Is it a roll playing game?
Kinda...like Deez said, its a god-game. You make changes to the environment to mess with the villagers and see how they react. They may even 'fight back' somehow but not sure yet.
...it looks like somebody at Ubi-soft got carried away with the dunia engine and forgot to make a game out of it.
Oh, so you think the FC2 crew is working on this one too?
