Story

Mutants have been found in the bombed out Polish city codenamed ‘Gorky 17’
near Lubin, and a trio of soldiers (Sullivan, Owicz and Trantigne, each of
different nationalities) enter the city to find out what happened and find any
member of the first squad previously sent there. You control the team and
direct them through the world of surprises and mysteries that wait to be
resolved.

Gameplay

The game is composed mainly of two playing modes. The (tentatively named)
“Adventure mode” is displayed in a top down view point, with the team walking
around the city in real time, interacting with objects, picking up weapons,
ammunition from item chests and key items (such as keycards) and use them to
advance to new areas. At fixed locations, the team will be ambushed by
mutants, and the gameplay switches to the (again, tentatively named) “Battle
mode”, featuring a battle field divided into square grids and an isometric
perspective. Each side takes turn moving, attacking, defending and using
items; the battle ends when all mutants die, or one of the main characters
dies. The battle field would sometimes have items like exploding barrels, or
item chests similar to those in “Adventure mode”.

Character Advancement

Each time the soldier hits and wounds a mutant, they gain experience; once the
character gains enough experience, he levels up and gains stat points which
can be used to improve attributes such as hit point, accuracy, etc. Also, each
time the character successfully use a weapon, their experience with that
particular weapon will be improved, and at the highest level (level 10) the
weapon will deal its intended maximum damage (displayed as “max damage” in the
weapon info).

Items and Weapons

The soldiers can equip themselves with melee weapons (crowbars, axe),
conventional small arms (pistol, shotgun, assault rifle), special weapons
(tranquilizer dart gun, stun gun) to heavy and sci-fi weapons. All weapons
have limited range and most firearms can only shoot in certain directions (for
example, pistols can shoot up, down, left, right, while assault rifles can
also shoot diagonally); some fires in bursts or have splash damage meaning
they can hit multiple enemies. Mutants also have varying degrees of protection
against weapons (armor) and some have immunities for special effects of
weapons (such as stun), which the game kindly takes notes once such
information is found out.

In both “Adventure mode” and “Battle mode”, characters can transfer and equip
weapons and body armor if available, or heal themselves or each other. The
character are 3D models and the environment are pre-rendered 2D background,
which is similar to games like Resident Evil 2 . At certain points in the
game, the characters may be joined by surviving soldiers or citizens, and will
occasionally encounter boss-like monsters.

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