Upcoming 3D platform game features hoverdek stunt riding animé inspired characters.
Atlanta, GA - May 28, 1998 - Psygnosis announces the hottest console title for 1998 with its planned release of Psybadek™ on PlayStation® game console Q4 1998. Featuring the "dek-boarding", street-smart Xako and Mia characters whose inspiration comes from the popular Manga Japanese animation style, Psybadek offers a blend of real-time, go-anywhere 3D-platform action and the thrills and spills of "hoverdek" stunt riding.
This stylish combo of traditional platform trickery and 'board'-inspired, catch-some-air thrills, is an adrenaline rush for the senses that will inspire gamers to the point of obsession as they learn the skills that'll take them to higher levels of Psybadek addiction. Grab your "dek" and perform the ultimate in surfing style and skill - defying gravity with the toughest stunts, racing out of control through obstacle-ridden worlds, solving brain-baffling puzzles and combating evil enemies with an array of weaponry.
Psybadek tests your reflexes, racing skills, and battle instincts as you cruise between zones and levels to save your best buds. Choose to play either Mia or Xako - a babe and her guy - each of whom has strong animé style looks and sports an individual set of stunts and surfing techniques, and has access to different secret levels.
The third-person perspective gameplay takes place in four game zones which mix track-based and open areas. Each zone -Mountains, Jungle, Desert, and the Underworld - has multiple levels, and every level features challenging obstacles like crushers, moving platforms, buried mines and crumble areas. There are hundreds of power-ups to collect; like dek charges that give your dek an extra surge of power, and decoys to confuse the enemy. You also can collect and tow weapons, such as magnetic mines and snowballer bombs, behind your dek to unleash against the evil Krakken and his henchmen.
The landscape is populated with enemies such as psycho penguins in the snow zones and little red devils in the Underworld plus a variety of bosses like Phat Boy, who defends the gateway between the Mountain and Jungle zones and crushes opponents under his massive girth. Each time you rescue a friend from a Boss, he or she will trade deks with you, leaving you with a significantly upgraded hover board. Finally, it will take your best dek and all of your accumulated stunts and weapons to defeat the end-of-game Boss.
The perpetual motion inherent in riding your dek through Psybadek's 3D environments sets a new benchmark in platform gaming. You determine your path through each of the game's levels, through curvaceous landscapes that give you the feeling of really flying, gliding and rolling over terrain at intense speeds. Each level is fully decorated in SoftImageΓäó and is rich with detail and depth thanks to an advanced graphic system that allows animations to be layered. Stunts and weapons have special effects like shockwaves and mushroom clouds. Psybadek supports Standard and Analog joypads. Wax your dek and get ready to surf the curves of the PsybaZone.
