14 DAY TRIAL // Turtle Rock Studios' upcoming first-person shooter Evolve has a very interesting asymmetrical multiplayer, where a team of four hunters are pitted against a single, monstrous beast, but it also offers a single-player experience that's described as similar to the one found in Left 4 Dead.
Chris Ashton, Turtle Rock Studios co-founder and design director for Evolve, has shared a few more titbits of information regarding the single-player mode of the upcoming shooter.
"You can play single-player and we have AI that fill empty slots, so you can play single-player as the monster, you can play single-player as the hunter with AI teammates against an AI monster," he tells GamingBolt.
"We haven't really talked too much about what single-player elements will be in the game. Other than that, story wise we are doing a lot of similar things like Left 4 Dead. When you played Left 4 Dead the characters would talk and you'd hear about the world and you'd see writing and stuff like that. You'd learn about the world a little bit as you played it. So we are doing kind of a similar take on Evolve. A lot of what you gonna learn about the fiction and stuff comes from the characters," Ashton explains.
He has also talked a bit about how the monsters in the game work, revealing how the Goliath and Kraken will evolve during the savage hunting matches.
"Right now we've shown 2 monsters. We've shown Goliath and he is the brawler, he is big, strong, very upfront when he fights, he is very direct. Kraken is our flying monster and it uses electricity for ranged attacks and doesn't quite has the health or armor that Goliath does. They play a lot differently and it's more about what we'd like people to do is to find which one suits their play-style the best and which one they have the most fun with," Ashton reveals.
"All monsters will have different abilities and different ways of traversing the world, but there will always be three stages of each one and each have four unique abilities and they can level up as they evolve," he concludes.
Evolve is currently scheduled to come out on October 21, for the PC, the Xbox One all-in-one entertainment system from Microsoft, and the PlayStation 4 next-gen computer entertainment system from Sony. Pre-order bonuses include a special Monster Pack, consisting of a new monster and the Savage Skin for the Goliath beast.