Former Blizzard Developers Working on Zombie Game Broken
David Gelmini
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A bunch of former employees of Blizzard, the company behind the hugely popular Warcraft and Starcraft franchises, have banded together and started working on their own independent project, a horror game called Broken, which takes inspiration from The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, and the Half-Life series.
Set in the year 2021, it follows Logan Kyle, a former US Navy Seal, as he navigates a world decimated by global war and filled with ravenous, infected mutants. The game also aims to be 100% story-driven so there won’t be any annoying puzzles or collecting quests to distract you from the action.
It’s currently well short of its $275,000 goal on Kickstarter, so if you ever want to play Broken, then you really need to part with some of your change. In addition to the one below, they’ve got a few more development videos on the page which could also give you an incentive to contribute.
Synopsis:
Broken is an episodic third-person action adventure game series set in the year 2021. This is an original story that follows the personal adventure of Logan Kyle, a Navy Seal, and his family as they experience the end of the world on the front lines of an extremist group’s catastrophic global biological weapon attack, resulting in death and a rare, but most horrific mutation.
The story is rooted in the ever-escalating conflicts of current day events. In the year 2015 a well-funded extremist group resolute on eliminating non-believers discovers an abandoned Soviet era bunker in the mountains northeast of Kabul in Afghanistan. Within the complex, they find a biological warfare lab containing several live cultures that they believe will help them in their goals. The group begins developing the cultures into a biological weapon, the likes of which the world had never seen. After six years, with major advancements in modern technology, research, and development, the weapon is ready.
The beginning of our series kicks off with Logan and his Seal team being given orders to investigate a small village outside Kabul, after an informant tells their command that something is wrong in the village.
While Logan is on a mission, he can’t help but think about his wife, Selene. Will he safely return from his mission? Or will she see him in her hospital once again? Maybe this time he won’t be in one piece.
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