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In the early hours of this morning, Gamescom, generally known as “Cologne Game Show” or “Cologne Exhibition”, officially kicked off with the pre-show release event Gamescom: Opening Night Live. Since 2009, Gamescom has been held in Cologne, Germany at this time of year. It is currently the largest annual video game event in Europe. It integrates trade and various related industry activities and is open to ordinary consumers. Affected by the epidemic, 2020 The Cologne exhibition in 2021 and 2021 will be held online, and in 2022 it will return to the traditional offline event mode.
Starting from 2019, Geoff Keighley, a well-known industry media person, has reached a cooperation with Cologne with reference to The Game Awards event he hosted, and held a live event called “Gamescom: Opening Night Live” (Gamescom ONL for short) before the official launch. Concentrate on publicizing and distributing a batch of game works. Below, the author will sort out the game information released at this year’s event for everyone.
New game released for the first time
Keighley, who planned the event and served as the host, said earlier that this year’s ONL will focus on the games that have been released, and will not throw out World Premiere in large numbers, but there are still several new faces in this morning’s event. Let’s start with them first.
Little Nightmares 3 / Little Nightmares 3
After the opening show of “Starfield,” the third installment of the “Little Nightmare” series is revealed unexpectedly. The series features a platform jumping experience with a strong horror atmosphere. In this morning’s trailer, we can see two new protagonists, Low and Alone, running around in a scene full of waste, avoiding the pursuit of giant dolls.
After the release of “Little Nightmare 2” in 2021, the developer of the first two games, Tarsier Studios (acquired by Embracer Group in 2019), announced that it would no longer develop a sequel to the “Little Nightmare” series. I am happy to see more publishers of “Little Nightmare” works. Bandai Namco Entertainment has recruited Supermassive Games, which has rich experience in horror and has produced an enhanced version of “Little Nightmare 2″, to take charge of the three generations. Supermassive Games’ masterpieces include ” With Until Dawn, The Dark Pictures Anthology series, and more, it’s unclear how much the team will ultimately change Little Nightmares.
“Little Nightmares 3” is tentatively scheduled to be released in 2024, and a derivative podcast “The Sounds of Nightmares” was also announced on the spot, telling original stories under the same worldview. There are six episodes in total, and the first two episodes are already online.
Killing Floor 3 / Killing Floor 3
Tripwire Interactive announced the third “Killing Floor” work produced by the group. The series was originally a Mod of “Unreal Tournament 2004”. The core experience of the series is the first-person fight against the zombie tide. The story of “Killing Floor 3” takes place in 2091, 70 years after the second generation. Players will be able to join the dystopian zombie siege battle in the future through single player or cooperative mode. The release time has not yet been specified.
Expeditions: A MudRunner Game
An all-terrain vehicle driving simulation game, Focus Interactive’s simulation game series, the development team has launched two earlier series, “MudRunner” and “SnowRunner”.
Judging from the trailer, the development team has greatly expanded the boundaries of the gameplay based on the previous game. In this game, players can not only drive various all-terrain vehicles, but also use drones, metal detectors, echo sounders, etc. to collect information about the environment. Information, but also to establish camps, hire scholars and organize research institutes, carry out activities related to the natural environment, etc.
Dustborn
“Dustborn” is developed by Red Thread Games and published by Spotlight, an independent game publishing brand under Quantic Dream. It is a drama action-adventure game that is expected to be released in early 2024. Players will play Pax, a devious outlier, and travel around the United States in a tour bus during the game, meet new characters and form a punk band with them, complete delivery missions, and look like an American (fake) band Highway game. Pax’s anomalous ability is to manipulate the behavior of others with words, and the main gameplay of the game seems to be built around this skill.
Thank Goodness You’re Here!
The top-down, cartoon-style title, due out in 2024, is described by its developer as a “hilariously hilarious comedy” with an obvious nod to the pioneering Australian TV brand Thank You For Coming. “(Thank God You’re Here), in this program, the performers will walk into unknown scenes. The first sentence of the actors in the scene must be “Thank God You’re Here”, and the rest depends on everyone in the scene. There was an improvisation. The copyright of the program has been sold to many regions around the world, and China’s CCTV has also introduced the program.
It is not yet clear what the game will be, but the trailer shows a large number of mini-games, combined with a comedy program that pays tribute to the game name, there may be a lot of hilarious content that requires players to react immediately. Rock Paper Shotgun hailed the trailer for Thank Goodness You’re Here! as “the best trailer ever at Cologne”, and recalling my instincts when I saw the film, I’m all for it.
New information on announced and unreleased games
Participating in the promotion of this conference also includes some games that have been released and continue to operate, such as “Immortals Of Aveum”, “Honkai: Star Rail”, “Last Epoch”, “Marvel Snap”, etc., mostly announced the content update plan of the game. In order to save space, this article will not repeat the relevant content. Friends who are interested in more details of the press conference can move to watch the full replay of the live broadcast .
