A Very Scary Red Riding Hood

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©2009 Grant Smythe – oxcgn.com:

Don't mess with me buster - or else!

Now I love a good fairytale like most parents do, but this is one fairytale you want to keep out of the hands of your young nieces and nephews, let alone those young-un’s you have in the safety of their bedrooms. Don’t leave this one laying on the coffee table now will you!

Red Riding Hood is not as she seems, nor are any of the other fabled fairytale characters in Playlogic’s new IP, Fairytale Fights.

And fight they do. Razor sharp saws, rotating mincers, axes, crowbars, clubs of all shapes and sizes, all spilling copious amounts of blood with death-n-mayhem from beginning to end. So it’s no wonder it will more than likely attract the very serious “M” rating in the US under the ESRB, and undoubtedly the MA15+ here in Australia with the 18+ via Europe’s PEGI system.

• Playlogic’s New IP – Fairytale Fights

And little wonder really. Take one long look at the bloodthirsty trailer, and see if you remember Red Riding Hood as the same angelic little lass from your bedtime stories. More likely from some of the cartoons on TV, but certainly not from the nice, quaint bedtimes stories of old.

It has everything a Hack-n-Slash player wants, blood, lots of it, combo moves and points for doing super tricks and moves, leveling up, co-op both online and off. All tied up using the Unreal Engine 3 for some fluid styles and a completely different use of the engine this time round for visual effects.

Don't "Oh Dear Snow White" me buddy, or you'll feel my pain . . .

Although, I must say, the UE3 is getting a little long in the tooth these days, and ideally we’ll see more of the next iteration of the engine in the not too distant future, as it is being surpassed by many other superiour engines these days. It simply has a stranglehold on the industry at the moment.

If you love the slash-n-hack style of games, and don’t mind mixing it with the likes of Red Riding Hood, Moby Dick, and beating up on Gingerbread men, then you’ll love Playlogic‘s Fairytale Fights. Oh, and did I mention Snow White, you just do NOT want to mess with this Snow White . ..

Yes, you even get points and health by knocking the bejickins out of those poor friendly little fellows, what is the world coming to one would ask . . . I knew Gingerbread Men gave you a boost when mum used to make them for us kids (never knew what she put in them, but hey, they did get us motivated), but not as much as this game delicts.

They are such cute fellow . . . and I didn’t know they could bleed, but they sure as hell do in Fairytale Fights, that is for sure – copious amounts of it at that I might add.

The game is due out in the 4th Quarter of 2009, but with no fixed shelf date as yet. We will make sure you get to see some more in-game footage at the hands of our OXCGN Hack-n-Slash masters when Playlogic send us over some review code for our Hands-On approach.

But until then, just ponder over the video above, and the art images and in-game screens below, but please, do make sure the doors are closed and bolted, with blinds drawn to stop prying little eyes, and use the headphones, we wouldn’t want ‘these’ fairytales falling into the hands of our younguns’

Publisher: PLAYLOGIC
Developer: PLAYLOGIC GAME FACTORY

Game Overview:

Once upon a time…. In a Fairytale Kingdom Far Far Away… all is not as it seems!  Assume the role of your Favorite Fairytale Character in this totally unique hack’n’slash platform adventure from Playlogic Game Factory!

With over 100 weapons to choose from, Slice’N’Dice your way through the Fairytale Kingdom in search of rumors and tales to regain your Fame & Fortune! thanks to Playlogic’s ‘Dynamic Slicing’ technology.

Hack a path through a sea of cuddly bunnies & cute furry animals and wade through pools of blood on your travels to retrieve magical items and rescue fair maidens.  In a world of Fairytale Books where Fairytales are not as they seem….

Choose from a range of Fairytale Characters and set about reeking havoc in your quest to save the Fairytale Kingdom from the Forces of Evil and reclaim your Fairytale Status!

Game Features:

Brand New IP!

•    Brand New IP from Playlogic Game Factory!  Celebrated for successful PlayStation titles, Playlogic Game Factory announce themselves to the world!

Online / Offline Co-Op

•    Drop in Drop out feature lets players join friends both online and offline in PvP battle arenas and Story Mode.

Volumetric Liquid System

•    Another unique feature developed by Playlogic Game Factory includes the volumetric liquid system, allowing blood and other liquids to seamlessly blend together.  For example; Blood from characters and NPC’s / Enemies will spray across the environment and scenery and increase in size as attacks grow more frenzied.

As our liquid and blood system was built upon the principles of atoms that attract each other, creating organic shapes that interact with objects and characters in the surrounding environments is easy.  Players can also slide through the pools of blood, creating a blood stained platform in seconds!

Other liquids such as water will behave like water and acid like acid, causing characters to melt.  When players have a bottle of acid for example they can use these to help melt enemies and opponents.

Salami Violence

•    Over the past few years, Playlogic Game Factory has been developing their own Dynamic Slicing Technology, named Salami Violence.  For the first time ever! Players will have full control over how and when to slice and dice their enemies or opponents as fully textured, 3D animated objects cover the ground in pieces

When using a special mode in the game called Glory Attack (and if using uses a slice weapon), players will be given a window of opportunity to slice up their enemies multiple times. All this can be seen in a close-up PnP window.

Dynamic Textures!

•    Dynamic textures create even more spectacular action as each enemy has their skeleton exposed, displaying an array of bones and brain when Sliced & Diced!

Based on the Unreal Engine 3

•    Fairytale Fights is based on the Unreal Engine 3, however our development team have created a world rich in an life and color that uses the Unreal Engine 3 like never before using Playlogic Game Factory’s  “real-time dynamic slicing” technology and volumetric liquid system.

Game modes:

• Single Player / Multiplayer / Online & Offline PvP

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