id Software's Mutant Bash TV iPhone RAGE spin-off an on-rails shooter
Retina display versions to cost more
id Software revealed at QuakeCon in August that its forthcoming console shooter RAGE would be coming to iOS. At the end of the last month it elaborated on its blog, revealing that the game would be a cut-down spinoff based on Mutant Bash TV, “a post apocalyptic combat game show in the RAGE wasteland.”
Mutant Bash TV would be a first-person shooter in which you shoot bad guys, dodge bullets, pick up power-ups, and chase high scores. It would cost 59p / 99c, and it would be about before the end of November.
Touch Arcade has got hold of a preview build, shedding more light on id's anticipated shooter. The first thing to stress is that Mutant Bash TV isn't like Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies – rather than roaming about in true FPS style you're stuck on rails, as in Doom Resurrection (also by id Software).
The preview goes on to describe the first level of the game, set in a graffiti-scrawled tenement. The graphics are purportedly “amazing”. The author anticipates and rebuts concerns about the on-rails gameplay, claiming that it's unobtrusive. “[T]he automatic movement was basically exactly what I'd be doing if I was actually controlling my character,” he writes.
More further details also emerge about the price. While the non-Retina display versions of the game (iPod touch first and second generation, iPhone, and iPhone 3G) will cost 59p / 99c, the Retina display and iPad versions will cost £1.19 / $1.99.
