World War Machine

[Kvorning]

Hey found this thing apparently in development called "World War Machine".

 

http://youtu.be/UzJCiEvgE-4

 

I think it's still very early production, but I really like the story idea so far:

 

"World War Machine takes place after a cataclysmic mass extinction event has decimated all forms of organic life on Earth. Before the end of civilization, millions of human beings were able to upload their minds into a vast computer network – transforming themselves into artificial intellects. The remains of our planet are now populated solely by these intellects and machines of their creation.

 

During the cataclysm, the computer network that worked to maintain millions of uploaded human minds was shattered – breaking into three major Nodes and countless smaller ones. Each Node continued running its own group of intellects, though their minds were flawed by the damage. Operating on corrupted hardware, these intellects have been divorced from their memories of humanity and the goals for which they were created. With their minds broken and spread across multiple platforms, the artificial intellects fell into chaos and a perpetual war erupted between the three main network nodes.

 

The battles that rage through the sterilized ruins of human civilization are fought by hundreds of thousands of Machines – humanoid robots outfitted for various tasks of war, each imbued with an artificial intellect from a parent Node. If destroyed, the Machine transmits its intellect back for reconstitution in another Machine. The fight continues, and the war will never end.

 

Countless battles have been planned and fought by viciously clever intellects who are entrenched on well defended Mainline Nodes, blind to their own madness. This war has been fought for over five hundred years in perfect equilibrium with no end in sight . . .

 

. . . until one day, a lone Machine remembers."

 

Check out their site, they got a bunch of cool concept art like this

[demagogue]

Looks like a Mech Diablo.

As an elevator pitch it sounds cool, though looking at the gameplay I don't know how much difference the story will make anyway.

[Kvorning]

Being a Diablo fan, the gameplay attracted me though It's gotta be different from Diablo.

 

I'm hoping to see more depth to the game, during development.