Rock of Ages: a different kind of art game

While I'm still in the thick of preparing the deluge of words on the good things I did see at this year's E3 (somewhere buried underneath the thick strata of identikit first person shooters were several truly rare shining gems), here's the one game I'm depressed I didn't see: Rock of Ages, the sophomore effort from Chile's ACE Team due for downloadable release in spring 2011. At heart a seemingly simple defense-busting action-physics game, ACE Team (the same as behind recently released [and just as fantastically stylized] first-person beat-er Zeno Clash) has upped their own ante and dressed it as a fully realized art-historical world from the Renaissance, Rococo and Gothic eras. More information should be shortly forthcoming from publisher Atlus via their teaser site here. Rock of Ages [ACE Team]

• [Dave Faris]

  A video game where you get to be a boulder? Doesn’t seem especially compelling. What do you get to be in v2? A clod of dirt?

• [Anonymous]

  Was Rock of Ages not on the expo floor or part of Atlus’ press presentation?

  I hope Brandon didn’t just skip them; visiting the Atlus booth at E3 is a necessity. They always bring unusual and often wonderful games over to the North American market, and they give away some fine swag.

  @Dave Faris: did we watch the same trailer?

• [Anonymous]

  Copyright 2011? Can I do that too?