“At the farthest reaches of the solar system, a collection of the craziest criminals in the universe are incarcerated on a remote prison planet with no walls and forgotten by society. In this long-abandoned world, the only rule is anarchy, as each faction fights in a bloodthirsty race for survival, power and freedom. Through several seven climate zones and numerous stylized maps, players must fight through the ruins of the world’s previous civilizations, taking on each region’s inmates in a frantic and frenetic struggle to survive.”
Gun Loco is a new third-person team based shooter from Square Enix. In the game, players can choose from one of eight distinct characters; from a green afro’d ninja to the bunny headed badass ‘Mifune’. The awesome thing is that all the characters in the game are based upon figures by Kenny Wong which were painstakingly crafted by hand, each comic caricature has been designed from scratch as a real, posable action figure in the Brothersworker vein before being digitally scanned into the game.
The gameplay could best be described as a wacky cross between Team Fortress 2 and Mirrors Edge, which sees players running, gunning, ducking and weaving through desolate terrain whilst shooting the crap out of each other. Successfully killing an enemy sees them reduced to piles of toy parts, quite a cool little detail.
Pretty awesome, now if only I could get that Mifune dude as a real figure :]
