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Operation Excision

Operation Excision is a retro styled first person shooter with visuals inspired by 1980’s vector graphic arcade games, and a setting and story influenced by 1970’s and 1980’s science-fiction movies, books, and comics.

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Paladin Twelve
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Dauntless Design Games
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THE STORY:

Decades after the Great War on Earth, a new world was built on Mars. It was mostly a time of peace, although a cold war was brewing between the Republic of Mars in the Northern Hemisphere, and the Mars Commonwealth in the Southern Hemisphere. Settlers, known as the Mons Gens, had built several colonies around the equator of Mars, forming their own nation-states which had no allegiance to The Republic nor The Commonwealth. Within the past few decades, the largest Mons Gens colony known as Arsia Mons, was abandoned. The Colony’s massive domed cities, built by Atlas Dynamics, would lie uninhabited in the crater for years.



When the Mars Commonwealth spaceport at Pickering was nearly completely destroyed by an old, obsolete Atlas Dynamics construction drone carrying an explosive device, many assumed the Republic of Mars were responsible. But then, long range telemetry picked up dozens of signatures, similar to those of the Atlas Dynamics construction drone, deep below the supposedly abandoned colony at Arsia Mons.

As a Mars Commonwealth Special Forces soldier, your task is to insert into the abandoned Arsia Mons colony, and investigate deep below the surface to find the origin of the signatures and their relation to the bombing of Pickering Spaceport. Bring back any intel you find.

FEATURES:

  • 8 weapons, 3 difficulty modes, over 20 enemy types, and 18 distinct levels, spanning 3 episodes.
  • Unique level settings such as large military capital ships, dome cities, medical facilities, mines, drone factories, and missile silos.
  • A well-realized story told through comic slides between levels, as well as in-game dialogue and computer terminals that the player can choose to interact with, to learn extra plot details and lore.
  • High fidelity sound effects and dark synthwave and retrowave music.
  • Secret rooms, trap doors, and enemy ambushes.

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