and for fear of next attacks they decide to retreat beyond Vistula line. When the USA and USSR attain their own nuclear weapon, a three-sided Cold War and an armaments race begin. Over a half a century later, in the year 2012, the world is on nuclear fire of the final war. However, few people have predicted tragedy and survived in the bomb-shelters, caves and deep mines. They have escaped covers and tried to lead an ordinary life. Howewer, live after apocalypse never will be the same.
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RASCAL, is a survival horror in the third-person mode, which will introduce you into our universe - the world destroyed by the nuclear war, where nuclear holocaust and the longstanding contamination forces the group of random people to spend the rest of their lives in a cramped bomb-shelter. You are a psychiatrist who has the task of helping people suffering from the confinement and loss of everything and everybody they left on the earth's surface. When, due to an accident, one of the bomb-shelter's levels is contaminated by a dangerous psychoactive substance, you are impelled to struggle for existence with close, until recently, relatives such as your family, shelter-mates possessed by madness as well as your ever-growing insanity. Soon you will experience how your ordinary life become into a mad nightmare...
The action taking place in claustrophobic, dim and hostile locations, accompanying by music creating unique climate - from the big bomb-shelter's to the deserted and dead surface. If you are expecting a huge dose of adrenaline, psychosis and nightmares – Rascal won’t disappoint you. Unigine(TM) engine guarantee a great graphics, dynamic physics and lights, and a lot of special effects that you never see before. Last, but not least our system of Quick Time Events with adaptation interface gives you full control in many different situations on your way - from short self-cutscenes and mini-games to the exciting movie-like hand-to-hand combat.</blockquote>
is this pretty much like Grimoire? or worse?
