Wonderful news! We've all been excited to see Microïds resurfacing as an adventure game publisher -- and now they are announcing the launch of a sequel to Still Life.







Those of you who played Still Life will remember that its ending did not completely resolve the game's mysteries. Many GameBoomers members have posted here in this forum to speculate about the game's ending. Up until today, it looked as though gamers might not ever be able to find the definitive answers to the questions raised by the original story. Microïds has posted this teaser statement to assure them that: "Fans of Still Life can expect to discover who is hiding behind Mr. X in the sequel."


Game Summary



In Still Life 2, gamers will control two heroines, bringing dual perspectives and involving two different gameplay experiences. "Depending on whether they are playing the victim (Paloma Hernandez) being hunted by the killer or the FBI agent (Victoria McPherson) tracking him down, gamers can alternate between survival and investigation."

Visit the Microïds website. Okay, there's nothing there yet about Still Life 2, but there soon will be! Until then, you can savor the GameBoomers review of the original Still Life by nickie.

First there was Still Life, then Next Life, and now...the next Still Life.

Still Life 2 is happening.

http://www.microids.com/en/press/9/microids-to-release-still-life-sequel.html

Hi Merlin -- I just got the press release too! Wow!

Lol Becky, we both posted at exactly 4.28pm

You can delete my thread if you want.

Nah, but I'll merge you into the other thread if that's okay with you!

EDIT: Merlin, I loved your thread title, so I added it into the beginning of your post, since we'll lose the title when I merge the two threads.

You mean I have to wait 11 months!?!?!?!

Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Wow!

Excellant !!!! News

Thanks Becky...

That is absolutely fantastic news! Thanks Becky!

Very good news ! I just hope they don't go overboard with the gore. And I hope they find a way to fit Gus in there ,somehow .
Gosh - guess I'm a little excited , huh ?

Thanks for the heads up,Becky !

Been waiting to hear this news announced, And here it comes Wooooo!

I loved Still Life, had its small flaws but what a great game.

That's a lonnngggg wait! LOL. ::puttin' on my waitin' clothes

Cissy

Hi

Yippee !!!!!!!!

And got time to save up for it too - after the "game" rush on my pocket just lately

Cheers.

Mad

Wonderful!!

Hopefully all my Still Life questions will finally be answered.

I've been hoping that this would happen.

"Q"

I am really happy to hear this news! I enjoyed Still Life very much!

Excellent news Becky. I still have Still Life and haven't played it yet. This will make me want to play it sooner than I planned on.

Cathy

Wohoo and wow and

This is really really great news....

Looking forward to November 2008....

where adventure gamers will get to know who mr. X is...

Wow! Great News!!!
The first two were excellent games (Post Mortem and Still Life) and I had given up hopes of the resolution.

If anyone at Microids is reading these boards: THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

This is such great news!! Still Life is one of my all-time favourite games, and I'd always hoped that one day, maybe, perhaps, there might be a sequel - and now there will be!

Thank you, Microids!

I loved Still Life. Will be waiting and looking forward to Still Life 2. Thanks Becky.

I'm a little hesitant to get too excited about this. My favorite character was Gus, not Victoria. And I see no mention of Gus in this announcement. It looks like we'll also lose the trips back to Gus's time period.

Another thing that I wonder about is how many of the developers who originally conceived Still Life are working on the new one. The first one had a certain artistry -- the way they tied events in the past to those in the present, the sort of creepy way they had the murderer see beauty in his dead victims when he painted them, and lots of small details that may not be immediately obvious. It made the original game something more than a story about chasing down a serial killer. If none of the original developers are working on the new installment, will the new developers be able to maintain the artistic qualities of the original?


Does that mean the game will play in real time 3D?
The original was 2.5D.

Oh boy, this is great news!!! My only problem is that I don't have any patience - Next Year? As far as it being as good as the first Still Life, well, we'll just have to wait and see, I guess. Now, if only we could hear news about continuing Dreamfall. I hate not knowing what happened. Judy

I just hope it works out well that we will be able to play as the victim. There needs to be reason for this storywise, I think.

I don't mind that the game will be in full 3D. As I recall it, Zork:Nemesis were in full 3D...(the 360 degree panning system?)I just hope that the game will feature the point and click system.
Or feature a really well implemented wsad control scheme...

360 degree panning is 2D.
Full 3D in a 3rd person game would be more like BS3 or BS4.

Absolutely amazing news there. There aren't many people around who don't want a sequel to the original to clarify what happened. Excellent news there, one of my favourite games!