Story Summary
Shaolin has always been prized for its ability to produce the greatest fighters the world has ever seen. For centuries men and women have waited patiently outside of the gates of the Temples of the five provinces hoping to be invited in to train. Because so much martial prowess was to be gained by getting in and training, the world’s greatest warriors have sought entry into the temples by pretending to have been victims of tyranny, only to turn and leave once they have gained the skills they need to make them unstoppable. These warriors have become a blight that must be dealt with before more innocents fall at their hands and the world itself is brought to its knees by the greatest renegade from Shaolin, his name is Master Kahli.

Master Kahli was once a great monk who was well on his way to becoming the next in line to be the youngest abbot ever of a temple. Thinking he was trustworthy, the then abbot, Grand Master Fa, decided to teach his young charge one of the two forgotten bloodline techniques. This was a great honor and a great risk since only one man now retained the knowledge of both techniques, and any person who became fluent in one of the two could only be stopped by someone who was just as skilled in the other. Grand Master Fa decided that Kahli was worth the risk, for he saw in him a greatness that he hoped would one day bring Shaolin back to the forefront in a world that because of technology was beginning to forget them. So, Fa taught the young monk the fierce Shadow of Buddha. Kahli trained very hard and quickly began mastering the intricate bloodline technique.
Grand Master Fa trained him relentlessly and would then leave the temple to go and visit the other four, making his rounds to be certain that all was in order in each province. He would return after a month and each time he came back, Kahli would have the last skill he was taught down to perfection. Kahli steadily grew in skill and power everyday. In 5 years from the day he began, Kahli had completely mastered the forgotten Shadow of Buddha Palm technique only to abuse this power for evil and personal gain. Now the new legends of Shoalin must set out on a conquest to put an end to Kahli's reign of terror.

Gameplay
The game mechanic is built around the traditional action adventure genera with RPG elements and dynamic cameras allowing for fast paced action. Black Salt will be very easy to pick up and learn, but difficult to master. The heart of the game play of Black Salt is the one simple control scheme. The same modifiers and button combinations will be used for environmental puzzles, character interaction, combat, and stealth game play. Style plays a very major role in Black Salt as players will be rewarded for stringing combinations and air juggles while defeating your every foe. Swapping in between different techniques while destroying your foe will amount into a dazzling display for a finishing Bloodline Technique that is unique to that character based on the chained moves preformed. The short learning curves as well as the new twist on a classic Action/RPG game mechanics makes this title the perfect candidate for a very successful next-gen title.

The core gameplay mechanic found in Black Salt is based around 3rd person perspective, with the option of multi camera angles and an emphasis on sleek hand to hand melee martial arts and weapons combat. The combination of available viewpoints will better portray the complexities of the player’s vast array of attacks, and the battlefield interactions between the player, the AI, and the surrounding environment.
Black Salt offers non-linear game play. It is a combination of free roaming and mission based formats. The main structure is primarily free roaming, however, upon the triggering of certain events or the arrival at specific locations game play will switch to a mission style scenario where players will be required to travel a set environmental path to reach a destination, acquire an item, or seek an individual. Additionally, there are missions and story-driven tasks that may be completed without entering the mission interactive structure. The player will be constantly fighting hordes of enemies in and out of the cities and villages. The player will be accompanied by two to three NPC characters at a time throughout your adventure. You will be able to use these characters to chain and also combined attacks in order to create devastating double team attacks.