Capcom Announces Remember Me

Capcom has used its Gamescom press conference to announce Remember Me, a brand new game from Paris studio Dontnod Entertainment.

The game is set in 2084 in a futuristic Paris. It's a science-fiction thriller, wherein people can remix and erase memories with weapons that look a bit like brain-tasers, even giving one person another's memories. The game's heroine seems to be a former agent who has had her own memory erased, and is now being hunted down without knowing why.

The creative director took to the stage to explain the concept behind the game: the flexibility, subjectivity and personal nature of memory, which he illustrated by telling us a very sweet story about how he got together with his girlfriend. In Remember Me's future, everybody has brain implants that makes it possible to delete, trade or exchange their own memories, controlled by a corporation called Memoreyes. A group of underground activists, the Errorists, is fighting against this control.

Nilin, the game's heroine, is one of them. She begins the game in the Bastille prison, having lost her identity. She is a memory-hunter who can break into people's minds. Visually, it's got a bit of a Mirror's Edge feel to it. You can watch the announcement trailer below.

Source : ign[dot]com