wondering what overgrowth will be?

[angrymonkey]

I've been casually following this game for awhile. Love what I see but wondering what type of game experience it's going to end up being. I hear stealth and a single player mode mentioned in the blog which I am very interested in and also see a ton of melee fighting and mention of multiplayer which I'm not super interested in. I would love stealth levels where you could sneak around or disable enemies or end up in a group battle if you want. Wouldn't really be into stuff where your mission is to defeat x number of enemies in hand to hand combat.

[Endoperez]

Single player is way more important than multiplayer. The only MP at the moment is split-screen.

Melee combat is more important than stealth. The levels will be designed so that there are multiple ways to try and complete them, but melee seems to be the main focus. For example, here they discuss giving the player different ways to approach a target, but it's still about which guards there are and when.

http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/08/Avoidin ... strictions

Finally, melee combat against two or more enemies often gets you dead. If an enemy gets hurt, he goes to get help. This means that, optimally, you want to fight one enemy 1v1 and kill him before others notice. That's what Lugaru was like, I'd call it ambush-gameplay, not stealth-gameplay.

[angrymonkey]

Thanks for that link. Interesting stuff. It might be the sort of thing I'll have to play to see if I enjoy it. I think I'm more into games where enemies are obstructions to be avoided or eliminated or run away from on the way to the goal. If the actual goal is eliminating all enemies like Lugaru I'm not sure if I'll be into it enough.