BrokenDesign
Shared on Wed, 10/17/2007 - 08:02Yesterday there was an announcement on the official Playstation Blog of a new episodic IP that's incoming to PSN called Rat Race, developed by SuperEgo Games. Rat Race is a comedy/adventure game, I'm thinking probably along the lines of such classics as the Monkey Island series and Grim Fandango. The announcement was made by SuperEgo co-founder Greg Easley and is described as a "labor of love".
"Rat Race is set in an office - an extremely dysfunctional one. The company is called BiggCo, and the people who work there make the Enron guys look like Nobel Prize laureates. Your job is simply to make it through the day as bombs go off all around you. As the clock ticks toward quitting time, you’ll encounter a rogues gallery including: Joy Chung, an impossible, and impossibly hot, PR exec; Chip Bratsby III, a pompous jerk whose career focus is getting you fired; and Dr. Ron Durfman, a research scientist who may or may not be intimate with his lab monkey."
Easley explains that the goal of SuperEgo is to make a game that gives you "the feeling of 'playing' inside an episode of your favorite TV show", and says they oftentimes describe it as an "interactive sitcom, but that doesn't do it justice."
I'm quite excited for this title. To me, the hard drive in the PS3 (and 360, as long as you didn't pick up the "Tard Pack") is for content like this. Episodic games that doesn't make sense to be pressed to Blu-Ray (or DVD) and instead have a rapid release schedule and gives short but satisfying gaming experiences. My hope is that we'll see a release schedule very in line with that of the Sam & Max episodes on GameTap and not that of Half-Life 2 Episodes or especially SiN Episodes. If it indeed plays with the humor and brilliance of the Monkey Island games and feels like you're playing an episode of The Office, you can sign me up for the duration of the series. I'll keep the space warm on my PS3 hard drive for its arrival.
"Rat Race is set in an office - an extremely dysfunctional one. The company is called BiggCo, and the people who work there make the Enron guys look like Nobel Prize laureates. Your job is simply to make it through the day as bombs go off all around you. As the clock ticks toward quitting time, you’ll encounter a rogues gallery including: Joy Chung, an impossible, and impossibly hot, PR exec; Chip Bratsby III, a pompous jerk whose career focus is getting you fired; and Dr. Ron Durfman, a research scientist who may or may not be intimate with his lab monkey."
Easley explains that the goal of SuperEgo is to make a game that gives you "the feeling of 'playing' inside an episode of your favorite TV show", and says they oftentimes describe it as an "interactive sitcom, but that doesn't do it justice."
I'm quite excited for this title. To me, the hard drive in the PS3 (and 360, as long as you didn't pick up the "Tard Pack") is for content like this. Episodic games that doesn't make sense to be pressed to Blu-Ray (or DVD) and instead have a rapid release schedule and gives short but satisfying gaming experiences. My hope is that we'll see a release schedule very in line with that of the Sam & Max episodes on GameTap and not that of Half-Life 2 Episodes or especially SiN Episodes. If it indeed plays with the humor and brilliance of the Monkey Island games and feels like you're playing an episode of The Office, you can sign me up for the duration of the series. I'll keep the space warm on my PS3 hard drive for its arrival.
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