16th May 2014, 8:50 PM
http://www.bombshellgame.com/
New game announcement by Interceptor, the studio which made Rise of the Triad (2013) and after that bought up the remains of 3D Realms, since they are big Apogee/3DR fans. They were originally working on a Duke Nukem game, but now Gearbox and Interceptor are in court over who exactly owns Duke (and Gearbox could well win, we'll see), but either way, Interceptor had to work on something in the meantime...
And this game, kind of a Duke spinoff, is what exists instead. The basic gameplay is the same as the Duke game they were working on -- it's an isometric action game with some RPG elements. Only now you play as the female character Bombshell instead of Duke. Bombshell, in prior form, was originally created as a Duke Nukem Forever character, and she was going to be Duke's AI companion pretty much. However, at some point probably later in development she was cut (perhaps a a part of the "cut everything not done so we can ship SOMETHING effort as 3DR went down), so she's not in the DNF that was released. She is in one of the old ('98 or '01) DNF trailers, though... or rather, another character with the same name is. Bombshell the game is its own thing, and really only shares a character name with the DNF character. The new Bombshell is entirely redesigned; she now has dark hair and a cyborg arm, for instance. I see a lot of criticism for the intro trailer and skepticism about the game, but I think the screenshots look quite good and the interview (watch the interview video on the site) was pretty good and definitely made me want to try this! I don't know if it'll be good or not, but I am an Apogee fan for sure and the idea of an Apogee/3DR-inspired action-RPG like this is a good one. So yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing more about the game. It could be good, we'll see. :)
![[Image: bombshell_may_02.jpg]](http://alloutofgum.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/static/img/bombshell_may_02.jpg)
![[Image: bombshell_may_01.jpg]](http://alloutofgum.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/static/img/bombshell_may_01.jpg)
New game announcement by Interceptor, the studio which made Rise of the Triad (2013) and after that bought up the remains of 3D Realms, since they are big Apogee/3DR fans. They were originally working on a Duke Nukem game, but now Gearbox and Interceptor are in court over who exactly owns Duke (and Gearbox could well win, we'll see), but either way, Interceptor had to work on something in the meantime...
And this game, kind of a Duke spinoff, is what exists instead. The basic gameplay is the same as the Duke game they were working on -- it's an isometric action game with some RPG elements. Only now you play as the female character Bombshell instead of Duke. Bombshell, in prior form, was originally created as a Duke Nukem Forever character, and she was going to be Duke's AI companion pretty much. However, at some point probably later in development she was cut (perhaps a a part of the "cut everything not done so we can ship SOMETHING effort as 3DR went down), so she's not in the DNF that was released. She is in one of the old ('98 or '01) DNF trailers, though... or rather, another character with the same name is. Bombshell the game is its own thing, and really only shares a character name with the DNF character. The new Bombshell is entirely redesigned; she now has dark hair and a cyborg arm, for instance. I see a lot of criticism for the intro trailer and skepticism about the game, but I think the screenshots look quite good and the interview (watch the interview video on the site) was pretty good and definitely made me want to try this! I don't know if it'll be good or not, but I am an Apogee fan for sure and the idea of an Apogee/3DR-inspired action-RPG like this is a good one. So yeah, I'm looking forward to hearing more about the game. It could be good, we'll see. :)