Well, that was a pleasant surprise. The Kids Aren't Alright was the last song that we were expecting to hear when we booted up the trailer for This War of Mine: Little Ones, but we suppose that The Offspring's classic pop punk single fits pretty darn well. Based upon 11 Bit Studios' survival smash, this game will put you in charge of a group of both children and adults, trying to survive in a war torn city.
You'll need to deal with limited food and medicine supplies, but as the post on the PlayStation Blog points out, "even in times of conflict, kids are still kids". This means that the children will laugh, cry, and play with toys – there's some real potential in this concept, but we're not sure that it's going to be for everyone. "Our goal as developers was to create a mature experience in which you're seeing war through the eyes of regular people," explained senior writer Paweł Miechowski. Bold.
He continued: "We've had this idea from the very beginning of the development of This War of Mine, but we were worried that people may not have been ready for such a serious game. Perhaps even quite a shocking one. But the reception of the game was brilliant – we got tons of positive feedback and acknowledgement for showing war as it was. So the next big step was expanding it by bringing kids to This War of Mine."
The kids will act and behave like youngsters, drawing on the walls of the shelter and conveying the full spectrum of emotions that you'd expect of children. More excitingly, the PS4 version of the game will contain an exclusive bonus shelter named the Large Mansion, which is nice. The title's due out on 29th January, so we should learn a lot more about this harrowing affair in the lead up to release.
[source blog.us.playstation.com]
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I'm quite surprised they're doing this. There's not much margin for error here, but it could be very special if they nail it.
If it's as addictive as Fallout Shelter, Ill take a look
Its the best game you will play once, think about what you have done and never EVER playing it again, because you feel so bad about it that you cant do it.
Its so unsettling, i love it but it makes me hate myself for the things i did, its NOT a fun game, its a game that tries to tell a history about war (the real one, the one about survivors) and it deliberately tries to make you feel bad about playing the game, and it succeeds, a 100%.
Game of the year 2014 for me, the more people can play this masterpiece the better.
It tells a better story than most games without even having a story
@Faruko High praise. Do you reckon they'll be able to pull off the children aspect? Obviously, it already sounds pretty dark - but they're turning it up several notches by adding kids.
Didn't know this was coming to ps4, very excited for this, it's been a critical success from what I believe, looking forward to seeing more about it
@get2sammyb it looks super grim, and for a game like this feels great.
It feels it might be hard to "balance", especially considering how hard it was at the start of each game, but this is a pretty good developer...
Hopefully it works because it might add another layer of complex to this game
I saw a stream of this, it was super boring but maybe the guy was playing it wrong.
Sound's very very intresting i'm defo going to keep an eye on this one and will probably pick it up, might even open some people's eye's to what million's of people are going through in war torn part's of the world constantly even as I type this post.
the offspring ? rad ! just come here from reading about the increase in dreamcast sales - suddenly it's 1999 again !
Nice quasi Blink-182 reference.
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