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Animal Use Protocol asks: what if we put a happy little rat on Half Life 2’s gravity gun and gave it to a chimpanzee?The rat’s name is Trip
The rat’s name is Trip
Image credit:The Brotherhood
Image credit:The Brotherhood
When they’re not doing environmental art for projects likeWasteland 3, The Brotherhood have a history making enticingly odd games. Sinvery nearly likedStasis: Bone Totem, landing positive despite giving up after several hours. That’s also my experience withBeautiful Desolation- an isometricRPGI got a real kick out of the art for before also stopping one day and just accidentally never playing it again. This might be a coincidence, but whatever else can be said about these projects, one thing is for certain: when compared to upcoming horrorFPSAnimal Use Protocol, they both featured considerably less monke.
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TheSteam pagedescribes it as a “first-person, narrative-focused survival horror” (you’ve got a bad thing chasing you, one of those), but I also would have accepted “GrimdarkApe Out”, which sound facetious but is actually one heck of a sell. Your very smart monke, Penn, is escaping from a lab with a bunch of other test animals, including a little rat mate named Trip who lives on your gravity gun and does a little jump whenever you fire it.
The trailer shows off a similar sort of grimy, unnerving tech to Brotherhood’s previous games. This is good. It also does that horror game trailer thing where it has a bunch of kids singing the Barney The Dinosaur theme really slowly. This is bad and stupid. It’s got a massive tortoise in it. It also contains potassium benzoate etc. Most bad-ly of all, it’s not actually out until 2026. So why am I writing about it now?!
Monke.
Or Chimp, I suppose, although if you were about to type a comment along those lines, I would first suggest you make sure you know your phylum and genus from your ligma. Feel free to ask about that last one. Here are some more deets:
