Irrational Games' Next Title Influenced by Fallout, Dark Souls, System Shock
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GameSpot is spilling some new details about Irrational Games' follow-up to BioShock by sharing some of what Ken Levine has been stating during recent discussions about their next game. It'll apparently be an open world sci-fi game with heavy artificial intelligence themes that's influenced by Fallout, Dark Souls, System Shock, and others, which hopefully gives it a pretty good chance of being an RPG or an RPG hybrid:
He was asked what his influences were and proceeded to list off a "broad range of influences." These include not only first-person franchises (his new game is first-person) but other genres, too.
He said the new game is inspired in part by Dark Souls, System Shock, Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, Civilization, and Dying Light (the game he was playing during the livestream). But don't necessarily expect Levine's next game to closely resemble any of those games. Instead, the game will be more "in the realm" of some of the earlier games that he worked on, the developer explained.
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Levine has talked quite a bit about his new game recently. Just last week, Levine said the new thing is a set in "small-scale open world." It's also being designed to be highly replayable. Earlier in the month, in a different interview, Levine shared even more details on the themes for his next game.
"I'm so deeply involved in the themes of our new thing, our new game is a science-fiction game," he said at the time. "It involves themes like artificial intelligence and what it means to be programmed, that you are a thing that was created by programming."
