Gamestudio West Games has a new game announced. The company first worked on the controversi lwa le project Areal, but the new title from the developers is called Stalker Apocalypse. It is unclear to what extent the two projects match.
The game runs on the Unreal Engine 4 and, in addition, there would be Oculus Rift support. Stalker Apocalypse has several modes of play. So there are a single-player, multiplayer and split-screen mode. The game should be in August 2016, will appear for the pc, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. The purpose of the crowdfundingcampagne is to 600.000 dollars to collect, are expressed more than 480.000 euro. So far, only a very small percentage of that amount collected.
Stalker Apocalypse has a new story and contains several recognizable elements, as reads the description on the crowdfunding platform World Wide Funder. There are anomalous zones and it may be impossible to be lived. Certain groups, however: the so-called Stalkers. The aim of the game is to survive and to do research. The different zones would be on the basis of the actions of the player are constantly changing.
West Games started a few months ago a campaign on Kickstarter under the name Areal; that project, however, Kickstarter itself is suspended. The crowdfunding platform gave no reason for that, but at the time there were doubts about the reliability of the studio and the money flows around Areal. It was striking that in a short time two substantial pledges were made, by which the target amount of $ 50,000, or more than 40,000 euros, with still three days to go, suddenly was reached.