Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden's Lead Designer Lee Varley and Producer Mark Parker take us through the Sea Titans map. It's 20 minutes of search-and-rescue gameplay taking place about three or four hours into the game. This is the playable section that was shown to press at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, back in August.
The more I see of Mutant Year Zero the more I like it. XCOM sensibilities when it comes to turn-based combat, but a real-time world to move through between firefights. Plus Bormin, Dux and Selma are persistent characters, so there are obviously ways to progress if one of them is taken out of the fight that amounts to more than just mounting a plaque on the wall and hitting up a recruiting hall.
It's also got a sense of humor absent in the XCOM series. About a minute in, they stumble across a box containing a Fertility Crown. It's ... it's a beat-up pork pie hat with "Kiss Me Quick" inscribed on it. The flavor text pop-up says, "This elegant headpiece was used by the ancient to attract a partner, commonly found around the coastline of the Brexit Isles." I mean, c'mon. I find it humorous, anyway.
I also like the slightly unfamiliar Euro surroundings. The "Polis" cars and "Ambulans" vans could put us anywhere between Scotland and South Africa, but apparently it's Sweden. It's a dark, anthropomorphic post-apocalypse anyway, so it could've been anywhere. Also, between Generation Zero and Mutant Year Zero, Zero is very big in Sweden right now.
Here's 30 more minutes of gameplay from March of this year. As well as a shorter trailer showing off a greater variety of environments to explore.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden arrives on PC, PS4 and Xbox on December 4.
Mutant Year Zero: Funcom releases 20 minutes of raw gameplay with developer commentary
Funcom - Oct 04, 2018 08:59 GMT
OSLO, Norway – October 4th, 2018 – The tactical adventure game Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is just two months away from launching on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 4. Available for digital download on December 4th, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden combines XCOM-like tactical combat with real-time exploration, stealth, and story as it puts players on an usual journey across a post-human Sweden where anthropomorphic animals scramble to survive in the devastated remains of human civilization.
Today, publisher Funcom and developer The Bearded Ladies, have released 20 minutes of new, unedited gameplay with developer commentary from Lead Designer Lee Varley and Producer Mark Parker.
“Bormin, Dux and Selma have just exited the Cave of Fear and are heading north towards a place called the House of Bones,” explains Producer Mark Parker.“But first they need to cross the river and to do so they must defeat a large group of zone ghouls who are controlling a massive metal boat.”
The game’s announcement back in February quickly ‘went viral’ thanks to the unique cinematic trailer showing three very unlikely protagonist: Selma the humanoid mutant, Bormin the mutated boar, and Dux, the crossbow-wielding duck. Following successful demos of the game at GDC, E3, and GamesCom, feedback has been great,and the game has received numerous “Best of Show” awards.
Now available for PC pre-order on buy.mutantyearzero.com, the game will be available in a Standard Edition ($34.99) and a Deluxe Edition ($54.99). The Deluxe Edition includes a desktop wallpaper, digital artbook, digital soundtrack, and a digital copy of the Mutant Year Zero pen-and-paper RPG book. Pre-ordering the Standard Edition will give you a three-day head start at launch while pre-ordering the Deluxe Edition gives you the same head start as well as access to a Beta version of the game before launch.
