After years of being silent in the gaming community, "Kursk" resurfaces with a new release date, as the submarine disaster game has been confirmed for a 2018 release.
Developer Jujubee has piqued the interest of its fan base again with the recent announcement that "Kursk" might soon wrap up before the year ends. Jujubee was also quite proud of its upcoming game since it will be the "first fully-fledged adventure-documentary game in history." This means that it might be historically accurate, and it might even let players relive what exactly happened in one of Russia's most tragic modern maritime disaster back in the year 2000.
"The game takes advantage of an entire collection of mechanics and solutions that have been worked out by the game industry over the years and uses them to tell a specific story," according to the developers. However it plays out, the developers are quite excited since the game might set the bar for a new sub-genre of video games.
For those unfamiliar, "Kursk" tells the tragic story of the K-141 Kursk submarine, which sank in the Barents Sea together with its entire crew back in August 2000. How the whole submarine and its crew perished remains unexplained to this day, meaning "Kursk" might add some fictional elements to the game to fill in the details.
In "Kursk," players will be able to step into the role of a spy aboard the submarine. This spy will be trying to gain information about Shkval supercavitating torpedoes, which at that time were of interest to all major intelligence services in the world. As such, it will mostly be played from a first-person perspective, which will allow players to fully explore the submarine. That said, this does not mean that the game will confine players to the maritime vessel since there will also be gameplay sections taking place in Moscow and the garrison town of Vidyayevo.
"Kursk" is expected to arrrive sometime this year for the PC only.
