Shortfuse Games Announces Alive & Undead for PlayStation Network

September 28, 2009

Shortfuse
Games Announces Alive & Undead for PlayStation Network

Shortfuse Games today announced
their next title in development is the dark, gory, combat focused Alive &
Undead. Currently in development using the rapid iteration and rapid development
powers of Gamebryo LightSpeed from Emergent Game Technologies, Alive & Undead is
planned for release on PlayStation Network in the fall of 2010.

“Alive & Undead is a brutal,
uncensored vampire quest sprinkled with clichés of both side-scrolling beat-em-ups
and sub culture phenomena,” said Johan Hermerén, president of Shortfuse Games.
“After the success of Colosseum, we focused on expanding our creative
storytelling abilities and interweaving it with intricate fighting sequences. As
players work toward avenging the vampire curse, they’ll encounter a horde of
crazy undead creatures to battle!”

Hermerén continued, “We evaluated
other engines and we chose Emergent’s technology first for Colosseum and now for
Alive & Undead because its power and versatility suited our needs. It allows us
to be incredibly creative while being flexible enough to adapt to our studio’s
evolving development goals, from use developing a 3rd person brawler with
Colosseum on Xbox Live to creating a 2D side-scroller co-op shooter for PSN. Its
multi-platform abilities and easy integration with third party middleware enable
us to meet aggressive production schedules with a minimum amount of stress.”

Alive and Undead takes the form of a
classic, side-scrolling, 2-player brawler. Choose from two charismatic
characters: Mr. Smith, an Elvis impersonator who has suffered the misfortune of
being turned into a vampire, or Welson, a femme-fatale witch hunter. Though his
unquenchable vampire bloodlust, Mr. Smith has killed his entire family. In order
to avenge his family and free himself from the curse of vampirism, he solicits
the help of Welson. Together the unlikely heroes use an over-the-top arsenal to
battle hoards of undead and other frightful creatures on a fantastically violent
quest to destroy the one responsible for Mr. Smith’s calamitous, blood-sucking
condition.

Alive and Undead is cocky,
uncensored, brutal and kick-ass. It delivers the classic formula of the
side-scrolling brawler and improves on it by incorporating modern mechanics like
the ability to juggle enemies in the air, as well as a variety of explosive and
devastating co-op attacks.

For more information about Shortfuse
Games and Alive & Undead, please visit
www.shortfuse.se