I’m here for the guzzoline.
A future that is a dystopian wasteland? Check. Souped-up cars? Check. Gangs racing and killing each other? Check. Dude strapped to the back of a truck with a guitar/flamethrower? No? Okay, so Auroch Digital‘s newest game isn’t an exact copy of the Road Warrior or Fury Road, but it’s damn close. Dark Future was an obscure 80’s board game from Games Workshop (something that Auroch is quite used to developing), that featured a lot of cars and a lot of death, not always in that order, and Auroch is bringing it to us sometime in the winter of 2015.
Surprisingly, even though I was a total dork in the 80’s, I had never played Dark Future. Apparently I wasn’t a cool enough dork, because this game looks pretty great. In the game you build vehicles using a point system and then race them on tracks that change with each play through, trying to blow stuff up. No idea how close Auroch’s digital take will hew to the original, but they are stating that it will be a “turn-based strategy game, played out in simultaneous real-time action.” I’m picturing something like Frozen Synapse.
Nothing else to report at this time, we’re not even sure what platforms they’re targeting. Considering that both Chainsaw Warrior games made it to PC, iOS, and Android, we’ll assume this is going the same route.
Oh, and the trailer is pretty amazing. It’s a teaser, so no actual gameplay is shown, and yet it made me want to strap a rocket launcher to my minivan. Check it out after the break.
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