Online game company FXLabs on Thursday launched its maiden homegrown PC-based game AGNI, which is loosely based on Dante's 'Inferno' peppered with a potboiler storyline that is quintessentially Bollywoodesque.
Film actor Malaika Arora Khan plays the lead character in AGNI, developed at a cost of Rs eight crore over a period of two years, and has nine levels.
In this Third Person Shooter-Role Playing Game, Tara, (animated version of Malaika) is forced to venture into Agnilok (hell) to bring her lost daughter, Mili.
Sashi Reddi, Founder and Chairman of FXLabs said: "Launching of AGNI marks a milestone in the country's gaming history, hitherto plagued by problems like lack of proper gaming machines or access to them."
Irrational Games has said that one of their oldest titles “The Lost” which never was published laid the foundation for their hit title Bioshock. The game was designed for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox following up the success of System Shock 2.
“The Lost was a bit of everything. It was Silent Hill meets Zelda meets Devil May Cry in the sense that it was a series of levels in linear fashion, but within the levels, there was freedom,” said game designer Bill Gardner.
“We wouldn’t have been able to make BioShock if it weren’t for The Lost. In a lot of ways, it was what BioShock wound up becoming.”
The interesting part is that this unreleased game of theirs went on to get a little revamp and then be released as “Agni: Queen of Darkness” in India.
You can take a look at the video attached below to get a little sneak peak at the game that began the journey to Bioshock.
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