2003's Chrome was a futuristic first-person shooter starring acharacter with the best hero name in human history, Bolt Logan. Loganadventured as a mercenary in a universe where corporations vied forcontrol of an element known only as "chrome." Developer Techland'sfollow-up, Chrome 2, seems to be heading in a slightly differentdirection with its mythos. While Chrome 2 still takes place in asimilarly futuristic era, you don't play as Logan again. Rather, you'rea solider in the military of the future--but not just any soldier. See,in this era, the dead aren't necessarily dead. When you die, aprocedure can be performed to take your consciousness and transfer itinto a new body. Sound familiar? Maybe that's because it's basicallythe plot to the 1992 sci-fi campfest Freejack, although here, you don'tget to play as Emilio Estevez, and Mick Jagger isn't trying to killyou. Here, once the procedure is done to you, you're forced to pay offthe cost with five years of military service. And if the demo of thegame we saw at E3 2006 is any indication, perhaps death might be a morereasonable proposition, given what you'll be in for.
The core gameplay concept behind Chrome 2 (apart from the fact thatit is a first-person shooter, first and foremost) is that your soldiercan upgrade his body in a whole host of ways. The game aims to includearound 200 types of weapons, but even outside of standard upgrades,you'll actually be able to straight-up steal other people's bodies whenrequired. One scenario we saw during our demo was a situation where aspecific NPC had access to something we needed. After blasting our waythrough a group of other enemies in an archetypal first-person-shooterscenario, we happened upon the target NPC. After hitting him with astunning weapon of some kind, we were then able to walk up to him andtransfer ourselves into his body. Doing this gave us access toeverything of his, including his weapons and abilities.
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