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Game News Deck 13 and DTP announce: Venetica

DarkUnderlord

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<a href="http://www.venetica-game.com">Venetica is a new RPG on the way</a> from <a href="http://www.deck13.com/">German company Deck 13</a>. According to the <a href="http://www.gamingshogun.com/Article/1631/Deck_13_Announces_Venetica.html">official press release which I stole from Gamingshogun</a>:
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<blockquote>Deck 13, one of Germany’s most successful game developers, has teamed up with dtp entertainment to present Venetica, a visually stunning role-play game with a cryptic storyline. Venetica mixes emotions and action in a unique free roaming and living sixteenth century world full of surprise.
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In the era of Venetica, Death walks among the living as a flesh & blood being, carrying out the deeds of an ancient council known by a few as Corpus. Each generation of the Corpus is set with the task of selecting the next predecessor of the bringer of death. Unfortunately, the most recent council had unwittingly selected a crafty necromancer who is determined on bringing death and destruction to the world.
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This conniving imposter has managed to transform into an undead fiend, which no mortal man can kill. This power-crazed necromancer is hell-bent on destroying the reinstated Death and the council of Corpus. Only one person stands in his way, Scarlett, the daughter of Death.
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Up to now she has known nothing of her origins, her powers and the capabilities that she possesses – now she is challenged to learn how to develop and use her powers to save her father and curse the necromancer and his henchmen to the eternal hereafter. dtp entertainment is going to release Venetica in 2009 for PC and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft. www.venetica-game.com.</blockquote>
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Personally, it all sounds a bit... contrived. You can <a href="http://www.atomicgamer.com/file.php?id=69551">watch the game trailer here</a> and take a <a href="http://www.atomicgamer.com/gameScreenshots.php?id=4060">squizz at some screenies</a> as well.
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Personally, it all sounds a bit... contrived.
Bit?
From the trailer it looks like Lara Croft meets Bloodrayne and has a threesome with a certain persian prince... But hey, it might surprise me like Gothic did.

Deck 13? Anybody care to remind me what they are responsible for?
 

Longshanks

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Shannow said:
Yeah, read that in the other thread...Never heard of those games though.
They're LucasArts-like Adventures (Jack Keane has a very similar look to Curse of Monkey Island). I've not played either, reviews have been luke-warm.
 

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Gamingshogun said:
dtp entertainment is going to release Venetica in 2009 for PC and the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.

So now we know that the game will be released on two platforms:

1. PC

2. the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft
 

Unradscorpion

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Admiral jimbob said:
Cool, you get to LARP Susan Sto Helit.
Damn, I was beaten to it...
Looks kinda fun, but I don't know about it being a good RPG, whenever they talk about choosing a path it's the classical dark/light side type of thing...
But I'm looking forward to it anyways.
 

Shoelip

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Hm, I wonder if they're trying to make it look a bit like Beyond Good and Evil. The characters with the oversized heads sort of remind me of it. Of course part of the reason Jade was cool was because she didn't have gigantic tits attempting to burst from her shirt and run amok.
 

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