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We've been reporting that Poland-based City Interactive has at least three, possibly four, first person shooter projects in the works for the next couple of years. One of them is a WWII themed shooter and another is a sequel to its 2010 release Sniper: Ghost Warrior, both of which will use CryEngine 3 as its basis. Now a discovery that was actually first posted way back in August has revealed the title and genre for City Interactive's third upcoming shooter.

A news post on the official web site for developer The Farm 51 reveals they have signed with City Interactive to make a sci-fi themed shooter called Alien Fear for the PC and other platforms. This is most likely the game that City Interactive said will use Unreal Engine 3 as its basis back in December. The Farm 51 is best known for the two games in the Necrovision shooter series. The developer also helped out with the recent fantasy RPG Two Worlds II which will be released in the US for the PC on February 8.

If you have been playing or even thought about purchasing the first person shooter Necrovision, you might want to hold off. The game's publisher 1C Company has announced this weekend that the multiplayer support for the game will be shut down on March 15. That's less than two years after the game was released in the US via Aspyr Media.

The horror-themed first person shooter was developed by The Farm 51 and it used a modified version of the graphics engine that was first used in Painkiller. 1C Company has said that Necrovision: Lost Company, a prequel that was released in 2010, will continue to have multiplayer support.

[Via Blue's News]

It would not be a President's Day without some kind of nice sale offer and today Steam gives us two ways to get a free game if you pre-order an upcoming title. First, folks who pre-order Relic's upcoming Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II Chaos Rising will get to download the PC port of Saints Row 2 for free.

Yet another pre-order offer launched today is for Necrovision: Lost Company, a sequel to 2009's first person shooter from developer The Farm 51 and publisher 1C Company. If you put down some money for the game now you can download the original Necrovision game for free. As always if you already own the free games or just don't want them you can give the Steam CD key to a pal.

The recently announced NecroVisioN: Lost Company covers events that take place before the original NecroVisioN (released earlier this year) begins, using an old school "shoot everything that moves with big guns" horror FPS style. However, in this prequel, players will jump into the completely new role of a WWI German soldier who finds himself caught up in a war between demons and zombies, eventually leading a war against them himself.

Lost Company isn't expected to release until the early half of 2010, but the demo for the original NecroVisioN can be downloaded here.

Download HD NecroVisioN: Lost Company Trailer (81 MB)
Download NecroVisioN Demo (972 MB)

1C Company continues to release continuations of their many different game franchises. The latest such release is NecroVision: Lost Company, a prequel to this year's supernatural-themed WWI shooter from developer The Farm 51. The prequel has the player control one of the German soldiers who fights the supernatural evil only to become the Necromancer that the player had to defeat in the original game.

Look for 10 new single player levels in the game along with six new weapons, new weapon upgrades, and new drivable vehicles like the FT17 tank and Halberstadt CL.II airplane. There's also a new multiplayer mode: Gas Attack (and we hope it's not what we are thinking about right now) and some improved visual effects and graphics upgrades. Look for the game to come out in the first quarter of 2010.

Australia's lack of an adult video game rating has caused yet another game to be banned from sale in that country. The latest in a long stream of such issues is for Necrovision, the recently released horror-themed first person shooter from developer The Farm 51 and publisher 1C Company. Gamespot AU reports that Australia's Classification Board stated that the game's violent content was to blame.

The board specifically made mention of Necrovision's "blood spray" when taking out enemies and also mentioned the ability to do "post mortem" damage to the game's AI foes. As a result the game was deemed too violent to be listed under the country's current maximum rating of MA15+. It's unknown at this point if 1C Company will try to appeal the ruling or perhaps created an edited version of Necrovision for release in Australia as other games have done.

[Via Blue's News]

We loved the 2004 released first person shooter Painkiller. It had over-the-top action, great art design and a general sense of fun. That game is why we are a little excited about Necrovision. The upcoming shooter title from developer The Farm 51 has some former Painkiller team members and uses an enhanced version of Painkiller's engine.

This week the official Necrovision web site went live with new trailers, screenshots and info about the game. We have to admit it looks good although perhaps not quite as varied an art style. Aspyr Media plans to help the game's publisher 1C Company release the game to the US territories later this spring.

Back in 2004 an graphically impressive and fun first person shooter was released. If you are thinking we are thinking of Half-Life 2 you would be right . . . and wrong. 2004 was also the debut of Painkiller, the People Can Fly created shooter that, while not as deep in terms of storyline as Valve's masterpiece, was an incredibly fun game experience with some of the best physics interactions and art designs we have ever seen.

A number of former People Can Fly team members decided to leave the company to form The Farm 51 but they got a license to use the Painkiller graphics engine. The result is yet another first person shooter called Necrovision that is being published by 1C Company. Big Download got a chance to test drive a build of the game during 1C's US press event this week.