Abstract
- Ship Us Mars is the sequel to 2019’s Ship Us The Moon, and it’s out now on Xbox Collection X|S and Xbox One.
- Be part of a determined mission to Mars and uncover the thriller of an deserted colony.
- Expertise a wealthy narrative and all-new gameplay mechanics as you assist save our planet.
In 2019’s Ship Us The Moon, developer KeokeN Interactive despatched gamers to the Moon to reactivate a significant power supply and pull Earth again from the brink of catastrophe. In its sequel Ship Us Mars, out right this moment on Xbox Collection X|S and Xbox One, the purpose is to present our planet a preventing probability at a brilliant future – and the one approach to try this entails a small crew journeying to Mars on a do-or-die mission.
Developed by a core workforce of round 20 individuals, Ship Us Mars takes their grand imaginative and prescient to a good greater canvas. The place Ship Us The Moon had a silent protagonist witnessing occasions from the previous, Ship Us Mars has a voiced lead who performs a key function within the story, in addition to a full solid of supporting characters. New gameplay mechanics like a thrillingly practical climbing system, first-person zero-G sections and difficult puzzles give that journey much more selection this time round.
Within the close to future, Earth has been ravaged by horrible flooding and wild storms on account of local weather change. Solely the ARKs – huge ships with the ability to revive flowers and the planet’s ambiance – can provide humanity a shot at safeguarding the world for future generations. These ARKs, although, are presently within the possession of the shadowy group Outward, who fled with the vessels to Mars and intentionally left the remainder of mankind behind to begin anew. Discovering the destiny of the Outward colonists and the whereabouts of the ARKs are what drive your journey throughout Mars on this sci-fi journey.
However that bigger save-the-world story is only one layer of Ship Us Mars’ highly effective and emotional narrative. On the coronary heart of the sport is the connection between a father and a daughter. You tackle the function of younger astronaut Kathy Johanson, whose father, Isaac, deserted her years earlier to affix the Outward group as they escaped to Mars. Within the current, a mysterious message means that Isaac should be alive – and Kathy is set to affix the World Area Company’s mission to the Crimson Planet and uncover the reality, regardless that her father is a needed fugitive on Earth.
“It was essential to have the affect of that relationship effervescent beneath the floor all the time,” says Ellise Chappell (‘Poldark’, ‘Younger Wallander’), who performs Kathy and lends her likeness to the character. “Kathy has been dwelling with unanswered questions for years which I believe influences the way in which she carries herself. This damaged relationship informs her pursuits, her drive, and even her humorousness, which I believe she makes use of to cover a deep unhappiness and insecurity. It additionally makes Kathy really feel fairly unpredictable as a personality – the place do her loyalties lie?”
That stress of Kathy’s true motivations will maintain gamers guessing all through the sport: has she really journeyed to Mars to seek out the ARKs and save humanity, or does she selfishly need to discover her father, a purpose not shared by her crewmates? Or does she need each on the similar time, probably jeopardizing the mission?
“Other than being a grand house opera blended with a psychological household drama, which is in itself and strange mixture – one which works brilliantly – Ship Us Mars is a sport of suspense and surprise and thriller exploring the Crimson Planet,” says actor and Efficiency Director Neil Newbon (Resident Evil Village, Baldur’s Gate 3), who performs Kathy’s father, Isaac, and helped convey the motion-captured cutscenes to life in collaboration with KeokeN Interactive. “It has violent undertones with out being overtly violent. I believe it makes it a considerate and nicely noticed piece while nonetheless being thrilling and fascinating as a chunk of storytelling. The hazard and menace of violence is ever current however not glorified – and that underlying present provides to the tense expertise of Kathy’s journey.”
Newbon was such an enormous fan of Ship Us The Moon that he reached out to KeokeN Interactive after finishing the sport. “I emailed them shortly after its launch to ask to work with them about 4 years in the past,” he says. Now, he’s one of many sequel’s stars, bringing quite a lot of inside battle to the function of Isaac Johanson, who gamers will study in holographic diaries as soon as they arrive on Mars. Isaac’s remorse over leaving Kathy behind years earlier than is a key piece of the general narrative. “I charted his life and the occasions that introduced him to this horrible determination. It was not a straightforward second however as an actor I cherished engaged on these scenes.”
Ship Us Mars is a sport that asks gamers to make their very own minds up in regards to the story, and what’s value sacrificing for the better good. Whereas the Outward group initially seem to be the villains of the piece, Kathy’s journey throughout their colonies on Mars exposes a faction that was fraught with infighting and battle about what they’ve finished. Gamers will expertise this parallel story whereas recovering the ARKs, and retrace Outward’s steps as they endured the cruel realities of trying to colonize Mars (which, even with the ability of the ARKs, was removed from straightforward).
“I believe Kathy, like a lot of the characters in Ship Us Mars, doesn’t fall into both ‘good’ or ‘unhealthy’ archetypes,” says Chappell. “Nobody is a hero or a villain on this sport; every character is a fancy illustration of what it means to be a human, flaws and all. Kathy is an anti-hero; regardless of being courageous, decided and very smart. She will also be misleading, short-sighted and reckless. She’s a personality who has to make troublesome selections which can throw what’s ‘proper’ and ‘flawed’ into query for the participant.”
Gamers will construct a robust reference to Kathy as she endures immense odds to realize her mission. KeokeN Interactive’s purpose is to create a protagonist who appears like an actual particular person, reflecting their grounded strategy to sci-fi storytelling that’s per the fashion of the primary sport.
At the moment, they’ll take that journey to Mars themselves, experiencing attractive environments, an enormous number of gameplay varieties and a finale that’ll stick with them for years to come back.
Newbon explains how he hopes gamers will really feel about Ship Us Mars as soon as they’ve completed the sport. “Transported. Moved and wanting to instantly name their closest human beings and inform them that they love them.”
Ship Us Mars
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Sequel to the award-winning Ship Us The Moon, Ship Us Mars is an atmospheric sci-fi journey providing an immersive astronaut expertise. Discover new frontiers on a suspense-fuelled, high-stakes mission to get better the ARK colony ships stolen by the mysterious Outward.
A BOLD NEW MISSION
Ten years after the Fortuna mission, humanity is nearer than ever to extinction. After a mysterious misery name from Mars, Earth’s youngest astronaut Kathy Johanson joins the Zephyr and its crew on one final mission: to get better the ARK colony ships stolen by the mysterious Outward, and with them, make sure the survival of the human race.
OUT OF THIS WORLD GAMEPLAY
Board the Zephyr as you journey from Earth to the floor of Mars. Traverse and endure its harsh and unforgiving terrain as you quest to find the secrets and techniques left behind by Outward. Use each brains and brawn to beat psychological and bodily challenges, discover the ARKs, and uncover the motivations of these behind the misery name that introduced you right here.
A HANDCRAFTED EXPERIENCE
Expertise a extremely polished and absorbing narrative expertise filled with partaking gameplay. Each second is hand made, delivering a suspense-filled, emotion-fuelled narrative alongside music from award-winning composer Sander Van Zanten, state-of-the-art movement seize, and gorgeous graphics, powered by Unreal Engine.
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