Pretty Fly For A Wight Guy

Project Wight is a new game from a group of veteran developers that have worked on Battlefield: Bad Company and Payday 2. They're calling themselves the Outsiders and this is their creation that you can see here. The game is a work in progress but you can already see great ideas just from the short clip.

“There are currently 12 people working at The Outsiders,” says co-founder David Goldfarb, whose previous work includes the Battlefield: Bad Company series and Payday 2. “Our background is a pretty broad mixture of experience. Ben Cousins (co-founder) and I come from DICE, as do the other two founders. And we also have experience from Starbreeze, Sony, Guerrilla, and Avalanche. Lots of Swedish game dev in the house for sure.” (PC Gamer)

“The player will experience life on the other side of the sword as a creature attempting to survive the extermination of its species by humanity,” says Goldfarb. “The creature starts out young and extremely vulnerable, but will eventually grow strong enough to turn the tables on its persecutors.” (PC Gamer)

Project Wight is just a temporary name and they have a long way to go in the development but this little teaser clip is pretty neat. The fact that you can play as what would normally be the villain is a great trope. They tried to do that with Evolve but it just failed hard. I think people like bad guys (like Reaper, Roadhog, Widowmaker) in games and I think people will become attached to these gnarly dark age creatures.

I heard previously that this game was going to be a pvp game so I'm hoping that its built more for that market more so than a single player experience. The creatures seem to look pretty damn medieval. If this game comes out as a multiplayer game you can bet I'll be playing it.