LA Noire developer Team Bondi has revealed that its upcoming title, Whore of the Orient, is being developed specifically for next-gen consoles and PC.
The game’s set in 1936 in Shanghai, explains a lowdown on the Team Bondi site. It lets players explore “the most corrupt and decadent city on the planet” during the most dangerous and turbulent time Shanghai has seen.
The site goes on to explain Shanghai as the “Plaything of Western powers who greedily exploit the Chinese masses. Boiling pot of Chinese nationalism, with the Kuomintang ruthlessly trying to suppress Communism and the labour movement. Home to the International Police Force, a group of Western cops hopelessly trying to keep the lid on and keep the peace.”
Team Bondi’s looking for programmers, animators and artists to help create the title, though you’ll need to have AAA experience.
The title was announced last year, when Team Bondi had just been taken over by the Australian company KMM who made Happy Feed and its game adaptations.
Whore of the Orient was last year explained as “one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century” by Team Bondi boss Brendan McNamara.
“I learnt a tonne of things from doing L.A. Noire which will hopefully play into what we do next,” he explained.
“We think the evolution from The Getaway to L.A. Noire and learning the lessons we did on the way, and some of the stuff about emerging storytelling, is definitely an avenue to pursue.”
McNamara owns shares in the company MotionScan, which was behind the revolutionary tech behind the realistic face animation in LA Noire.
“I own some of the shares, and some other people own some of the shares. It’s a limited company, and there are some other investors in that, too.
“Hopefully towards the end of that we’ll have the full body stuff up and running. That could be pretty interesting, too.”
LA Noire itself did quite well when it was released last year, perhaps this will be something worth taking a look at. Team Bondi however, ruffled a few feathers with its alleged mistreatment of staff. We reckon it’s likely to cause a stir again with the title of this new game, what do you think?
