4A Games, the developers known for the Metro series of post-apocalyptic shooters, brought their latest project to this year’s Game Developers Conference. Called Arktika.1, it’s an exclusive for the Oculus Touch. Polygon had a chance to try it out.
Arktika.1 is another kind of post-apocalyptic game, something that executive producer John Block is calling it a “silent apocalypse.” Just 80 years into the future, global warming causes the entire planet to freeze over. Huge migrations take place and nations collapse.
“The only really comfortably habitable region of the planet is wrapped around the equator,” Block told Polygon. “So, this game takes place in one of the colonies that was built on the remains of a city that was in what now is Russian territory. But in the future, there are no countries anymore. There’s just colonies and cities that have formed out of the rubble that used to be society. You play as a mercenary that’s sent in to protect a facility at this colony that provides the resources for the cities in the equatorial region.”
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Source: Polygon