Blackpowder Games has announced Betrayer, an upcoming single player FPS set in colonial America... that just also happens to include zombies.
Blackpowder Games is made up of former developers that have worked on F.E.A.R. and No One Lives Forever. PC Gamer has some additional hands-on impressions. With any luck the game will play a lot better than the above trailer looked, though by the looks of those screenshots I think perhaps I am getting my hopes up too high.
The story of Betrayer is expressed through scattered clues—gravestone engravings, artifacts, notes, and other evidence that you find in the world. Assembling these clues pieces together the truth of what happened to an abandoned British settlement. One of colonial history’s greatest mysteries, the Roanoke colony, was among the inspirations for this premise, says creative lead Craig Hubbard. “The social situation of that time was really interesting,” says Hubbard, formerly the lead designer on Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, F.E.A.R., and the NOLF series. “I don’t know if you’ve read about what it was like to be in the Pilgrim colonies, like if you broke the law, but they’d like… pile stones on you until you died. It was just brutal and horrific and that’s great subject matter for an atmospheric and eerie game.”
Blackpowder Games is made up of former developers that have worked on F.E.A.R. and No One Lives Forever. PC Gamer has some additional hands-on impressions. With any luck the game will play a lot better than the above trailer looked, though by the looks of those screenshots I think perhaps I am getting my hopes up too high.