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4Fatal Hour: Petroleum is the first chapter of the Fatal Hour Saga.
The Situation
Two words: Zombie Apocalypse
Your team of survivors have acquired transportation in the form of a bus and are seeking the source of an automated radio transmission, in the hopes of finding other people. Living people that is, there is an abundance of the other kind.
Traveling through the barren wastelands, the engine starts coughing. You manage to make it to what appears to be an abandoned gas station, in the middle of nowhere. Fortunately, a member of your group, Mechanic Mike, figures he can fix the engine and get you back on the road. He's no magician though and will need some time. Time, however, might just prove to be in short supply, since your arrival at the gas station has been registered by what used to be the living residents of the area and the likewise formerly living inmates of the nearby female penitentiary.
They may be no longer living, but one thing is sure: They're HUNGRY!
The Game
Gameplay
Fatal Hour: Petroleum is an explosive, non-stop action packed, single map, top-down, 3:rd person, zombie survival, RTS, Tower Defense hybrid. Yes, you got it right, now try saying it out loud. You command a team of 5 characters with different personalities and preferred weaponry. You're stranded and surrounded by hordes of undead whose dinner is long overdue.
To put it plainly, your mission is simple: SURVIVE BY ANY MEANS POSSIBLE.
The Chapter System
Fatal Hour: Petroleum is the first in a series of chapter games that tell the story of a group of people, struggling to survive in the aftermath of the Zombie Apocalypse. Each chapter is a single-level minigame, played as a separate challenge available at different levels of difficulty. The goal is to achieve the best possible result and survive as long as possible. In the first chapter, the group is stranded at an abandoned gas station, struggling to keep the undead at bay while they repair their transportation.
The chapter games will be released in quick succession, with just a few weeks in between. At least three chapter minigames are planned for release, after which a decision will be made either to continue with additional game chapters or create a larger and more diverse game, with strategic as well as tactical game elements. This decision will be heavily influenced by player opinions.
The Group
Prepper Jack
Most people of the Earth were caught completely unprepared by the sudden events of what came to be known as "The Outbreak". This guy was not. Some people would even say that he was so prepared for the Apocalypse that he was actually happy when it finally happened.
Armed with a military grade precision sniper rifle and the eyes of an unrivalled marksman, Prepper Jack could probably hit a fly on a wall from a mile away. However, most flies these days are not on walls and should he miss the occasional flying bug, chances are that his shot will still have the desired effect on the undead thing it was sitting on.
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