Frictional Games’ SOMA is one of our most highly anticipated indie horror games of 2015. Powered by the HPL Engine, SOMA is coming to the PC this September and when it first proper gameplay footage surfaced, the game’s environment immediately reminded us those of Doom 3. As Thomas Grip, Creative Director and co-founder of Frictional Games, told us, SOMA has been inspired by Doom 3, Bioshock, Spec Ops: The Line and Silent Hill.
Regarding Doom 3, Thomas told us that he was impressed with the way the in-game terminals worked in id Software’s shooter, and that SOMA’s terminals are heavily inspired by those found in Doom 3.
“One big inspiration that we took from Doom 3 is its terminals. I loved how they felt part of the game world and how immersive it was to use them. In SOMA there are a lot of different ones from the player to find and mess around with and is a big part of the game. They work pretty much the same way as in Doom 3 expect that you need to click one before you can interact, but otherwise it is very much the same.”
As for the other titles, here is what Thomas had to say:
– Bioshock. I just love the first 20 or so minutes of that game, the narrative just unfolds in a such a great and immersive way.
– Spec Ops: The Line. The way they handle moral choices in an analog fashion has been a big inspiration for how we handle ours
– Silent Hill. The way in which you get to play through horrific scenarios, and not just watch cut-scenes, is a big influence.
Our full interview with Thomas will go live later this week, so stay tuned for more!
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This is a MUST-HAVE type of game
by the way denuvo got cracked by scene crackers yesterday, lotf
Really? Now we’ll finally see if Denuvo is the real culprid behind all those performance problems, including the recent case of Arkham Knight.
yep but sadly they didn’t removed denuvo, it’s more like an emulator than a complete removal like most of P2P cracks but this time a scene group did it. it’s still there cracked or not, that means performance (if denuvo causing it) will remain the same but i’m happy because now i can play DA:I which i paid 60$ cuz origin won’t update for me anymore (downloaded latest offline installer) but in order to play DA:I it needs to update the game as well but i can’t update it cuz it won’t update at all (and i can’t run the game offline cuz it needs to validate my game because of that s**ty DRM), maybe with this they crack the final version of DA:I so i can play the cracked version of the game that i paid for.
FINALY, about bloody time, well lets hope they can crack it the real way, as surely it’s POS like denuvo that make games unplayable, look at that sh*it before, eeh star… something it was called.
Well it’s relly good news as to those devs that gives us POS console ports like 30fps lock and such, those F*CKERS only deserves to get their games pirated. Same goes for those A-HOLES that uses sh*t like Denuvo. Never pay for such crap!
So this is wonderful news!
arkham knight is also got cracked :))
Really ? Care to link ? This is good news for the sake of pc gamers.
it’s on all torrent sites, lords of the fallen by CPY
F*CKN awesome mate, just had to say it again 😀
Oh yeah i just saw. Good thx
Hell yeah, best news is news like this.
As John says, you really got to love the moders, I say You really got to love the scene.
Viva la Reloaded/Codex/fairlight. You show those sons of b*tches 😉
I’m glad that despite the multiplatform release SOMA still plays and feels like a PC game. Can’t wait.
Yes!! Just great…let’s hope the game is long enough to have some “great moments” as in Amnesia.
Spec Ops the line was such a memorable experience, albeit a strong as heck one ! damn..
I hear bad review of it, I have it on steam and haven’t played it yet. Might have to give it a try.
Do it, just do it. Maybe the bad review could have “jinxed” it, but even then. DO IT!
I remember those doom 3 terminals. 🙂 I was also impressed by them lol.