Futuristic simultaneous-turn-based strategy sports game Frozen Endzone is launching on Steam Early Access, developer Mode 7 has announced.
The game should be available to play from about 5pm GMT/ 9am PST.
Mode 7′s Joint Managing Director, Paul Taylor, is obviously rather pleased with the announcement, stating: “I am so excited about this release I just had to quote myself saying how I excited I am!”
The new version of the game brings with it a number of changes and additions. According to the developer, the update includes the following:
- Players can now have stats: strength, resilience, “burst” (a small burst of acceleration when getting the ball), evade, intercept radius, block radius
- “Handball” (now called “Full Match”) game mode enters beta. This has been totally revamped to accommodate stats and is now the main game mode. Lots of turnovers, interceptions, end-to-end action, and new points zones make this really exciting and strategic.
- Team Editor allows you to name your players and set their stats; upload your team to the server and use it in multiplayer or skirmish with it offline
- Completely revamped, much more intelligent AI and a selection of new AI skirmishes
- Easy-to-use tile-based Pitch Editor (alpha)
- Custom Game Mode creator (alpha)
- Commentary system (alpha): commentary makes use of player names; in single player, the AI calculations are also used to allow the commentators to analyse your play-style; in multiplayer, the commentators will discuss your previous history with your opponent
- Some brand new animations and some big improvements to camera code
- There is now in-game audio to go with the music!
Frozen Endzone has been in development for a while now, but is shaping up to a pretty interesting prospect. While it’s not expected to be finished until the end of the year, this Early Access release will allow players to get hands on with the title - bugs and all - and allow the developer to receive much-needed feedback ahead of release.
According to Mode 7, their next order of business is to work on developing the game’s single-player campaign, which allow you to train up individual team members, interact with your rivals and participate in league tables.
A new trailer has also been released to mark the announcement:
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