En primicia mundial, sólo aquí en EOL esta tarde tendréis screens de 2 Days to Vegas. Acaban de llegarme al correo electrónico.
Por el momento, aquí nuestra preguntas y respuestas:
1) Thank you for confirming that the 2 Days to Vegas is alive, it is a relief taking into consideration the large amount of canceled games. The first question is quite obvious: What is the current stage of the development of the game?
You are welcome) Now we are approaching Alpha. So you can hope for the release early next year.
2) An enormous lack of information for years. Has the game been on stand-by at some point?
There wasn’t any stand-by pause. The reason of this media silence is quite simple. We wanted to work on our project without undue hype. We had lots of ideas from the beginning and even more had appeared in process. Couple of months ago we broke the silence cause now we are 100% sure that we are ready, everything we want is achievable and soon you will see the result of our hard work.
3) What has your team been doing all these years? I mean, is still the project so ambitious that has required this extreme effort?
From the beginning we wanted to buy an engine. But very soon we realized that we need our own and exclusive one to fulfill all of our plans and ideas. And it’s not so easy to create own high-end engine these days. But after we made our “Steel Engine” everything became possible). Our game-designers received a tool that can bring their imagination to reality. The happiness and joy about this fact provoked a creative chaos) But very productive chaos, soon you will see.
4) Is 2 Days to Vegas finally a sandbox game with Rockstar’s GTA style?
100% NO! We made a serious game; there is no time for sandbox activities! You know, when your brother’s life is on a stake and you are in the middle of the gang war between Italians and Russians you simply don’t have a time for a new haircut or a friendly booze meeting!
5) Could you provide some information about the plot, the main characters, cities to be toured, etc?
Yep, sure! Our story is quite dramatic and bringing to the surface some philosophical questions. For example – “Who is your real family? People who share same blood or people who can cover you even in a hell’s kitchen?”. And our main characters will provide a player with an opportunity to decide that.
First of all, Vinny. Born of highly unlikely Irish-Italian ascension, he lost his father early on. The cops never found the responsible ones, but the rumor had it that not every mother’s countryman was so tolerant as his mother was. When mother died later on from cancer, Vinny, still a teen, was left with a young kid brother on his hands and no caring heart around. He grew up on the street and got a rough education, and deserved respect of local gangmen.. [color=#ff0000]But he clearly understood where this life style leads to. In addition a woman appeared in his life. On contrary, his kid brother Tony had no second thoughts about crime or no crime and finally gets busted with illegal firearm. Vinny steps in, takes the blame and gets three years in Rickers. And Tony…On the outside he is just an arrogant eighteen year old with “get in your face” attitude, but there is more behind the curtains. As said, Vinny have a girlfriend – her name is Nikky. She was a stripper but love came into her life and she wanted a change. When Vinny got imprisoned, Nicky was deeply struck. She used to cry at nights alone and went to visit Vinny every week end. Nicky started working as a bar woman in some bar not far from her house and counted days till Vinny’s release… Tony left Big Apple in a search of easy life learning no lessons. Surely the problems were bound to find him again, and just as Vinny is getting out he learns that his younger brother got himself in some very serious situation with mafia…. That’s where we start…. [/color]
About the cities. NYC, Las Vegas and Chicago are three main cities. The action also take place on connecting highways, at small towns, suburb villas, petroleum stations and even Nevada desert.
6) The first look of the game was extremely realistic; is it the game focused to an adult public?
Our game is focused to a more adult auditory. It’s realistic, sometimes cruel and dramatic. It’s not a funny sandbox. It’s nearly a criminal drama movie.
7) Has the game finally a publisher? Multiplatform game (PC, PS3, Xbox360)? --- (Please, make a PS3 version, please, please).
Sorry but we cannot say much about it for now cause we are in the middle of a negotiations. And yes, we are multiplatform on PC, 360 and down the road on PS3..So your console will not collect a dust in the corner)
8) Is there any release date scheduled?
It’s also a topic that now also in negotiation. But we hope it will be in the beginning of the 2010.
9) And, by last, when can we expect further official material: artworks, screens, videos, teasers?
We are happy provide you some new screenshots, and soon we hope to roll out our official trailer so stay tuned)