Bandai Namco and DigixArt Studio have got something really special with their World War 1-inspired game
11-11: Memories Retold. While it is set during The Great War, it is not a first-person shooter like most games set in any war—either real or fictional.
11-11: Memories Retold is a game that focuses heavily on narrative, where the war is only used as the story's background to tell a bigger story. By featuring two soldiers from opposing sides of the war as the game's main protagonists,
11-11: Memories Retold also aims to offer players different points of view to this world-changing event.
In order to ground the game even more, the developers were assesed by a historian that helped them keep the game faithfully grounded in the period it's set. The team also wanted to have the characters, Harry and Kurt, communicate in a way that was realistic—keeping in mind that they come from different countries and speak completely different languages, creating a language barrier at first.
The latest vlog for
11-11: Memories Retold focuses on how the team managed to create a credible fiction that fleshes out these two different characters that go to the war for very different reasons and end up realising that they still have things in common.
Check it out:
Journey back to World War I, the War to End All Wars and follow the story of two soldiers brought together in the most unlikely of circumstances...
11-11 Memories Retold will be available for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on the 9th of November.