Konami’s next game is a chaotic ode to Grand Theft Auto 2

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Konami has its hands full right now. It has promising remakes of both Silent Hill 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in the works, but those aren’t the publisher’s only upcoming games. In recent years, Konami has revitalized its publishing effort to include original titles from small studios (see this summer’sCYGNI: All Guns Blazing). Its two upcoming behemoths shouldn’t overshadow one of those smaller projects: Deliver at All Costs.

The debut title from Far Out Games is a chaotic ode to classic Grand Theft Auto games (particularly GTA 2), but with more slapstick humor. It takes place in an alternate 1950s America where farm boy Winston Green lands a job as a delivery man with a trust pickup truck. It all sounds easy-going enough, except for the fact that any and everything in the quiet town of St. Monique can be destroyed.

I demoed the first 90 minutes of Deliver At All Costs at a recent Konami preview event and walked away smiling. It’s already shaping up to be a uniquely entertaining vehicular comedy of errors. If it can keep escalating the creative gags I’ve seen already, Far Out Games could have a small-scale hit on its hands.

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Deliver At All Costs is a top-down driving game where players need to make increasingly wacky deliveries across town in a beat-up truck. If that sounds a little familiar, that’s because this is a much bigger version of a small viral hit. Before forming its studio, a few of Far Out Games’ team members created a version of Deliver At All Costs as a student game. They released it on itch.io for free, where it earned the attention of PC Gamer. That press hit led to a conversation with Konami who greenlit an expanded version. While the original Deliver At All Costs (now listed as Delivery Man) was a quick arcade game, this one is a 10+ hour adventure with more narrative focus and hand-crafted missions.

My demo starts when Winston Green hears an old-timey radio ad for a company called We Deliver. They’re hiring a driver, so