I Am Alive dev announces Black Death

By Fred Dutton Published 23 June, 2011

Darkworks readies survival horror FPS.

French developer Darkworks has gone public with Black Death, a horror FPS for PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

According to the game's official site, it's set in an east coast US city that has been consumed by a mysterious chemical fog turning its inhabitants into - yes, you guessed it - sociopathic mutants.

You'll have to try and stay alive while ridding the city of its disfigured, murderous population.

A few neat gameplay quirks are promised, including the ability to control the fog, create your own chemical weapons and decide whether you kill or cure the infected.

No publisher appears to be attached at present but there's a blink-and-you'll-miss-it teaser trailer below.

Darkworks was the original developer behind M.I.A. Ubisoft adventure I Am Alive. Its CV also includes PlayStation 2 actioner Cold Fear and Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare on PC, PSone and Dreamcast.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 11 months ago

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  • landlock #1 11 months ago

    Excellent AITD: TNN and Cold Fear were both good and challenging survival horror games looking foward to see what they can do on the XB360/PS3.

  • riceNpea #2 11 months ago

    east coast US city? sociopathic mutants? sounds like New York to me.

  • Tomo #3 11 months ago

    If you pause the video, you can make out various bits and bobs. The atmosphere looks there though.

  • Desheep #4 11 months ago

    How about a little warning that the friggin BF3 advert was longer than the clip...

  • riceNpea #5 11 months ago

    it did say it was blink-and-you'll-miss-it Desheep. how long are your blinks?

  • Bleemo #6 11 months ago

    Bit Left 4 dead ish, in principle hopefully the game will be a shade more involved. Was I the only one who thought this may be set in medieval times during the black death? which could a decent game if done right.

  • alimokrane #7 11 months ago

    I would be interested if it werent a shooter. Darkworks sure know how to make a horror title, shame it's a shooter.

  • Lunastra78 #8 11 months ago

    I'm starting to get confused by the whole FPS label. Back in the old days when we wore bowler hats and rode unicycles, FPS used to refer to any game with a first-person viewpoint. Nowadays most kids seem to define an FPS as "Modern Warfare clone".

  • bad09 #9 11 months ago

    New Nightmare and Cold Fear were both great games so I'll keep an eye on this. More excitingly though I had no idea the mythical I am Alive is being made by the guys that made those 2, colour me more excited for that one.....if it ever comes out!

  • spongebob #10 11 months ago

    Aghh... Another zombie survival game.

  • Cryotek #11 11 months ago

    "A few neat gameplay quirks are promised, including ... create your own chemical weapons"

    This won't end well when a news journalist reads that.

  • Bulbatron #12 11 months ago

    Playing through Cold Fear right now as it happens. The New Nightmare was a great, though sadly underrated game. I'm always happy to hear about a new horror game, but this sounds about as generic as they can get. Hopefully the game will be more 'Call of Cthulhu' and less 'Left 4 Dead'.