Ubi Soft Germany and NBC GIGA today announced that the people who will attend the upcoming Games Convention in Messe Leipzig, Germany, (August 29th – September 1st) will "get the chance to have their faces photographed and then transformed into characters from Ubi Soft"s upcoming FPS, XIII." Making use of cel-shaded animation and based on the Unreal Engine, the game is slated for release on PC, Xbox, PS2, and GameCube during Q1, 2003.
XIII is a unique first-person shooter (FPS) game that creates a completely interactive graphic novel within a cel-shaded world. The game is based on the comic license of the same name from Belgium comic book author, Jean Van Hamme, and the game will be powered with next-generation Unreal Engine technology.