Compulsion Games has released an amazing E3 2016 trailer for its upcoming action adventure game, We Happy Few. In this trailer – which is the opening sequence to the game – Arthur Hastings suddenly decides to go off the state-encouraged happy pills and finds out the horrific things that have been happening all around him.
Regarding the game’s backstory, Compulsion Games had this to say.
“In a dystopian, mod 1964 England that lost World War II, the citizens of Wellington Wells are taking a happy drug called “Joy”, and living in denial over their grim existence and a terrible past.”
We Happy Few is coming to Steam Early Access on July 26th and here are its key features:
- a procedurally generated world, meaning that everyone’s experience will be unique,
- a range of difficulties for new and experienced players alike,
- permadeath, if you want to satisfy all your masochistic needs,
- three modes: sandbox, story and Wellie mode,
- a unique soundtrack, and
- a fully voiced, cinematic, first person story.
Enjoy!
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That trailer was awesome, didn’t know it was procedurally generated. That’ll make for an odd narrative.
probably “procedurally generated” in this case means “the same rooms will be in a slightly different order”
sure if your idea of amazing is no gameplay
It didn’t say gameplay trailer, gameplay footage or gameplay video.
A little birdie says says this will be on Steam Early Access next month, depending on how playable it is at that point may opt in.
Procedurally generated is being thrown around a lot in games these days, I’m starting to believe they use it to as an excuse for laziness.
Wow, this is a great idea for a movie or even a game. I wanna see a full movie about this..
Watch the first Matrix
Yea, but its not really like this. Its all in their heads, and here its actually real, you just dont see the reality of it.
Have you seen that Team Fortres 2 pyro video? Where hes feeding and having fun with everyone, but in reality hes not feeding them, hes burning them alive. 🙂 Its awesome.
at least story-wise it really is interesting. really great job. i am not having high expectations regarding gameplay though but this game is definitely on my radar.
It looks like 1984 and A Brave New World mixed togehther with way to much candycolors, im sceptic how the story unfolds…
The trailer was extremely misleading. It made it look like the game was a cinematic, story-driven affair when in reality, it’s more of a procedural survival sandbox game. There’s plenty of actual gameplay footage on Youtube that shows you how the game actually plays.
Looking forward to playing this game when it comes out of Early Access.