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   Just one week after announcing Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, the folks from Gas Powered Games are quickly lifting the veil off of another project, from the five games currently in development for various platforms. This time, however, they're partnering with SEGA, in order to bring us a new hack'n'slash title. And while it's not quite a Dungeon Siege sequel, it's still very much an Action-RPG (with similar gameplay, too, we suspect), and it's called Space Siege.

   Once again, the player will take on the role of an unlikely hero - Seth Walker, a cybernetics engineer - on a quest to save the world. As in the human world, which faces extermination after a devastating attack on Earth from an unknown alien race. The entire game apparently takes place in the confines of "Armstrong", one of the few remaining colonization ships carrying the last bastions of human civilization. Either that, or they also have some other locations they're not talking about yet.
"As the adventure progresses, Seth is offered opportunities to sacrifice pieces of his humanity for cybernetic upgrades that will assist him in his mission to preserve the human race. But what price will he pay to save his own humanity? Only the player can decide Seth's ultimate fate."    In other words, Space Siege will have a "dynamic storyline", depending on the cybernetic modifications the player makes on Seth's body. These will determine the NPCs' reactions, to some extent, and ultimately different story resolutions can be reached. Naturally, the gameplay will also vary a great deal: the more you augment Seth with cybernetic upgrades, the more easy it will be to uncover and eliminate the alien menace (after all, "natural human ingenuity and strength" only takes you so far...). But on the other hand, you'll also alienate Seth from the very people he's trying to save, thus placing you in a rather shallow moral dilemma.

   As with Dungeon Siege, this spiritual sci-fi successor will also feature a co-op multiplayer mode, for up to 4 players. And, believe it or not, Space Siege is already planned for release in Q1 2008. Looks like they've been keeping it a secret for quite a while!