Overgrowth, the hugely ambitious follow up to Lugaru, is all about anthropomorphic Rabbits punching other anthropomorphic Rabbits, with lightning quick combat, and ninja-like acrobatics. It’s an odd one for sure, but even in it’s current alpha state, it’s looking great.

Wolfire do like keeping their fans up to date with how the development process is going, and part of how they do that is with regular videos showing new features as they are developed. A couple of interesting new features have been shown in some of their recent Alpha videos, so lets take a look:

Here we get to see some of the stealth in action, where you can sneak up behind enemies, and get them in a chokehold. There’s a real weight to the animation, especially the corpse-dragging: I think it looks fantastic.

Here we get to see the newly implemented splitscreen mode, where two players can play either cooperatively or competitively, with one player using keyboard and mouse, and the other using a controller. They’ve also added a bunch of bugfixing stuff, and improved pathfinding, but that’s not particularly exciting.

If you want to give the Alpha a try yourself, you get instant access to it when you preorder the game.

No release date yet, but when it does come out, it will be out for PC/Mac/Linux.

[Wolfire]