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Chaos, crime, and… cabbages?
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“Deus Exbut tiny and hilarious” is how I pitch the firstStreets of Rogueto people in elevators. Then I kick the elevator control panel to pieces, climb out the hatch, and cut the cord with a buzzsaw I smuggled in earlier. “It’s also total chaos!” I yell, as the elevator plummets. “Ha ha ha ha ha ha!“Streets of Rogue 2is looking similarly chaotic. But one thing has been brought to order: its release date. It’s coming to early access on August 14th, while a new trailer (below) shows horse riding, flame throwing, and speed boating. My favourite moment is when a man pumps magic gas into a room full of people doing zumba, and it turns them all into giants, and they freak out and start smashing the walls in a panic.
Streets of Rogue 2 - Release Date Trailer (feat. Perturbator)Watch on YouTube
Streets of Rogue 2 - Release Date Trailer (feat. Perturbator)
“Cruise the highways in style with souped-out luxury cars or goof around in high-speed boat races,” says this blood-caked press release. “Travel through a massive procedurally generated map, always changing with countless surprises…” It makes sense that the maps will be bigger than before. I imagine you’ll need the space for all thezombies you are going to unleash. But the goal is still roughly the same as the first game - take down the corrupt President at the top of it all.
You see, in the first Streets of Rogue you could play as an experimental gorilla and beat a bunch of scientists to death to free your gorilla friends from their cage. You could be a dirty cop and arrest innocent civilians for kicks. You could be a vampire, a shapeshifter, an investment banker with a furious cocaine habit. But you were supposed to be climbing the floors of a towering megacity to face the mayor. I never did hit that endgame, because I was having too good a time elsewhere. Once in a while I’d get a couple of floors further but, inevitably, I’d end uphackingATMs and annoying the police or accidentally gassing all my friends in co-op. It wasthe best kind of bedlam.
