ShootMania is an upcoming first-person shooter

First-person shooter

First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...

 video game by Ubisoft

Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. is a major French video game publisher and developer, with headquarters in Montreuil, France. The company has a worldwide presence with 25 studios in 17 countries and subsidiaries in 26 countries....

 and Nadeo

Nadeo

Nadeo is a French video game developer, based in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris. They are the developers of the TrackMania, QuestMania, ShootMania and Virtual Skipper series of video games....

. It is based on the TrackMania

TrackMania

TrackMania is a series of racing games for the Windows PC, Nintendo DS and Wii platforms, originally developed by the French team Nadéo for the PC...

games by Nadeo.

Just like its sister-games, TrackMania 2

Trackmania 2

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and QuestMania, it will feature 3 different environments. The only two known for the moment are a snow-based environment called "Cryo" and another called "Storm", where storm is set to be released first, and have cryo released a year after that.

Not much is known about the game for now, but Nadeo have stated some things about the gameplay that makes ShootMania completely different from other FPS games

First-person shooter

First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...

. For one thing, the game's main weapon is a rocket launcher

Rocket launcher

A rocket launcher is any device that launches a rocket-propelled projectile, although the term is often used in reference to mechanisms that are portable and capable of being operated by an individual....

, which is highly unusual in games in the FPS-genre. When coming to guns in general, the game doesn't have many, as Florent, the game's project leader, made it this way to prevent long decisions between what gun to use.

The game is set to be released in the first quarter of 2012.