The builders of Mutant Year Zero: Road To Eden have lined up a stealth assault aiming for a vital hit. Or that’s simply the squad of sneaky augmented future troopers you’ll command of their new game. Or each—it’s each. After their fairly good first technique game from 2018, The Bearded Ladies have simply introduced one other known as Corruption 2029 and a launch date in lower than two weeks. Came out of nowhere, didn’t it, soldier?
Corruption 2029 is ready within the not-so-literally-distant way forward for post-apocalyptic America however a technologically additional flung actuality of augmented tremendous troopers and cloaking gadgets. You’ll command a squad to “infiltrate an inhuman regime and discover the cause of an ominous corruption that turned America into a war-torn wasteland,” The Bearded Ladies say.
You’ll use stealth, take cowl, and strategically select how and when to interact with enemies. Corruption 2029 sounds prefer it’s set as much as be much more of the plotting, planing, and sneaking that made Mutant Year Zero so thrilling. It does have 100% fewer speaking animals although, so hopefully these grim tremendous troopers with dour names like “Wolf” and “Briggs” have some persona.
It might look like your normal tactical XCOM-like fare on paper, however The Bearded Ladies’ earlier game Mutant Year Zero bought RPS’ “Bestest Best” stamp simply over a yr in the past. In his Mutant Year Zero review, Alec discovered some excellently tense conditions to set it aside from the best comparability that you simply may shake at it.
“Fail to fell a lone foe in the first turn and they’ll yell for help, or resort to high-damage options such as assault rifles and grenades and everyone’s gonna know about it,” he says. “You need to not pull the trigger unless you’re sure you can finish the job silently, in a single turn. It’s unfailingly difficult, because enemies almost always have more hitpoints than your silenced weapons have standard damage, but it’s such a thrill.” That paired with the real-time world exploration earlier than fights made The Bearded Ladies’ final techniques game value spending a while with.
Corruption 2029 is launching on February 17th. You’ll discover it on the Epic Store for $20.