‘Hostile Takeover’ – When Project Zomboid Met Hitman

Laserbrain Studios are currently working on their isometric, stealth-based assassin game Hostile Takeover and it is really starting to shape up in the latest development blogs.

If you were to take the Hitman games, make them isometric and then add in the attention to detail and realism that Project Zomboid boasts, you would have Hostile Takeover. You play as an assassin who is often assigned to takedown CEOs and shoot up entire offices in a near-future world in which corporations literally go to war with each other.

The gameplay has you sneaking around buildings and manipulating receptionists to your will in order to carry out your task. You have to be very careful in the choices you make, the equipment you use and the amount of noise you make. The money you earn from scoring hits will go towards unlocking better equipment and weaponry with which to perform the assassinations. Hostile Takeover is still in the early development stages but has already impressed us and we really want to get our grubby hands on it!

Take a look at the latest development vlog to see how it is shaping up:

Hostile Takeover is actually the work of just one man, Denmark-based Christian Knudsen, who works on the game out of his bedroom – you don’t get much more indie than that folks. His first commercial game, Hostile Takeover, will be available for Windows, Linux and Mac when it comes out, which is a while away yet.

You can find out more information on the game at the official website and especially the blog pages. Keep up to date with all the progress by following Laserbrain on Twitter.