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You have read a lot about Blacklight already but Big Download decided to get even more info from Mark Long, the president of the game's developer at Zombie Studios.

Blacklight sounds like a game that's trying to mix sci-fi elements with more realistic shooters. How hard is it for you guys to keep that balance and make the game feel real while at the same time give it a kind of sci-fi "wow" factor?

We made a major design goal of the game and story to be "science fact", rather than science fiction. So we searched for far out weapons research, like in ultrasonic technology, and take it to its realistic limit - a non-lethal "ultrasonic launcher", for example. Which is cool because they're sound waves, so they can be bounced off of hard surfaces. You can bounce a shot off a wall to knock down an enemy you can't get a line of sight on. Or generate a sonic force field that slows down an enemy in an ambush.

By John Gaudiosi

Independent videogame developer Zombie Studios, which has made PC games like America's Army: Special Forces, Shadow Ops and Delta Force: Task Force Dagger, has an answer to the videogame-to-film problem that has plagued movies from Doom to the recent Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. Rather than creating a game and then shopping it around Hollywood, Zombie has created a new tactical first-person shooter PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game franchise and partnered with Union Entertainment and Fox Atomic to create a new movie and comic book series around the military action franchise, Blacklight.

Seattle-based Zombie Studios has been fairly silent for a while. The developer's last announced project was the military shooter Rogue Warrior for Bethesda Softworks but it seems like that project is dead (neither Zombie nor Bethesda Softworks have ever officially commented on what happened). Now it seems Zombie is launching an multi-media project called Blacklight, which is being aimed as game, a movie and a comic book series.

The near-future tactical shooter is being developed by Zombie as a game and they are working with Fox Atomic on a movie version and a comic book series. All three projects will feature the same characters but each will have "unique, intersecting storylines that complement each other." So far there's no word on when Blacklight in any form will be released.