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One Way Trip has pole-dancing animals, technicolour gangsters and rhythm-based shootouts

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One Way Trip has pole-dancing animals, technicolour gangsters and rhythm-based shootouts
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It's not often we get to report on a game with the surreal dystopian stylings of One Way Trip, which features pole-dancing animals and toxic wastelands filled with mutants and drug sniffers.

Following up surreal action-RPG, Demon Chic, was never going to be easy for Michael Frauenhofer, but from what he tells us about his next project so far, it seems he's going the right way about it.

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One Way Trip follows two brothers who discover that they've been poisoned, which gives them just six hours to live. A side effect of this is that for those six hours they'll be "TRIPPING FACE" constantly.

They're not the only ones, in fact, half of the nation's population suffer the same fate.

The game is set amid a toxic wasteland that sees a corporate government favouring the rich while the poor sniff toxic mould to get high. Criminal gangs rule these wastelands riding giant mutant cockroaches as cars.

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One Way Trip will feature a branching interactive narrative, a la The Walking Dead, that will come with huge variation based on your decisions.

You could end up with a technicolor romp of over-the-top villains and laser gun battles. Or maybe you'll discover a quiet story about neighbours who begin as strangers trying to cope with their own impending mortality.

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It will be possible to get through the entire game without encountering any combat at all, if you'd rather focus on the story.

However, if you do engage in the battles then you'll be fighting back laser guns with a turn-based-RPG/rhythm cover shooter, which mixes hints of Gears of War (Horde Mode), XCOM and Final Fantasy.

"Each of the four playable characters in this mode has a different way of battling," Michael Frauenhofer, One Way Trip's designer, tells us. "The player must effectively combine their strengths/weaknesses to survive through waves of enemies."

"Moves are synchronized to the beat and trigger different sounds so your play style procedurally moulds the soundtrack."

Michael adds that there will also be a massive battle scene involving scores of pole-dancing animals, including ants, sharks, saber-tooth tigers and plenty more.

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As you can tell, this is very bizarre title with a trippy, highly-dynamic storyline, rhythm-based battle modes and stunningly unique visuals.

One Way Trip should be coming sometime in spring 2014 on iPad/iPhone/Mac/PC.

Michael adds that he has been allowed to say that he is currently in talks with Sony with hopes of bringing One Way Trip to the Vita, as well as his previous action-RPG, Demon Chic.

Chris Priestman
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