Ubisoft’s I am Alive first details unveiled – to be first-person shooter

I’m a bit disappointed that it’s first-person, actually – I always prefer third-person.

The game itself sounds like a cross between SOS: Final Escape and Bioshock, from the sounds of it. Which might be an okay mix.

I’m also disappointed to learn that this is yet another first-person shooter. I had imagined it being something like a next-gen SOS: Final Escape from the preview trailer, but I guess that would have been too much to hope for.

Have they copied the shotgun mechanic from Super Mario’s encounters with the Boos?

I read that article but didn’t clock it was 1st person. Still, could definitely be decent given the quality of recent 1st-person adventures out there.

Blerk, I was thinking more Disaster Report.

And fuck FPS.

Disaster Report is SOS: Final Escape!

Different regions, different name, same game.

I’m fine with first person.

Gah, I’m no fan of first-person. The only way it could be truly emotionally immersive is if we all played using horizontally curved screens.

Give me a third person perspective any day, far more engaging and – crucially – easier to navigate complex environments.

Well slap my ass and call me suzy.

I have no fucking idea why. Maybe it seems I deserve to be assualted and called girls names for my ignorance.

Yeah well Morrius, I think your opinion is wrong. Yeah. ‘Me’, breaking subjective rules since 2009.

OI, SUZY!

[slap]

First person is fine. I played Fallout 3 in first person the whole way through, it’s perhaps more immersive this way. It depends what type of game it is, and obviously they think it’s best with first person viewpoint. So it’s a little odd to be saying “wish it was third person” when they are the ones making the game, and they are the ones who know what’s best for it.

Well, considering they say there’s some platforming involved, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to suggest that third-person might’ve been a better choice. Look at Mirror’s Edge, for example.

Of course, it may well have both views in there. In which case everyone’s happy. Well, except me. I’m never happy.

Shut your dirtyy whore mouth Blerk.

<3 Mirror’s Edge.

If you suck, and don’t like time trials, you can fuck off, but don’t knock the game.

But otherwise I totally agree.

And let me say, there was never really a third person option in Fallout 3, unless you wanted to blind yourself with the generations worst animations.

I rated ME a 7, so I didn’t hate it. Although you’re right – I can’t be arsed with time trials. But there were plenty of times where I wished I had a third-person view of a particular thing.

Well seriously, I dunno why I love it so much, but thinking of each level as a track instead of a level, makes it awesome for me.

And unless you actively try to find differing routes for your journey the game is 5 hours long.

But it’s all about experimentation.

And trial and error isn’t necessarily bad game design, if it’s the right context. Hell, MegaMan 9 (for me at least) is completely trial and error.

But I got to admit, the art direction really is the star of the show. Just kept on imaginign it on the KZ2 engine though

Would be so amazing.

It took me about 12 hours to get through the ME story mode and I wasn’t specifically taking my time. I’ve no idea where these ‘it’s all over in ten minutes’ claims actually come from.

Yeah me neither to be honest.

Well I do, and it’s when I ahve learnt my fast speedy routes and execute them amazingly.

Yes, I am awesome then.

Well, considering they say there’s some platforming involved, I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to suggest that third-person might’ve been a better choice.

You’re right. After all, you are the one making the game.

Oh, wait!

How do you know I’m not? Eh? Eh?

/mysterious wink

I nearly dangerously misread that.

ecu, I think it’s fair to say executing it in firts person will be more challenging, that’s all.

Not every game presented in the first-person is an FPS, you know. Mirror’s Edge isn’t a first-person shooter and neither is this.