A new first-person shooter promises to revolutionize gaming on Linux

Apr 4, 2014 12:09 GMT  ·  By

Get Even, a first-person shooter developed by The Farm 51, is the firm game that completely blurs the line between reality and the virtual world. Even better, it is scheduled for Linux release in 2015.

The developers from The Farm 51 have also worked in another, more famous studio called People Can Fly, the makers of the Painkiller series, but they started their own project back in 2005. Since then, they have published a few games like NecroVisioN, NecroVisioN: Lost Company, Painkiller: Hell & Damnation, and Deadfall Adventures.

There is a flurry of games coming out to the Linux platform and there are also a large number of first-person shooters that are already present on the open source platform. The developers from Get Even have promised to bring something new to the table, something that hasn't been done before, and which is unparalleled graphics.

Most gamers, players, and humans for that matter, are able to tell the virtual setting rendered in a game from a real one. Game developers are working very hard to bridge that gap, but the human brain is still able to make subtle distinctions.

The little that has been shared by the developer reveals that Get Even is a getting very close to fool the human players into thinking that they are actually watching something real. The environments are so well made that you might be inclined to say that they are actually real.

“Sometimes we have to face the question ‘What is real?’ Our consciousness is being shaped by the inputs from our senses, by flow of information from media, by how our mind processes our memories and dreams.”

“Get Even tells the story of Black, illegal investigator, who works for government and VIPs to gather uncomfortable evidence and, sometimes, to hide inconvenient truth. From his point of view, answer to the question ‘What is real?’ depends on what is shown to others and what's hidden from them. And in this kind of job, there are always victims,” say the developers on their official Steam hub.

The graphics in this game is a combination of photo-realistic visuals made with the use of 3D scanning and precise motion capture.

The Farm 51 is promoting a 2015 release for its game, but it's hard to anticipate what kind of system requirements it will have. In any case, if you are interested in the game, be sure to help them get into the Steam Greelight program by voting.