[PS3]The Wall

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The Wall
Published by: Play Ten Interactive (PTI)
Developed by: World Forge
Genre: Shooter
Release Date:
US: Q1 2008
Europe: March 30, 2008
Also Available On: PC

Pre-E3 2006: World Forge Builds The Wall
Ancient Wars developer reveals new PS3 horror shooter.
by Jeremy Dunham
http://ps3.ign.com/articles/703/703884p1.html

April 28, 2006 - Russian developer / publisher Play Ten Interactive recently debuted its E3 2006 lineup (click here for the full story) and among the titles the company listed on its roster is The Wall, an all-new cyberpunk first-person shooter developed by fellow Russians, World Forge (Sparta: Ancient Wars) for the PC and PS3.

A wealth of information regarding The Wall is still a few weeks away (the game will be shown for the very first time at E3 in May), but World Forge and Play Ten have been kind enough to reveal a couple of details in the meantime to whet our appetites.

The earliest facts about The Wall primarily concern its story which involves a small European town and its inhabitants. Fiendish nightmares have begun materializing in the mind of a young doctor as he dreams of someone killing innocent townspeople in disgusting and merciless ways. Of course, it doesn't take long before it's discovered that the dreams are actually real and the police begin a manhunt to find the killer, but the bad news is that it seems that the killer is actually the young doctor himself (at least, that's what his dreams allude). If that's not intense enough, things begin to get really strange when the town suddenly becomes the battlefield for two warring alien civilizations and humankind is pushed to the brink of a great world war itself.


An early environmental shot from The Wall (PC version).

If you're anything like us, you're probably wondering if the game gets even stranger than its initial premise. Truth be told, we're wondering the exact same thing and can only imagine how a serial murder mystery turns into an intergalactic conflict between aliens. But hey, stranger things have happened... we think.

As for actual mechanical details, they're much, much scarcer. "Total fair destruction of the game world" and "an open gameplay style with strategic planning" are the only things we've really discovered up to this point. All the latest technological whiz bangs are expected too -- bump mapping, parallax mapping, specular highlighting, dynamic lighting, and a sophisticated physics engine are all par for the course.

We'll be back with more on The Wall at E3. Check out the game's first screenshots on our media page below.

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The Wall - Trailer
http://trailers.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_wall.wmv
http://trailers.gametrailers.com/gt_vault/t_wall.mov