Announced this morning on the PlayStation blog, Greylock Studio’s Cut steel (formerly known as Impact) is a first-person shooter starring a character who can’t reload because he only has one arm.
It’s called Steel, and before the game starts, it loses its arm in an accident caused by the megacorporation EdenSys. When the company abandons him after his injury, Steel launches a mission to rescue others trapped under the heel of EdenSys and avenge his dismemberment.
Steel cannot be reloaded with one hand, so he uses his acrobatic skills to steal weapons from his enemies. He slips, runs a line, runs to the wall and dives on his enemies. To encourage players to rely more on Acer’s agility, designer Matt Larabee did it in such a way that enemy fire automatically fails when he’s in the middle of a trick. While Steel continues to move, it is bulletproof. This is a bit neat.
Cut steelThe environments are built with voxel and are totally destructible, so later in the game, when Steel will mount a cannon on his residual limb, the shit will explode. Who needs to reload when you can explode the ground below your enemies with an arm cannon?
Cut steel will arrive later this year on PS4 and PC.