'Drawn to Death' Release Date, News: Doodling Online Arena Shooter Comes to PS4 on April 4
The third-person shooter slash brawler "Drawn to Death" is coming out on April 4, exclusive to the PlayStation 4 (PS4). Game Designer David Jaffe, of "God of War" and "Twisted Metal" fame, shared some insights into the process of making the game.
The PlayStation blog got in touch with David Jaffe to learn more about his latest title. Jaffe reveals a few of the upcoming title's features, and a look behind the inspiration for the game's unique design.
Compared with other hero-based shooters like Blizzard's "Overwatch" and Gearbox's "Battleborn," the upcoming game, "Drawn to Death," plays in third person. Its game modes are also exclusively player versus player (PVP) and will only support four players. Jaffe describes the reasoning behind this as their way to minimize the chaos. The characters will take some time to kill, and Jaffe's team wants a game that rewards exploiting map knowledge and adjusting on the fly. Both things will be very hard to execute with more players and deadlier weapons on the map, Jaffe explains.
"Drawn to Death" is based on adolescent imagination. Are these characters a product of Jaffe's? While the game designer does not directly attribute the characters' designs to his high-school doodles, he does admit to having sketched similar art in class to get himself through a lot of lectures.
A character design that Jaffe particularly liked was that of "Ninjaw," for her mobility mechanics. He's also partial to a weapon called "The Shaxe," which is a blend of a shotgun and an ax. It has some complex mechanics that are tricky but satisfying to pull off, he says.
So far "Drawn to Death" will launch in April 4 with six characters. "Johnny Savage," "Diabla Tijuana," "Cyborgula," "Alan," "Ninjaw" and "Bronco" will be the initial choices for the game's six modes. The game will also feature 26 weapons, seven character levels, and two in-game rewards systems called "Volcano God" and "Sphynx."
Watch the latest trailer for "Drawn to Death" below, with commentary from David Jaffe.
