I had watched this trailer today, as I wasn't sure you guys would post it. Looks like Prince of Persia meets BioShock, which is very cool. It also made me realize how little FPS games we have in different settings other than Modern, Military, Futuristic, Sci-Fi, Post-Apocalyptic, Horror, etc.

I love how when he whipped the weapon out of the enemy's hand, the enemy looked at its hand and then back at you astonished. And the platforming looks really nice as well, hopefully it has a lot of depth to it. Kinda like a semi-Mirror's Edge platforming system and level design. Definitely on my radar.

I don't like the art style but it looks fun.
The lighting design looks really nice.
I've got a Diablo2 Act 2 vibe from the city's atmosphere.

So everything then?

Not exactly. I'm talking about less explored or exotic settings, like Arabian Nights, Medieval Japan/China, Medieval Fantasy, etc. Hell, even Medieval Europe and Wild West don't have that many FPS games.

For Medieval Europe I can only remember Chivalry and Kingdom Come right now. As for Western, only the Call of Juarez games come to mind at the moment. Though for those other settings, I could name 10 of each category at the top of my head. And I believe you and anyone else could too.

i'm honestly not even sure i'd say this was an FPS. unless you consider things like dishonored FPS's too i guess?

I meant it as more setting variety for First-Person Shooter games. Though the problem with that is that if you exclude all games that don't center around firearms, then by default games set in periods where firearms didn't exist or were extremely rare aren't FPS. Even if the game design and gameplay systems are based or extremely similar to that of a FPS game.

As for Dishonored, you have a pistol and some powers with which you can "shoot" enemies, which you could technically call a FPS. However, I would call Dishonored a "First-Person Action" game. While City of Brass could fit into that category, it might be better categorized as a "First-Person Melee" game, like Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

Like many people in the gaming press have said over the years, genres in games are so blurred nowadays because so many games are a mix of many genres that you can categorize them by some ten or so categories and they all would still fit.

For example, is Mass Effect: Andromeda a Third-Person Shooter, Action, RPG, Adventure, Space Simulator, Dating Simulator, Racing, Puzzle, Resource Management, Drama or Comedy game?

It's all of those genres and maybe more, since I'm sure I'm forgetting some other genres it also dabbles into. Makes me remember all the discussions about games' genres in podcasts, articles and forums, it's very abstract in many cases.

Wikipedia - Video game genre:

"A video game genre is a classification assigned to a video game based on its gameplay interaction rather than visual or narrative differences. A video game genre is defined by a set of gameplay challenges and are classified independently of their setting or game-world content, unlike other works of fiction such as films or books. For example, a shooter game is still a shooter game, regardless of where it takes place.

As with nearly all varieties of genre classification, the matter of any individual video game's specific genre is open to personal interpretation. Moreover, each individual game may belong to several genres at once."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_genre

i think to be considered an FPS you need to be predominantly shooting, not necessarily firearms, but some sort of projectile. it's why you will rarely see real FPS's set in specific historical time periods. unless they are alternate history (steam punk etc)

either way this looks pretty low budget and i can't say the trailer did much to convince me it's anything other than a low budget title.