Sega’s The Club Hits Gold
Sega’s game that makes human hunting an almost literal race has now completed the developmental phase of its journey and is heading to manufacturing for final replication and packaging today. The game will be released for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC in North America on Feb. 19, 2008.
Developed by Bizarre Creations The Club puts you in a hunt or be hunted tournament where the goal is to take out your assigned target, earn points and move onto the next target. The game promises a blend of fast-paced action combined with a scoring system that rewards the player for how fast a kill is taken down and the technique used to do it. Points are also awarded based on how you damage your target and upon location-based damage (headshot, gut shot, etc.).
Players choose one of eight uniquely trained killers, each with their own set of combat and backgrounds in an attempt to stay alive in this last-man standing style contest. The Club features a single-player experience and eight different multiplayer modes for up to eight players at a time. A playable demo is available for download via Xbox Live and PlayStation Network. A new PC demo will be released soon.
The Club carries a suggested retail price of $59.99 and is rated M (Mature).
The Club: Renwick Demo This Week
Sega’’s The Club will make its debut this week as an exclusive demo showing off what this game has to offer Xbox 360 owners when it is released in February. From 9 a.m. GMT on Tuesday Jan. 8, the demo for Sega’’s new shooter will be available via download across Europe and Australia on Xbox Live Marketplace. The demo will be released a little later in North America. The Renwick demo puts players in a rundown federal penitentiary as an NYPD Detective whose investigations has brought him too close to The Club’’s illegal deathmatch tournaments. Renwick, now an unwilling participant in this underground blood-sport run by a secret group of millionaires, goes with the flow. The demo features Renwick in two single-player modes (Sprint and Time Attack) and one multiplayer mode (split-screen). Developed by Bizarre Creations, The Club is a shooter that focuses on racking up points by taking out targets with style and as quickly as possible. Points are earned based on combos, which are based on type, range and hit location. As the player kills a kill bar is filled, though more stylized kills garner the most amount of points. After each target is eliminated, players must sprint off to the next target, while maintaining the ever-diminishing kill bar by further kills and special power-ups.
Whether this game based on a blood sport concept and developed by people best known for arcade shooters and next-gen racing games will be well-received is anyone’’s guess, but at least you can take the game for a spin this week.
The Club is set for release next month on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC and is obviously rated M for Mature by the ESRB.
