XIII: Screens & Movie

UbiSoft's XIII has a new video out, featuring the use of nice cel-shaded objects as weapons.

UbiSoft has released a video today for their newest FPS, XIII. The new video shows off some of the game's features, including the ability to use objects in your environment to help you along... not so much a feature, as a requirement to succeed.

Just a few such objects include chairs, ashtrays, bottles, shovels, bricks and broken glass. And that's just to name few. Your job in XIII is to unravel the mystery surrounding your identity, the assassination of the president, and the future of America itself.

You wake up on a desolate strip of New England beach. The near-fatal impact of a bullet has left your head pounding, and your memory erased. What's more, the number "XIII" has been mysteriously tattooed on your chest, while your pocket holds a key to a New York City bank box.

Head swimming in amnesia, you struggle to your feet only to encounter more assailants intent on finishing the job. To your shock, you handle the hitmen with the killing skills of a professional - before heading to the bank in search of any shred of information about your lost identity and your involvement in the President's murder.

Boasting the power of Unreal II technology, Ubi hopes to break down gameplay barriers with their comic book visual styles and extremely detailed combat and skill systems. UbiSoft hopes for a release this September, 2003.

Colin Wilson
Was XIII himself once upon a time.