Deep Shadows announces Precursors, the successor of Boiling Point is a press release that slipped through the cracks here during E3 announcing Precursors, an upcoming space-themed first-person shooter from Ukrainian developer Deep Shadows (Boiling Point), due for release in 2007. There are eight screenshots from the project, described in the release as "an updated conversion of good old and still famous game 'Elite', a modern First Person Shooter, classic science fiction movies and the world of the novels from Andre Norton," on 3D Gamers. Here's a bit more:

"Precursors" leads the gamer into unexplored regions of space, where he can fly with huge battle ships from planet to planet. There will be hunts for blind passengers on board in large corridors or fights against boarding pirates, while outside of the space ship rockets and laser weapons are fired in stunning space battles. It will be more peaceful on planets where you can talk to different alien nations, but also must fight from time to time.

Acting as a still nameless Hero, the gamer overtakes the part to survive in a conflict between two dominating races. This part is only defined by the actions and decisions that must be made during more than 250 different missions. The professional dealer deals with goods or smuggles them, a brutal bounty hunter is notorious, the celebrated conqueror governs unknown worlds; many ways are possible in "Precursors".