Okay, so last night, I came up with this new idea for a game. It's really a combination of Heavy Rain (and indeed, this was my biggest inspiration) and the Batman version of the Mad Hatter.
The game takes place in The City, an unnamed city that's akin to Chicago. The game revolves around the hunt for a serial killer. The killer stages their victims around Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, and the killer leaves hats on his victims' heads.
You play as 3 different people as they try to hunt down the killer, known as the Hatter, before they strike next. There is Allison King, an aspiring investigative reporter (cliche, I know), Chuck Avery, a corrupt police detective with a heroin habit, and Tommy Carol, a desperate man whose wife was one of the Hatter's first victims.
The game is third-person, and is either stealth, shooting, or brawling depending on the level/situation. Allison is good at stealth, Avery is good at shooting, and Carol is a good brawler and is good with melee weapons. Also, each character has a special ability. King uses her cameraphone to take pictures of specific subjects, its flash to blind enemies, and uses an app that unleashes a distracting noise. Avery can "shoot up" and goes into a pseudo-bullet time mode and the colors get brighter. Carol can enter Blood Haze mode, where a haze makes it difficult to see, but enemies' hearts stand out as they beat.
Like Heavy Rain, each character goes about their search largely by themselves, but do cross paths at times.
Eventually, Carol's search leads him to a shocking revelation. He is the Hatter. Carol developed a personality disorder and the new him latched onto the Mad Hatter character from Alice in Wonderland. So, things get all Tyler Durden, and Carol is completely unaware of his Hatter persona. Each character eventually fights the Hatter, with Avery getting killed, Allison managing to escape, and Carol fights the Hatter in a hallucination. It it, Carol is apparently in a twisted version of Wonderland. He eventually comes accross the tea garden, and it is there that he fights his Hatter self. This serves as the final boss. The ending to their fight, and then the prospect of a sequel are things I have yet to decide upon.
What do you think? I know it's a little too much like Heavy Rain, but I wrote this at 2 in the morning and have yet to iron out all the details.
The game takes place in The City, an unnamed city that's akin to Chicago. The game revolves around the hunt for a serial killer. The killer stages their victims around Alice in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, and the killer leaves hats on his victims' heads.
You play as 3 different people as they try to hunt down the killer, known as the Hatter, before they strike next. There is Allison King, an aspiring investigative reporter (cliche, I know), Chuck Avery, a corrupt police detective with a heroin habit, and Tommy Carol, a desperate man whose wife was one of the Hatter's first victims.
The game is third-person, and is either stealth, shooting, or brawling depending on the level/situation. Allison is good at stealth, Avery is good at shooting, and Carol is a good brawler and is good with melee weapons. Also, each character has a special ability. King uses her cameraphone to take pictures of specific subjects, its flash to blind enemies, and uses an app that unleashes a distracting noise. Avery can "shoot up" and goes into a pseudo-bullet time mode and the colors get brighter. Carol can enter Blood Haze mode, where a haze makes it difficult to see, but enemies' hearts stand out as they beat.
Like Heavy Rain, each character goes about their search largely by themselves, but do cross paths at times.
Eventually, Carol's search leads him to a shocking revelation. He is the Hatter. Carol developed a personality disorder and the new him latched onto the Mad Hatter character from Alice in Wonderland. So, things get all Tyler Durden, and Carol is completely unaware of his Hatter persona. Each character eventually fights the Hatter, with Avery getting killed, Allison managing to escape, and Carol fights the Hatter in a hallucination. It it, Carol is apparently in a twisted version of Wonderland. He eventually comes accross the tea garden, and it is there that he fights his Hatter self. This serves as the final boss. The ending to their fight, and then the prospect of a sequel are things I have yet to decide upon.
What do you think? I know it's a little too much like Heavy Rain, but I wrote this at 2 in the morning and have yet to iron out all the details.
