New “Lair” Details… Maybe

Take this with a nice big slug of rock salt, but it seems Factor 5’s proposed PS3 launch title Lair has mole who’s been spilling the beans. A recent forum post on PS3Gaming.com sheds some much needed light on the mysterious title, finally giving details on gameplay and some interesting tidbits as to the game’s back story:

“The story kind of reminds me of the film “Reign of Fire”, because the idea is that you are fighting the dragon race to reclaim humanityÂ’s place in the world. The dragons are a legendary and extremely old race on this new planet that human kind has populated since the Earth was ravaged by natural disaster. Humans are now a dying breed and you are Michael Desmond who has volunteered to take part in the most massive human campaign to make the last stand against the dragons.”

“This is a third-person action adventure game, and it works very well. Dragons cannot be hurt by regular bullets so you have to use different methods to bring them down. You have to kill them by destroying their three hearts. With the merging of mother nature and the mechanics and spirit of humanity this game is one of a kind. The hearts in the dragon we fought could be destroyed when it was distracted (easier said then done), or by going about a stealthy approach.”

Sounds kinda like Shadow Of The Colossus on steroids! There’s some very exciting talk of open ended gameplay and amazing AI, and of course unbelievable visuals and animation. The scooper does go on mention however that the game is far from finished at the moment with tons of bugs and glitches, and most alarming of all he refers to it as being

“slated for mid 2007”

, rather being a PS3 launch title which we’ve been led to believe would occur sometime this spring.

It sounds very exciting if true (if being the operative word here) and for me this title’s been elevated from “tech demo“, to “quite cool sounding actually”. Let’s hope Factor 5 can pull it off.
Take this with a nice big slug of rock salt, but it seems Factor 5’s proposed PS3 launch title Lair has mole who’s been spilling the beans. A recent forum post on PS3Gaming.com sheds some much needed light on the mysterious title, finally giving details on gameplay and some interesting tidbits as to the game’s back story:

“The story kind of reminds me of the film “Reign of Fire”, because the idea is that you are fighting the dragon race to reclaim humanityÂ’s place in the world. The dragons are a legendary and extremely old race on this new planet that human kind has populated since the Earth was ravaged by natural disaster. Humans are now a dying breed and you are Michael Desmond who has volunteered to take part in the most massive human campaign to make the last stand against the dragons.”

“This is a third-person action adventure game, and it works very well. Dragons cannot be hurt by regular bullets so you have to use different methods to bring them down. You have to kill them by destroying their three hearts. With the merging of mother nature and the mechanics and spirit of humanity this game is one of a kind. The hearts in the dragon we fought could be destroyed when it was distracted (easier said then done), or by going about a stealthy approach.”

Sounds kinda like Shadow Of The Colossus on steroids! There’s some very exciting talk of open ended gameplay and amazing AI, and of course unbelievable visuals and animation. The scooper does go on mention however that the game is far from finished at the moment with tons of bugs and glitches, and most alarming of all he refers to it as being

“slated for mid 2007”

, rather being a PS3 launch title which we’ve been led to believe would occur sometime this spring.

It sounds very exciting if true (if being the operative word here) and for me this title’s been elevated from “tech demo“, to “quite cool sounding actually”. Let’s hope Factor 5 can pull it off.