Devolver and Croteam announce SCUM
Croteam have been quiet since they released the excellent Serious Sam 3: BFE a couple years back and the groundbreaking puzzle game The Talos Principle. Everyone assumed that the inevitable Serious Sam 4 was the main project they were working on, but Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital have just announced a completely new IP with SCUM. Built on the Unreal 4 engine, SCUM is an open world survival game where convicted felons are let loose on a prison island, to hunt and kill each other for the amusement of reality TV junkies.
We've seen a lot of survival games lately, from the artistically beautiful The Long Dark to the huge but tedious No Man's Sky, but many of these have been indie efforts with long development cycles. I've thought the concept of a prison colony would make an amazing sandbox game for a long time, so I'm glad that an experienced developer like Croteam with a solid track record for quality games is basically making one of my dream games. SCUM will enter Early Access on Steam in 2017, and I'll definitely be keeping a close eye on it.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DEVOLVER DIGITAL ANNOUNCES OPEN WORLD PRISON RIOT ‘SCUM’
BY GAMEPIRES AND CROTEAM COMING IN 2017
- Serve A Life Sentence for Fifteen Minutes of Fame -
ZAGREB – Developer Gamepires (Gas Guzzlers Extreme) in cooperation with Croteam (Serious Sam series, The Talos Principle) and publisher Devolver Digital have announced SCUM, an intriguing and complex open world survival game, coming to PC via Early Access in 2017.
“SCUM is a big leap forward in survival games,” said Tomislav Pongrac, Gamepires project lead. "We've implemented new, intricate systems behind common elements of the genre to produce exhilarating new gameplay scenarios.”
The world’s unquenchable need for entertainment has turned towards bloodlust as entertainment behemoth TEC1 is set to premiere season two of its television sensation SCUM. This new season moves the contest from the rugged, enclosed Alcatraz sector to the full grandure of Bagne de Cayenne, an island with a sordid history of violent incarceration. Both fan favorites and new prisoners will clash in a ruthless war of survival while battling for the support of viewers, producers, and corporate sponsors for fame, gifts, and a chance of life after death.
SCUM evolves the multiplayer open world survival game with unprecedented levels of character customization, control, and progression where knowledge and skills are the ultimate weapons for long-term survival. Players will balance base level needs with knowledge-based skills to manage everything from nourishment, metabolic rate, and body mass to weapons proficiency, combat style, and security systems hacking. Dominate the island with your skills, cunning, and strategies to achieve higher levels of game and receive powerful gifts from corporate sponsors and, if you happen to slip up and die, get resurrected by the show’s producers with all your valuable skills still intact.
“The systems at play in SCUM are astounding and we believe it will raise the bar of what is expected in a modern survival game moving forward,” noted Croteam CEO and SCUM producer Roman Ribaric. “Characters, environments, and even the players knowledge base are all dynamic and the changes in them can greatly effect the hierarchy of the island.”
SCUM is built with Unreal Engine 4 and set to launch on PC via Early Access in 2017. Fans can follow details on development with weekly dev blogs on scumgame.com and on Twitter @SCUMgame.
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