I just read through their Kickstarter page and was ready to diagnose them with Your World Syndrome until I reached the bit about much of the team having worked on Psi-Ops.
I more or less did the same thing LC. That said, their best titles are pretty old at this point. They mentioned doing some mobile gaming that I'm not familiar with.
I think they oversold their ambitions a wee bit. Trying to be industry/genre redefining from the outset usually doesn't pan out with the actual game. Like, it's cool they have zeal and everything, but reading the world description they seem to have some sort of weird social justice message.
Anyways, I was curious at the $500,000 goal but I figure that has a lot to do with the cost of licensing UE4. My issue always with games that are about full customizability and "dozens and dozens" of powers is that there's often a lot of duplication and redundancy. One ability is a re-skinned/renamed version of another. In an effort to cover all the angles (magic, melee, ranged), gameplay starts feeling generic. It'll be impossible to tell if that's the case with this until after it's either funded or folded. The Secret World basically promised this exact same thing, and while their systems are cool, large parts of it are notoriously flat, and the best customization involves your clothes, not your actual character.
I'm interested but this one kinda has red flags showing. Big goals, big talk and a sizable funding goal. They are at least professionals and have some prototypes to show off. But even if successfully backed it's hard to say what the game would ultimately end up like, and I think that's what's primarily what's stopping me. Game play is "build a really detailed character, do missions, shoot guys" so far. I guess when it comes to FPS, I'm a lot less eager to dive in, than with a genre that doesn't have a new offering every 2 months.
I'll keep an eye on it but I need more specifics than what they're saying to feel good about backing.
Note too, their conservative release estimate puts the game about a year and a half out. Which means this may be two or more years in development.
Their $25 (or $20) dollar tier does seem pretty tempting though, quite a bit offered at that level compared to other games.
Digital Download of Project Awakened + Access to the closed beta starting August 2014 + Pre-release Digital Soundtrack + Exclusive Desktop Wallpaper + Exclusive Kickstarter-only forum access with development journal updates.
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