Wales Interactive's intriguing cyber-thriller Soul Axiom has been on our radar for what seems like forever. The spiritual sequel to the studio's previous title Master Reboot, it features a unique artstyle and an interesting futuristic storyline which looks to combine the best bits of Tron, The Lawnmower Man and many other similar sci-fi epics.
Set in the digital world of Elysia, the aim is to collect unique powers in order to solve puzzles by manipulating the world around you. 15 hours of gameplay are promised across 40 environments, and multiple endings should maintain your interest long after the credits have rolled.
While Wales Interactive had originally hoped to release the game on all formats last year, it ended up slipping into 2016. The Steam version launches on Monday, with the console editions - and yes, that still includes Wii U - coming later. The new launch trailer is featured below, and gives us perhaps the most complete picture yet of the game's gripping visual style and potentially harrowing plot.
Have a watch and let us know if you're still looking forward to playing this on your Wii U.
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Looks cool however Master Reboot hasn't been released in Australia yet. 😞
Meh I am not sure really. Would need to see some proper gameplay plus I don't really know much about how well received Wales Interactive previous games have been.
The demo was absolutely horrible. But if the real game is full of puzzles and combat it could be great.
The demo was like Myst with real 3D movement! Puzzles designed for prescool didn't help either.
Being agigantic TRON fan (case in point: https://youtu.be/w3MNgtKa5Sc ) I have been looking forward to this one and that trailer did nothing to diminish my interest. Looking forward to the NL review first.
I keep hearing about Lawnmower Man but I never watched it. It only recently started being mentioned around me.
Silly Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon.
Never played Master Reboot. Maybe I'll pick it up on sale.
@Shiryu You're the 1 guy on NL I can imagine wanting to play this in VR. I don't want to do anything in VR, the thought of the headsets gives me a headache, and I don't like FP view in anything, but this game trailer makes me want to play it ONLY in VR if I Was going to play it at all.
@rjejr I don't think VR is for me, but oh well... I like to keep an open mind.
Might as well throw Matt Damon's "Elysium" into the mix, I sense a similar class war theme.
And he looks ready to play a VR game in this get-up.
Performance. Then will buy. That's all.
I loved Master Reboot. Really looking forward to picking this up when it releases.
I played the demo & I hope they fix the one thing that held it back: The framerate.
@Spin If you can look past the not-so-well-aged special effects it actually is quite an entertaining movie with an intriguing what-if story, so if this kind of theme interests you, it's worth a look. The sequel ain't half bad either, although the first one is really the one that was considered to be somewhat revolutionary back in the day.
P.S.
Baader-Meinhof isn't the actual scientific name of the phenomenon: officially it is called "frequency illusion". Baader-Meinhof is the alias of a seventies German terrorist group called ""Die Rote Armee Faktion" or The Red Army Faction.
Apparently, some guy back in the nineties coined the term in relation to more and more news popping up about these terrorists since he'd heard of them, hence the name he gave it.
So it's basically two names for the same thing, except one is used by the public and the other is the scientific name.
@TheRealThanos Yeah I'm aware of frequency illusion. I like using Baader-Meinhof because it makes people want to google it and then all of a sudden they will see Baader-Meinhof everywhere.
@Spin I can see why: I had to Google it too, but in this case to see why that name rang a bell. People from your generation, and most people in the States, will probably never have heard of these European terrorists, or maybe only occasionally when the topic came up in history class or something, but most older people know about them and especially in Europe, mentioning them to people of my generation can still be somewhat of a touchy subject, which is in part why I thought I'd let you know.
The other part of it was just me trying to find out if you also knew the official term...
I enjoyed Master Reboot and this looks like a great spiritual sequel. Hope it'll be released in Germany this time.
I think it's great that some games at least get a later German release, like Life of Pixel, Word Party, and Canvaleon. I hope we get Adventures of Pip, 1001 Spikes, and Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures too since they're already out in the rest of Europe. It's weird that shovelware like Defense Dome gets a German release tomorrow, or that awful Frenchy Bird that came with months of delay but was re-released for Germany/NZ/AUS, and some quality indie titles like Master Reboot and Ittle Dew don't.
I liked Master Reboot, but it gave me motion sickness when I played. I don't have much enthusiasm to play a sequel.
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