Lobo Unleashed in 2004

**bahn** · 01 May 2003, 01:57 PM

<img align="right" src="http://www.the-nextlevel.com/news/0305/lobo_logo.jpg">Some may remember early reports discussing the development of Lobo several months ago. Today, Kemco brings us details of the dark and sinister character heading to the video game realm next year!

Lobo will be a third-person adventure-shooter based upon the elements in the comic book's franchise. Unlike conventional super heroes fighting for truth and justice, Lobo is "an over-the-top and outrageous iconoclast," states John Nee, Vice President-Business Development for DC Comics. "Lobo's long been breaking the rules of traditional comic books, now he can break the rules of the video game world."

The story finds the Lobo flat broke and pissed off. So, he sets out to boost his morale and earn money by eliminating the ten biggest bounties on the world’s most wanted list. Starting from the bottom and working toward the top, Lobo wages attacks on middlemen and deviants, bartering for weapons and learning the locations of his most sought after targets. The game features ten unique and progressively challenging environments for each target and respective henchmen, with surprise bounties unlocked throughout play.

With an intricate design, Lobo’s over-the-top combat provides a host of extreme action thrills and in-game options. Players can utilize a number of weapons, including knives, chains, guns, grenades, rockets or Lobo’s favorite, the hook and chain. He is capable of morphing into several characters to elude enemies, such as a ghost, skeleton, bizarre animals and other mutant creatures. Lobo also travels well, be it on foot, aboard his signature space hog motorcycle or alongside Space Dolphins.

Lobo’s detailed environments adapt throughout each level of play, adding to the close engagement adventure and hand-to-hand battles. Evidence of combat is everywhere as fires blacken walls and destroy objects, explosives leave craters and bullets and shells pockmark walls. The game’s soundtrack of explosive guitar riffs and heavy metal thrash add to the game’s emphasis of dark, sarcastic and take-no-prisoners humor.

Lobo is being developed for the Xbox and PS2 platforms.