The first is the games that can be played this year (in order of appearance, the same below):
Star / Starfield
Accompanied by a piano piece performed live by composer Inon Zur, “Starry Sky” played a preview of a live performance, and game producer Todd Howard also took the stage to chat with Keighley for a while. This work will be officially released on September 6.
Payday 3 / Payday 3
This action shooting game, which focuses on planning and executing robberies, is scheduled to be released on September 21. This morning’s trailer shows a relatively complete process of a “battle”.
Assassin’s Creed: Visions / Assassin’s Creed Mirage
This “return to the origin” new work of “Assassin’s Creed” is scheduled to be released on October 5. With the help of the protagonist’s narration, the trailer shows the style of Baghdad in the 9th century created by Ubisoft.
Lords Of The Fallen
The sequel to the 2014 ARPG game, slated for release on October 13, uses Unreal Engine 5 and appears to have some references to FromSoftware’s “Souls” game.
The name is exactly the same as the previous one, reflecting the nature of the restart, and the development team has changed from Deck13 Interactive to Hexworks, the latter is a new developer formed in 2020 by publisher CI Games.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III 2023 / Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
The third work in the restart series of “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare” is expected to be released on November 10. In the preview this morning, a 10-minute demonstration of a certain battle level was played. The audio-visual effects are brilliant, but the content makes the author feel a little dull .
Sonic Superstars / Sonic Superstars
The “Sonic” series of games with 3D texture graphics and classic horizontal 2D gameplay will be released on October 17. This time, the developer in cooperation with Sega is Arzest, formed by Sonic image designer Naoto Oshima.
Takashi Iizuka, the head of the “Sonic” team, said that this is a work for children, parents and long-term fans of the series, and hopes to develop in parallel with the 3D series represented by “Sonic Frontiers” in the future; Obviously, the launch of this work is very much in line with the goal of Sega and the “Sonic” team hoping to redistribute IP among the new generation of players and cultivate new fans.
At the same time, this morning’s event also announced the new content of the 2022 open world work “Sonic Unknown Frontier”. The game will push a free update called “The Final Horizon” at the end of September, including new stories and playable characters. wait.
The First Descendant / The First Descendant
A third-person action shooting RPG launched by Nexon, an online cooperative F2P work, the promotional video vigorously promotes the game’s fancy graphics. This work will start a round of closed beta testing from September 19th to 25th, and interested friends can now go to Steam to reserve qualifications .
Under the Blue Waves / Under The Waves
The work launched by Spotlight, an independent game publishing brand under Quantic Dream, is developed by Parallel Studio and is scheduled to be released on the 29th of this month.
The one-minute new release preview of “Under the Blue Waves” reveals more plot content. The trailer begins with a call between Stan and Emma, a woman who looks like his wife. From some details in the trailer, we can guess that the major trauma that Stan encountered on land may be related to his children.
Fort Solis
The work that just went on sale on August 22nd is a third-person horror-themed work on Mars. It tells the story that the base is inexplicably in danger and the players played by players have to find out alone. The developer is Fallen Leaf Studio, an independent developer from the UK. , they used Unreal Engine 5 for their debut title. In addition to the breath-taking atmosphere and exquisite pictures, another major feature of this work is that it invites famous actors such as Troy Baker, Julia Brown, and Roger Clark to participate.
The Crew: Roaring Gala / The Crew Motorfest
The third work in Ubisoft’s “The Crew” series, which is also the first new work in the series after 2018, is still brought by Ubisoft Ivory Tower, who is in charge of the series full-time, and is scheduled to be released on September 14. In this work, the stage of the player’s activities is a scaled-down version of Oahu, Hawaii, which continues the characteristics of the previous game. Players can control three types of vehicles, sea, land and air, and participate in events and seek challenges on the map that can be freely explored.
Cyberpunk 2077: Shadows of the Past / Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
The new preview of “Shadows of the Past” mainly shows the gameplay updates in the new expansion, as well as the content of the “Cyberpunk 2077” version 2.0 update that will accompany the launch of “Shadows of the Past”.
In the free update version 2.0, CD Projekt RED has significantly revised the specialty tree (basically a complete reconstruction): the subordinate specialties (Perks) of each attribute (Skills) will be integrated into the same interface, adding many new Specialty, reconstructs the pre-post relationship between specialties, and several new specialties are shown in the trailer, which is quite cool. At the same time, the update adds vehicle combat and redoes the police force system: After the update, players can shoot and quickly crack the vehicle; NCPD will take a more active stance to fight, and even send out a terrorist mobile team.
