This Fall, Flying Wild Hog is releasing Hard Reset exclusively for PC’s. It will feature a single player only campaign, no regenerating health, no multiplayer at all, somewhat non-linear levels like Serious Sam, Painkiller or Doom; and just two primary weapons. You read that right, it’s not 1998, it’s 2011 and Flying Wild Hog is bringing back the good old days, with some very beautiful and stylized graphics and an advanced engine to run it.
The creative team behind Hard Reset consists of folks from Bulletstorm, The Witcher 2 and Sniper and from what we have seen in the videos and previews, the best ideas from all those teams come to bear in Hard Reset. Though less genitalia jokes would be welcome.
Why would they go PC exclusive? CEO Michael Szustak told Gamespot - "Our engine was built with one thought -- to be used in a first-person shooter that uses lots of physics and destruction, with outstanding graphics and also optimized to do the job well. There are many games published on PCs that are just ports from consoles, and we all know that today the power of a current-gen console is similar to a four- to five-year-old PC." I dig it.
Hard Reset is scheduled to be released in September 2011, jut a few weeks away, and details about the game are still scarce. Szustak siad this is also by design, he does not want to show the game until it is truly done. Feel free to dig around youtube as there are some extended demo playthroughs out there which show a little more of the game than the short trailer available at the Official website.
UPDATE - Feel free to check out the Giant Bomb quicklook for 20+ minutes of gameplay.
