A new third-person shooter named NANO has been detailed today – although it hasn’t actually been announced. The details are said to have come from a recent online survey sent in by a Destructoid reader.
The game’s set in the year 2044, where Hugo Glass – a wealthy man who uses his money to travel the globe – is locked up after defending a village in Thailand. Eventually, he gets wrapped up in some sort of “corporate conspiracy” accusing him of murdering his family. As Hugo, players must get their revenge on the corporate that manipulated him.
NANO allows players to use tiny nanobots in order to travel inside human bodies, hack security systems, control vehicles from a remote distance, etc. Glass can even “brainjack” human minds in order to upgrade his own abilities. You’ll be able to use these nano machines in order to save people as well, even fetuses.
With NANO fully detailed, there is no information out on the publisher or developer. However, recent Square Enix Europe (or Eidos Interactive) trademarks and domain registration point to them.
Square Enix has recently trademarked Mindhack (Mindjack in Europe) and this weekend has supposedly been showing off a video for NERKAS Corp. Solutions at the Staples Convention Center. They own the Nerkas domain, as well.
Are NANO, Nerkas, and Mindhack all related? E3 is a little over a week from today. If anything, we’ll find out soon.
The full description of NANO can be found below.
Arriving to the X360, PS3 and PC is NANO, a new action-adventure game that embarks players on a unique journey across the world and the infinitely small yet complex and mysterious universe of the human body.
Set in the year 2044, the player takes on the role of Hugo Glass – a man from a wealthy family but leaves his identity behind to find his purpose in life. Hot tempered and righteous, he travels around the world until he finds himself in jail after defending villagers against corruption in Thailand. When he is released, he finds himself involved in a corporate conspiracy that accuses him of murdering his family. Standing above the corpse of his loved ones with the weapon in hand, Hugo swears revenge against the corporation who manipulated him.
As Hugo, players will experience fast paced action leveraging various weapons and will also control miniscule Nanobots for action gameplay throughout the human body. In a world where Nanotechnology has made the previously unthinkable possible, players will use their Nanobots to investigate the mysterious deaths, battle enemy Nanobots attempting to ‘brainjack’ the host and boost Hugo’s athletic powers.
Hugo will fight fire with fire, embrace the new technologies and transform himself into a ruthless and ingenious spy to find the man responsible for his brainjack and seek revenge for his murdered family.
Features:
- Fast paced 3rd person action/adventure: Set in a plausible near future, experience the world with the convenience of Nanotechnology through an epic tale of corporate conspiracy and revenge.
- Upgrade me: Use nanotechnologies to enhance your physical abilities. Run faster and jump higher to flank enemies and shoot them from where they expect it the least. Use your nanogadgets to lure enemies and ambush them.
- From human to atom: See the world from a different point of view. Fly Nanobots inside bodies or electronic devices to find information, hack a security system, heal someone, brainjack a guard or save a fetus under attack. Crawl on a person’s skin to investigate a wound, destroy swarms of enemy Nanobots or hack a car to remotely control it.
- Multiplayer: As a Nanobot, take on additional missions, alone or with friends. Together, purge a body of all its invading Nanobots. Fight each other and be the first to brainjack the President.