Let’s talk about “Shadows of the Past”, which mainly includes the following content: opening a new area of Dog Town; adding a new Relic specialty tree, which requires new characters in “Shadows of the Past” to deliver this feat to the player. Judging from the play demo, the visual effects Like Johnny Possession (after all, it’s called Relic, as the name suggests), CDPR previously revealed in an interview that the Relic skill tree brings a series of skills with higher risks and higher benefits, which will make the player’s prosthetic ability and damage added; the expansion also updates weapons, vehicles, courier missions, and more.
Stormgate / Stormgate
From Frost Giant Studios, the same developers behind Warcraft III and StarCraft II, it stands to reason that this is a real-time strategy game much like the aforementioned games.
This work is developed using Unreal Engine 5. There are campaigns that allow single-player or cooperative completion, a map editor, and of course a battle mode between players; the entire work will be operated in a F2P manner, but the development team said that it attaches great importance to shaping the e-sports experience , promised that there will be no situation of spending money to buy strength, and hopes to create a “next-generation RTS competition” through “Storm Gate”. No release date has been announced yet.
Armor Mercenary VI: Realm of Fire / ARMORED CORE VI FIRES OF RUBICON
FromSoftware’s “Mecha Mercenary” series of new works released a promotional video this morning, showing more scenes of different styles and battle scenes, and the narration also gave more guidance on the plot. This work is scheduled to be released on August 25th.
Warhaven
The F2P work developed by Nexon and to be released on September 21st focuses on third-person medieval cold weapon confrontation. From the gameplay demonstrated in the promotional video, you can see the shadows of many familiar games.
Mortal Kombat 1 / Mortal Kombat 1
A fighting game that will be released on September 19th, the twelfth work in the series, but uses the rebooted number “1”. The core selling point of the series is to use cutting-edge audio-visual technology to present players with the most textured and bloodiest fighting experience, especially the creative and creepy finishing moves. However, the author has always questioned the series. Yes, do we really need such uncomfortable sensual experiences today?
Alan Wake 2 / Alan Wake 2
“Mind Killer 2” announced the new trailer of the long-awaited Alan Wake’s perspective. The previous trailers were all based on the perspective of another protagonist, FBI operator Saga. This wonderful trailer allows us the first Once approached Alan Wake in the second generation.
This morning’s preview revealed more details about the plot: Alan Wake is a novelist with amnesia, trapped in a dream, he kept writing and trying to get out of the dark place; at the same time, Alan Wake also appeared on TV in the trailer Seeing himself on a reality show to introduce his new novel, which is about Alan Wake’s own current situation. The entire trailer has a strong “Twin Peaks” (Twin Peaks) style, and the Meta-game bridge about the novelist writing his own story is also very reminiscent of the work of the writer Stephen King──and “Mind Killer” begins with a quote from Stephen King.
The following are works whose release window has not been determined, or are scheduled to be released next year and beyond :
Black Myth: Wukong / Black Myth: Wukong
The Unreal Engine 5 action game from Game Science, just held a large-scale offline trial event in Hangzhou on August 20th. The Cologne exhibition trailer released this morning contains some new details (maybe not much in the trial game) is triggered). The work is expected to be officially released in the summer of 2024.
Red Desert / Crimson Desert
The medieval fantasy-style action-adventure game “Red Desert” announced three years ago was unveiled this morning. The preview released a lot of real machine images, and the release time was not announced. This work was developed using an upgraded version of the engine of the 2014 action online game “Black Desert Online”.
Tekken 8 / Tekken 8
The latest work in the fighting series “Tekken” is scheduled for release on January 26, 2024, nearly 9 years after the previous work.
In an exclusive interview with GameSpot a while ago, the soul of the series and game director Katsuhiro Harada and producer Micheal Murray said that “Tekken 8” is the first work in the series to be released on consoles rather than arcade frames, and the development team is adapting After the epidemic catalyzed the decline in popularity of arcade halls, the interview also mentioned that “we are trying to explore some methods to adapt to the game needs of modern players.” Through the notice, the result of this “exploration” is clear at a glance, which is to allow players to use virtual images Interactive online arcade lobby.
Legend of the Nightingale / Nightingale
A steampunk-style first-person PvE game that can be played by one player or online. It includes various elements such as combat, resource management and synthesis, and simulated management. It is expected to be released in the form of Early Access on February 22, 2024. This marks the debut of Canadian developer Inflexion Games, a studio led by Aaryn Flynn, who spent 17 years at BioWare.
Granblue Fantasy Relink / Granblue Fantasy Relink
This action game, which has been delayed for many years, released a new trailer, showing more details of the game world and cool battle scenes. This work is scheduled to be launched on February 1, 2024.
Zenless Zone Zero / Zenless Zone Zero
A new ARPG game from MiHoYo, with an undisclosed release date.
Ara: History Untold
A turn-based large-scale strategy game, which is expected to be released in 2024. It comes from the American developer Oxide Games. Many members of the studio have stayed in Firaxis Games, which also explains why this work looks very similar to the latter. “Civilization” series.
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