Scars Above: a modern Metroid (alien planet 'em up)

[dosboot]

Saw this gameplay trailer and thought it looked cool. Reminds me of what Metroid might have looked like if it was conceived today.

Scars Above stars Kate Ward, a mission specialist and astrobiologist with a background in engineering. She’s a part of the SCAR team (Sentient Contact Assessment and Response) in the game.

Game Director Ivan Zorkic at Mad Head Games talked about the setting of the game, saying: “an alien object appears near-earth and a team of astronauts are sent to explore it. However for some reason this results in an event which causes them to be transported to an alien planet.”

 

[Exposition Owl]

Interesting! Seems almost like a mixture of Metroid Prime with RE4.

 

[Becksworth]

I remember seeing this gameplay showcase earlier this week and being completely distracted by that janky world premiere chyron. I thought there may be something wrong with my TV after moving it…

 

[4-So]

Strong resemblance to Returnal. Gun play looks more like Dead Space, and there's no roguelike elements (that I can see), but yeah... very reminiscent of Returnal.

I think I would prefer something like this. As much as I love Returnal, the RNG stuff on each run was heavy-handed - it could make or break you early - and the difficulty is a tad too rich for my blood. I've said before that I wish Returnal was a little more traditional Metroidvania and this game looks more like what I was talking about.

 

[dosboot]

Yeah, the themeing of the world and starting situation very much brings to mind Returnal. But its a normal game that lets you explore a world and collect stuff.

 

[lincolnic]

As an audio engineer, I was immediately bothered by how the main character makes the same footstep sounds on the spaceship as on the planet.

As a video game player, this has a lot of ingredients that I like, so I'll have to keep an eye on it!

 

[madhair60]

i have to say this looks a touch rubbish and I apologise if you worked on it or something