Akella, the people that recently finished work on Metalheart: Replicants Rampage have unveiled that they are working on a post-apocalyptic CRPG at E3:<blockquote>Axle Rage is a cinematographic third person viewed 3D action game, featuring a unique combination of fast-paced hand-to-hand fights and motorcycle gangs' combats taking place in a highly immersive and vast gaming universe of a postapocalyptic megapolis within a single intriguing storyline. (...) Axle Rage is a nickname of the main character, a tough biker, freelancer and a member of ‘No Dice’ motorcycle gang. His world is Nailsdale - postapocalyptic megapolis build on an artificial coastal sea platform; the city, where tumbledown buildings of 30-ties adjoin monumental hi-tech skyscrapers. This is no longer a safety place: Nailsdale’s streets turned into gang-war arena long ago. There’s no any a major or government here. Money, drugs and violence are the only and ultimate law of this wasting away city. Two rival politic parties are trying to overwhelm each other to get control all over Nailsdale, but they are playing the same game, where human life is not worth a pin. Population seeks resort at drug dealers, hoping to get another dose of sham happiness. The only thing that gives one a freedom in this chaos is… a motorcycle! Unique game features: Vast game universe: fully interactive open urban environments of Nailsdale: different zones and districts; tumbledown skyscrapers and dens; wretched doss-houses and sparking glass-and-iron hi-tech buildings. Unique combination of fast-paced third person viewed hand-to-hand fights and motorcycle combats in the streets of a wasting away megapolis. Highly interactive game world and environment. Axle can use almost every object as a weapon or simply break the shelves, bottles and other furniture and objects just for fun. Vast number of cold steel weapons (up to 32) and combos or special moves to use them. Complex scripting system allows creation of numerous partly-interactive cut scenes for more dramatic, cinematographic style plot development.</blockquote>IGN PC picked up on it and are quite positive:<blockquote>All in all, Rage Rider is already shaping up to be a thrilling RPG despite being in its pre-alpha stage. It's so early in development that Akella hasn't given even a clue as to a release date, so PC and PlayStation 2 owners will have to stay tuned into IGN for more details.</blockquote>Though confusingly, Akella refers to it as Axle Rage and IGN PC as Rage Rider. I guess that'll be cleared up later.
Link: official page on Akella website
Link: Rage Rider E3 report on IGN PC
Thanks Octotron
Link: official page on Akella website
Link: Rage Rider E3 report on IGN PC
Thanks Octotron
