You and bizillionzz other people weren’t alone in your belief. SOMA is still the in the deepest, darkest depths - but it’s not space you need to be worrying about…
No, no, not space, but underwater. And it’s less ‘he lives in a pineapple under the sea’, more ‘oh my god I didn’t think my liver would float.'
Frictional Games Thomas Grip explained how the idea came about in a recent blog post, writing “It was a decision which came very swiftly; Jens (co-founder of Frictional Games) and I sort of decided it on a whim during a meet-up. But it’s something that had been brewing inside us for a long time. Most of our earth is covered in ocean, and yet it’s something that we know very little about. It is an incredibly hostile environment filled with strange creatures, and it is right on our door step.”
Whereas previously I was worrying about sentient computers and nano machines crawling through my brain, Frictional Games want to refocus onto the strange creatures that may live in the deepest and most inhospitable parts of the ocean.
“Gigantic squid, luminescent fish and creatures that are all mouths and teeth are only the start. If you dive down any distance you enter into a realm of monsters,” continued Grip.
“The ocean is an alien world, and we’ve only scratched the surface. We feel it’s the perfect place to explore in a horror game.”
Anyone else getting Burial at sea vibes from this? Anyway, you’ll have to dust off your diving suit when SOMA arrives on PC and PS4 in 2015.Did you see this one coming?Think the underwater scares will be able to rival Amnesia: The Dark Descents castle-rambling antics?
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