Here's the newest scren from the game and some story update (I still have a lot to work on that place from where the screen is taken):
http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/282/hydroco.jpg
OK, here's the story and concept update I should have posted long time ago:
Let's take a look at my first post:
Metal Force is a First person shooter (a game I have always dreamed of making) mainly.I said mainly,because somethinmes the game turns to a 3-rd person shooter.The chageable view is locked,so the game desides where it will be 3rd and when it will bi 1-st.I know it sounds bad,but you'll see,it's not that bad after all.
In the game there's that EPA (Earth Protection Assosiation).It is a huge corporation,which protects the planet earth.It's splited on 3 teams (if I can say it like that),They are "Terror Justice","Storm Squad" and "Metal Froce".The whol thing happens in the near future,sto the 3 teams have their own SpaceShips(I say team,but in on team there are about 2000 people and their spaceships are huge) the name of Metal Force's ship is Airfreak (well,it's a little crazy to name a ship like that,sooo if you don't like the name,tell me,I'll think of something else).
The 3 teams protect the earth from aliens,terrorists etc.
So here's how the game begins:
One day Metal Force got a mission,they got to land on the earth in a city called Metalpolis (I'm not sure about this name too it's kind of stuipid) and stop an evil group of bandits,who are killing people,destroying the city and have evil (unknown) plans for destroying europe and Reality Factory (no,I was kidding,just Europe).But when Metal Force (MF) get near Earth with their spaceship,angry aliens attack them(I got that idea from HALO actually ).So the game starts,and you get to be Jake,he is on of the bes MF members.He and his friends are trying to escape the ship(like all the others) and land with a shuttle in Metalpolis,so they can acomplish their mission.But the commander calls and wants Jake to come with him (who is in the control room) to get all the aliens killed,so they won't be able to take over the ship.Annd...all the action is ahead.I won't tell you ehat happens next,because I want the game to be interesting when you play it.
I said mainly,because somethinmes the game turns to a 3-rd person shooter.The chageable view is locked,so the game desides where it will be 3rd and when it will bi 1-st.I know it sounds bad,but you'll see,it's not that bad after all.
First of all, this is NOT gonna happen.
The game will be first person all the time except the missions where you get to drive a vehicle, but that's to be done yet. There will be a lot of cutscenes so you'll be seing yourself often.
In the game there's that EPA (Earth Protection Assosiation).It is a huge corporation,which protects the planet earth.It's splited on 3 teams (if I can say it like that),They are "Terror Justice","Storm Squad" and "Metal Froce".The whol thing happens in the near future,sto the 3 teams have their own SpaceShips(I say team,but in on team there are about 2000 people and their spaceships are huge)
No,no,no, there will be no such thing like "EPA" or two other "teams", there will be only Metal Force, which has a huge number of troopers, scientists and others, but no one knows their number.
OK so the main city in the game is called "Central City", not "Metalpolis". It's the largest and most developed city in Europe (any suggestions what will be it's coordinates?) . The Metal Force Headquarters are located there also. So one day Metal Force are flying with their big spaceship (which is still called Airfreak, I'll psot a picture of it lately, cuz we changed the ship's model several times) and suddenly they got attacked by aliens. No one know what's goin' on including the player. You just wake up from the hit and your pals tell you that Airfreak has been hit by an unknown alien race. The commander tells you to meet up with him and your other pals - Jenity and Bolt in the control room. Yeah, the problem is that the control room is pretty far, so you start killing aliens making your way to the control room. A lot of doors are closed, random explosions block your way (that's already done btw) so that you gotta find another one. That first level is consisted of 4 parts (Gamemaker said that my first level is bigger than his whole game
). In my first post I said that you gotta kill all the aliens so they won't be able to take over the ship. Well in the level your task will be to get to the control room, there will be lots of aliens standing in your way, but you won't have to kill them if you're so merciful. The aliens manage to do damage to the spaceship enough that the ship requires emergency landing. When you get to the control room, the commander sends you, Jenity and Bolt to the shuttles, so you can evacuate in case he won't be able to land safely.
After a safe land in he Headquarters, the intelligence gives information for an unknown thiefs fighting with the police at the city's harbor and trying to get something into the city. You get the immediately and start helping the police. At the end of the level you meet your first boss. It's a helicopter (not yet scripted). The pilot says "Aha, so this is Jake from Metal Force? Not for long buddy!" Than you shoot it with the rocket launcher you just found (good luck if you don't find it! It's in your way btw
:D) After you defeat it, you and your pals take one of the containers the bad guys were trying to get through the harbor. It turns out that there's a nuclear bomb in it.
The bad guys have been defeated, but that's only the beginning of something big... Their next strike is in Central City where they run arround, kill people, do bad stuff. You, yor pals, the troopers and the police are trying to stop them. In the end of the level one of the bad guys gets on the top of a boulding and reveals who they are and what they want. Their name is PYTHON and are something like terrorists from America (america has nothing to do with them). They want 2500000 square kilometers of the Europe's area...of course the commander's comment is "250000?! THEY ARE INSANE!!!
" (yeah, in the game everyone talks a lot, the voices are recorded in a professional record studio).
Let's skip here the story
Here's when the things get clear:
One night Metal Force attack PYTHON's headquarters, which are hidden in an old laboratory-like place. (your mission there is to destroy everything...people, items, computers, vehicles) Than in the next par of the level where you all get in the base, you see the aliens, who attacked you in the beginning...obiously they are cooperating with PYTHON.Together they have managed to make series of deadly robots, programmed to be hostile to Metal FOrce and all civilians...yeah, but a bug in the system makes them turn also against PYTHON so in the levels that follow robots will break and start killing everyone from time to time.
I'm not gonna talk anymore about the story, cuz it won't be interesting to you when you play the game. It's about 40% done at this point, videos from the gameplay will be available after the release of RF 0.80
I'll soon also upload pictures of the charaters (the main ones).
