Source Engine Powered Zeno Clash Announced

[DelaZ]

Just read this on http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/48682

Chile based ACE Team has licensed Valve's Source Engine technology and intends to use it for the fantasy action game Zeno Clash, the company announced today.

Said to feature brutal melee combat, Zeno Clash has you on the run from your own family following exile from your clan. The resulting journey will have you visiting exotic locales, where various "battle scenarios" will be played out.

"Working with Source gives us the features, tools, and flexibility we need in an engine to bring to life a game world beyond anything seen before," said Andres Bordeu, game designer with ACE Team. "Source is an incredibly flexible engine that lets us create environments with rich visuals, expansive and highly-detailed believable characters that interact with players in intelligent-and challenging-ways."

Zeno Clash is an action game with a strong focus on melee combat set in a punk fantasy world. Featuring up close and brutal combat in a first-person perspective, the game is played in battle scenarios where the adversaries are always dangerously close and the use of exotic firearms and artifacts is a commodity. The new close combat mechanics are a deviation from traditional shooting in the FPS genre that will feel fresh for players.

The first chapter is set in a fantastic & chaotic world where the main character has been exiled from his clan and hunted down by his own brothers. A desperate journey past the forbidden desert will bring him to the end of the world.

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Don't really know what to think of it. Reminds me of Dali..

[zaphod]

because the first thing that comes to my mind when I think post-apoc is extreme specularity / rim lighting.

[robert.briscoe]

looks disgusting

[Pericolos0]

yeah i agree. Looks like they have some awesome concept artists behind this but the art team isn't really able to translate that to the game well :/

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Kudo's for the sky though..

[aevirex]

I like the art direction... Source is still kinda 'meh' (textures are way to lowres, looks plastic like doom3 )

[Mazy]

because the first thing that comes to my mind when I think post-apoc is extreme specularity / rim lighting.

[Fletch]

High detail characters + low detail terrain = lose

[Psy]

It looks 'kay but could do with less of a plastic feel.

[Steppenwolf]

The fog color doesn't match the skybox

More grunge and less shinyness wouldn't harm. Looks ok tho.

I hope its not just like the Arena in Oblivion.

[dux]

Gotta admit they have a clever logo.

[Thrik]

That is an inspired logo!

[Zeta]

awesome logo. i also like the other screens except for the one actually posted

[Izuno]

A for effort I guess...I mean they are obviously creative thinkers, but I'm not sold on the concept yet. Maybe it's just the elephant headed man in that screen above that's throwing me off. I'm a boring fantasy setting guy: give me orcs and elves and such, by garr!