Frozen Endzone Hits Steam Early Access

Mode 7’s next game is now available to access through Steam.

The newest game from Mode 7 Games, Frozen Endzone, is now available on Steam as an early access game.  Frozen Endzone, like Frozen Synapse before it, is a tactical game, but this time you’re controlling a team of robots taking part in a brutal, futuristic sport game, with the main aim being to score more points than the other team.

While the theme is sport, this isn’t a sports game as such.  It’s very much a tactical strategy game in the vein of Frozen Synapse.  You set up your moves, trying to get the ball to the endzone, and your opponents will also set up moves to try and stop you.  There’s less death in this game, but plenty of hard hitting action.

The full list of changes for this version of the game are as folows: –

– Players can now have stats: strength, resilience, “burst” (a small burst of acceleration when getting the ball), evade, intercept radius, block radius

– “Handball” (now called “Full Match”) game mode enters beta.  This has been totally revamped to accommodate stats and is now the main game mode.  Lots of turnovers, interceptions, end-to-end action, and new points zones make this really exciting and strategic.

– Team Editor allows you to name your players and set their stats; upload your team to the server and use it in multiplayer or skirmish with it offline

– Completely revamped, much more intelligent AI and a selection of new AI skirmishes

– Easy-to-use tile-based Pitch Editor (alpha)

– Custom Game Mode creator (alpha)

– Commentary system (alpha): commentary makes use of player names; in single player, the AI calculations are also used to allow the commentators to analyse your play-style; in multiplayer, the commentators will discuss your previous history with your opponent

– Some brand new animations and some big improvements to camera code

– There is now in-game audio to go with the music!

The game is available with a number of differently priced tiers that offer extra goodies for you, and a full retail copy of the game once it’s officially released.  Frozen Endzone is currently scheduled for release in late 2014.  You can find the game on Steam at this link.