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Life is Strange developer DONTNOD have released some new screenshots for their upcoming project, Vampyr. The game appears to have nothing to do with American teenagers or time travelling escapades of any kind, instead, the game is set in the filthy streets of London during 1918. The first World War has just ended, and the Spanish Flu is beginning to take hold of England’s capital. London in this time is battered, dirty and a horrible place to live (not too dissimilar to some places there today). This is an interesting setting for a vampire game – and a one we have seen in a few games lately, from Assassin’s Creed to the painful The Order: 1886, which too shared some fragments of a vampire story.
You play as Jonathan Reid, a war veteran and apparently a vampire struggling with the dilemma of killing to feed and survive. The choice of how to handle this is left up to the player. IGN‘s preview of the game talks of the repercussions of killing for sustenance, resulting in unique outcomes within the game world due to any the death of an NPC. IGN also comments on the gane’s combat system, showing concern over its blandness (similarly to DONTNOD’s Remember Me).
For now, further details on Vampyr are fairly scarce and we are yet to see the game in motion, but the setting alone is interesting enough and the developer is now famed for some decent storytelling and characterisation, so let’s hope those parts of Life is Strange carryover, and the cringe-worthy dialogue does not. Enjoy the gallery, which also includes some previously seen artwork, below.
