12/11/2013

Bedlam - Video Game/Novel Tie-In Announced IGN All

Bedlam is a new first-person shooter from UK developer RedBedlam, which has been written partly by Scottish novelist Christopher Brookmyre.


It follows the events of the novel Bedlam by Christopher Brookmyre, which will be published in paperback in the New Year. The project is being described as the "first true video game/novel tie-in" in a press release.


Bedlam The book cover.


The synopsis of the book is as follows:


The plot sees the player, a regular man with a regular job, subjected to a variety of tests only to wake in a videogame world in which he is not in fact the mythical hero so often seen in gaming, but a grunt designed purely to be cannon fodder for someone else. In attempting to find out how this has happened and what strange space he is in, the player progresses through a variety of familiar gaming worlds, relentlessly pursued by an enigmatic predator, an organisation known as Integrity that will be rid of him at all costs...


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