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New XIII game on the cards

Publisher Anuman Interactive is breathing life back into the XIII game, originally released by Ubisoft in 2003. The new game is called XIII Lost Identity and will be based on the Franco-Belgian comic of the same name.

Ubisoft brought XIII to PS2, Xbox, GameCube and PC eight years ago. It’s stylish cel-shaded graphics make it one to be remembered, but was let down by lack lustre gameplay and it failed to garner commercial success.

The XIII comic series was originally published in 1984. Inspired by Robert Ludlam’s Bourne Identity novel, the comic’s protagonist is an amnesiac who struggles to unravel the mystery of his past.

Details of the new game are thin on the ground. XIII Lost Identity will be released on PC, Mac, iPhone and iPad. Ubisoft is not involved in the project.
I’m hoping this will spark a return to cel-shading, but with the added benefit of great gameplay.

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Chella hails from the UK and joined Gameindustry.com around the year 2000. It was so many moons ago, she can't quite remember. Back then, the only women you saw in the games industry were in bikinis and vertiginous heels at trade shows - oh how times have changed, kind of. Chella started as a humble reviewer, but soon became our European Correspondent and keeps us on top of industry happenings across the Pond. She tends to like the weird Japanese games we've never heard of, so that's good for making us look all-encompassing and stuff. Chella does like games, so don't be fooled by the copious amount of columns devoted to bemoaning the lack of variety in the industry. When she's not surfing (the sea, not the internet) or camping up mountains, Chella likes a good action RPG (especially if it's sci-fi), anything with a good narrative and like we said, the weirder the better. She's also a regular in the GiN Lounge, but that's just because we like her accent.