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   Let's begin our Leipzig GC 2007 "remote coverage" with one of the first new games announced this week. Hidden behind a mysterious title is THEY, an equally mysterious next-gen shooter, developed by... you guessed, a still-mysterious studio. At least so far, the representatives from IMC (Interactive Media Consulting) didn't reveal the developer's identity, but they did provide enough bits of information and "eye-candy" to catch our attention.

   So, THEY will be a futuristic first-person shooter, set on an Earth invaded by aliens - or that's what the first images from our gallery seem to suggest: a screenshot which reminds us of the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within movie, and an artwork with some gigantic... thing erected over a post-apocalyptic London.

   Gameplay wise, THEY promises to feature brand new gameplay elements, heavy usage of physics (with partially destructible environment), and a revolutionary weapon system that makes you "love" your weapons. It's their expression, but I don't dare to guess its meaning. The single-player mode will be based on a mysterious science fiction story, and naturally the game will also include some multiplayer modes, "versatile" as they call them, in lack of any more revealing term.

   THEY is tentatively set for release in 2008 or 2009, on the PC and next-gen consoles - assumingly Xbox 360 and/or PlayStation 3.

P.S. One clue found on IGN regarding the developing team's identity is that it's been making action games for over ten years... And considering IMC's previous collaborations, I have a hunch it could be the Slovak studio Cauldron.