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Snow
Game
publishers are starting to push the envelope further and further these
days in terms of seeing just what they can get away with in a game.
The recent Grand Theft Auto games got the ball rolling; now
countless other developers are releasing thugged-out titles that push
the bounds of what has traditionally been deemed acceptable in games.
With that, 2K Games is working on Snow, a potentially
controversy-addled strategy game for the Xbox that will challenging
players to be an LA drug lord.
As
a business strategy game, players won’t find themselves doing much of the
footwork in Snow, getting the drugs, distributing them, and so forth,
instead ordering others to do it for them.
That being said, players will take on the role of a would-be
actor named Johnny circa 1975. Try as he might to score a gig, it just isn’t happening, and he’s
running out of money in a hurry. In
order to make a few bucks, he starts selling pot on the streets of LA.
Over the course of the game, players will have to go from these
humble beginnings, to becoming an all-powerful kingpin, controlling the
flow of drugs throughout the city, and beyond.
With each job that needs to be done, players will select who they think is best suited to the task from a roster of characters who will get down to business afterward. The whole process of getting the goods on the street will be fairly involved, as players need to establish contacts in Mexico and Columbia in order to procure suppliers, then they need to worry about law enforcement and border officials being bought off or avoided in order to get the drugs |
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stateside,
and finally selling the goods to one’s clientele.
All the while, players will also be able to develop shady law
firms to take care of things when matters get sticky, as well as opening
nightclubs to launder money.
Snow
is also going for a highly stylized presentation through the use of cel-shaded
visuals that actually look quite nice.
The art style combined with the overall theme of the game makes
everything look like what one may expect to find in a gritty indie
comic book.
Looking at what is planned for Snow, it seems the game is |
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trying
to touch a lot of the same bases that the movie Blow (starring Johnny
Depp) did in terms of chronicling the drug culture in North America
during the 70s and 80s. While
it’s still anyone’s guess if this game will be anywhere as
provocative as that film was, at least 2K Games will try and make a bad
guy-oriented game that looks and feels a little different from all of
the GTA-wannabes on the market right now.
Mr. Nash September 26, 2005 |
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