Game News Pokémon: it announces a Call of Duty FPS as shocking as it is appreciated
Pokémon is an inexhaustible franchise that will soon give birth to a new opus, Pokémon Legends Arceus, which the community is waiting for. Then, there are the amateur projects which denote a little, like this FPS which knows a real success on the web.
Exterminate them all
Despite a principle that some might call relatively cruel – capturing creatures against their will to make them face them, that’s what upset Brigitte Bardot – the Pokémon saga is not one that can be considered “violent”: its access is deliberately general public, the artistic direction very colorful and, overall, the games are playable by children as well as adults. Inevitably, some wonder what the series could look like if it interfered only in a bloody and merciless world, only reserved for adults. After all why not ?
Indie developer Dragon has just set itself this challenge: he developed a Pokémon FPS in his spare time by breaking all the moral barriers set by Nintendo. It is of course specified that this is absolutely not an official first-person shooter, that goes without saying.
The man of the day has therefore chosen one of the most popular video game engines for the gestation of his strange baby, namely the Unreal Engine. By way of inspiration, he cites the great tenors of the genre such as Call of Duty, Halo or Overwatch : we thus find a very arcade feeling, some well-known weapons and, above all, sprays of blood that spring from Pokémon… which he considers “strangely satisfying”. His game is simply about surviving in a world of aggressive creatures by shooting them down before they kill you, plain and simple.
Mew-Tue
The rendering is obviously… strange. The player pulls and shoots Pokémon, which crumble to the ground in hemoglobin: you can even stop a Pikachu with a shotgun, without flinching. Suffice to say that this contrasts drastically with the versions of Big N, who must also see the thing with dismay.
On the social media side, it’s a full box since the tweet presenting the project has collected 71,000 likes and 13,000 retweets, at the time of this writing. We can see in the comments that this totally independent game is as much fun as it is abrupt, all in a general irony that is widely assumed.
Dragon has also published a making-of of its project, which you can find below. Still, a first-person Pokémon game might be an idea worth exploring…
Who’s sick enough to wanna kill a Pokemon????
Really…why??????
— Bald Bald (@cidadao_mal) January 18, 2022
This is disturbing. Is there any way to download it?
— André Young (@amdre_young) January 19, 2022
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