WayForward developing Centipede: Infestation for Wii/3DS
WayForward and Atari announced today a new Centipede game for the Wii and 3DS. We’ve posted the first details below…
– Published by Atari
– Reimagines the 1980 game
– 3D shooting adventure
– Battle multiple pests
– Borrows its back story a bit from the post-apocalyptic Fallout as a nuclear war has left a largely uninhabitable landscape
– A few teen orphans wearing protective suits survive
– Play as Max
– Wii version will be an arcade-style shooter
– Point the Wiimote at the screen like a gun
– Use the control stick to move Max
– 3DS version: Use the touchscreen to move
– Aim and shoot with other controls on the 3DS
This information comes from Atari’s Jonathan Moses…
“My memory of it was ‘I need to stop this bug from coming down the screen.’ There was no story or reason. For the time, that was great. You meet up with Maisy, who has this almost magical power over flowers (and) is able to grow in what is otherwise this irradiated wasteland. You follow Maisy through this world and protect her. In this game, as you kill the different bugs, they drop everything from gun turrets and walled barriers to power-ups for the player. There are centipedes, and then there is ‘The Centipede’.”
