Interview Restricted Area Q&A at RPGRadar

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Restricted Area

<A href="http://www.rpgradar.com/">RPG Radar</a> has posted <A href="http://www.rpgradar.com/exclusives/interviews/ra2.html">their second interview</a> with <b>Jan Bueck</b> of <a href="Http://www.master-creating.de">Master Creating</a> about their sci-fi action CRPG, <a href="http://www.restricted-area.net">Restricted Area</a>. Here's a bit about three of the classes:
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<blockquote><b>RPGRadar: What are these new characters special ability? How will this ability affect gameplay?
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Jan Beuck:</b> As you may have guessed Victoria´s skills all have to do with her psionic abilities. She is something like a modern soceress, with spells reaching from picking up items with telekinesis to burining enemies with blue fire.
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Kenji is the only close-combat fighter of the characters, so his skills cover close combat special attacks and other skills that help him during close combat. However, he´s also the only character able to fight with two pistols simultaneous.
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Finally Jessica is maybe the most versatile character. The flying robot drone, which guards her can be controlled by the player like a second character. As a tech girl she can increase the abilities of her equipment and repair it herself. She is also the only character who can enter the Cyberspace, which is something like a second world with it´s own rules.</blockquote>
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The tech girl sounds like the most interesting to me. Robots to fight for you, whole new world to play in, ability to repair stuff.. What's not to like?
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Spotted this at <A href="Http://www.homelanfed.com">HomeLAN Fed</a>.

 

[EEVIAC]

I liked having the option in Shadowrun (Genesis version) of being a samurai and still being able to buy a datajack. I think Jessica will be the most popular character choice because I'd feel like I'm missing out on half of the game being denied access to cyberspace.

 

[Araanor]

It might not be that big part of the game... but I agree, sounds more interesting than the others.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Kenji is the only close-combat fighter of the characters, so his skills cover close combat special attacks and other skills that help him during close combat. However, he´s also the only character able to fight with two pistols simultaneous.

Hollywoodization?

 

[EEVIAC]

It might not be that big part of the game... but I agree, sounds more interesting than the others.

From the interview :

RPGRadar: How will cyberspace affect the gameplay? Can anyone enter cyberspace? How does one go about entering?

Jan Beuck: Yes, Jessica (the tech expert) can enter it. Nearly all company buildings have terminals to enter their internal cyberspace, so once you are in the building and found an access station you can start to travel through this unique second world. The cyberspace not only looks very different to the real world, everything is a little different: Physics, goals, combat... the entire gameplay.

It sounds like a fairly important part of the gameplay - unique second world kind of gives it away. That's why I'm a little bewildered by the design choice. In Shadowrun it made sense to me to put a datajack in my Samurai (at the expense of extra reflexes I think) so I could have a fully self-contained character, without having to spend money on a jockey. I was already buying implants, why not a datajack?

It doesn't make sense for the psi-girl to mess with the internals of her brain, the other two non-tech characters, a weapons specialist and a melee specialist could fill their heads with dvd and digital watch programs and it wouldn't matter because of the physical nature of their presence in the game.

It remains to be seen what influence "cyberspace" has on the game. The tech-girl might need that skill so she could, say, hack a terminal on a corp run and call a red alert on the third floor, leaving a skeleton crew of security on the other floors. If the gun-guy had the same skill he could gain experience both ways - hacking the terminal, then going up to third floor and using his heavy weapons to take out the whole security force.

I'm just speculating, but I speculate when I'm impressed.

 

[Jed]

Kenji is the only close-combat fighter of the characters, so his skills cover close combat special attacks and other skills that help him during close combat. However, he´s also the only character able to fight with two pistols simultaneous.

Hollywoodization?

No, Hong Kong-ization.