Baseball bats, hordes of monsters and Mighty Rocket Launchers, this is what’s on the menu with today’s video! Final Exam, the pure 2.5D side-scroller drenched in blood and zany humor, developed by Mighty Rocket Studio for PC, Xbox LIVE® Arcade and PlayStation®Network, is presented in more detail through an explosive overview trailer.
Brutal Joe, one of the four playable characters of the game, tells us about all the ingredients composing the explosive cocktail Final Exam. Alone or in cooperative mode (4 players online and 2 in local play), you will have to survive the attacks of packs of monsters trying to skin you alive, while trying to complete original and varied objectives throughout huge, non-linear levels.
Pick your character, smash the record high scores and explore every inch of the levels to earn experience points enabling your character to level up, unlock new weapons and gain new special attacks and devastating skills! Unleash your most impressive combos to pulverize both the monsters and your friends’ high scores, and climb up the official online rankings!
Final Exam will be available for download on PC, Xbox LIVE® Arcade and PlayStation®Network on November 8th.
Quick question: If you were the former developers of a series of games, and you were making a brand new game that had nothing to do with those previous games, you’d obviously use the exact same name, right?
No. No one would. Because it’s obviously the silliest of all possible things to do. Remarkably, that’s what Mighty Rocket Studio thought was the best plan when regrouping from former Obscure developers, Hydravision. Fortunately some sense has been reached, and now Obscure That Isn’t Obscure is going to be called Final Exam.
Just how they didn’t see a fuss coming eludes me. They’d made two previous games with the Obscure name, Obscure and Obscure: The Aftermath, both of which were distinctly average survival horrors. Leap forward four years and a collection of people from the developer of those two get back together, and announce a new game, and it’s called Obscure. As middling as the games were, there’s of course a fanbase out there, and people were thrilled to learn they could continue the dreary adventures of teenagers getting trapped in their school/college by plants and monsters. Except, this game is a sidescrolling cartoon platformer. Oops.
Fans obviously reacted negatively, and now the game’s name has been changed to Final Exam. Clearly the schools and monsters theme remains, but there’s little else to link them, so a proper distinction makes sense. Not realising this straight away does not. And suggestions that it was for a later publicity stunt don’t take into account how disastrous it can be for a game to change its name midway, and the ensuing confusion that surrounds.
