Announced this morning on the PlayStation Blog, Greylock Studios Cut steel (formerly known as Impact) is a first-person shooter starring a character who cannot reload because she only has one arm.
Her name is Steel, and before the match starts, she loses her arm in an accident caused by the mega-corporation EdenSys. When the company releases her from her injury, Steel embarks on a mission to rescue others trapped under EdenSys’ heel and take revenge for her disintegration.
Steel cannot reload with one hand, which is why she uses her acrobatic abilities to steal weapons from her enemies. She slides, draws stripes, wall runs and dives over her enemies. To encourage players to rely more on Steel’s agility, designer Matt Larabee has made it so that enemy fire automatically misses when she’s in the middle of a trick. As long as Steel keeps moving, she’s almost bulletproof. It’s quite neat.
Cut steelThe environments are voxel-built and completely destructible, so later in the game, when Steel has a cannon mounted on her remaining limb, shit will be inflated. Who needs to reload if you can explode the ground beneath your enemies with an arm cannon?
Cut steel coming later this year on PS4 and PC.