Spark Unlimited's PC first person shooter, Turning Point: Fall of Liberty may actually live up to its name by becoming the turning point for a World War II genre in need of a resuscitation.
Fall of Liberty takes place in New York City, the home of Lady Liberty. Winston Churchill, England's enigmatic Prime Minster during WWII, was killed in 1931 when hit by a taxi (which actually happened, but only injured him in real life). Without Churchill's leadership, the Nazi war machine rampaged across Europe, forcing England to surrender in 1950. Not satiated, Hitler (who committed suicide in real life) invades the East Coast in 1952 -- starting with New York and Washington, D.C.
In yet another twist, players don't assume the role of a highly trained solider from a secret ops unit, but rather an ordinary construction worker named Dan Carson who's stuck at the top of a skyscraper when the Zeppelins arrive. As an ordinary man lacking any real combat skills, his fighting style will be geared towards grappling and hand-to-hand combat. Players must sneak up on Nazi scum to punch, head butt, neck snap or disarm them. This guerrilla style warfare lends itself perfectly to grappling because weapons won't be the primary focus. Players must use their wits and the environment by tossing enemies against walls, through windows or knocking them off ledges (from skyscraper girders -- that's gotta hurt) to lead the resistance to retake America.
As players rid the world of more Nazis they can reuse their weapons. The y select from over a dozen different weapons, but since history has been changed -- so has technology. No outlandish sci-fi weaponry exists, but the Nazi technology was far more advanced (in real life) than that of the United States. Given a few more years to develop what they had in testing, things may have ended differently. As such, every weapon in game is based on real blueprints from WWII.
The game's producer, Dean Martinelli, broke the game into the four R's: run, regroup, resist and retaliate. Turning Point starts with the attack on New York City, with players on the run. The game's setting then moves to Washington D.C. Here, Dan the Ordinary Man meets up with the fledgling resistance, at which time the game morphs into the actual act of resistance and finally full-scale retaliation.
Spark hasn't divulged whether or not Turning Point will come with any sort of multiplayer option, but a setting like this -- swastika sporting Nazi German scum versus good ole red, white and blue Americans for all the marbles -- certainly begs for one. Keep your browser locked to GameDaily for all the latest information as gamers prepare for the invasion later this year.
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