Originally Posted by
snk
hi,
we actually had a plan to turn Era in to more a story game and even wrote out several quests. The story mode was written, here's a snippet i found on my laptop:
4TH LEVEL
As you drive you notice more police cars (1)– so you pull over just before a junction; (2)
As you are stopped – (3) Movie scene of a car coming towards junction and smashes in to your car
You wake up after the crash and the car is on fire – you have to ‘cut’ yourself out of the car. Once out you notice a blood trail and begin to follow it. You see the dead body and notice a gun shot wound on the body (DEAD GANGSTER)– there is another blood trail which leads you towards the town.
6th LEVEL
You reach the TOWN and see it’s on fire – at which point you see the cops gathering around and found out that the gangsters was trying to kill the mayor; luckily he’s alive. You head back to the road and still notice the blood trail you were following earlier. Character is prompted to follow the trail.
7TH Level
You find a gangster crawling away from the scene – which you go over to interrogate.
You are prompted to either ‘HELP THE GANGSTER’ or ‘FINISH HIM OFF’ which leads to the story being played out by a cop or gangster.
We then wanted to create instances similar to the Halloween Crypt, you accept a contract from a gangster that asks you to shoot up a shop (such as Ammo Mart) and steal something, you must then escape and drop off the item somewhere after a car chase. When you accept these contracts you either do it as a gang with all the members or you can do it solo, duo, trio etc- other people on the map within the area are made aware and obviously you kill each other. Similar stuff for the cops would be to raid a gangster hideout and make arrests etc