The team behind it have Hitman and Payday to their names, and with turned based XCOM tactical combat, real time exploration and a ton of stealth gameplay promised, it most certainly looks to have a bit of a draw. But what is it? Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden!
Announced today by Funcom and Swedish devs, Bearded Ladies, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden promises to bring you some tactical adventuring.
Due to release later in 2018 on Xbox One, PS4 and PC, you’ll be found taking control of a team of unlikely heroes, including Dux (a crossbow-wielding, walking, talking duck) and Bormin (a boar with serious anger issues), as you help them navigate a post-human Earth with its abandoned cities, crumbling highways, and mutated monsters on every corner. What is the ultimate goal you may ask. Well, it’ll be to save yourselves by finding the legendary Eden.
Powered by Unreal Engine, the game is based on the classic ‘Mutant’ IP that has spawned several popular role-playing games since the 1980s, including the current ‘Mutant: Year Zero’ from Free League and Modiphius Entertainment.
About the game:
Of course the world ends, it was just a question of time. Extreme climate change, global economic crisis, a lethal pandemic, and increasing tension between old and new superpowers. For the first time since 1945 nuclear weapons were used in armed conflict. Mushroom clouds rose from east to west before the dust settled. The humans are gone. The Mutants are here.
“It’s an unusual label for a game, but tactical adventure really fits the bill, no duck pun intended,” says Executive Producer Ulf Andersson at Bearded Ladies. Andersson is also known for being the designer of the 2011 megahit ‘PAYDAY’. “Our goal is to blend the deep and tactical combat of ‘XCOM’ with a branching storyline that unfolds as you explore overgrown forests and abandoned cities with your team of Mutants. Mixing that with real-time stealth gameplay gives you a unique way to approach or avoid combat situations you encounter while exploring.”
We’ll be sure to bring you more in the weeks and months ahead.
