Mutant Year Zero - Announced

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Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden has been revealed by Funcom. It is described as a story based, tactical adventure game with XCOM style turn-based combat. You can also expect strategy, stealth and exploration.



About This Game

From a team including former designers of HITMAN and PAYDAY comes Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, a tactical adventure game that combines the turn-based combat of XCOM with a real-time stealth and exploration of a post-human world reclaimed by nature… and Mutants.

Of course the world ends.

It was just a question of time. Extreme climate change, global economic crisis, a lethal pandemic, and increasing tension between old and new superpowers. For the first time since 1945 nuclear weapons were used in armed conflict. Mushroom clouds rose from east to west before the dust settled.

Now it’s over and the Earth is still. Nature has invaded ruined cities. Wind sweeps through empty streets, turned into graveyards.

The humans are all gone. Scavenging through the remains of civilization are the Mutants, deformed humanoids and animals alike, searching for salvation or just something to eat. To survive, you and your companions must venture out to explore the Zone.

Maybe one day you will find the Eden of legends, the ancients’ haven in the middle of hell. That’s where truth awaits, the stories say. Maybe you will find your answers there.

Then again, maybe it’s all bullshit.

TACTICAL COMBAT

Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is the ultimate fix for your tactical strategy addiction. Dive into a deep, turn-based, tactical combat system inspired by the XCOM games.

EXPLORE A POST-HUMAN EARTH

Journey through a post-human world of abandoned cities, crumbling highways, and overgrown countryside. Check back at the Ark, a neon-bathed oasis of ill repute and questionable characters, to restock your supplies and plan out your next adventure.

CONTROL A TEAM OF MUTANTS

A duck with an attitude problem and a boar with anger issues; these aren’t your typical heroes. Get to know Dux, Bormin, Selma, and many other characters each with their own unique personality and deranged perspective on the world and their situation.

MASTER THE STEALTHY APPROACH

Sneak through shadows to avoid conflict or to catch enemies unaware. Real-time stealth allows you full control of approach: sneak into an enemy camp, position the team of Mutants to your advantage, and gain the element of surprise.

UNLOCK MUTATIONS

Unlock new mutations and abilities for your Mutants, such as Selma’s Stoneskin, Bormin’s Charge, and Dux‘ uncanny ability to sneak into a camp full of enemies unnoticed, despite being a 4-foot tall walking, talking duck with a crossbow.

DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT

Use the environment to your advantage. Stay out of floodlights, hide from line of sight, or just blast down fully destructible walls and buildings and wreak utter havoc.

LOOT, LOOT EVERYWHERE

From makeshift slingshots to high-powered rifles and top hats to police vests, make sure you equip your Mutants for the dangers ahead. Nothing says post-human quite like a mutated boar in spiked metal armor charging at you with a blunderbuss in his hands.
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A SP game by Funcom? Last time was when? Longest Journey and its sequel?

Let's see..
 
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Last SP from Funcom was The Park, three years ago.

But, yeah, the last NOTABLE game was many moons ago and it was Dreamfall

I am curious, the gameplay sounds right, the world is wacky enough to get me interested.
 
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The setting is certainly interesting to me, I guess the real question will be exactly how the mechanics and gameplay work out. I'm keen to hear more, I'm not the biggest Funcom fan but I'll wait and see what they produce before I reach for my pitchfork and/or spade.
 
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Video is well done.

- So game will be mission-based
- Exploratin and stealth will be important too.
- I wonder if there is enough heroes to change whole party.
- Heroes that aren’t your typical heroes in fact look like your typical bad boy heroes. :) For example boar with anger issues is exactly like the dwarf with anger issues from Blackguards. Duck with attitude problem is like the mage from the same game.
- 2018 is the year of mutant heroes - this game, Beyond Good and Evil 2, Ghost of a Tale, Biohazard… Are pets more popular nowadays? :)
 
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My main character will be Howard, the Duck :)
 
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My leading man shall be Chilly Willy the Samurai Penguin, dealer of death and popsicles!! Argggh!!~

My leading man would be Aesop. As for the rest of the party, Howard (the Duck), Rocksteady and Bebop :p

Jokes aside, I will keep an eye on this game.
 
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This looks potentially really cool.... though some reservations about it coming from Funcom. Worth keeping an eye on.

I like the characters in the trailer... wonder if there will be others you can recruit?
 
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Well it certainly looks different so, if it's more than just a shooter, I'll certainly be interested.
 
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- Heroes that aren’t your typical heroes in fact look like your typical bad boy heroes. :) For example boar with anger issues is exactly like the dwarf with anger issues from Blackguards. Duck with attitude problem is like the mage from the same game.
Sounds like you want real originality in the writing. That's a tall tall order from game developers.
 
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