Next-Gen Zombie Survival Title - Human Element Revealed

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Ah, the Next Generation.. There's no doubt in my mind that the future of Consoles is still quite a distance off, but that isn't stopping certain developers from speaking about the games that are in development. One of which is Robert Bowling, the Ex-Creative Strategist of Infinity Ward, who is now running the show of his own Development Team, Robotoki.

Just revealed, is Human Element. Game Informer have recently sat down with the man to have a friendly chat about Robotoki's First Project, a Zombie title, with the main focus being surviving against the horrors of Humanity's downfall, either by banding with other survivors, or choosing to be a lone wanderer and going it alone. The three options given are Surviving alone, partnering up with another human, or having a young child as a side-kick.

“How you choose to start in the world will determine how you can engage and impacts the scenarios you will be presented with on a physical and morality level," He Explained.

Going into more detail with this, the game will have it's own RPG-like character creation feature, which will allow you to pick from a variety of starting builds, based on how YOU want to deal with the Zombie Apocalypse.

He Continued: “Their greatest strength is the fear that [zombies] instill in us, the survivors, that unreasonable fear. Unreasonable fear that leads us to do unreasonable things to survive."

Going into more detail with the creator, you choose between three different classes, Action, Intelligence, and Stealth, all of which will clearly have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Beyond that, there isn't anymore information that can be seen, as the rest of the details will be available in Game Informer's next issue.

For now, check out the first teaser picture. Human Element is slated for a 2015 release on Next Generation Consoles.

Via TXB

[K INC]

Sounds awesome.

[M-M-M-M-MEGA]

[Kinectamaniac]

2015? What...the...fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

[Monkoo]

2015? What...the...fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

At this point good chance this game will never see the light of day.

[CX]

I will forget about it by 2015 if it holds true to the release year.

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Robert Bowling’s apocalyptic survival sim Human Element will allow players to use their knowledge of real world resources to assist them in-game.

Bowling told GamesIndustry that aspects of Human Element change dynamically, depending on the player’s gender, identity and location as well as what device they’re playing on – and that this “cross-genre, cross-platform experience” is what excites him most about the project.

“We’re overlaying the world of Human Element onto the Google Maps API, FourSquare business API, we’re taking your real world and merging it with your game world,” he said.

"So now you’re checking into places in the real world and you’re scavenging in those locations for supplies that are dynamic to those locations. We can do that anywhere there’s GPS map data."

Bowling gave an example of an injured character unable to find medical supplies in the game world at home on their PC, but solving the problem by checking in on their iDevice while at a nearby, real world pharmacy.

“You’re feeding those supplies back to your character in Human Element – these are not independent experiences, they’re additive to each other,” Bowling explained.

“The cool thing is you can form alliances. So, say my girlfriend doesn’t want to play the console experience but she wants to play on iPad – she likes that experience. If we have an alliance she can play the resource management game, that scavenging mechanic, and she can be benefitting my game by sharing supplies with my survivors.”

VG247

[Cruisey Poo]

What the fuck is this bullshit? That sounds utterly retarded.

[K INC]

My hype went to shit after reading the article in Gameinformer. Such wasted potential.

[DontEatPoop]

uhhh, Just give me Dead island 2 next gen and i'll be fine..