BIART announced today that it's developing U-WARS for Xbox 360, PC and PSP. The game has been in development since 2007 and will hit retail stores in mid 2010.
U-Wars is described as a tactical sci-fi third person shooter set in an ultra realistic subaqueous scenario. Combining the thrill of an undersea setting with a cinematic approach and a superior story line "U-Wars" is the first lifelike underwater action experience.
A few issues back games took a look at Hydrophobia, the upcoming water-based action-adventure from newly formed studio Dark Energy Digital. Its focus is on allowing water to run free within the game's environments, utilising it as an element that can be advantageous to the player as a tool in their arsenal, or a destructive force that can easily overcome those that don't mind its power.
Hydrophobia isn't out until next year, but it's already shaping up to be something different at the very least; the utmost effort put into making each torrent of water or subtle ripple as convincing and lifelike as possible. U-Wars – a contraction that stands for the rather unimaginative Underwater Wars – is similarly making water its focal feature. However, while Dark Energy Digital has looked for new ways to make water a challenging game design element and complex puzzle-solving tool, Russian Studio Biart has done little other than use it as a flimsy excuse for originality.
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Default Prime has got two more screens for you U-Wars. The highly anticipated underwater action strategy game being developed by Biart. The game's coming out on the PSP, Xbox 360, and PC. Here are a couple of screens of the game running.
Wait, wait. If this is Underwater Wars I heard about this a looonnnng time ago.
no ps3?... man wat ay bummer
Looks very cool. Can't wait to try this out on my 360.
nice gfx, i hope the controls are good too, then this may become the first good underwater game featuring a human.
So far the only good one featured a dolphin.
...cow! This dev kinda came outta nowhere (aka Russia).
And their games look stunning. This one looks like it has a nice atmosphere and Spearfishing looks incredible. I hope they can pull off a decent game.