Frontier Developments today announced their first next-gen console title, The Outsider and we have a screenshot in our gallery. Frontier Developments is of course the home of David Braben of 'Elite' fame, which always makes me sit up and take note.

The game radically enriches the player's experience by abandoning the traditional, prescriptive, mostly linear story of current generation games, and replaces it by simulating characters' motivations and aims. This gives the player genuine freedom to change the story outcomes in a way that has not been seen before - each player will get a truly unique, sophisticated, visceral experience rather than simply switching between 'good' or 'evil'. The techniques used are enabled by the greatly increased processing power available to the imminent new consoles including the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The official site is at http://www.frontier.co.uk/outsider although it doesn't appear to be working just yet.