NCSoft announced Project M, an impressive narrative driven game using Unreal Engine 5
South Korean game developer NCSoft have announced Project M, an interactive narrative-driven game using the Unreal Engine 5 where player choice affects the outcome of the overall story.
Have a look at the Project M trailer blow as the motion capture and visuals are rather impressive.
According to NCSoft’s official website, Project M follows a man hell-bent on getting revenge for a girlfriend’s death. They describe this project as an interactive movie and aims to provide realistic character expressions, movement with photo-realistic environments, as seen in the trailer below.
The game looks rather intriguing and you can clearly see the inspiration from other interactive games before it. There’s some sci-fi elements mixed in and we see button prompts during an intense scene, such as spamming the ‘X’ button or holding down two buttons together. Failure results in a different outcome.
In a report by Polygon, NCSoft’s principal development management officer stated that more development progress footage is planned in the form of “trailer videos, interviews, novels, and webtoons”.
NCSoft is a developer and publisher best known for publishing the MMORPG Guild Wars and Fuser. They also developed the MMORPG Lineage.
Project M is slated to release on consoles. No platforms or a release date were announced at this time.
The amount of effort seen here gives me hope for Capcom’s future attempts at reviving classic titles, as Onimusha: Way of the Sword, the latest title of the once dormant classic franchise, comes back in the best way possible as it very well might be my game of the year contender.