StyM
03-04-2017, 07:38 AM
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/archangel-vr-game-skydance-interactive,33816.html
In the demo we saw at GDC, you enter the world of Archangel as a mech pilot. You start out in the :banana::banana::banana::banana:pit of your mechanical beast, what Skydance Interactive calls a ?six-story-high war machine.? You can see a facsimile of your hands courtesy of the controllers you?re holding (in our case, the Vive controllers), and when you move your hands, your mech?s giant robot hands move as well.
You?re on a planet that may or may not be earth; it?s a futuristic-looking city, with tall buildings rising out of a desert floor.
A voice in your ear--the AI that shepherds your team through battle--has you run a ?systems check? as a means to get you accustomed to the game controls. Simply put, your right arm alternately has a machine gun or a rail gun, your left hand shoots a missile or ?paints? multiple bogies with a missile targeting system before blasting them all out of the sky, and you can toggle on a shield for either arm.
That?s pretty much it. Your mech stalks along a predetermined route, but you can look all around from the :banana::banana::banana::banana:pit, just like you would if you were actually piloting one. (We should be so lucky.)
You have a team with you, and they fly around in hover vehicles as you all encounter waves of flying space jets as well as tanks slogging over the sandy terrain. Eventually, you face soldiers on the ground as well as beefier airships that are more difficult to take down.
As you make your way through the violent city streets, your comms are interrupted a couple of times by the enemy--some kind of rogue colonel, it seems. He offers you a devil?s bargain; your teammates urge you not to pay him any mind.
By the end of the demo, you're in the firefight of your life, and just as you face off against a powerful airship, a giant metal...something...clamps down on your mech from above.
Everything goes dark. Fin.
In the demo we saw at GDC, you enter the world of Archangel as a mech pilot. You start out in the :banana::banana::banana::banana:pit of your mechanical beast, what Skydance Interactive calls a ?six-story-high war machine.? You can see a facsimile of your hands courtesy of the controllers you?re holding (in our case, the Vive controllers), and when you move your hands, your mech?s giant robot hands move as well.
You?re on a planet that may or may not be earth; it?s a futuristic-looking city, with tall buildings rising out of a desert floor.
A voice in your ear--the AI that shepherds your team through battle--has you run a ?systems check? as a means to get you accustomed to the game controls. Simply put, your right arm alternately has a machine gun or a rail gun, your left hand shoots a missile or ?paints? multiple bogies with a missile targeting system before blasting them all out of the sky, and you can toggle on a shield for either arm.
That?s pretty much it. Your mech stalks along a predetermined route, but you can look all around from the :banana::banana::banana::banana:pit, just like you would if you were actually piloting one. (We should be so lucky.)
You have a team with you, and they fly around in hover vehicles as you all encounter waves of flying space jets as well as tanks slogging over the sandy terrain. Eventually, you face soldiers on the ground as well as beefier airships that are more difficult to take down.
As you make your way through the violent city streets, your comms are interrupted a couple of times by the enemy--some kind of rogue colonel, it seems. He offers you a devil?s bargain; your teammates urge you not to pay him any mind.
By the end of the demo, you're in the firefight of your life, and just as you face off against a powerful airship, a giant metal...something...clamps down on your mech from above.
Everything goes dark. Fin.