JoWood Productions har udsendt en pressemeddelelse, der afslører, at firmaet er på vej med en nyt futuristisk FPS-spil med titlen Chaser. Dagen i dag bringer også de fire første overraskende flotte screenshots. Spillet foregår i en nær fremtid (2044), hvor du spiller John Chaser, som vågner op med hukommelsestab og på ganske bar bund. Spillet tager sit udgangspunkt på både jorden og på Mars. Chaser vil efter planen være på markedet til Pc’en i andet kvartal.
THE HISTORY OF THE FUTURE FINALLY REVEALED
Monday 3rd February 2003 – JoWooD Productions is proud to announce the first official details on the gripping futuristic storyline behind the breathtaking first-person shoot ’em up, Chaser, the PC game scheduled for a UK release in Q2 2003.
Chaser is set in the year 2044 with players taking the role of John Chaser who, at the beginning of the game, wakes up suffering from amnesia on board the spaceship HMS Majestic being pursued by a crack team of heavily armed shocktroop soldiers. The game then takes players into an apocalyptic future set on Earth and Mars.
Many people decided that respectable life on Earth was no longer possible as its derelict cities only provide scant shelter to humans suffering poverty on an unprecedented scale. Meanwhile suburbia has become a haven for gangs of violent criminals who have made the streets a place where all innocent people fear to tread. The backdrop to Chaser is a planet Earth that has become a centre for hardship and anarchy.
In an attempt to ease the suffering, humans have colonised Mars since the year 2042. The organisation championing this move is MarsCorp, led by its charismatic founder, Samuel Longwood. Inhabiting Mars has proved a tremendous success for all involved but Longwood is a hugely ambitious man and even though he has incredible influence on both Earth and Mars, he is putting the final touches to his master plan – for Mars to have complete autonomy from Earth. The reasons behind this plan have not been made clear but there is a small but vocal minority that believe that this is to further the influence that Longwood has, making him without doubt one of the most powerful men in the solar system.
Commenting on the the game, Colin Grant, Marketing Manager at JoWooD Productions said: “Chaser is more exciting than finding out Kylie is your new nextdoor neighbour and more nerve-racking than finding out that Saddam Hussein has moved into the house opposite! The pace will never let up as you go careering through each dramatic plot twist and turn in a hail of bullets!”
Chaser will be released in the UK in Q2 2003 on PC CD Rom with an ELSPA rating of 15+.
JoWooD Productions UK LTD. of Bushey, Hertfordshire, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Austria-based JoWooD productions Software AG, a publicly traded company on the Vienna Stock Exchange, which is rapidly establishing itself as a leading force in the video games industry. Its strategy is to identify develop and publish internationally competitive, high-quality entertainment software for all existing next-generation gaming platforms. JoWooD Productions has in-house development facilities in Vienna and Ebensee, Austria and a fast growing roster of exceptional subsidiary studios, including Wings Simulations and Massive Development in Germany.






























har jowood nogensinde udgivet et godt spil?