Raven's Cry - Preview @ Hardcore Gamer

Hardcore Gamer has a new preview with more information about Raven's Cry.

Raven’s Cry is an upcoming action adventure game from Topware Interactive that aims to show pirates in a more authentic light, portraying the more unsavory aspects of historical piracy. As such, the game will be a much darker, grittier, and mature take on the life of a pirate. The game’s main character, Christopher Raven, has been described as an “anti hero on a quest of revenge,” which definitely seems like a premise suited to this darker and more brutal vision of 17th century pirates.

Raven’s Cry has been in development for quite a while, and it’s safe to say there have been bumps in the road along the way. The game was first announced all the way back in 2011 and was originally slated for a 2013 release. Throughout the course of development, Topware Interactive became dissatisfied with the progress developer Octane Games had made, so the entire project was handed over to Reality Pump Studios in August of 2013. Reality Pump is best known for the Two Worlds games, the first being a deeply flawed game with some interesting ideas while the second came much closer to executing on those ideas and was considered by many to be a solid RPG.

When Raven’s Cry releases, Reality Pump will have had less than a year with the game, so concern about the final quality is certainly warranted, though hopefully the strides the developer made with the Two Worlds games can aid them in taking Raven’s Cry down the home stretch.