After the disappointment yesterday of n-Space’s unpublished Winter, along comes another snowy survival horror to take its place. Developer Deep Silver is rather proud of its forthcoming Cursed Mountain and has released some screenshots and details of its Himalayan adventure.

You play as Eric Simmons, a mountaineer who climbs a sacred peak in an attempt to find out the truth behind the whereabouts of his missing brother. Deprived of oxygen and suffering from altitude sickness, he begins to see horrific visions of demons and other creatures - or are they visions? The conditions get rougher as Eric ascends, and he must figure out which of these enemies are real and which are merely a product of his own overactive imagination.

Deep Silver promises that the game will utilise the remote’s motion-sensing capabilities, while rumble and speaker noises will add to the atmosphere. Meanwhile, its proprietary game engine will render the full mountain - allowing players to see exactly how far they’ve climbed. Not one for vertigo sufferers, then.

No release date info has been provided, with the date set at a tentative ‘2009′, but the publisher has a decent pedigree, particularly with PC games, like the excellent STALKER: Clear Sky, so this could well be one to watch.

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This entry was posted on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 10:35 pm by Chris Schilling
Forthcoming titles, Hardcore-friendly, Mature games.