Natwerk Designs

I have this design for a video game....?

Hey everyone!!! I've been thinking about this video game that I would want to design. I've got the general idea and some of the framework for the gameplay, but I want to know if it's something you guys would play. In response to this question, please: 1.) Tell me if you would play it, 2.)Tell me your all time favorite videogame So, here goes! Your character lives in a New York like city. Large, densly populated, dirty. Your character is a fresh out of college student whose hobby is sports, mostly pickup basketball and krav maga. You live in an apartment with your younger brother. Recently, the crime rate has been steadily rising, but not where you live. On the other side of town. You don't care, everything is good with you. Then, it seems like you hear about more and more crime closer and closer to your apartment. Then, after a day at the gym, you return home. Your front door is bashed in and the lights are off. You slowly enter to find your brother laying on the floor, bleeding everywhere. You call 911. From this point, you steadily notice more crime. You witness your local bank being robbed, your car gets stolen, and you even see an old man being beaten by some thugs. You've had enough. You decide to put an end to this and attempt to clean your city up. Should you just go out in a football helmet and beat the tar out of the thugs with your bare hands? If you really want to take care of it, wouldn't you rather just buy a gun? But then, should you kill the men who are killing those you love? Is that justice or revenge? You choose. The game will be a close, 3rd person view game, Similar to The Bourne Conspiracy. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI31KnJoIAc) The game will be free running. Similar to Assasins Creed, however a little bit more deep. I will model the free running movements after parkour. ( If you dont know what this is, look it up on youtube). The focus of Parkour is to get from A to B in the fastest, most eficient manner. If you watch a free runner do his thing, it is amazing. It will feel flowing, almost liquid. The free running will be a combination between The Bourne Conspiracy, Assasins Creed, and Mirror's Edge. You can explore, patrol, protect, the entire city, free roaming. Next, the fighting. As you can see from the gameplay from The Bourne Conspiracy, the fighting was simplistic and frankly, lame. Almost every single fighting game out there is a button masher. This game won't be like that. You will have the choice as to where and how you strike. Complete control. The fighting will be based around Krav Maga and Fillipino Kali. Again, I havn't figured out a sure control scheme but there will be a way to be good or bad at this game. As I implied earlier, you can use whatever you want. Your fists, a bottle, a baseball bat, a gun, a shotgun, an M-16, even a bomb. But, whatever means you use, will affect who you are in the game. Sure, you may get it done quickly, but are you actually stopping crime, or are you just creating more of it. Furthermore, if you use a baseball bat, you can beat a man in order to get him to talk, or you could beat him to a pulp...dead. How far are you willing to go? So, similar to a Fable type choice. If you do choose to use a gun, it will be a high quality shooter. In line with Gears of War. Many 3rd persons suck, but not this one. Cover and reloading will also tie in perfectly with the fluidity of the gameplay. In order to not be repetitive, when you get in a car, you switch to a first person view and it turns into a full fledge drving game. The choices you make while driving will change what happens too. You could drive around running people over, but this will have a drastic effect on who you are. So, now why should people care about stopping the crime? You could just spend hours and hours jumping from rooftop to rooftop, even robbing banks yourself. But the longer you let the crime go on, the worse its going to get. It will get worse and worse even to the point that it is irreversable. Everyone you know will be affected by the growth, your city will shut down. So, you probably want to keep it clean. So as you can tell, this is still just a concept. But imagine what it could be. There is just a severe lack of quality superhero games and even games that make you feel like the bomb when you play. I want all your suggestions. Story, gameplay, control scheme, gimme it all... THANKS FOR READING!!!! -JAKE

Public Comments

1. Story needs more effort put into it. You have to make it more in depth. But yeah it does sound prety kick ass. You make that story better and you could make a kick ass game. Id play it.