You get to tie up and kick dogs. Nuff said.
Ok, well not in that order, but it’s still fun! Mailmen, by Argentina-based Sandstorm Interactive, puts you in the shoes of several different mailmen as they do their best to deliver letters across town. You’ll even be able to control multiple mailmen at once to perform specific tasks and help you strategize each level. Sounds like an easy task, if it weren’t for every mailman’s arch nemesis: dogs.
There are dogs all over town, with their deadly eyes set firmly on your… um, death. Different dog breeds execute different abilities. For instance, German Shepherds are generally sleeping, but can be awaken by an area effect bark from Chihuahuas - who are always on the prowl. In the current build of the game you can tap a patrolling dog to see it’s cone of vision, Metal Gear style. At the moment you can only see the vision for one dog at a time, but there are plans to increase that number in the final build.
Each mailman has his/her own special abilities, and there are powerups to pickup along the way. The main abilities we saw was being able to tie up dogs to incapacitate them (although other dogs will untie them if seen), and boots that let you run fast. If you are getting attack, you can shake the iPad to punt dogs away. Being a cat guy myself, I quite enjoyed this aspect of the game, even though I took damage while doing it.
So why exactly are there so many dogs running around? According to the developers, an ex-mailman is training them to be killers and releasing them to the streets. Without a functioning postal service, he’ll be able to take over the world! Ah so true, so true. Check out hands on video below, along with some screens.
You can check out the official teaser here.
