{"id":4341,"date":"2008-06-13T06:31:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T12:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/?p=4341"},"modified":"2010-02-02T02:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T08:24:37","slug":"meta4orce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/?p=4341","title":{"rendered":"Meta4orce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image4338\" title=\"Meta4orce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/meta4orce-50.jpg\" alt=\"Meta4orce\" align=\"left\" \/><em><a title=\"Meta4orce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/games\/2008\/Meta4orce.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image4340\" title=\"Meta4orce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/meta4orce-300-3.jpg\" alt=\"Meta4orce\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Meta4orce<\/em> is a new animation series and game created by the talented folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blocmedia.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BLOC<\/a> (<a title=\"Stackopolis\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/?p=309\">Stackopolis<\/a>, <a title=\"ZWoK\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/?p=284\">ZWoK<\/a>, <a title=\"Pop Pirates\" href=\"http:\/\/freegamesnews.com\/en\/?p=79\">Pop Pirates<\/a> and written by comic book writer Peter Milligan. The project was launched on the BBC earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The year is 2034 and the Earth has been changed almost beyond recognition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In 2017 a catastrophic increase in global warming lead to a sudden melting of the polar ice caps. The waters rose every day. Coastal towns were lost in a matter of days. A year for humankind to adapt to a new kind of living, on a new kind of planet. Millions perished.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As the new society surfaced from the ruins of the old new kinds of crime emerged with it. To combat these new criminals the government formed a shadowy new security organisation &#8211; MAKO. It would use bleeding-edge new technologies to create what they termed a &#8216;bio-genetically altered investigation team&#8217;. They took four orphaned children who had been rescued from the Flood and changed them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Over a period of years their bodies were taken apart and their DNA was reconfigured to give them incredible powers beyond those of a normal human. Combined with intensive training in investigative techniques, hand-to-hand combat and weapons handling they were moulded into the ultimate crime-fighting unit.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Issued with codenames Ecko, Soma, Stream and Shift have been designed to deal with crimes of political and social sensitivity that the normal police wouldn&#8217;t be allowed near. And they&#8217;ve just been activated to solve their first case&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Meta4orce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/games\/2008\/Meta4orce.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image4339\" title=\"Meta4orce\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/meta4orce-300.jpg\" alt=\"Meta4orce\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>To be fair, <em>Meta4orce<\/em> is more an animation series than a real game. Each of the four episodes includes two mini-games that can be played separately via the main menu. and you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need to beat the games to watch each animation.<\/p>\n<p>Episode 1 and 2 are already online, and they are truly amazing! And the good news is that there is two more episodes to come!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to learn more about <em>Meta4orce<\/em>, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresinprimetime.wordpress.com\/2008\/06\/12\/meta4orce-peter-milligan\/\" target=\"_blank\">three-part interview<\/a> made by Adventures in Primetime.<\/p>\n<p>A word of warning though: this game has been designed for home use broadband connections of at least 2Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have a fast DSL connection!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Meta4orce\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/games\/2008\/Meta4orce.html\" target=\"_blank\">Have fun!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meta4orce is a new animation series and game created by the talented folks at BLOC (Stackopolis, ZWoK, Pop Pirates and written by comic book writer Peter Milligan. The project was launched on the BBC earlier this month. &#8220;The year is 2034 and the Earth has been changed almost beyond recognition. In 2017 a catastrophic increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,12,2,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flash","category-free","category-games","category-online","category-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freegamesnews.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}