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Axiom Verge Releases Today
LAS VEGAS – March 31, in the year of our Lord 2015
– Tom Happ is proud to announce the launch of Axiom Verge for
PlayStation®4 today in the Americas as a digital download. Its
release is followed tomorrow, April 1st, with its European
launch. Axiom Verge is an action-platform-exploration game
that's not only created in intricate detail in the style of
classics such as Metroid, Contra, and Master Blaster, but uses
those old-school "glitches" that we know and love as a gameplay
feature. You'll use them to scramble enemies, corrupt
environments, and pass through walls into hidden areas in a
massive alien world.
With over 900 unique rooms to explore, Axiom Verge is the
culmination of five years of art, code, music, and game design
all from one source: Tom Happ.
“I started development on Axiom Verge 5 years ago and spent the
majority of my evenings and weekends since that time working on
it,” said Tom Happ. “I quit my day job 6 months ago to finish
the game and couldn’t be prouder of how the game turned out.
This has been my passion for a long time, and I’m so excited to
finally share it with the world.”
In Axiom Verge, you play as Trace, a scientist who awakes in an
alien world after a lab explosion. A voice calls to Trace
telepathically for help, his only clue to the strange world in
which he finds himself. As Trace works his way toward the voice
and beyond, he explores an expansive world of monstrous enemies,
power-ups, weapons, bosses, and loads of hidden items.
Axiom Verge is priced at $19.99 / €17.99 and debuts on PS4 as
part of Sony's Pub Fund program. It is coming at a later date
(to be announced) to PC and Vita. Cross-buy is supported, giving
PS4 owners a copy of Axiom Verge on Vita for no additional cost
and vice versa.
Features:
Explore an expansive non-linear alien world with more than 900
unique, interlocking rooms.
Gobs of unique tools and abilities, loads of weapons, and tons
of health/power/attribute upgrades.
Battle with nearly 70 unique creatures and gigantic
screen-filling bosses.
"Glitches" now allow you to break past the boundaries of normal
gameplay.
Speedrun Mode – Play with a streamlined interface and additional
features to facilitate speedrunning.
Cross-buy support between PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita (to
be released at a future date).