Anyone know any game with a similar combat system to Trespasser?
For those who don't know what i'm talking about, Trespasser was an old "FPS"* game set in the Jurassic Park world where the main character has crash landed and has to fight through dinos to get herself off the island.
The most unique feature of this otherwise average game was how you defend yourself and interact with world objects. Essentially, your hand was attached to the mouse. Click a button and you reach out your hand, which you can then move with the mouse. Another button makes you grab whatever your hand is on, and yet another button makes you throw whatever you're currently grasping. Whilst grabbing something, be it a baseball bat or a large crate, you can move it with the mouse just like your empty hand.
What this leads to is shitting your pants while a dinosaur runs towards you only to realise that there's a handy steel rod at your feet which you can pick up and swing around with the mouse to beat the dino's head in.
It's an incredibly immersive feature. Note that there's also guns which you can pick up and aim as you see fit just like with any other object, except these of course shoot. You can even hold your pistol sideways if you so choose.
So, with that explanation over and done with, does anyone know of any game that uses a similar mechanic?
*note I put "FPS" in quotes because the game
is in first person but you run out of bullets so fast and guns are so scarce it really boils down to finding the closest available improvised weapon to beat a T-Rex down with or running and hiding like a frightened rabbit.
Last edited by 4zb41; Jan 29, 2011 at 09:36 AM.