Namco Bandai Announces Inversion

21 Oct 2009 at 11:17:31 by Tim McDonald

Namco Bandai has announced that Saber Interactive is developing Inversion for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

You might remember Saber Interactive from Will Rock and TimeShift, and Inversion looks to follow the theme of fast-paced action with a few twists on gameplay.

Inversion is a third-person co-op shooter, apparently, which wants to play with gravity. We're told that there are zero gravity environments and vector changes - in addition to a gravity gun of your own. Here, it's called the Grappler, and lets you move objects around to use as cover or weapons, or pull enemies out of cover.

Expect "massively destructible environments" courtesy of the HAVOK destruction engine, too.

The game itself is set in the near future, when mankind is somehow enjoying a "tranquil peace" until an unknown enemy called the Lutadore, who have gravity-controlling weapons, invade a city. At the same time, other gravitational issues have cropped up, with bits of the city in zero gravity and other parts having vector changes. The player controls Davis Russel, a "hotheaded 28-year-old cop" and yes that noise you heard was me groaning, or his neighbour Leo Delgado, as the pair attempt to find Davis' missing child.

Inversion is due out sometime in 2010 on Xbox 360 and PS3. Check out the first screens below.

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