The freakily photorealistic 'bodycam FPS' we glimpsed last year now has a trailer and Steam page
Last fall, French indie developer Alexandre Spindler posted a video of a «bodycam style» FPS on Twitter(opens in new tab). The eerily photorealistic footage was retweeted over 35,000 times—among those impressed by the clip were filmmaker Neill Blomkamp—but we were left with no other details.
Today, Spindler announced the game properly: It's called Unrecord, and it's a «tactical shooter» with «complex dialogues, innovative gameplay mechanics, tough moral dilemmas, and a unique shooting system,» according to its Steam page(opens in new tab). There's a new trailer embedded above.
Somewhat surprisingly to me, storytelling is emphasized above all. «The player will have to investigate several criminal cases and confront a diverse cast of characters,» reads Unrecord's official description. «The game's plot and presentation will be central to the gameplay experience, and players can anticipate a range of gameplay sequences as well as numerous plot twists.» The developer also refers to the story as being similar to «a detective novel or a thriller.»
Of course, the most immediately striking, and for some off-putting, feature of Unrecord is its nearly photorealistic bodycam look. It's a look that's generally associated with military and tactical police operations, but also with evidence of military and police brutality and killings, particularly in recent years. Unrecord's protagonist is a police officer.
One thing that contributes to the impression we're looking at real bodycam footage is the free movement of the player character's hands, which is accomplished with an «original aiming system» which allows for «unrestricted hand movements,» according to the developer. Lens distortion and video effects like interlacing, bloom, and
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