Trinity returns

News - But not the id Software game of old

Before Quake 3 Arena, id Software were banding about another game/engine title under development: Trinity. At the time it was talked-of as the next big step from id. Well, Trinity the game is back - but whether id Software are involved is debatable.

Trinity is however a new first-person shooter, to be published by Activision on the Xbox and PC in 2004. The PC version will be created by Gray Matter (of the Return to Castle Wolfenstein fame), whilst the Xbox edition will come from Vicarious Visions.

Here's the premise:

As the mysterious "Nightstalker," a bio-technically enhanced one-man vigilante force, players will cut a swath of destruction through the Big Easy as they attempt to uncover the source of the deadly virus, and save the city from impending disaster.

The game will include "FlashTime", which will allow for the character to perform superhuman feats of acrobatics to evade foes or unleash devastating attacks, and basically sounds rather a lot like Max Payne's Bullet Time.

"Trinity brings an all new intensity and cinematic quality to the first-person action genre," gushed Larry Goldberg (with a name like that, he would have to be and is, Activision executive vice president). "Run-and-gun gameplay takes on a whole new dimension when players can warp around the map in the blink of an eye, see through walls and tackle enemies with deadly acrobatic manoeuvres."