'Broken Age' Act 2 PS4, PS Vita Release Date: Game Gets April 2015 Launch Date (VIDEO)
Adventure video game "Broken Age" is set to launch its Act 2 for PS4 and PlayStation Vita by the end of next month.
Double Fine Productions has just announced an Act 2 for its point-and-click adventure game, "Broken Age," which will be launched for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on April 28.
Initially released in January 2014 under the working title, "Double Fine Adventure," the first Act of "Broken Age" began as a crowdfunded project, and ended up one of the largest of its kind with over 87,000 backers raising more than $3.45 million within the space of a month. It remains among the highest-backed crowdfunded ventures to date.
The game allows players to control and move a character across the game's environment, examining different objects and interacting with various non-player characters. The main character can collect useful objects and items, storing them in an in-game inventory for future use.
Act 1 presents the story of two seemingly disconnected teenagers rebelling against tradition in their lives. The young woman character, Vella Tartine, lives in a world devastated by the giant Mog Chothra, a creature to whom young girls are often sacrificed to at "Maiden's Feasts." After escaping an attack by the beast, and flees to a port town where she discovers an ancient space ship and uses it to attack and destroy Mog Chothra.
The young man, Shay Volta, is the sole passenger aboard an "incubator" spaceship, and is mentored by a father figure computer terminal who informs Shay he is the last survivor of his race. Shay discovers a being named Marek during his explorations of the ship, and together, unbeknownst to the computer, they embark on missions to rescue various creatures until they are attacked by an unknown enemy.
The enemy turns out to be Vella, who has attacked Mog Chothra, and the beast turns out to be the "incubator" ship that houses Shay.
"Broken Age" Act 1 was well received by game critics, its success making a great impact on crowdsourced gaming projects via Kickstarter. With the sales from Act 1, game director, Tim Schafer announced Double Fine had sufficient funds for the development of Act 2, which will be launched April 28 in North America and April 29 in Europe.
