Culpa Innata was shown at this year’s E3. It is an interesting futuristic adventure game taking place in the year 2047 (not long from now). Wealthy countries have united under the World Union, a reference to the European Union maybe? Life is perfect in one of it’s most important cities, Adrianopolis. The richest citizens in this city receive the most respect, as gaining wealth is the ultimate goal. You are a female peace officer assigned to a murder case involving a World Union citizen in the rogue state of Russia (the Russians are the bad guys again?). The game is in full 3D and character control is in third-person perspective. The developer has not found a publisher yet but remains confident it will be released later this year.
You play as Phoenix Wallis, a young Adrianopolis Peace Officer assigned to investigate an unprecedented murder of a Union citizen in the Rogue State of Russia. What begins as a seemingly run-of-the-mill murder case attracts the attentions of an underground resistance group as the game develops into a far more complex mystery. As Phoenix is drawn unwittingly deeper into a covert conspiracy, she begins to examine more closely the world in which she lives, and to question the ideals of the society she has sworn to protect. There is really only one word to describe this story, and that is “ambitious”.
There is an impressive amount of informative material to support the “New World Union” storyline. In fact, the game goes out of its way to create an entire mythology and lexicon around the story’s premise — everything from instructional pamphlets on how to become an “Arrivee”, an entire “Peace Officer Code of Conduct” manual, and billboards and plaques throughout that detail the world’s military history, to name a just few things. I haven’t seen very many adventure games try to create a story with background information as expansive as this.
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