News Foreclosed - releasing August 12

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Cyberpunk action shooter Foreclosed will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, PC via Steam, and Stadia on August 12 for $19.99 / £14.99 / €19.99, publisher Merge Games and developer Antab Studio announced.

FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations. Follow the story of Evan Kapnos, his identity recently Foreclosed, stripped of his job, his brain implants and his access to the city Block-chain, he must now escape before his identity and implants are auctioned off.



An Interactive Graphic Novel and Immersive Narrative
FORECLOSED combines the playability of video games with the sleek visual aesthetic of comic books. Everything from game-play to cinematics are experienced within the stylistic framework of a graphic novel. Full screen and comic panel perspectives are seamlessly blended as you move throughout FORECLOSED's Cyberpunk city, uncovering a gripping conspiracy story. Cutscenes are also interactive and transition smoothly between alternative game-play styles.




Hi-Tech Combat
Discover and unlock new abilities with an RPG-like skill system. Upgrade your weapon's potential with futuristic modifications like the Explosive or Machine-Gun Rounds mods, enhance your brain with experimental augmentations and fight back against your enemies. Learn to control your new abilities, fight opponents, and manipulate your surroundings. Acquire superhero-like abilities such as telekinesis to launch your enemies into the air or hurl huge objects at groups. Hack into different systems to create traps or even overheat the implants in your enemies’ heads.




Features Overview
  • Slick Cyberpunk Action – FORECLOSED is a narrative-driven action-adventure set in a Cyberpunk world filled with action, suspense, and experimental augmentations.
  • Interactive Comic Book - Everything from gameplay to cinematics are experienced within the stylistic framework of a graphic novel to make you truly feel like a comic book hero.
  • Immersive Narrative - Follow the story of Evan Kapnos, his identity recently Foreclosed, stripped of his job, brain implants and access to the city Blockchain. He must now escape the city before his identity and implants are auctioned off…
  • Hi-tech Combat - Modify your Symbiotic Pistol with an assortment of customisations that can be swapped out or even combined.
  • Augmentation Upgrades - Discover and unlock brain implant abilities with an RPG-like skill system


If you like these games, FORECLOSED is for you:
  • Max Payne
  • Liberated
  • Deus Ex series (Human Revolution, Mankind Divided, Invisible War)
  • Cloudpunk

Coming August 12th 2021!
 
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This interview is quite an interesting read.
TSA: Identity loss is a key theme of Foreclosed, and there has been mention of that being inspired by real-life experiences. Are you able to tell us what those experiences were, and how much of an impact they had on Foreclosed?

Antab: The concept of identity’s foreclosure, and a dystopian society where bureaucracy is so distant from reality, summarised how we felt when we had a small legal misadventure with the first office we rented. It’s a bit complicated to explain in detail, but basically, we got involved despite ourselves, in the foreclosure of the building where the office was located.

Having managed rental payments and papers in a very scrupulous way turned out to be a disadvantage for us because the former owner of the building used some technicalities to slow down and confuse the whole foreclosure procedure. Things were messed up to the point that it became too expensive/time-consuming for us to just stay there and make our voice heard in the court. Even though we were on the “right side”, we faced a mechanical and dehumanized bureaucracy. We realized how the legal entity we consider to be “a person” is a total artifact, being completely disconnected from the real human being behind it.

While trying to deal with that situation, we had a discussion – and a couple of beers – on the building rooftop, and there we realized we had some interesting hints and concepts to think of for our new game.

Fun fact: we derived the names of many Foreclosed’s characters form the real names of some of the people involved in our short legal misadventure.
 
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