Back in 2008, Ubisoft unveiled an action game called I Am Alive at E3 with a trailer and little else. Things have gone slowly since then, with a developer shuffle (from Darkworks to Ubi Shanghai), a few asset leaks and more than one missed release window. We all still continue to wonder if it will ever see the light of day, but a newly leaked gameplay trailer at least proves that there's a game of some kind coming together here.

The story's setting is modern day-ish Chicago, with most of the action occurring in the aftermath of a world-shaking earthquake that registered 10.3 on the Richter scale. Given the game's subject matter and the real-life mid-ocean earthquake that created a cascading set of emergencies in Japan earlier this year, it's no surprise that Ubi held off on saying much about I Am Alive during the summer trade shows.

It looks like the game employs a mix of first-person shooting and third-person climbing/parkour. You can definitely see shades of another popular Ubisoft property in here, Assassin's Creed. This game definitely has a different identity though. Or it will, if it ever becomes a real thing that people can play.

Source: YouTube